Valerie Leonhart Smalkin has worn a number of different hats in her life, but these days, it’s all about her shoes: a pair of lime green, Converse high-top sneakers.
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Read More »May 4, 2014 Comments Off on Lawyer/ventriloquist adds author to list
Valerie Leonhart Smalkin has worn a number of different hats in her life, but these days, it’s all about her shoes: a pair of lime green, Converse high-top sneakers.
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Read More »October 10, 2013 Comments Off on Author James Patterson funding Towson scholarships
Author James Patterson will be giving scholarships to a handful of students at Towson University who plan to be teachers. The school announced this week that Patterson will provide eight scholarships of $6,000 to incoming freshmen who want to be ...
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Read More »October 2, 2013 Comments Off on Best-selling author Tom Clancy has died at age 66
NEW YORK — In 1985, a year after the Cold War thriller “The Hunt for Red October” came out, Tom Clancy was invited to lunch at the White House, where he was questioned by Navy Secretary John Lehman. Who, the ...
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Read More »August 29, 2012 Comments Off on Annapolis woman publishes book on Hemingway
ANNAPOLIS — When Ernest Hemingway tells you to do something, how can you say no? Especially if you’re already contemplating a book with him as a main character. That was the position author Erika Robuck found herself in after she ...
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Read More »August 12, 2012 Comments Off on The man who wrote the book on conventions
Like a lot of lawyers, Stan M. Haynes loves to read American history. Unlike most lawyers, Haynes loves it so much he’s written a book about it.
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Read More »June 15, 2012 Comments Off on How Scalia thinks you should interpret the law
When Supreme Court justices aren’t interpreting our nation’s laws or deciding on the fate of health-care reform, they aren’t just kicking back and watching marathons of “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” after work. Well, maybe they are, but they are ...
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Read More »April 30, 2012 1 Comment
HELENA, Mont. — A federal judge on Monday dismissed a civil lawsuit against author Greg Mortenson, calling claims “flimsy and speculative” that the humanitarian and his publisher lied in his best-selling “Three Cups of Tea” and “Stones Into Schools” to ...
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Read More »March 9, 2012 Comments Off on Lipsett to receive AMWA’s Women in Science Award
Pamela A. Lipsett, M.D., M.H.P.E., the first female professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, has been named the 2012 recipient of the American Medical Women’s Association’s Women in Science Award. The Woman in Science Award ...
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Read More »February 29, 2012 Comments Off on Silver Spring company gains rights to Agatha Christie estate
SILVER SPRING — Miss Marple, Hercule Poirot and other Agatha Christie characters are now under American ownership. Acorn Media Group announced Wednesday that it had acquired majority ownership of Agatha Christie Limited. The Silver Spring-based company now controls rights to ...
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Read More »August 23, 2011 Comments Off on Author’s letter is focal point in ‘The Help’ suit
JACKSON, Miss. — A handwritten letter from author Kathryn Stockett has become the focal point of a lawsuit over her bestselling novel “The Help,” which has been made into a box office hit. A housekeeper who works for Stockett’s brother ...
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