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Ken Kesey

Ken Kesey's first book, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962), is one of the best-known American novels of the 1960s. The tale was made into an Oscar-winning 1975 movie starring Jack Nicholson as R.…

Winter Olympics: Medal Standings - Ice

We look forward to providing event results for the Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, which take place from February 10-26, 2006. Medal standings by sport: Choose a sport...Alpine…

Bjorn Daehlie

Bjorn DaehlieBorn: June 19, 1967Norwegian cross-country skier winner of a record eight gold and 12 overall Winter Olympic medals from 1992-98. See also: Bjorn Daehlie: The winningest Winter…

Warren Harding

Warren Harding was president of the United States from 1921 until his sudden death in 1923. One can almost feel sorry for Harding, who consistently gets ranked as one of the worst presidents of all…

Angie Stevenson Biography

Angie StevensonAge: 33 a cross-country skier and biathlete; won the U.S. Summer Biathlon Championships in 1991 and 1995; of a self-inflicted gunshot woundDied: Bend, Ore., Feb. 13, 1997Dawn…

2006 Team Hill Jump Olympics

Two jumps off normal hill for each team's four skiers followed the next day by a 4 x 5-km cross-country relay race.     4x5-km 1 Austria 49:52.6 2 Germany 50:07.9 3…

Robert Pirsig

Robert Pirsig wrote the 1974 philosophical memoir Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance -- a surprise best-seller that has sold millions of copies in the decades since its publication. The book…

Ken Kesey 2001 Deaths

Ken KeseyAge: 66 writer and counterculture hero who was inspired to write his first novel, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, while working as a night attendant in the psychiatric ward of a…

Eye of the Beholder

Director/Writer:Stephan ElliotDestination Films; R; 102 minutesRelease:1/00Cast:Ashley Judd, Ewan McGregor, Ann-Marie Brow The man who brought the world Priscilla, Queen of the Desert,…

Neal Cassady

Neal Cassady wasn't much of a writer, and yet he is considered a pillar -- a muse, it's said -- of the Beat Generation, the American narcotized literary movement of the 1950s and '60s that gave…