ARLINGTON, Va., Sept. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- The Alliance for National Defense (AND) will present Positive Voice Awards to Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau and longtime military women's rights advocate Capt.

By Andrew Z. Galarneau, The Buffalo News, N.Y. Jul. 3--Before you settle in to your beach reading list, get in touch with your inner writer at the Chautauqua Institution's weeklong celebration of wordsmiths talking about their craft.

"Everyone needs parents, but what if there are no parents? The pop star screened "I Am Because We Are," her documentary about Malawi AIDS orphans, at the Cannes Film Festival. She's the adoptive mother of a Malawi boy whose birth mother died of the disease.

"Yeah, somebody hit my car and then asked me to sign a broken piece of my taillight. Country singer Taylor Swift, recalling a recent fender bender Garry Trudeau is on vacation. New "Doonesbury" comics resume Monday.

Not long after the dust settled from the Iraqi explosion that took "Doonesbury" comic strip character B.D.'s left leg last year, the Pentagon was on the phone.