... 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 ...
... it, and yet, to be able to see it, to have -- well, it's almost a paradox to say this -- a more compassionate distance. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: And when you write, Mr. Strand, do you write in longhand? MARK STRAND: I do. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Why? MARK STRAND: Well, I think, when ...
... day miracle, there really is no other way to describe it," Brat said shortly after trouncing Cantor by more than 11 percentage points. Stephen J. Farnsworth, a political science professor at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Va., said as a virtual unknown Brat doesn't have the luxury ...
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...
Virginia Tech students attend a Monday event in Blacksburg, Va. for gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe. Photo by Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images With one week to go until Election Day in Virginia, Democrat Terry McAuliffe has expanded his lead over Republican Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, turning what was expected to be the most...
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