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Classic writing guide celebrates 50th anniversaryITHACA, N.Y. - History's famous word collaborators include Gilbert and Sullivan, Lennon and McCartney, Woodward and Bernstein. While those pairs were contemporaries, William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White worked four decades apart. Yet the little-known turn-of-the-century Cornell University English professor and his universally famous student produced a classic that has become one America's most influential and best-known guides on grammar and usage. More » |
Violence scars a scared urban community in 'Zooman'NEW YORK - A randomly violent, sociopathic teenage killer; the angry and grieving family of one of his young victims; and a black community either too frightened or too numbed into apathy by repeated gang violence to speak out and identify the killers. More » |
