Wikio - Robert Hughes

The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes (Framed and Booked)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:13:00 GMT

Challenges Back to History Non Fiction 5 Chunkster Challenge I can't believe it took me more than two weeks to read this book. I am so ready for it to be over. Robert Hughes has written an in-depth, extremely well-researched tome about the founding of Australia. Most people know that the continent was used as a penal colony to empty England's over-stuffed prisons and river hulks of its...

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Calendar for June 12 (kansascity.com)

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:53:00 GMT

A CONCERT OF HOPE AND PEACE, AND A SERMON FROM THE MOUNTAIN: Choral and spoken word tribute to Martin Luther King Jr.; with African-American spirituals performed by tenor Robert Hughes. 3 p.m. June 15. Westport Presbyterian Church. $5 at door. Tickets also available online. www.WestportCenterfortheArts.org (816-931-1032)

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Parenting Isn't Easy, Period—and I’m Very Glad to Be a Mother (Autism Vox)

Sun, 11 May 2008 04:33:33 GMT

First, Happy Mother’s Day to every mother reading this and many more (my own included, of course)! An essay by Robert Hughes in today's Chicago Tribune is entitled What Autism Means to a Father and much of what he says strikes home with me as a parent. Hughes captures how a parent feels as he or [...]

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VietJetAir prepared for competition (Vietnam Business Finance)

Fri, 02 May 2008 12:03:00 GMT

The country's third air carrier VietJet Aviation Joint Stock Co. (VietJetAir) is cooperating with PARC Aviation in recruiting senior executives to prepare for its operations in Vietnam. Robert Hughes, managing director of VietJetAir, talks with the Daily how the first private airline in Vietnam has readied itself for the take-off scheduled for late this year. Excerpts follow: Could you...

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Apropos of today's Google logo (Freespace)

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:07:49 GMT

My favorite art critic, Robert Hughes: "He didn't make his own stuff of course. No doubt Koons couldn't carve his name on a tree.... If cheap cookie jars could become treasures in the 1980s, then how much more the work...

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Coding for Dollars - and Bragging Rights (New Love Lines)

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 02:49:33 GMT

Thunderdome for Devs As an online software developers’ community, TopCoder.com is a chat room, practice range and gladiatorial arena for more than 145,000 members who compete for hundreds or thousands of dollars. Membership is free, said Hughes’ brother and cofounder, Robert Hughes, 38, TopCoder’s chief operating officer. Online competition directly contributes to TopCoder’s business...

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Clausen Back In (Irish Insights)

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 19:08:03 GMT

The offense might be trying to win now. Clausen is back in. So is Robert Hughes, who picked up nine yards and a new chant of "Huuugghhesss," which sounds a little like "Booo," but it's not. It also sounds like...

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Another 3-and-out. Defense Catches Up (Irish Insights)

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 18:55:41 GMT

The defense is fired up now. It forced another three-and-out, cutting the offense's lead to 32-30. And with the offense inside its 10-yard line, walk-on quarterback Brian Castello is back in the game, handing off to Robert Hughes for a...

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Like for like, surely not? (Scotsman.com)

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 23:58:57 GMT

I am puzzled as to how Professor Robert Hughes (your report, 9 April) can possibly compare the situation here in Scotland with the final days of the Democratic Republi

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The Confusion Of American Art (ArtsJournal)

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:01:12 GMT

"American art, as Robert Hughes has written, oscillates between dependence and invention. You could also say that it can't, or couldn't, decide just how American it ought to be. On the one hand were those who believed in the transcendency of the landscape; painters who saw manifest destiny in the Hudson River or Niagara Falls, and those all-American originals like Peto and Homer. On the...

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Wilmette Doctor Accused of Child Porn (BackyardConservative)

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 22:58:48 GMT

He practices family medicine in Buffalo Grove, but lured teens to his apartment on Ridge in Wilmette. Sun Times : A Wilmette doctor faces sexual assault and child pornography charges stemming from his relationship with a 17-year-old girl, prosecutors said Wednesday. Robert Hughes, 48, was ordered held on $500,000 bond at a court hearing in Skokie today. He faces four to 15 years in prison...

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My Smartphone is my lifephone (PalmAddicts)

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:09:00 GMT

[From Robert Hughes] Other than the obvious use as a cell phone, I use my Motorola Q 9h during all of my waking hours: I search www.imdb.com for movie and tv show trivia to settle argumentes as my wife and...

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