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Facing protest and condemnation, WordsWorth Books chose to cancel last Thursday’s scheduled appearance by William Langewiesche, author of a controversial new book on rescue and recovery efforts in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks in New York. WordsWorth’s manager, Sanj Kharbanda, cited security concerns in explaining the cancellation; he said he feared that the protest planned by firefighters would require a greater police presence than could be arranged on short notice...
Five professors from the English department performed close readings of controversial texts yesterday as an official response to the department’s decision to cancel and then re-invite Tom Paulin to a prestigious speaking engagement...
...Unlike Vodaphone, AT&T, Verizon and others, Hutchison Whampoa was comparatively unruffled by the bursting of the telecom bubble. The company was forced to cancel a recent bond offering and its stock is down 30% since the beginning of the year, but its cash hoard gives it plenty of room to maneuver. According to Nomura's estimates, Hutchison Whampoa has $14.5 billion in cash and liquid assets on hand, more than enough to cover the additional $10.2 billion the company will need to complete its multicountry 3G buildout. "Funny how people have been slagging off conglomerates for some time," says...
...comments come after the English department’s decision last week to cancel and then re-invite Tom Paulin—an award-winning Irish poet who has expressed controversial anti-Israeli views—to a prestigious speaking engagement at Harvard...
WordsWorth was the first bookstore to cancel a planned appearance, though firefighters have protested outside book events in New York and Massachusetts...