David Hume

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2011-09-01 16:34:52

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Perspectives on the fall of the Berlin Wall

2009-11-08 00:00:00

We make fun of Nostradamus and numerologists, but give editors an anniversary and the floodgates open. We're anniversary-ologists, as USA Today might say. Unfortunately, trying to take the pulse of what happened in Eastern Europe in 1989 is more complex...

TCA Press Tour: PBS to air the first documentary about presidential photographers

2010-08-05 21:35:54

Christopher Hitchens: 'It's not a good cancer to get'

2010-08-09 16:33:49

A passion for art, a perilous pursuit

2008-09-11 00:00:00

First of three parts 'I'm being arrested." Roxanna Brown, a renowned expert in Southeast Asian ceramics, was whispering into the hotel telephone. Downstairs in the lobby, her host, University of Washington professor Bill Lavely, didn't know what to...

'The Last Day' by Nicholas Shrady

2008-05-08 18:48:17

May 11, 2008 The earthquake that leveled Lisbon in 1755 shook more than the ground, journalist Nicholas Shrady reveals in this lively account. It flattened religious and philosophical certainties as well, and it was an equal-opportunity disturber of the...

Her career revived, scholar turns tipster

2008-09-12 00:00:00

Second of three parts Roxanna Brown never saw the car that hit her. The 36-year-old expert in Southeast Asian art was pulling her motorcycle out of a parking lot in Bangkok when the vehicle knocked her onto a busy road. There she was repeatedly...

Honey, I shrunk the president

2007-12-16 00:00:00

Dear President Bush: As a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, I sympathize with your pique toward that pesky reporter who tried to analyze your body language at a news conference this month, A National Intelligence Estimate had just...

IPhone photography a hot-button issue

2012-04-22 07:00:00

There's an unlikely hot-button issue in photojournalism today, and it has nothing to do with circulation woes, working in conflict zones or icing down an achy back from lugging equipment. It's the iPhone. Specifically, “Can I use my iPhone to shoot...

Allan Powell: Can the preachments of philosophers heal the soul?

2012-03-09 00:00:00

One is bound to be disconcerted when they come across news that a whole new branch of philosophy — wedded to therapy — has been in practice for some time and that they had been totally unaware of its existence. Nevertheless, quietly, and...

The man many know as Newman has a new show

2011-11-25 15:56:00

Actor Wayne Knight is a veteran of iconic television and major feature films, from playing the evil mailman Newman on “Seinfeld” to the gluttonous villain in Steven Spielberg’s “Jurassic Park.” He’s also a longtime...

Allan Powell: New find of an old book sheds light on Einstein

2011-11-04 00:00:00

Socrates has written: “The unexamined life is not worth living.” It can be said with assurance that the great physicist, Albert Einstein, has been thoroughly examined — inwardly by his introspective efforts and at a distance by his...

President Gerald Ford with his golden retriever, Liberty, in the Oval Office in 1974.

2008-11-07 14:07:01

Roxanna Brown, 27, during a visit to Port Tobacco, Maryland in 1973. She briefly dated the photographer, Pulitzer prize winner David Hume Kennerly, during the Vietnam War. They stayed friends for years. More photos

2008-09-10 00:00:00

Roxanna Brown, 27, during a visit to Port Tobacco, Maryland in 1973. She briefly dated the Pulitzer prize winning photographer David Hume Kennerly. They stayed friends for years.

2008-09-03 16:58:36