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Director Hillcoat transported by 'Road'

Nov. 27, 2009
Cormac McCarthy's 2006 novel "The Road" won the Pulitzer Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. After television host Oprah Winfrey selected the title for her book club, it went on to sell millions of copies. The last film made from one of the American author's...
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President Obama awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom in Washington
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President Barack Obama awards the the Presidential Medal of Freedom to singer/songwriter Bob Dylan during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House in Washington on May 29, 2012. The Medal of Freedom is our NationÕs highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors. UPI/Kevin Dietsch