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This is the homepage of professor Randy Pausch of Carnegie Mellon University. He is fighting pancreatic cancer very bravely and publicly. This site has links to his lecture, book and day-to-day updates on his condition.

It is nice to see a singer, song writer and poet be recognized. Some may not like Dylan's music or style but I think that having someone lik ehim in the writing community has been beneficial.

Dylan, the most acclaimed and influential songwriter of the past half century, who more than anyone brought rock from the streets to the lecture hall, received an honorary Pulitzer Prize on Monday, cited for his "profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power."