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...true: saying you were a self-published author used to be like saying you were a self-taught brain surgeon. But over the past couple of years, vanity publishing has become practically respectable. As the technical challenges have decreased--you can turn a Word document on your hard drive into a self-published novel on Amazon's Kindle store in about five minutes--so has the stigma. Giga-selling fantasist Christopher Paolini started as a self-published author. After Brunonia Barry self-published her novel The Lace Reader in 2007, William Morrow picked it up and gave...
...It’s time for it,” Gretchen A. Brodnicki, the school’s dean for faculty and research integrity, said yesterday. “This is a living document of a policy that was always intended to be reviewed periodically...
...this acquisition is an important step in that direction,” said Donna M. Guerra, the curatorial assistant in the archive of world music. Included in the collection are rare recordings of rehearsals and concerts, personal papers, interviews, and books. In addition, campaign posters, newspaper clippings and magazines document Blades’s political activism in Panama. Guerra said that “these rare, one of a kind items” may be placed in a special exhibition in the library, but the entire collection may take up to five years to be catalogued. “These...
...officials say. Captains, prodded by fleet operators to keep on schedule and make money, repeatedly take risks ranging from filling aging vessels beyond safe capacity to setting sail in dangerous weather, according to maritime-industry regulators. In the Philippines, for example, ferry captains are required to submit a document called the Master Oath of Safety Departure (MOSD) - testifying that the vessel meets all requirements and disclosing the number of passengers on board - to the coast guard before every sailing. But "the shipping industry wants to earn income," says Lieutenant Garydele Gimotea, spokesman for the Philippine Coast Guard. Overloading is commonplace...
...Perelman Building - currently showing exhibitions on Matisse and African-American quilts - to the Pantheon-like Ritz-Carlton, housed in the refitted century-old Girard Trust bank. America's past also gets a fresh approach at the National Constitution Center, a high-tech temple to the country's cornerstone legal document. On Jan. 19 - Martin Luther King Day - the center opens "America I AM," an exhibition celebrating the contributions of African Americans to U.S. history. Among the artifacts on display are the key to King's jail cell, Malcolm X's Koran and Muhammad Ali's "Rumble in the Jungle" robe...