A collection of stories tagged 'jane' from NPR. http://www.reverbiage.com/ Copyright 2006 Reverbiage.com. Reverbiage is not affiliated with NPR nor its member stations. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:50:33 EST The global community has always struggled with developing strategies that help stop violence and create peace. Jane Holl Lute, the new head of the United Nation's Peacebuilding Commission, on what it takes to keep the peace, and what can be done to sustain peace in countries throughout the world. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/56707 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95285452&ft=1&f=1001 Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:00:00 EDT The War on Terror was meant to prevent another terrorist attack on the United States, but author Jane Mayer says that policies like extraordinary rendition have compromised American values. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/55979 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94754692&ft=1&f=1032 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:08:00 EDT An underground nuclear submarine base on China's Hainan Island is drawing scrutiny from the United States and India. According to satellite imagery on the Web sites of Jane's Intelligence Review and the Federation of American Scientists, the base has a sea entrance wide enough to allow submarines to enter the underground facilities. The photograph reveals what appears to be a ballistic missile submarine moored to one of the piers outside. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/48997 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90309537&ft=1&f=1001 Fri, 09 May 2008 08:08:00 EDT Andrew Davies is the go-to screenwriter for adapting classic literature for television and the movies. He adapts Northanger Abbey and Sense and Sensibility as PBS prepares to air The Complete Jane Austen. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/44221 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18212238&ft=1&f=1021 Fri, 18 Jan 2008 06:00:00 EST Robin Swicord is the writer and director of the new film The Jane Austin Book Club. She talks about being one of a relatively few female directors in Hollywood -- and what it's like to make the transition from screenwriter to director. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/39752 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14623527&ft=1&f=1008 Sat, 22 Sep 2007 16:00:00 EDT The dialogue in this fanciful "biography" certainly isn't up to the beloved novelist's standard, but the performances do sparkle and the look is Merchant Ivory-lush -- so there's plenty of pleasure to be had. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/37776 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12075000 Fri, 03 Aug 2007 10:00:00 EDT Congress recently passed the latest supplemental funding bill for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Caitlin Harrington, a staff reporter for Jane's Defense Weekly, and Julianne Malveaux, author and economist, talk about exactly where that money's going, and where it came from. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/34996 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10497698 Mon, 28 May 2007 15:03:00 EDT Christie's is putting up for sale the only known oil painting of Jane Austen. The portrait could fetch up to $800,000 at auction, but some skeptics say the young girl in the painting is just too pretty to be the author. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/33500 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9669835 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:01:00 EDT Pulitzer-winning novelist Jane Smiley's latest book, Ten Days in the Hills, is a satirical portrait of an Oscar-winning director, his political-activist lover, his ex-wife and her lover. The book explores the culture of Hollywood against the U.S. invasion of Iraq. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/31023 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7400327 Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:34:00 EST Jane Bolin was the first black woman to graduate from Yale Law School, the first black woman to join the New York City Bar Association, and the first black female judge in the United States. Bolin died Jan. 8 at the age of 98. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/29822 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6868233 Tue, 16 Jan 2007 09:00:00 EST One of television's favorite moms has died. Jane Wyatt was 96. She was best known for playing Margaret Anderson on the popular 50s sitcom Father Knows Best. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/25020 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6366686 Mon, 23 Oct 2006 06:00:00 EDT Jane Jacobs, an author and community activist of singular influence, has died. Jacobs' classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities transformed ideas about urban planning, urging multi-use structures and green space in walkable communities. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/18661 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5362409 Tue, 25 Apr 2006 18:36:00 EDT