... Jeffrey Brown has the latest add to the NewsHour Bookshelf. And it's from a member of our extended family. JEFFREY BROWN: For years, Elizabeth Farnsworth traveled the world as a foreign correspondent for the NewsHour to hot spots such as Vietnam, Iran, Iraq, and Latin America. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH, Author ...
... I think 80 percent of the people didn’t even know I was running.” Nader cited a study in a book by the academics Stephen Farnsworth and S. Robert Lichter that found he received just three minutes of speaking time on the evening news shows of the three major broadcast ...
... whether its the second, third, fourth, fifth ballot, to keep him in mind. JOHN YANG: But there is a floor fight in Cleveland, political analyst Farnsworth warns this won't be your grandfather's convention. STEPHEN FARNSWORTH: This is completely new. I sometimes think that this is a process of ...
... central heating and air conditioning. We have the telephone invented in 1876. We have the television set, partly invented here in San Francisco by Philosophy Farnsworth, and then look what we have hidden down here, a refrigerator, which eliminated the contamination of food. And here we have the Golden Gate ...
Video by Adam Grossberg, KQED The first time I met Lawrence Ferlinghetti was unforgettable: It was early on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, and Elizabeth Farnsworth and I were working on a story about him for the PBS NewsHour. As surreal news trickled in of planes crashing in New ...
... ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: The award for poetry this year went to Mark Strand for his book "Blizzard of One." It's Strand's ninth book of poetry. He has also published several books of translations, edited poetry anthologies, and written books for children. A former US Poet Laureate, Strand now ...
For the three days since Dave Brat took down House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in the GOP primary Tuesday, he's been holed up in his suburban home, avoiding the reporters and TV trucks waiting out front. While the world wants to know more about the economics professor turned sudden tea party star, Brat's in hiding,...
Charles Wright, a master of capturing landscape and meditation in verse, has been named the next Poet Laureate of the United States by the Library of Congress. It is the latest in a long list of honors and awards for Wright, who is considered one of the greatest American poets of his generation.
Charles Wright, professor of English at the University of Virginia, discusses his Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of poetry, "Black Zodiac."
Virginia Tech students who support Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe attend an event in Blacksburg, Va., on Oct. 28. Photo by Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images With polls showing a clear gender gap in the Virginia governor's race, they also reveal a divide among another part of the state's electorate: young voters. According...
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