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Founder Sharon Rab says the prize organization wanted to honor Holbrooke’s international role in seeking peace and his special importance to Dayton

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(CBS/AP) DAYTON, Ohio – Author Barbara Kingsolver, a leader in the literature of social change, will be the first recipient of the Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award. The award, previously known as the Dayton Literary Peace Prize’s lifetime achievement award, has been renamed in honor 카지노 용어 of the late Ambassador U.N. Richard Holbrooke. First given in 2006, the prize honors authors whose works promote peace. It was inspired by the Dayton peace accords on Bosnia brokered by Holbrooke in 1995 negotiations at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, near Dayton in southwest Ohio. Founder Sharon Rab says the prize organization wanted to honor Holbrooke’s international role in seeking peace and his special importance to Dayton. The longtime U.S. diplomat died last December at age 69 following surgery on his torn aorta. Kingsolver, 56 will receive award on Nov. 13. The novelist and poet is best known for her books “The Poisonwood Bible,” a story of a missionary family in the Congo, and “The Lacuna” about a Mexican-American who runs afoul of the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1950s. Kingsolver has won numerous writing awards and her “The Poisonwood Bible,” was on the Pulitzer Prize’s short...

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Gunmen in Afghan uniform kills NATO troop Thursday’s incident is the second green-on-blue attack this week. On Tuesday, two gunmen confirmed to have been Afghan National Army soldiers turned their weapons on NATO troops, killing a U.S. service member and wounding two others, ISAF confirmed Friday morning. The Taliban claimed responsibility for that shooting, which took place in Paktia province, eastern Afghanistan. The suspects escaped after the attack and a search was underway to track them down. In a separate attack Wednesday morning, at least one suicide bomber walked up to a group of U.S. troops on foot patrol near the provincial council office in Kunar province, also in the east, and blew himself up, killing three American troops and one civilian working for the State Department’s USAID program. There has been no indication that the bomber or bombers in this attack were wearing Afghan uniforms. The Taliban traditionally steps up attacks in August, but the militant group’s claimed success in recruiting rogue forces from the ranks of the Afghan army and police to turn on their Western allies, with whom they work and live very closely as ISAF ramps up its planned transition of security to Afghan forces, has fostered a lack of trust. While the Taliban often claim they have infiltrated the Afghan security forces and are carrying out these attacks, CBS News reporter John Bentley reported in July that a U.S. Defense Department report maintains the attacks are not carried out by insurgents. “Investigations have determined that a large majority of green-on-blue attacks are not attributable to insurgent infiltration of the ANSF (Afghan National Security Forces), but are due to isolated personal grievances against coalition personnel,” the report said.

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Courtney Sullivan: The Kelleher family’s beautiful house in Maine is based on the family home of my best friend from high school. It was there on the beach three summers back that I first conceived of this novel. I borrowed the layout of the fictional cottage from that real-life house, as well as the story of the family building it themselves from the ground up. I wanted to explore how certain things–like alcoholism, religion, resentments, and secrets–move from one generation to the next. The mother-daughter dynamic is powerful and often fraught, and I wanted to really dig into that as well. A secluded family beach house seemed like the perfect place to let all this percolate. JG: What surprised you the most during the writing process? CS: I initially thought that there would be 10 or 12 different narrators, male and female, but four women rose to the top. Alice and Maggie are the generational bookends. Kathleen represents the one who went away–the complex blend of guilt and freedom that comes from throwing off one’s familial responsibilities. Ann Marie is essential because, as an in-law, she represents a sort of outsider, even though she is Alice’s main caretaker. Though we’re not inside the heads of the other characters, I tried to make every member of the family three-dimensional. Many early readers have said that Daniel, the grandfather, is their favorite character, and he died 10 years before the present day action of the book. There’s something about that that seems right to me, since often the people whose presence looms largest are the ones who are no longer here. JG: What would you be doing if you weren’t a writer? CS: I’ve always secretly wanted to be a kindergarten teacher. When I was 19, I lived in London for a year and worked as a nanny for a family with three boys under the age of 2. I’ve never had a more challenging, fast paced job. I loved every second of it. JG: What else are you reading right now? CS: I’m loving “A Good Hard Look” by Ann Napolitano. It’s a beautiful novel about Flannery O’Connor’s life in her small hometown. Next up are Tina Fey’s “Bossypants” and a collection of short stories by Emma Straub called “Other People We Married.” I’m heading to Maine for vacation in August, and dreaming of spending long, leisurely hours reading on the beach. JG: What’s next for you? CS: I’m in the early stages of a new novel. It’s a portrait of four very different marriages that span the course of the twentieth century, and have something surprising in common. One character is a paramedic in the 1980s, and I recently got a chance to do an ambulance ride-along, to get a sense of what his average day might look like. I love having the ability to peer into people’s private worlds. That might be the best part of being a novelist.

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“Ten percent of people in any profession should think of something else.” Damon says, “Well, OK

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(CBS) Here’s something to remember when you challenge Matt Damon: He’s no dum-dum. He’s probably smarter than you are. Damon was in Washington, D.C., Saturday to give a speech at the Save Our Schools March. (Damon’s mother, who introduced him at the event, is a teacher.) Pictures: Matt Damon A reporter and a cameraman for Reason.tv suggested to him that job insecurity should motivate actors – and by apples-to-oranges comparison, teachers – to be better at what they do. Damon’s face reveals he’s not buying the reporter’s questions as she asks it. “In acting, there isn’t job security, right?” says the reporter. “There’s incentive to work hard and be a better actor because you want to have a job, so why isn’t it like that for teachers?” “You think job insecurity is what makes me work hard?” asks Damon. “Well, you have an incentive to work harder, but if there’s job security…” says the reporter. Damon cuts her off. “I want to be an actor; it’s not an incentive. That’s the thing. See, you take this MBA-style thinking, right? It’s the problem with [education] policy right now. It’s this intrinsically paternalistic view of problems that are much more complex than that. It’s like saying a teacher is going to get lazy when they have tenure. A teacher wants to teach. I mean, why else would you take a sh**ty...

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