Word: canceled
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...Arab Society Cancels Event with Pro-Israeli Group” (News, Oct. 10) misinterpreted the Society of Arab Student’s stance towards the barbecue proposal by Harvard Lovers of the Garden State. SAS did not cancel an event about to take place, but had declined initially, and had never verbally agreed to co-sponsor this event during its weekly meetings. SAS may have agreed if it believed HLOGS was actually concerned with constructive dialogue or social organization, rather than seeing sparks fly between the two groups. SAS looks forward to organizing more appropriate joint events in support...
...denied a visa to renowned Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami, forcing him to cancel a U.S. tour—which included a stop at Harvard—to debut his new film...
...because there is a sizable market of teenagers who want to read a teenager writing about self-destructive teenagers. As in other businesses, publishers will use gadget-books and gadget-authors to satisfy demand." Happily, as Assouline notes, a boom in bottom-feeders and one-hit-wonders doesn't cancel out the sizable body of gifted authors, new and established, being published. Also featuring in this year's rentrée are the prolific and ingenious Amélie Nothomb, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Yann Queffélec and Nina Bouraoui. Foreign translations - a significant part of French publishing output - include...
...should underestimate the long memories and dogged persistence of the bureaucrats either. Public resistance to the Yoshino dam project in Tokushima forced the River Bureau to "table" it. The bureau did not officially cancel the project, keeping the option of pursuing it later. A bureau spokesman commented that a blank page should not be allowed to appear in his ministry's history dating back to the Meiji period?institutional memory going back more than a century...
Broadcast executives say that because they need huge audiences to draw advertising dollars, and are restricted by Federal Communications Commission content standards, they have to play more to the middle. "We cancel shows left and right that get audiences that are the size of cable hits," says NBC entertainment president Jeff Zucker. "I'm a huge admirer of HBO," says CBS president Les Moonves, "[but] there is a word that describes us: it's broadcaster, with broad being the operative word...