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2012 National Book Critics Circle Awards
Fiction: Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, Ben Fountain (Ecco) General Nonfiction: Far From the…Robert the Strong
(Encyclopedia) Robert the Strong, d. 866, French warrior, marquess of Neustria; father of the French kings Eudes and Robert I and ancestor of the Capetians. He joined the rebellious nobles against…Justin A. Volpe, 1999 News
27, New York City police officer, admitted in court in May that he tortured and meant to humiliate Haitian immigrant Abner Louima when he rammed a broom handle into the man's rectum and then…Randolph A. Hearst 2000 Deaths
Randolph A. HearstAge: 85 the last surviving son of legendary publisher William Randolph Hearst. Hearst's 19-year-old daughter, Patricia, was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army in…A. R. Ammons 2001 Deaths
A. R. AmmonsAge: 75 award-winning poet whose simple verse often disguised the depth of his work. Ammons wrote nearly 30 books of poetry and won scores of awards, including two National Book…Herbert A. Simon 2001 Deaths
Herbert A. SimonAge: 84 polymath who won several awards, including the 1978 Nobel Prize in Economics, for his theory on decision making and his groundbreaking research and work on artificial…Cabinet Members Under A. Johnson
Secretary of State William H. Seward (Cont.)Secretary of the Treasury Hugh McCulloch (Cont.)Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton (Cont.)John M. Schofield, 1868Attorney General James Speed (Cont…Samuel A. Alito, Jr. Biography
Samuel A. Alito, Jr. Federal Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third CircuitBorn: April 1, 1950Birthplace: Trenton, N.J. Judge Alito was nominated as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court…Harrison A. Williams 2001 Deaths
Harrison A. WilliamsAge: 81 politician who was New Jersey's only Democratic senator to be elected to four terms. First elected in 1959, Williams championed liberal causes, such as the rights…Steven A. Ballmer, 2000 News
software-company official, became chief executive of Microsoft in Jan., when Bill Gates stepped aside to assume the newly created position of “chief software architect.” Ballmer had been…Trending
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