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Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., talks to reporters at the U.S. Capitol on Sept. 3.

Was Rand Paul's Plagiarism Dishonest Or A Breach Of Good Form?

4:31pm November 12, 2013

by Geoff Nunberg

The flap over the Kentucky senator's articles and speeches is just the latest in a series of cases of plagiarism by high-profile journalists and politicians. Linguist Geoff Nunberg looks at the way the word plagiarism has been used since it was invented by the Romans and wonders if it's always immoral or just bad form.

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Renowned Typographer, Linguist, Poet Robert Bringhurst to Speak at Hanes Art Gallery

9:54am November 12, 2013

by David Ford

Renowned typographer Robert Bringhurst is a linguist, translator, cultural historian, and one of Canada's most revered poets. His poetry has been described as “rare but not rarified”, and in his landmark book The Elements of Typographic Style, he's been said to “conjure poetry out of the smallest detail, from the humble hyphen to the nuances of serifs”.

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El Rey, which will be targeting a young Latino audience, is being spearheaded by filmmaker Robert Rodriguez, shown at the premiere of his recent film Machete Kills in October.

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Comcast Deal Puts New Minority-Run Channels In Play

8:15am November 12, 2013

by Mandalit del Barco

The conglomerate is launching new networks — targeted at diverse audiences and run by Sean Combs, Magic Johnson and Robert Rodriguez — to satisfy an agreement made with the FCC when the company merged with NBCUniversal.

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In 'Fire And Forget,' Vets Turned Writers Tell Their War Stories

7:43pm November 11, 2013

Roy Scranton and Jacob Siegel edited and contributed to the collection of short stories by veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. They tell Fresh Air about how soldiers cope with the fear of death, and why many soldiers feel conflicted about sharing their experience with a larger audience.

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Robert Henri's 1913 Figure in Motion was a realistic, but bold response to Matisse's and Duchamp's nudes.

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In 1913, A New York Armory Filled With Art Stunned The Nation

3:08pm November 11, 2013

by Susan Stamberg

The 1,400-work exhibition gave many Americans their first look at what avant-garde artists in Europe were up to. It was the biggest art show New York had ever seen and challenged ideas about artistic "progress."

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Broken Social Scene On World Cafe

1:00pm November 11, 2013

The Canadian collective, now on hiatus, released a self-titled album to wide critical acclaim eight years ago. Hear the group perform songs from that record on this archived session of World Cafe from 2006.

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Piano Soloist Myron Brown Joins the Winston-Salem Symphony to Perform Mozart

9:45am November 11, 2013

by David Ford

This weekend, award-winning pianist, and Winston-Salem State University music faculty Dr. Myron Brown joins the Winston-Salem Symphony and guest conductor Phillip Mann in a performance of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 19 in F Major.

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Detail from Plate 11 of Joe Sacco's The Great War: July 1, 1916: The First Day of the Battle of the Somme. On July 1st, at precisely 7:30 a.m., the attack commences.

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A Panorama Of Devastation: Drawing Of WWI Battle Spans 24 Feet

6:58pm November 10, 2013

by Lynn Neary

Joe Sacco has made a career of tackling difficult subjects through imagery. He's a journalist and cartoonist who has reported on the Middle East and Bosnia — in both written and comic form. In his latest book, The Great War, Sacco turns to history, producing a 24-foot-long depiction of the horrifying first day of the Battle of the Somme.

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How Cynthia Rylant Discovered The Poetry Of Storytelling

6:58pm November 10, 2013

by NPR Staff

Award-winning author Cynthia Rylant's pictures books revolve around children relying on their families for love and support. To write a good children's book, she says, "you have to be a good poet." Her latest book, God Got A Dog, is a collection of poems that only took her a day to write.

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Peter Baker's other books include The Breach and Kremlin Rising.

'Days Of Fire': The Evolution Of The Bush-Cheney White House

5:00pm November 09, 2013

by NPR Staff

Peter Baker covered the George W. Bush administration for The New York Times. In his new book, Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House, Baker takes a second look at those controversial years.

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