Russ Emerson | October 9, 2009
Ann Althouse: Riddle: Why didn’t Barack Obama win the Nobel Prize for Literature? Answer: He wrote 2 books. Literally the last thing I read on Twitter before going to bed in the wee hours this morning was a breaking news announcement that Obama had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. I was convinced that after […]
Russ Emerson | October 8, 2009
A week or so ago, I quoted an article on CNN, and commented: The French culture and communications minister, Frederic Mitterrand, said he “learned with astonishment” of Polanski’s arrest. He expressed solidarity with Polanski’s family and said “he wants to remind everyone that Roman Polanski benefits from great general esteem” and has “exceptional artistic creation […]