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New York mdash; The latest honor for Salman Rushdie was a prize kept secret until minutes before he rose from his seat to accept it. On Tuesday night, the author received the first-ever Lifetime Disturbing the Peace Award, presented by the Vaclav Havel Center on Manhattan
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stanley cup ose whereabouts have largely been withheld from the general public since he was stabbed repeatedly in August of 2022 during a literary festival in Western New York. Author Salman Rushdie receives the Vaclav Havel Library Foundation s first Lifetime Disturbing the Peace Award at the Vaclav Havel Center in New York on Nov. 14, 2023. Evan Agostini / Invision / AP I apologize for being a mystery guest, Rushdie said Tuesday night after being introduced by Reading Lolita in Tehran author Azar Nafisi. I don t feel at all mysterious. But it made life a little simpler. The Havel center, founded in 2012 as the Vaclav Havel Library Foundation, is named for the Czech playwright and dissident who became the last president of Czechoslovakia after the fall of the Communist regime in the late 1980s. The center has a mission to advance the legacy of Havel, who died in 2011 and was known for championing human rights and free ex
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A new mural at a California charter school depicting President Trump s head on a spear has sparked outrage online and among parents in the community. The artist was asked to modify it due to the graphic nature of the painting, CBS affiliateKFMB reports.The recently unveiled mural a
adidas originals t the MAAC Charter School in Chula Vista, San Diego, depicts an Aztec warrior spearing Mr. Trump s decapitated, bloody head. By Wednesday, a black tarp was covering the picture after the display attracted attention.Shasha Andrade, one of three people who worked on the piece, shared the full image of the mural across Facebook and Instagram when the painting was covered up. Andrade wrote on Facebook that the group agreed to change the graphic mural because of threats made to the school. We were just going to adjust the mural but when things got out of control and the school started receiving threats and putting the students at risk we decided to change it completely, she wrote on Sunday. School
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