Rally withstands last-minute change of venue, as Republicans uproot Kerry’s Colorado digs By Leigh E. Rich As with the cheeseburger, passions were stirred last Friday regarding the Colorado origin of Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry. While Kerry’s running mate John Edwards proudly boasted the Rocky Mountain state as “the birthplace of the cheeseburger, the birthplace […]
07.30.2004
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07.23.2004
Colorado branded a player in the 2004 Democratic National Convention By Leigh E. Rich [Text coming.] Rich, L. E. (2004, July 23). A lot of bull but no cow town: Colorado branded player in 2004 Democratic National Convention. The Colorado Statesman, pp. 1, 6–7, 11–12.
07.23.2004
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Technology and the 2004 Democratic National Convention By Leigh E. Rich Much has changed in the realm of the political convention. They haven’t always been the minute-by-minute scripted production and party they’ve metamorphosed into since the late 1970s and early 1980s, says Polly Baca, a longtime convention attendee and a former member of the Colorado […]
07.09.2004
L.E. Rich joins ‘The Colorado Statesman’s’ staff By Alan Smithee “Playwright Oscar Wilde wrote in The Critic as Artist, ‘Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.’ I really wish someone would have told me that before I spent […]
07.09.2004
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Authors allege ‘smoking gun’ with tobacco industry report By Leigh E. Rich The ruckus created by the recent release of an American Lung Association of Colorado report detailing the tobacco industry’s political activities in the state since the 1980s gives new meaning to the quip about laws and sausages. But tobacco control advocates, including report […]
07.09.2004
‘Liars’ hauls in catch of laughs, lessons from the sea By Leigh E. Rich All Fishermen Are Liars: True Tales from the Dry Dock Bar By Linda Greenlaw Hyperion Books July 2004 240 pages All fisherman are liars—but for good reason. At least that’s the moral of the sea story Linda Greenlaw weaves in her […]
04.19.2004
Susan Cummins Miller packs a ton of trivia—and death—into her latest compelling mystery By Leigh E. Rich Detachment Fault By Susan Cummins Miller Texas Tech University Press $24.95. If you’re in a Frankie MacFarlane novel, most likely, you’re dead. Bodies stack up throughout the pages of Detachment Fault, the second in Susan Cummins Miller’s MacFarlane […]
01.30.2004
‘Naked Crowd’ asks price of shedding liberties By Leigh E. Rich The Naked Crowd: Reclaiming Security and Freedom in an Anxious Age By Jeffrey Rosen Random House January 2004 288 pages 24.95 Our greatest fear just might be fear itself—especially with the din of pleas for heightened security in our post-September 11 world. But while […]
01.02.2004
Rediscovering the life of the Monsieur de Saint-George By Leigh E. Rich Monsieur de Saint-George: Rediscovering the Life of the “Black Mozart” By Alain Guédé Translated from French by Gilda Roberts Picador December 2003 304 pages $26 U.S./$39 Canada “The more perfect a thing is,” so wrote Dante in The Divine Comedy, “the more it […]
