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Robert MacNeil, the Canadian-born journalist and author "who delivered sober evening newscasts for more than two decades on PBS" as co-anchor with Jim Lehrer of The MacNeil/Lehrer Report, later expanded as The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, died last month at age 93, the New York Times <https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/12/business/media/robert-macneil-dead.html> reported.
MacNeil joined the fledgling PBS in 1971. "He brought with him a news sensibility honed at the BBC. and became a key figure in shaping U.S. public television
Paul Fortunato, a Daejeon-based artist whose surname means “lucky” in Italian, survived a horrific episode of internal bleeding that could have ended his life. During his illness and long recovery, he had to take what he describes as a “mandatory vacation.” Forced into stillness, he contemplated his life, mortality and place within the world as a vulnerable living being. Reflecting upon his past as well as his future, he responds with humor and pathos in his solo art exhibition, Circular Time, opening May 8 at the Daejeon Gallery.