Richard S. " Kinky " Friedman ( born November 1, 1944 ) is an American Texas Country singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician and former columnist for Texas Monthly who styles himself in the mold of popular American satirists Will Rogers and Mark Twain.

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The founding director of CBS News, Paul White, for whom the top award given by the broadcast news directors organization Radio Television Digital News Association ( RTDNA ) is named, Kent Cooper, who later became the longtime GM of rival Associated Press, early ABC News president Elmer Lower, Raymond Clapper, originator of the term " smoked-filled room ", Merriman Smith, Helen Thomas, Marie Colvin, Martha Gellhorn, Kate Webb, Henry Tilton Gorrell, Seymour Hersh, Lucien Carr, Neil Sheehan, Brit Hume, Keith Olbermann, New York Times columnists Thomas Friedman and Gail Collins, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, sportswriter and Untouchables co-author Oscar Fraley, author H. Allen Smith, military author Joe Galloway, Saigon evacuation photographer Hubert van Es, photographer Stan Stearns, 1970s White House photographer David Hume Kennerly, White House spokesmen George Reedy, Ron Nessen and Larry Speakes, longtime Las Vegas bureau manager Myram Borders, onetime CIA Director Richard Helms, who interviewed Adolf Hitler for United Press during the 1936 Olympics, diplomat Edward M. Korry, former UP correspondent to Moscow Eugene Lyons, C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb, ex-Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton, 1980's-90's Singapore President Wee Kim Wee and novelists Allen Drury, Tony Hillerman and Daniel Silva.

Richard Elliott Friedman has argued that the story may have originally had Abraham carrying out the sacrifice of Isaac, but that later repugnance at the idea of a human sacrifice led a redactor to add the lines in which a ram is substituted for Isaac.

Recent speakers at the LSE have included Kofi Annan, Hilary Benn, Ben Bernanke, Tony Blair, Hazel Blears, Cherie Booth, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Noam Chomsky, Bill Clinton, Alistair Darling, Niall Ferguson, Joschka Fischer, Vicente Fox, Milton Friedman, Muammar al-Gaddafi, John Lewis Gaddis, Alan Greenspan, Tenzin Gyatso, Will Hutton, Paul Krugman, Richard Lambert, Jens Lehmann, Lee Hsien Loong, John Major, Nelson Mandela, Mary McAleese, Dmitri Medvedev, John Atta Mills, Mario Monti, George Osborne, Robert Peston, Sebastián Piñera, Kevin Rudd, Jeffrey Sachs, Gerhard Schroeder, Carlos D. Mesa, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Costas Simitis, George Soros, Lord Stern, Jack Straw, Aung San Suu Kyi, Baroness Thatcher, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Rowan Williams.

* Friedman, Richard E. Who Wrote The Bible ?, Harper and Row, NY, USA, 1987.

Richard Elliott Friedman has argued that in the original E story Abraham may have carried out the sacrifice of Isaac, but that later repugnance at the idea of a human sacrifice led the redactor of JE to add the lines in which a ram is substituted for Isaac.

Contributors to Imprimis have included Jeb Bush, Ward Connerly, Dinesh D ' Souza, Milton Friedman, Jack Kemp, Irving Kristol, David McCullough, Richard John Neuhaus, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Clarence Thomas, and Tom Wolfe.

Maria Friedman appears as the Narrator ; Richard Attenborough and Joan Collins also appear in the video.

** John Pfeiffer ( producer & notes writer ), Ray Hall, Thomas MacCluskey, James P. Nichols, Anthony Salvatore, Jon M. Samuels, David Satz ( engineers ), J. J. Stelmach ( art director ), Gabriel Banat, Grant Beglarian, Robert Cowan, Mortimer W. Frank, Richard Freed, Erick Friedman, Harris Goldsmith, Josefa Heifetz, George Jellinek, Irving Kolodin, Jacob Lateiner, Laurence Lesser, Myra C. Livingston, John Maltese, John Anthony Maltese, Leonard Pennario & Brooks Smith ( notes writers ) for The Heifetz Collection performed by Jascha Heifetz & various artists

* 2011 in art-Death of B. H. Friedman, Ellen Stewart, Dennis Oppenheim, Charles O. Perry, Roy Gussow, Alan Uglow, Suze Rotolo, Gabriel Laderman, Leo Steinberg, George Tooker, Hedda Sterne, John McCracken, Leonora Carrington, Claudio Bravo, M. F. Husain, Jack Smith, Thomas N. Armstrong III, Robert Miller, Cy Twombly, Lucian Freud, John Hoyland, Budd Hopkins, Jeanette Ingberman, Richard Hamilton, Stephen Mueller, Pat Passlof, Gerald Laing, John Chamberlain, Helen Frankenthaler

" Richard Elliott Friedman, an Old Testament scholar and professor of Jewish studies at the University of Georgia, has identified errors in the translation of the Book of Genesis.

** John Pfeiffer ( producer & notes writer ), Ray Hall, Thomas MacCluskey, James P. Nichols, Anthony Salvatore, Jon M. Samuels, David Satz ( engineers ), J. J. Stelmach ( art director ), Gabriel Banat, Grant Beglarian, Robert Cowan, Mortimer W. Frank, Richard Freed, Erick Friedman, Harris Goldsmith, Josefa Heifetz, George Jellinek, Irving Kolodin, Jacob Lateiner, Laurence Lesser, Myra C. Livingston, John Maltese, John Anthony Maltese, Leonard Pennario & Brooks Smith ( notes writers ) for The Heifetz Collection performed by Jascha Heifetz & various artists

Bush, Noam Chomsky, Norman Cousins, Jean-Michel Cousteau, Richard Dawkins, Roger Ebert, Dian Fossey, Milton Friedman, Jane Goodall, John Houseman, Jesse Jackson, Garrison Keillor, James J. Kilpatrick, Michio Kaku, Martin Luther King Jr., Henry Kissinger, Sinclair Lewis, George McGovern, Margaret Mead, Michael Moore, Ralph Nader, Richard Nixon, Yitzhak Rabin, James Randi, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Carl Sagan, Cornel West and Howard Zinn.

** Physics – Jerome I. Friedman, Henry W. Kendall, Richard Taylor

Writers included Al Aronowitz, George Barkin, Ann Louis Barsach, Chip Berlet, Steve Bloom, Michael Bloomfield, Victor Bockris, William S. Burroughs, Mark Christensen, Ed Dwyer, Bruce Eisner, David Enders, Thomas King Forcade, Andrew Kowl, Bruce Jay Friedman, Josh Alan Friedman, Kinky Friedman, Steven Hager, Debbie “ Blondie ” Harry, J. Hoberman, Mark Jacobson, David Katz, Paul Krassner, Dean Latimer, Carlo McCormick, Barry Miles, Cookie Mueller, Glenn O ' Brien, Joey Ramone, Ron Rosenbaum, Jerry Rubin, Luc Sante, Larry “ Ratso ” Sloman, Terry Southern, Peter Stafford, Richard Stratton, Teun Voeten, Andy Warhol, Andrew Weil, Mike Wilmington, Robert Anton Wilson, and Frank Zappa.

The list of legendary pianists he taught includes Anna Yesipova, Richard Buhlig, Ignaz Friedman, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Artur Schnabel, Mark Hambourg, Alexander Brailowsky, Alexander Winkler, Benno Moiseiwitsch and Mieczysław Horszowski.

Richard Elliott Friedman has recently suggested in his book The Hidden Book in the Bible that the Court History and the Accession History were originally part of a single historical epic by the Yahwist author covering the history of the Israelite world until the time of David and Solomon.

Richard Elliott Friedman says " at a minimum we can say that the writer of the golden calf account in Exodus seems to have taken the words that were traditionally ascribed to Jeroboam and placed them in the mouths of the people.

As machine gunner Rivera ( Richard Conte ) and his pal, Jake Friedman, razz each other, Porter begins to break down and tells Ward ( also called Farmer ) that he is putting Tyne in charge.

* Richard Elliott Friedman, The Bible with Sources Revealed.

* Richard Elliott Friedman, Who Wrote the Bible ?.

Among those featured in the Revue were Joan Baez, Roger McGuinn, Ramblin ' Jack Elliott, Kinky Friedman and Bob Neuwirth.

The Man Who Broke Purple: the Life of Colonel William F. Friedman, Who Deciphered the Japanese Code in World War II.

* The Man Who Broke Purple: the Life of Colonel William F. Friedman, Who Deciphered the Japanese Code in World War II ( 1977 ).

" In 2009, Thomas L. Friedman, in his column in The New York Times, called the blog " indispensable ", and Rolling Stone magazine named Romm to its list of " 100 People Who Are Changing America ".

* Friedman, R. ( 1987 ) Who wrote the Bible?

* Matti Friedman, The Aleppo Codex: A True Story of Obsession, Faith, and the Pursuit of an Ancient Bible, Algonquin Books ( May 15, 2012 ), hardcover, 320 pages,,

The Hidden Book analyses the punctuation patterns, word choice, sentence structure and allusions used in the biblical stories ; and reconstructs what Friedman says is the original, foundational text at the heart of the Bible.

* Steven Cassedy, " Walter Rauschenbusch, the Social Gospel Movement, and How Julius Wellhausen Unwittingly Helped Create American Progressivism in the Twentieth Century ," in Shawna Dolansky ( ed ), Sacred History, Sacred Literature: Essays on Ancient Israel, the Bible, and Religion in Honor of R. E. Friedman on His Sixtieth Birthday ( Winnona Lake, Eisenbrauns, 2008 ), 315-324.

" ( Helmreich, 1997 ) Writing in an article in the Jewish Observer, Moshe Y ' chiail Friedman states that Orthodox Judaism prohibits women from being given semicha and serving as rabbis.

Three books were published based on Factsheet Five: How to Publish a Fanzine by Gunderloy ( 1988 ; Loompanics ), The World of Zines, by Gunderloy and Janice ( 1992 ; Penguin ) ISBN 0-14-016720-X, and The Factsheet Five Zine Reader by Friedman ( 1997 ; Three Rivers Press ) ISBN 0-609-80001-9.

* Stanton T. Friedman, TOP SECRET / MAJIC, 1997, Marlowe & Co., ISBN 1-56924-741-2

Friedman played on Megadeth's further releases Youthanasia ( 1994 ), Cryptic Writings ( 1997 ), Risk ( 1999 ).

Jane Friedman was CEO for HarperCollins from 1997 to 2008. Notable management figures include Lisa Sharkey, current senior vice president and director of creative development and Barry Winkleman from 1989 to 1994.

In 1997, with the participation of 35 mail-artists ( such as Vittore Baroni, Ken Friedman, John Held Jr., Reed Altemus, Honoria, H. R.

In 1997, a live version of Escalator over the Hill ( re-orchestrated by Jeff Friedman ) was performed for the first time in Cologne, Germany ; in 1998 " Escalator " toured Europe, and another live performance took place in May 2006 in Essen, Germany.

In 1995, Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman mistakenly predicted the Hong Kong dollar's demise within two years of the 1997 handover.

" Collected Stories " has had three New York productions: its premiere at Manhattan Theatre Club's City Center Stage I, in 1997, with Maria Tucci and Debra Messing, directed by Lisa Peterson ; the following year at the Lucille Lortel Theatre with Uta Hagen and Lorca Simons, directed by William Carden ; and, on Broadway, in 2010, at Manhattan Theatre Club's Friedman ( formerly Biltmore ) Theatre, starring Linda Lavin and Sarah Paulson, directed by Lynne Meadow.

* Friedman, V. ( 1997 ) " One Grammar, Three Lexicons: Ideological Overtones and Underpinnings of the Balkan Sprachbund " in CLS 33 Papers from the 33rd Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society.

* The Intelligence Edge: How to Profit in the Information Age with Meredith Friedman, Colin Chapman, and John Baker ( 1997 ).

The musical opened on the West End at the Royal National Theatre, London, on March 11, running through August 2, 1997, directed by Francesca Zambello and starring Maria Friedman.

A 1997 article in Slate Magazine said the Templeton Foundation had given a significant amount of financial support to groups, causes and individuals considered conservative, including gifts to Gertrude Himmelfarb, Milton Friedman, Walter E. Williams, Julian Lincoln Simon and Mary Lefkowitz, and referred to John Templeton, Jr., as a " conservative sugar daddy ".

Recent scholarly works on the topic of stakeholder theory that exemplify research and theorizing in this area include Donaldson and Preston ( 1995 ) and Mitchell, Agle, and Wood ( 1997 ), Friedman and Miles ( 2002 ) and Phillips ( 2003 )..

The story of her music, as well as the challenges she faced in living with illness, were featured in a 2004 documentary film about Friedman called A Journey of Spirit, produced by Ann Coppel, which followed her from 1997 to 2002.