Cathy Zimmerman : 'Mama Mia' critics missed the party Aug 6, 2008
How could I pay to see a movie that Shawn Levy of the Oregonian and Anthony Lewis of the New Yorker both trashed in reviews I mostly agreed with. The story is just a series of flimsy excuses to sing the pre-existing ABBA hits that make up the score, Levy wrote in his July 18 review. (Longview Daily News, WA)
Child left in van dies from heat stroke Jul 31, 2008
Their search for 16-month-old Markus Anthony Lewis located him unconscious in a van parked in front of their house in the Savannah subdivision on U.S. Highway 380. Tom Reedy, Denton County Sheriff s Office public information officer, estimated the child was in the van for more than an hour. (McKinney Courier-Gazette, TX)
Defense guaranteed, even if you can't pay Jul 14, 2008
The case was later portrayed in a book by Anthony Lewis and a movie starring Henry Fonda, both called "Gideon's Trumpet.". "The right of one charged with crime to counsel may not be deemed fundamental and essential to fair trials in some countries, but it is in ours," Justice Hugo Black wrote in the unanimous opinion. (Bismarck Tribune, ND)
Bronislaw Geremek, who helped end Communist control of Poland, is dead at 76 Jul 14, 2008
Speaking with the columnist Anthony Lewis in 1988, Geremek said a book he had written on medieval France could not be published because Polish Communist authorities objected to but a single word in the whole work. Asked what the word was, he replied: "Geremek.". (International Herald Tribune)
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Hate speech or free speech. What much of West bans is protected in U.S. - International Herald Tribune. (International Herald Tribune)
Hate speech or free speech? What much of West bans is protected in USA... Jun 12, 2008
Waldron was reviewing "Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment" by Anthony Lewis, the former New York Times columnist. Lewis has been critical of attempts to use the law to limit hate speech. (The Drudge Report)
2008 Cannes Film Festival Underway May 23, 2008
My Rabbit Hoppy by Anthony Lewis. Buen Viaje by Javier Palleiro. (Suite101.com)
Sampler for May 15 May 15, 2008
Two time Pulitzer Prize winner, New York Times reporter, Anthony Lewis will be in Marlborough on Wednesday, May 21, at 7 p.m. to discuss his book, Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment. He will be featured at the 2008 McConnell Author/Celebrity Series, presented by the Friends of the Library, at the Marlborough Public Library, 35 West Main St. The event is free and the public is invited to attend. (Marlborough Enterprise, MA)
Aguero's late score helps UNI upend second-place Illinois St. May 4, 2008
U -- Douglas Jones (plate), Bob Selz and Anthony Lewis (bases) ... U -- Bob Selz (plate), Douglas Jones and Anthony Lewis (bases). (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
Stars illuminate Celtics' Garden party Apr 22, 2008
Others attending included novelist Tom Perrotta and New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis, both presenters, Lewis's wife, Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Margaret Marshall, and several financial wizards including Peter Lynch, Tom Stemberg, and John Spooner, a former Literary Light. Norton Award to Nicholas Martin Tony-winning actress Andrea Martin will kick things off next month when the Elliot Norton Awards present the Prize for Sustained Excellence to the Huntington Theatre Company's... (Boston Globe)
The Dead Speak Apr 9, 2008
"Some will find the whole bloodbath debate unreal. What future possibility could be more terrible than the reality of what is happening in Cambodia now?" -Anthony Lewis in the New York Times, March 17, 1975 ... "Some will find the whole bloodbath debate unreal. What future possibility could be more terrible than the reality of what is happening in Cambodia now?" -Anthony Lewis in the New York Times, March 17, 1975. (Townhall.com)
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The famous liberal economic pundit John Kenneth Galbraith wrote, "This debacle marks the last chapter of Reaganomics." Michael Kinsley wrote, "The Phillips Curve is about to boomerang upon us with a vengeance." New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis wrote, "The age of Reagan is over.". I believe you get my drift. (Human Events Online)
Invincible Ignorance Apr 3, 2008
The famous liberal economic pundit John Kenneth Galbraith wrote, "This debacle marks the last chapter of Reaganomics." Michael Kinsley wrote, "The Phillips Curve is about to boomerang upon us with a vengeance." New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis wrote, "The age of Reagan is over." ... The famous liberal economic pundit John Kenneth Galbraith wrote, "This debacle marks the last chapter of Reaganomics." Michael Kinsley wrote, "The Phillips Curve is about to boomerang upon us with a vengeance."... (Townhall.com)
Americans' opposition to Iraq war divided on anniversary Mar 15, 2008
Anthony Lewis, 59, an audio-visual specialist, wants policymakers to brainstorm for fresh solutions. "We've tried the Army, the Navy, the Marines, and that hasn't worked," he says. (USA Today -- News)
Nat Hentoff whomps ACLU, others for inhibiting 1st Amendment Jan 30, 2008
Having researched and written about it for more than 50 years, I can attest that the most compelling readable account of its tumultuous and often imperiled history is the newly published "Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment" by Anthony Lewis (Basic Books) ... For many years, Anthony Lewis, twice a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, was a nonpareil reporter and analyst of the continuous First Amendment wars in his New York Times column. (WorldNetDaily)
Anthony Lewis writes a First Amendment primer Jan 12, 2008
Anthony Lewis covers free speech gains and losses from the 18th to the 21st centuries ... Anthony Lewis's "law school between covers" is among a handful of recent biographies of inanimate objects and ideas. (Boston Globe)
Freedom for the thought that we hate Jan 12, 2008
Throughout his long career as an author and a reporter and columnist for The New York Times, Anthony Lewis has been one of the most inspiring advocates of a heroic view of the American judiciary. Each year I read aloud to my criminal procedure students the final paragraphs of "Gideon's Trumpet," Lewis's definitive account of the 1963 Supreme Court case that recognized a constitutional right to court-appointed counsel. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
A balance between free speech and fear Jan 8, 2008
Freedom for the Thought That We Hate by Anthony Lewis Basic Books 221 pp ... Anthony Lewis follows the history of the First Amendment protections ... Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Anthony Lewis is among the great American journalists of the past half century. (Christian Science Monitor)
Elk Lake routs rival Montrose Jan 3, 2008
At Blue Ridge, Stefano Griffin (125), Nik Decker (135) and Anthony Lewis (171) had pins to lead the Raiders, who share first place in the division with Elk Lake. Zach Matulevich (215) had a pin for the Eagles. (Scranton Times, PA)
Old lions, overseas talents eye '08 bestseller lists Dec 31, 2007
Speaking of speech, former New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis defends the First Amendment in "Freedom for the Thought We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment" (January). Harvard's Randall Kennedy writes about the tangled concept of betrayal in the black community in "Sellout: The Politics of Racial Disloyalty" (January). (Boston Globe)
reject Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Nov 13, 2007
Her very first class, she says, included journalist Anthony Lewis, who was studying at Harvard for one year on a Nieman fellowship. "On the first day, he gave a response that was so brilliant that I said, 'If they're all like that, I'll never make it,'" Ginsburg recalls. (Law.com Newswire)
Lewis headed to Purdue this weekend Oct 6, 2007
One official visit is already in the books and now Aldine, Texas, outside linebacker Anthony Lewis is set to embark on his second trip of the football season this coming weekend to Purdue. The 6-foot-2, 210-pound Lewis has never been to West Lafayette, but has seen the Boilermakers play once this season already in person. (Purdue Sports -- Rivals.com)
Democratomyopia Jul 20, 2007
Liberal New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis scoffed at warnings of a coming bloodbath in Southeast Asia ... Liberal New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis scoffed at warnings of a coming bloodbath in Southeast Asia. (Townhall.com)
Blue Ribbon: Texas A&M Jul 12, 2007
Following Dodge and Tupe in the Aggie linebacking corps will be sophomores Matt Featherston (6-3, 243) and Anthony Lewis (6-2, 249). "We've got a pretty good pair to learn from in Misi and Mark," Darnell said. (ESPN -- College Football News)
A power who was Apr 26, 2007
Tuesday, April 24, 2007 David Halberstam, who died yesterday in a car crash in San Francisco, may or may not have been "the greatest journalist of his generation," as his onetime New York Times colleague Anthony Lewis told the Harvard Crimson. Certainly, he had the credentials: a Pulitzer Prize (for his Vietnam War coverage), a long shelf of best-selling books, and the contribution of an indispensable phrase to the language. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
David Halberstam's Last Speech Apr 26, 2007
Moments later, I realized that this had been the last speech of Halberstam called the greatest journalist of his generation by Anthony Lewis, a colleague of his at. The New York Times. (BusinessWeek)
DAVID HALBERSTAM: 1934-2007 Apr 25, 2007
Though "he was the premier journalist of his generation," said Anthony Lewis, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who also worked at the New York Times, he was nonetheless "a kind, funny, generous human being. I never saw him do a mean thing. He had a core integrity that gave him weight, whether he was writing about sports or Vietnam.". Books by David Halberstam. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Herman: HRW War Service Feb 25, 2007
The very same day, the New York Times's veteran columnist Anthony Lewis recounted a discussion he had had with the ICTY's Chief Prosecutor Richard Goldstone: No Peace Without Justice, it was titled (November 20, 1995). As the Tribunal's Chief Justice Richard Goldstone has repeatedly said, there can be no peace without justice, the Wall Street Journal editorialized. (Zmag.org)
Brady made a quick pass at Bundchen Jan 26, 2007
But better than that was cooking for Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Margaret Marshall and her husband , Anthony Lewis, who hired DiSpirito to be their personal chef. "They loved lamb. They always had me making lamb and also polenta ," he recalled. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Top 10 of 2006 Jan 7, 2007
Staff Sgt. Brian Anthony Lewis, 32, of Bunkie, died March 13, in Eastern Baghdad, Iraq. Lewis was traveling in a convoy when an improvised explosive device struck his vehicle. (Leesville Daily Leader, LA)
Emotional take on a tragic tale Dec 5, 2006
This production welcomes the return of Anthony Lewis and Victoria Hollyman-Lewis as Lord Capulet and Juliet's nurse and their collective experience adds necessary maturity to the cast. The scene between Lewis and Walsh where the father admonishes his daughter for her refusal to marry the wealthy Paris is particularly brilliant. (The Australian)
He approached food, politics, life with gusto Oct 12, 2006
He told stories about his Boston friends and colleagues, including New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis and radio personality Christopher Lydon, and his confit and baseball buddy Gordon Hamersley, at whose restaurant we had eaten cassoulet on Apple's last swing through town. While tucking into a Jasper White lobster he talked of a recent fusion meal at Tetsuya's in Sydney, one of his favorite restaurants in one of his favorite countries, and of the incomparable charred beef of the Argentine... (Boston Globe)
The End of an Era Jun 19, 2006
Anthony Lewis, writing in this magazine a year after independence, described an "Alice-in-Wonderland quality" in the attitude of white Zimbabweans toward Mugabe: "He was the chief villain. Now he is the person on whom white hopes rest, the man of moderation and authority." Mugabe's conciliatory racial stance also served as a convenient smoke screen in 1982, when he sent a special division of his army into Matabeleland, the home territory of the man who was then his chief political rival, Joshua... (New Yorker)
Former district attorney arrested after fight in court May 29, 2006
Douglas Greenburg, 59, was presenting a motion shortly before noon requesting that he be awarded lawyer s fees in a March civil case he had won over local attorney Anthony Lewis when the two men s legal arguments escalated into personal insults, authorities said. After an exchange of profanities, Greenburg allegedly grabbed Lewis coat, and, after a brief struggle, Lewis fell to the floor, according to the Terrebonne Parish Sheriff s Office. (WWLTV.com, LA)
President Jonah (The Nation) Jan 26, 2006
"Finally, we shouldn't be surprised at the antipathy toward democracy displayed by the Bush administration.... As already noted, fundamentalism and democracy are completely antithetical. The opposite of the Enlightenment, of course, is tribalism, groupthink; and more and more, this is the direction in which the United States is going.... Anthony Lewis, who worked as a columnist for the New York Times for thirty-two years, observes that what has happened in the wake of 9/11 is not just the... (RSS - Yahoo News - Opinion/Editorial)
