By HOWARD BUCK Sam Marx put a lot into his four years at Evergreen High School. Speech and debate, soccer, cross country, Science Olympiad, jazz band, student body president his senior year, in 2006-07: That's only a slice of Marx's activity in school, church and elsewhere.

By Hanley, Lynsey Practical magic Lynsey Hanley The Craftsman Richard Sennett Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 336pp, Pounds 25 The sociologist Richard Sennett has a habit of writing the tilings that we end up talking about years later.

By Jason Kuiper, Omaha World-Herald, Neb. Aug. 17--The family of Ann Lynette Marx gathered for a memorial service Wednesday. But details of how Marx, 52, was shot and killed Sunday in Falls City still are not being made public.

By Elaine De Valle, The Miami Herald Mar. 30--We can thank The Honeymooners for some of the musical choices in South Florida.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- The Librarian of Congress, Dr. James H. Billington, announced today the award of the first John W. Kluge Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Human Sciences to Leszek Kolakowski.