Word: canceled
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...American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Massachusetts contacted school officials to discuss the policy. Long an advocate of the freedom of expression on university campuses, the ACLU Foundation of Massachusetts wrote a letter to Clark University in Worcester last spring, urging university officials to reconsider a decision to cancel a talk by controversial political scientist Norman G. Finkelstein...
...Boston Marathon?" so said tome promises to thrill connoisseurs of inconsequential details about sports • speaking engagement is accepted by to address a conference of global investors in Hong Kong, but it's not till Sept. 23, so there's still plenty of time to cancel and deny having known anything about it, especially since the invitation is believed to be something of a practical joke on • Vanity Fair article by father of grandchild of contains dozens of juicy tidbits about while simultaneously confirming the imbecility of the author...
...hard reality of our loss. Carter's fortunes had risen in the spring as people rallied behind him when 52 Americans were taken hostage in Iran. He would be doomed by the same crisis when it lasted into the fall, but in the meantime, he invoked it to cancel his one scheduled debate with Kennedy and decline all future ones. Kennedy had surged several times in the long contest. It surprised even us when he trounced Carter in New York. Expecting Kennedy to be defeated, I had originally drafted a statement for him to deliver on the night of that...
...some businessmen hope to establish East Africa as an outsourcing center. Soon enough, instead of asking an operator in India to cancel your stolen credit card, you might get a Kenyan on the line. "It gets rid of the potential excuses for decision-makers not to consider Kenya, since we are now absolutely equivalent to anyone else in the world in terms of our connectivity," says Eric Nesbitt, operations manager for Kenyan call center KenCall. "If you consider Kenya as a rural part of the world and we have little dirt tracks, all of a sudden someone's building...
...ahead of the opening of the G-8 summit at which China was slated to play a key role must have been embarrassing. So unprecedented was the decision that it prompted some Sinologists to wonder whether a shaky political position at home was the real reason Hu decided to cancel. (Read "In China...