- John Kass
John Kass is a "Chicago Tribune" columnist. The son of a Greek immigrant grocer, Kass was born June 23, 1956, on the South Side of Chicago and grew up there and in Oak Lawn, IL. He held many jobs - retailer, ditch digger, waiter - before becoming a student of film at Columbia College in Chicago. There, he worked in the student newspaper and gained the attention of Daryle Feldmeir, … - David Haugh
David Haugh is an award-winning sports writer with the "Chicago Tribune". He began his career at the "South Bend (Ind.) Tribune", working there for nearly a decade before joining the "Chicago Tribune" as the paper's Chicago Bears beat writer. Currently, he is one of the "Tribune" sports section's sports "takeout" writers, taking on a variety of assignments. - Karl Heinrich Marx
There are few economists who have become both so reviled, and admired as Marx. Indeed some would even question whether Marx deserves to be called an economist; others would prefer terms like 'bungling and failed revolutionary'. However, there are certainly few economists who read so widely and wrote so much as Marx. Whether you love or loathe Marx, we cannot deny his writings had profound influence on the twentieth century. What Did Marx Believe? - Molly Ivins
Mary Tyler "Molly" Ivins (August 30 1944 - January 31 2007) was an American newspaper columnist, political commentator, and best-selling author from Austin, Texas. - Norman Solomon
Norman Solomon (1951-) is an American journalist, media critic and antiwar activist. A longtime associate of the media watch group Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR), Solomon is also the founder and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, a national consortium of policy researchers and analysts which works pro-actively to provide alternative sources for journalists. His weekly column, "Media Beat", has been in national syndication since 1992. - Paul Jacobs
Paul Jacobs (born February 1, 1977 in Washington, Pennsylvania) is an American organist. Jacobs studied both organ and harpsichord at The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, performing the complete organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach several times during his final semester as an undergraduate student, including once in an 18-hour non-stop marathon concert in Pittsburgh on the 250th anniversary of the composer's death, July 28, 2000. - Robert R. McCormick
Robert Rutherford McCormick (July 30, 1880 - April 1, 1955) was a Chicago newspaper baron and owner of the "Chicago Tribune". His grandfather was "Tribune"-founder and former Chicago mayor Joseph Medill, and his great-uncle was the inventor and businessman Cyrus McCormick. McCormick was born in Chicago. From 1889 through 1893, he lived with his parents in London where his father Robert Sanderson McCormick was a staff secretary to Robert Todd Lincoln. - Paul Anderson
Paul Anderson (born 1959) is a British journalist and academic. Educated at Oxford University (Balliol) and the London College of Printing, Anderson was a member of the libertarian socialist group Solidarity, deputy editor of "European Nuclear Disarmament Journal" (1984-87), reviews editor of "Tribune" (1986-91), editor of "Tribune" (1991-93), deputy editor of the "New Statesman" (1993-96), … - Jamie McMurray
James Christopher "Jamie" McMurray (born June 3, 1976 in Joplin, Missouri) is a NASCAR driver. He currently drives the #26 Crown Royal Irwin Industrial Tools Ford Fusion full-time in the NEXTEL Cup Series with crew chief Larry Carter for Roush Fenway Racing. His teammates are David Ragan (#6 AAA), Greg Biffle (#16 Ameriquest), Matt Kenseth (#17 DeWalt) and Carl Edwards (#99 Office Depot). - Robert Bryce
Robert Bryce is a journalist in Austin, Texas and the author of "Pipe Dreams: Greed, Ego, and the Death of Enron" (PublicAffairs, 2002; a "Publisher's Weekly" Best Book of the Year) and "Cronies: Oil, the Bushes, and the Rise of Texas, America's Superstate" (PublicAffairs, 2004). Bryce was a reporter for the Austin Chronicle for 12 years, and is now the managing editor of the "Energy Tribune", a newsletter for the energy industry. - Bob Edwards
Robert Edwards (1925-) is a British journalist. Edwards was editor of "Tribune" (1951-54), a feature writer on the "Evening Standard" (1954-57), deputy editor of the "Sunday Express" (1957-59), managing editor of the "Daily Express" (1959-61) then its editor (1961), editor of the Glasgow "Evening Citizen" (1962-63), editor of the "Daily Express" again (1963-65), … - Darren Rovell
Darren Rovell is CNBC's Sports Business Reporter. He is responsible for both analyzing and reporting on the sports business world on all of CNBC's programming including "Squawk Box," "Power Lunch," "Closing Bell," and "On the Money." He also writes a blog at CNBC.com (http://sportsbiz.cnbc.com). Prior to joining CNBC, Rovell served as sports business writer for ESPN.com and reported on the world of agents, stadium deals, endorsements and contracts on ESPN's flagship, … - Chris Mullin
Christopher John Mullin, known as Chris Mullin, (born 12 December, 1947 in Chelmsford, Essex) is an UK Labour politician, currently the member of Parliament for the English constituency of Sunderland South. He read Law at the University of Hull Before being elected as an MP, he was a journalist working with the well-respected ITV documentary programme "World in Action" and had campaigned for the release of the Birmingham Six, … - Jane Jacobs
Jane Jacobs, OC, O.Ont (May 4, 1916 – April 25, 2006) was an American-born Canadian urbanist, writer and activist. She is best known for "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" (1961), a powerful critique of the urban renewal policies of the 1950s in the United States. The book has been credited with reaching beyond planning issues to influence the spirit of the times. "Jacobs came down firmly on the side of spontaneous inventiveness of individuals, … - John Boyne
John Boyne (born April 30 1971) is an Irish novelist. He read English at Trinity College, Dublin, and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, where he was awarded the Curtis Brown prize. He is the author of five novels, as well as a number of short stories which have been published in various anthologies and broadcast on radio and television. His novels are published in 30 languages. - Anatol Lieven
Anatol Lieven is a British author, journalist, and policy analyst. He is presently a Senior Researcher (Bernard L. Schwartz fellow and American Strategy Program fellow) at the New America Foundation, where he focuses on US global strategy and the war on terror. Between 2000 and 2005, he was a Senior Associate for Foreign and Security policy at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Previously a journalist with the Financial Times covering Central Europe, … - Daniel Schorr
Daniel Schorr, NPR Biography Senior News Analyst - Alan Simpson
Alan John Simpson (born 20 September 1948 in Bootle, Liverpool) is a British Labour politician and Member of Parliament for Nottingham South. Simpson came to Nottingham as a student, studying economics at Trent Polytechnic (now Nottingham Trent University). After graduating in 1972 he became a community worker, and later a research officer for the city's Racial Equality Council. - Tiberius Gracchus
Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus (163 BC-132 BC) was a Roman politician of the 2nd century BC. As a plebeian tribune, he caused political turmoil in the Republic by his attempts to legislate agrarian reforms. Tiberius' political ideals eventually led to his death at the hands of supporters of the conservative faction ("Optimates") of the Roman Senate. - John Lawrence
John Gordon Michael Lawrence (29 September 1915 - 14 November 2002) was a leading far left activitist in a wide variety of groups in the United Kingdom. - Quietus
Titus Fulvius Iunius Quietus (d. 261) was a Roman usurper against Roman Emperor Gallienus. Quietus was the son of Fulvius Macrianus and a noblewoman, possibly named Iunia. According to "Historia Augusta", he was a military tribune under Valerian, but this information is challenged by historians. He gained the imperial office with his brother Macrianus Minor, after the death of Emperor Valerian in the Sassanid campaign of 260. - Jerry Mitchell
Jerry Mitchell is an award wining investigative reporter for the "The Clarion-Ledger", a newspaper in Jackson, Mississippi. He convinced authorities to reopen seemingly cold murder cases from the Civil Rights Era, prompting one colleague to call him "the South's Simon Wiesenthal". Mitchell was a court reporter for The Clarion-Ledger in 1989 when the film Mississippi Burning inspired him to look into old civil rights cases that many thought had long since turned cold. - James K. Glassman
James K. Glassman is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington public policy think tank. He is editor-in-chief of The American , AEI’s bimonthly magazine of business and economics. He is the former president of The Atlantic Monthly Co., publisher of The New Republic , Executive Vice President of U.S. News & World Report , and editor-in-chief and co-owner of Roll Call , the congressional newspaper. - Alex Steffen
Alex Steffen Alex Steffen has been the Executive Editor of Worldchanging since he co-founded the organization in 2003, as the next phase in a lifetime of work exploring ways of building a better future. In a very short time, Worldchanging has become the most widely-read sustainability-related publication on the Internet, with an archive of over 7,000 articles by leading thinkers around the world. - Gaius Gracchus
Gaius Gracchus (154 BC-121 BC) was a Roman politician of the 2nd century BC. He was the younger brother of Tiberius Gracchus and, like him, pursued a popular political agenda that ultimately ended in his death. Gaius was indirectly killed by the Roman faction of the Optimates, which some believe convinced his slave to kill him. - Paul Rogat Loeb
Paul Rogat Loeb (born in 1952) is an American social and political activist, who has strongly fought for issues including social justice, humanitarianism, environmentalism, and civic involvement in American democracy. Loeb is a frequent public speaker and has written five books and numerous newspaper editorials. - Weldon Kees
Harry Weldon Kees (February 24 1914- presumed dead July 18 1955) was an American poet, critic, novelist and short story writer. - Eugene Field
Eugene Field (September 2, 1850 - November 4, 1895) was an American writer, best known for poetry for children and for humorous essays. Field was born in St. Louis, Missouri. After the death of his mother he was raised by a cousin in Amherst, Massachusetts. Field attended Williams College in Massachusetts. Unfortunately, his father, Roswell Field, died when he was nineteen and he dropped out after eight months. - Ronald Searle
Ronald William Fordham Searle (born March 3, 1920) is an English cartoonist. Searle trained at Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology, currently known as Anglia Ruskin University. He is the creator of, among other things, St Trinian's School and co-author (with Geoffrey Willans) of the Molesworth tetralogy. He was born in Cambridge, to parents Willie and Nellie (his father was a porter at Cambridge Railway Station), … - Bayard Taylor
Bayard Taylor (James) (January 11, 1825 - December 19, 1878) U.S. poet and writer, was born in Kennett Square in Chester County, Pennsylvania. - Mark Seddon
Mark Seddon (born 1962) is the New York-based United Nations correspondent for Al Jazeera English and formerly a British journalist and activist in the Labour Party. He has reported for the BBC from inside Iraq, North Korea and China, as well as for Sky TV from Yemen and for Al Jazeera English from North Korea, Syria, Dr Congo, Kenya, Ethiopia and Haiti. - Trebonius
Gaius Trebonius (died 43 BC) was a military commander and politician of the late Roman Republic, a trusted associate of Julius Caesar who later participated in his assassination. His father was an "eques", but had not been a magistrate, and the son was considered a "novus homo", one of several in Caesar's circle. He served as quaestor around 60 BC, and was tribune of the plebs in 55, … - Robert Fitzgerald
Robert Stuart Fitzgerald was a poet, critic and translator whose renderings of the Greek classics "became standard works for a generation of scholars and students." He was best known as a translator of ancient Greek and Latin. In addition, he also composed several books of his own poetry. Fitzgerald grew up in Springfield, Illinois and, when he was 18, attended The Choate School for a year before entering Harvard University in 1929. - Adam Mickiewicz
Adam Bernard Mickiewicz (pronounced: [miʦ'kʲeviʧ ]; Belarusian: "Адам Міцкевіч"; Lithuanian: "Adomas Bernardas Mickevičius"; December 24 1798 – November 26 1855) is one of the best-known Polish poets and writers, considered the greatest Polish Romantic poet of the 19th century, alongside Zygmunt Krasiński, Juliusz Słowacki (the Three Bards) and Cyprian Kamil Norwid. - Lyonel Feininger
Lyonel Charles Feininger ; was a German-American painter and caricaturist. Feininger was born to parents of German descent and grew up in New York City. He moved to Berlin, in 1887, to study at the Königliche Akademie Berlin under Ernst Hancke and art schools in Berlin with Karl Schlabitz and in Paris with sculptor Filippo Colarossi. He started working as a caricaturist for several magazines including "Harper's Round Table", "Harper's Young People", … - Bruce Chapman
Bruce K. Chapman is the director and founder of the Discovery Institute, an American conservative think tank, with links to the religious right. He was previously a journalist, a Republican Party politician and a diplomat. - Bestia
Bestia, the name of a family in ancient Rome, of which the following were the most distinguished. 1. Lucius Calpurnius Bestia, tribune of the people in 121 B.C., consul in 111. Having been appointed to the command of the operations against Jugurtha, he at first carried on the campaign energetically, but soon, having been heavily bribed, concluded a disgraceful peace. On his return to Rome he was brought to trial for his conduct and condemned, … - Claudia Cassidy
Claudia Cassidy, born in Shawneetown, Illinois, was a music, dance, and drama critic. She was so well-known for giving caustic reviews to what she considered bad performances that she earned the nickname "Acidy Cassidy." Her judgment, however, which was regarded as extremely controversial even in her heyday, has been seriously doubted by more recent critics. She was unfailingly critical of the great Czech conductor Rafael Kubelík, … - Rex Stout
Rex Stout, full name Rex Todhunter Stout, (December 1, 1886 - October 27, 1975) was an American writer best known as the creator of the larger-than-life fictional detective Nero Wolfe, described by reviewer Will Cuppy as "that Falstaff of detectives." Wolfe's assistant Archie Goodwin recorded the cases of the detective genius from 1934 ("Fer-de-Lance") to 1975 ("A Family Affair"). - Proculus
Proculus (d. c. 281) was a Roman usurper, one of the "minor pretenders" according to "Historia Augusta"; he took the purple against Emperor Probus in 280. Probably Proculus had family connection with the Franks, to whom he turned in vain when his bid for imperial power was failing. He was a native of Albingaunum (modern Albenga in Liguria). Though he was accounted a noble, his ancestors had been brigands and were the source of his vast wealth.
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