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  • Farewell, Studs Terkel

    On Friday, the world said goodbye to Studs Terkel.Studs might not have been so well known on this side of the Atlantic but in the United States they are paying tribute to a “true American hero”.Studs was a performer, a journalist, an oral historian and a “rabble-rouser”.McCarthy tried to have him testify against leftist friends;

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  • Michael O’Brien spent 11 years behind bars for a murder he didn’t commit.In December 1999, after judges quashed his conviction, he asked me to write a piece about his two-week appeal.That request turned into a plan to write a complete book of Mike’s life.It is an incredible story.Mike’s arrest and life sentence for the murder

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