Laurie Anderson among new arts academy inductees
(World News USA)

NEW YORK (AP) - Like many incoming members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Laurie Anderson didn`t know a lot about the venerable honor society until she was asked to join it. `I had only a hazy idea of what it was so I was a little mystified,` Anderson says of the academy, which, among other programs, gives out hundreds of thousands of dollars annually in grants and awards. `Now that I know what it is - and especially what it does - I´m very...