Manny Yarborough is 6'7" tall, weighs over 700 pounds, and is a former amateur world champion sumo wrestler.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Lucasta Miller says that the Bronte sisters cultivated their image as lonely geniuses living in isolation but had to accept the real limitations imposed on women by society.
Jerome Charyn tells Steve Paulson about some of the great ping-pong matches of the past and reflects on the worldwide popularity of the game.
Producer Charles Monroe-Kane lives a few blocks from the house where an Afrian-American teenager was recently killed by a white police officer. The impacts of the shooting have been rippling through the mixed-race neighborhood. Charles and his family are whiet. Here's how they are responding.
NBA superstar LeBron James is coming home to Cleveland. So what does it mean for his fans in this blighted rust belt area? Charles Monroe-Kane talks with his fellow Northeast Ohio comrade, journalist David Giffels.
Mark Brend tells Anne Strainchamps about odd inventions like the Ondes Martenot and how composers have used them.
Paul Collins researched forgotten stars for his book “Banvard’s Folly: Thirteen Tales of Renowned Obscurity, Famous Anonymity and Rotten Luck.”
Laura Blumenfeld wrote a book called “Revenge: A Story of Hope.” It recounts how she went to Jerusalem and sought out the family of the Palestinian man who shot her tourist father.
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