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The War On Terror Book Club

theroot.com | Lonnae O'Neal Parker | Posted 11.06.2009 | Books

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As our discussion veered from how the quest for filthy lucre overtook evading communist sensors as an overarching concern for some Chinese filmmakers,...

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Salman Rushdie: My Ex Is A Dysfunctional, Unemployed Liar

nypost.com | Posted 10.21.2009 | Entertainment

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Salman Rushdie has hit back at his ex-girlfriend, Pia Glenn, blasting her as a "large, radioactive bucket of stress." The acclaimed author was infuri...

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Ex: Salman Rushdie Still Obsessed With Padma Lakshmi

nypost.com | Posted 10.20.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Celebrity Splits, Pia Glenn, Top Chef, Padma Lakshmi, Salman Rushdie, Entertainment News

SALMAN Rushdie is still obsessed with his beautiful ex-wife, Padma Lakshmi, and talks about her day and night, his ex-girlfriend tells Page Six. Stat...

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A Child Rapist Is Not a Political Prisoner

Ariel Gonzalez | Posted 10.07.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Roman Polanski Arrest, O.J. Simpson, Ayn Rand, Woody Allen, Hollywood, Salman Rushdie, Whoopi Goldberg, Bernardo Bertolucci, Entertainment News
Ariel Gonzalez

A middle-aged man who treats a 13-year-old girl like an inflatable sex doll, and who then flees justice, is a degenerate and a coward. This is Humbert Humbert, not Nelson Mandela.

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Yale Chickens Out On Academic Freedom

Sandy Goodman | Posted 09.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Sherry Jones, Jytte Klausen, Theo Van Gogh, U.S.S. Cole, U.S. Embassies Kenya and Tanzania, Reza Aslan, Muhammad, Danish Cartoons, World Trade Center Bombing, Cary Nelson, Pentagon Bombing, Salman Rushdie, Ayatollah Khomeini, John Donatich, Yale-University-Press, Cartoons That Shook the World, Media News
Sandy Goodman

A book entitled The Cartoons That Shook The World is being published without any of the cartoons in the book. It's the latest in a long series of Western reactions to violent threats to freedom of expression.

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Remembering My Battle Against Fundamentalists

Jim Luce | Posted 08.06.2009 | New York

Read More: Jerry Falwell, Last Temptation of Christ, American Psychological Association, The Road Less Traveled and Beyond, U.P.I., Pat Robertson, Christian Fundamentalism, Religious Addiction, Jewish Fundamentalism, The Journal of Religion and Health, Fundamentalists Anonymous, Daiwa Bank, Mainline Churches, There Is a Way Out, God’s Will, Today Show, Marty Scorsese, Religious Right, Los Angeles Times, Fundamentalist, Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, Moral Majority, Islamic Fundamentalism, Christian Science Monitor, Steve Allen, Phil Donahue Show, Hollywood Under Siege, Madonna, Culture Wars, PTL Club, USA Today, Toronto Star, Henry Luce III, San Francisco Chronicle, London Observer, Daniel Berrigan, Luce Publications, Norman Lear, Hank Luce, Gunther Hirshberg, Henry Luce Foundation, Village Voice, Ari Goldman, Universal Studio, U.S. Congress, A. James Rudin, M. Scott Peck, New York Law Journal, Josh Baran, Salman Rushdie, Newsweek, Frank Zappa, Presbyterian, Bill Geist, Ram Dass, Associated Press, A.C.L.U., Psychology Today, Terry Sweeney, Cnn, Like a Prayer, Wall Street, Satanic Verses, Jimmy Swaggart, American Jewish Committee, Oprah Winfrey Show, New York Observer, People for the American Way., New York Times, Episcopalian, New York News
Jim Luce

Our biggest accomplishment was standing up for those torn down by the TV evangelists.

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Famous Couples With Taller Women: Is Height Just A Number? (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Katy Hall | Posted 07.15.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Slideshow, Katie Holmes, Peter Dinklage, Mick Jagger, Janet Jackson, Rod Stewart, Jermaine Dupri, Sophie Dahl, Uma Thurman, Carla Bruni, Ethan Hawke, Tall Women, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Nicolas Sarkozy, Brigitte Nielson, Arpad Busson, Padma Lakshmi, Jerry-Ferrara, Jamie Callum, Tom Cruise, Tall-Women-Short-Men, Penny Lancaster, Salman Rushdie, Roman Polanski, Slidepoll, Famous Couples With Taller Women, Entertainment News

Good news for shorter guys who are also rich and/or famous: more than ever you can land an Amazonian beauty. These vertically challenged men might not...

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The Moth: A Social Refuge From Social Media

Jill Priluck | Posted 06.04.2009 | Media

Read More: Social Media, Publishing, Twitter, Facebook, Salman Rushdie, New York City, Media News
Jill Priluck

Unlike the sometimes raucous, awkward web-o-sphere that is morphing into a brand-centric wonderland, the Moth wasn't noisy. It was pleasant to the ear. It still is.

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We Tell Each Other Stories In Order To Live

Andrew Marantz | Posted 06.01.2009 | World

Read More: Petina Gappah, Geneva, Salman Rushdie, Brooke Astor, Bokara Legendre, Moth, Pen, New York Socialites, Dumbo, World News
Andrew Marantz

Each performer had ten minutes to tell a story. Not a rant, not a stand up routine, and, for heaven's sake, not a reading (no notes allowed).

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Salman Rushdie, Paul Krugman To Speak At PEN World Voices Festival

AP | Posted 04.25.2009 | Media

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NEW YORK — Salman Rushdie, Neil Gaiman and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman will be among the authors featured at this spring's PEN Wo...

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Salman's New Lady: The Actress Who Plays Condi

New York Daily News | Posted 03.11.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Pia Glenn, Salman Rushdie, Entertainment News

He may be 61, a veteran of four marriages, and, yes, he was marked for death, but Salman Rushdie can still charm a beautiful woman. Having split with...

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Salman Rushdie: Fatwa "The Albatross Around My Neck"

AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 02.19.2009 | Media

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NEW YORK — Nearly 20 years after being driven underground by a religious decree, he is now Sir Salman Rushdie, properly famous and free, yet sti...

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Salman Rushdie: I'll Never Marry Again

The Times | Posted 02.03.2009 | Media

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Salman Rushdie has a long interview with Saturday's UK Times, and buried in it is the author's comment that, after four divorces, he will never marry ...

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Save The Books! Famous People (and Others) Tell You What Books To Buy

Glynnis MacNicol | Posted 01.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Jon Meacham, Fred Armisen, Kevin Bleyer, Toby Barlow, Peggy Noonan, Books, Steve Ross, Gail Collins, Brian Williams, Dan Abrams, Sean Wilsey, Publishing, Ana Marie Cox, Lesley M. M. Blume, Rachel Sklar, Salman Rushdie, Liesl Schillinger, Raymond Roker, Jeffrey Toobin, Media News
Glynnis MacNicol

I reached out to a few well-known types (Fred Armisen, Brian Williams, Arianna, to name a few) who were generous enough to offer their holiday book recommendations. Let the recommending begin!

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How to Understand Kashmir and Survive the Jihadis: An Interview with Sir Salman Rushdie

Johann Hari | Posted 01.08.2009 | World

Read More: Islamic Fundamentalists, Islam, Islamic Jihadism, Salman Rushdie, Salman Rushdie Interview, World News
Johann Hari

The Kasmhir of Salman's grandfather stands for him as an alternate Islam, a radically different way of being Muslim to the Khomeinist and Bin Ladenite head-choppers -- a religion of peace, not a religion of pieces.

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Salman Rushdie and the Legend of the MOTH

Ariston Anderson | Posted 12.26.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Salman Rushdie, Authors, Awards Ceremonies, Middle East, Books, Awards Shows, Ceremonies, Moth, Booker Prize, Entertainment News
Ariston Anderson

The MOTH was founded in 1997 by novelist George Dawes Green, who sought to recreate the experience of storytelling on a porch in Georgia, while moths flew into the light bulb.

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Glamour Women of the Year: Condi, Kidman & Chimps...oh my!

Ariston Anderson | Posted 12.12.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: David Cook, Jane Goodall, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Keith Urban, Jane Krakowski, Maureen Chiquet, Mary Steenburgen, Fergie, Chanel, Cara Walker, Kate Bosworth, Barbara Walters, Nicole Kidman, Jack McBrayer, Thandie Newton, Hillary Clinton, Debra Messing, Gossip Girl, Tyra Banks, American Idol, Salman Rushdie, Blair Waldorf, 30rock, Entertainment News
Ariston Anderson

The Glamour Women of the Year Awards filled Carnegie Hall with a slew of A-listers from the art world, Hollywood, and Washington, as well as some international activists ready to inspire the audience into...change.

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On Banning Books and Hunting Witches

Ronald Maxwell | Posted 10.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Sarah Palin, Book Banning, Witchcraft, Thomas Muthee, Salman Rushdie, Wasilla Assembly of God, Politics News
Ronald Maxwell

Senator John McCain has inadvertently riled some murky Alaskan back-waters. And this is a good thing, because neither book banning nor witch hunting should go unnoticed or unexposed.

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Booker Shortlist: Salman Rushdie's The Enchantress Of Florence Left Off

Financial Times | Peter Aspden | Posted 10.11.2008 | Media

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Judges for the Man Booker prize for fiction sprang their customary surprise yesterday when they omitted Sir Salman Rushdie's latest novel, The Enchant...

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Random House Cancels New Book For Fear Of Islamic Reaction, Prompting Criticism From Rushdie

AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 09.15.2008 | Media

Read More: The Jewel of Medina, Salman Rushdie, Random House, Islamic Radicalism, Islamic Fundamentalism, Media News

NEW YORK — Salman Rushdie strongly criticized his publisher for pulling a historical novel about the prophet Muhammad and his child bride over c...

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Salman Rushdie Threatens Lawsuit Over Ex-Bodyguard's Book

AP | JILL LAWLESS | Posted 08.11.2008 | Media

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LONDON (AP) _ Author Salman Rushdie is threatening to sue a publisher over a book by a former bodyguard that he says portrays him as cheap, nasty and ...

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Salman Rushdie Wins (Yet Another) Literary Award

AP | JILL LAWLESS | Posted 07.18.2008 | Entertainment

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LONDON — Salman Rushdie is probably the Booker Prize's best-known winner. Now he is officially the best. Rushdie's 1981 novel "Midnight's Child...

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Salman Rushdie Knighted

AP | GREGORY KATZ | Posted 07.03.2008 | Entertainment

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LONDON — Author Salman Rushdie slipped into Buckingham Palace on Wednesday to receive a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II that had angered many...

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Salman Rushdie Wants The Focus On His Books

New York Times | Posted 06.02.2008 | Entertainment

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THE written record cannot be trusted in Salman Rushdie's newest novel, "The Enchantress of Florence," a story that roams from the red sandstone palace...

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How Helen Hunt Got Salman Rushdie To Give Her A Sonogram

NY Magazine | Posted 05.01.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Helen Hunt, Bette Midler, Then She Found Me, Salman Rushdie, Matthew Broderick, Entertainment News

Helen Hunt's new movie, Then She Found Me, is full of stars like Bette Midler and Matthew Broderick (whom she used to date), so when her character in ...

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