Salman Rushdie to join Emory faculty
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Salman Rushdie will join the Emory University faculty and donate his archive to the institution. The novelist's five-year appointment as a distinguished writer in residence in the English Department begins in the spring of 2007, Emory officials announced Friday.
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"I am thrilled and humbled to receive this great honor, and am very grateful that my work has been recognized in this way"  Author Salman Rushdie, who was forced into hiding for a decade after the leader of Iran's revolution ordered his assassination, has been made knight, Buckingham Palace announced Saturday. via Arizona Republic
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Steve Coll, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and former managing editor of The Washington Post, will become the new chief of a Washington think tank, officials said last night.
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Britain said on Wednesday the award of a state honor to author Salman Rushdie was based on literary merit and was not meant to offend Muslims.
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MINNEAPOLIS - The dean of the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota is leaving to become dean of the business school at Emory University in Atlanta.
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University Of Leicester Law Society has selected Jagmohan Mundhra for David Flynt Honorary Award ...
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A veteran Middle East scholar affiliated with the Carter Center in Atlanta resigned his position there Monday in an escalating controversy over former president Jimmy Carter's bestselling book on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Salman Rushdie, the novelist who faced a death sentence for writing "The Satanic Verses", condemned the government for failing to protect a Sikh playwright who has been forced into hiding to escape death threats.
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An high-level Iranian cleric said Friday that the religious edict calling for the killing of Salman Rushdie cannot be revoked, and he warned Britain was defying the Islamic world by granting the author knighthood.
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Author Salman Rushdie has said he was horrified by the government&#39;s response to Sikh protests that forced a play in Birmingham to be cancelled.
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London, Dec. 26 (PTI): Expressing his outrage at the British Government&#39;s failure to criticise the violent Sikh protests that led to the closure of a play in Birmingham, noted writer Salman Rushdie, has said
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British author Salman Rushdie and his  wife Padma Lakshmi, host of the television show &quot;Top Chef,&quot; are  getting divorced, just two weeks after he was awarded a British  knighthood, his spokeswoman said on Monday.
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After amassing one of the most important literature collections of the last century, Raymond Danowski is donating it to Emory University.
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Life could have turned out so differently for Salman Rushdie, if Pakistani police had let demonstrators 18 years ago reach the row of government buildings leading to Islamabad's diplomatic enclave.
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LONDON -- Salman Rushdie , the author of "The Satanic Verses," who was forced into hiding for a decade after the leader of Iran's revolution ordered his assassination, has been made knight, Buckingham Palace announced yesterday.
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Iran's hardline Revolutionary Guards said Salman Rushdie still faced eventual execution, 16 years after revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini imposed a death sentence on the British novelist.
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Salman Rushdie, singer Emma Kirkby and Michael Eavis are among the figures honoured by the Queen.