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drop-off of TV equipment, contact Mr. But he has an intense interest in fiction and fresh
ideas for the magazine.

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web store featuring Massachusetts-made products, will donate a portion
of its March sales to the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities.,
Minister Harald Guenther.C. General George Patton's rescue of the
425-year-old Lipizzaner breed.lobelinepr."
Gourevitch said he began reading The Paris Review in the library
periodical room as a college freshman, and he said: "One of the many amazing
things about The Paris Review is that it has steadily defied the conventional
wisdom about literary magazines.

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Gourevitch, 43, is a well-known author and long-time staff writer of The
New Yorker.

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maintains equestrian skills and traditions passed on for
centuries, dating back to ancient Greece and refined in
Vienna over hundreds of years.

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And it has a great sense of humor. His books have appeared in
translation in ten languages.

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REMINDER/After 15 Year Absence Legendary Lipizzaner Stallions of the Spanish Riding School of Vienna Set Return for U.S. Tour

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Riding School to say 'thank you' to America. The Lipizzaner breed,
developed at the height of European horsemanship, was at
first intended for warfare, but over time the horses
became the most dexterous performing equines in the world. His second
book, "A Cold Case," was published by FSG in 2001, and is being adapted for
the screen by Tom Hanks and Universal Pictures.

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WHO + WHAT: COME AND SEE THE AMAZING LIPIZZANER STALLIONS OF THE
SPANISH RIDING SCHOOL OF VIENNA AT THE AUSTRIAN EMBASSY
ALONG WITH Dr.
"Philip greatly impressed us," said Robert Silvers, co-editor of The New York
Review of Books, who led the Search Committee.

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The company continues to
extend its product line with new art , crafts, jewelry, gourmet food
items, games, soaps, clocks, lamps and many other items originating in
the Bay State. Said School Director Dr. NEW YORK, The board of The Paris Review
Foundation today named Philip Gourevitch as the magazine's new editor. His appointment comes at a time of renewed enthusiasm and support
for sustaining The Paris Review following the death, in 2003, of George
Plimpton , who had presided over the magazine for its first half century. Gourevitch, a long time board member of the
writers' organization PEN, has written extensively from Africa, Asia, and
Europe, and will be interested in publishing more writing from abroad."

The Paris Review quarterly magazine is published by The Paris Review
Foundation, Inc.

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About Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities

Established in 1974, the Massachusetts Foundation for the
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Massachusetts Cultural Council.m.

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Trainers take the natural movements of the horse and,
over a six to eight-year period, develop the intricate
movements that brought fame to the Lipizzaners.F. in fiction writing from Columbia University,
and has published a number of short stories in literary quarterlies.

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org)--a daily almanac of Massachusetts history. "Mass Moments has taken this idea to a new level with
superb content that combines audio , images, and text into something
that is both entertaining and educational.
"George believed that an editor should be strong and decisive and should
also be free to give a magazine its character according to his sensibility,"
Sarah Dudley Plimpton, widow of George Plimpton, said.

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WHERE: The Austrian Embassy
3524 International Court N. His editorship promises to continue the tradition of
The Paris Review by surprising us with new writing. Its interviews with the world's finest writers have become an essential
resource.

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WHEN: TODAY Wednesday, May 11, 2005, 11 a. The dates coincide with the 60th
anniversary of U. From
trotting in place to pirouettes, the horses perform feats
that have astounded audiences around the world. It has never belonged to a particular literary school or movement, but
rather it has always embraced literature as a whole , in the largest possible
way.A. His first book, "We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We
Will Be Killed With Our Families: stories from Rwanda," was published by
Farrar Straus + Giroux (FSG) in 1998, and won numerous prizes, including a
National Book Critics Circle Award, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a George
Polk Book Award, and in Britain, the Guardian First Book Award.

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