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Anne Applebaum the 47 year old American journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author has published an article on Slate titled ‘Europe’s Extremists on the March – Many of the parties winning across the continent have one thing in common: They want to withdraw from the world’. Applebaum states “…as I look across Europe I don’t know what to call the wave of discontent, as most of the parties on the outlying right or left have more in common with one another right now than they do with anyone in the center. Generally speaking they are anti-European, anti-globalization, and anti-immigration. Their leaders, in the words of a French friend, want to “withdraw from the world.” They don’t like their multiethnic capital cities or their open borders, and they don’t care for multinational companies or multilateral institutions. Above all, they are anti-austerity: They hate the budget cuts that they believe were imposed on their national governments by outsiders in the international bond market and by their own membership in the euro currency zone. Never mind that those same national governments had created the need for austerity by overspending and overborrowing, or in some cases—most notably Greece—by funding vast, unaffordable and corrupt state bureaucracies over many decades. And never mind that many of them had begged to be part of the euro zone—nobody was forced to join—or that they benefited for many years from being members.”

 

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Anthony Robert "Tony" Kushner the 54 year old Pulitzer Prize winning US playwright has had his name removed from a list of recipients to receive honorary degrees at the City University of New York (CUNY) based on a university trustee pro-Israel activist Jeffrey Wiesenfeld’s statement regarding Kushner’s beliefs about Zionism and Israel. Kushner who is Jewish denied the allegations in the statement and accused Wiesenfeld of slander. Three previous prominent honorees Barbara Ehrenreich, Michael Cunningham and Ellen Schrecker in support of Kushner had declared they will return their degrees in protest at his treatment. Cunningham stated "To deny him an honorary degree because certain members of the board disagree with some of his political views is a chilling indictment of the freedom of expression CUNY has always championed." Inspired by Paul Harris ow.ly/4QaVE image source bwaydaily.com ow.ly/4Qbpo An offence against intellectual discussion (May 16 2011)

Anthony Robert “Tony” Kushner the 54 year old Pulitzer Prize winning US playwright has had his name removed from a list of recipients to receive honorary degrees at the City University of New York (CUNY) based on a university trustee pro-Israel activist Jeffrey Wiesenfeld’s statement regarding Kushner’s beliefs about Zionism and Israel. Kushner who is Jewish denied the allegations in the statement and accused Wiesenfeld of slander. Three previous prominent honorees Barbara Ehrenreich, Michael Cunningham and Ellen Schrecker in support of Kushner had declared they will return their degrees in protest at his treatment. Cunningham stated “To deny him an honorary degree because certain members of the board disagree with some of his political views is a chilling indictment of the freedom of expression CUNY has always championed.”

 

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Nelle Harper Lee the 85 year old author renowned for her Pulitzer Prize winning novel ‘To kill a mockingbird’ has denied cooperating or assisting journalist Marja Mills the author of a soon to be released book about her ‘The Mockingbird Next Door: Life With Harper Lee’. Mills claims that Lee and her sister Alice were wonderfully generous with their time and insights over the years as she researched the book. Mills had resided next door to Lee and apparently developed a friendship until the announcement of the books release, prompting a response from Lee stating that she had not willingly participated in, or authorized, any book written by Mills. Lee historically has denied requests for interviews or public appearances, and has published no further books since her first successful book. Inspired by Julie Bosman ow.ly/4KAXg image source Wikipedia ow.ly/4KB0G Better to be silent than to be a fool (May 8 2011)

Nelle Harper Lee the 85 year old author renowned for her Pulitzer Prize winning novel ‘To kill a mockingbird’ has denied cooperating or assisting journalist Marja Mills the author of a soon to be released book about her ‘The Mockingbird Next Door: Life With Harper Lee’. Mills claims that Lee and her sister Alice were wonderfully generous with their time and insights over the years as she researched the book. Mills had resided next door to Lee and apparently developed a friendship until the announcement of the books release, prompting a response from Lee stating that she had not willingly participated in, or authorized, any book written by Mills. Lee historically has denied requests for interviews or public appearances, and has published no further books since her first successful book.

 

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