Linton Weeks
Linton Weeks joined NPR in the summer of 2008, as its national correspondent for Digital News. He immediately hit the campaign trail, covering the Democratic and Republican National Conventions; fact-checking the debates; and exploring the candidates, the issues and the electorate.
Weeks is originally from Tennessee, and graduated from Rhodes College in 1976. He was the founding editor of Southern Magazine in 1986. The magazine was bought — and crushed — in 1989 by Time-Warner. In 1990, he was named managing editor of The Washington Post's Sunday magazine. Four years later, he became the first director of the newspaper's website, Washingtonpost.com. From 1995 until 2008, he was a staff writer in the Style section of The Washington Post.
He currently lives in a suburb of Washington with the artist Jan Taylor Weeks. In 2009, they created to honor their beloved sons.
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For 100 years the pen has been mightier than the boredom for crossword puzzle aficionados.
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Finding poetry / In the news of the moment / Can be meaningful.
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Hideous furniture and furballs and festive sweaters — homeliness is everywhere. Is ugly the new beautiful?
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It's never too early to think ahead, so here are some dates to keep in mind as you make plans for the millennium.
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Water pools, oilfields, undersea volcanoes. By exploring the planet's interior, we are making new, unexpected discoveries and learning more about life above the surface — and perhaps deep within ourselves.
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Finding poetry / in the news of the moment / can be rewarding.
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Finally. A news story co-written by YOU about YOU that YOU can read to yourself.
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As we pause this Labor Day weekend to celebrate the Great American Worker, we can't help but wonder: Where have all the do-nothings gone? Like pay phones and video parlors, slackers seem to have disappeared.
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Is there anything more that officials can do to keep grown men from hurling 90 mph fastballs at each other?
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In professional baseball, what's known as retaliation — when the pitcher from one team will intentionally throw the ball at a batter from the other team — can be risky business.