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After Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies Jay M. Harris introduced an amendment that would, among other things, delete seven words from the secondary fields legislation, Professor of German Peter J. Burgard pushed for an “amendment to the amendment” that would delete an additional four words...
It’s also significant that this book, while not very well known, has been a source of inspiration for juvenile and adult writers over the past fifty years, as well as for filmmakers. The book was spun into a slightly happier 1964 film starring Peter Sellers, and more recently both the book and film inspired the Scarlett Johansson indie favorite “Ghost World?...
...Peter Singer, an ethicist and author of the controversial “Animal Liberation,” is asked prodding questions about issues ranging from the International Criminal Court to arguments in support for “basic universal values...
Fakery is unbecoming to an artist. Indeed, counterfeiting another's creativity is anathema to any honest painter or writer. With his previous novel, Peter Carey took that idea and gave it a macabre twist. In My Life as a Fake, he reimagined Australia's infamous Ern Malley affair - the 1944 literary hoax played by antimodernists Harold Stewart and James McAuley, who posed as a dead working-class poetic "genius" - by bringing a fabricated identity to life to haunt its creator. The novel's sprawling narrative was as gin-soaked and overripe as its Kuala Lumpur setting, but Carey's theme...
...stake are critical. "We contribute as members of the press to holding the government accountable for its actions," says Latraverse. "Canadians should be worried when they see the government trying to exert such an unprecedented level of control." Unions that represent journalists have spoken in even harsher terms. Peter Murdoch of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union says the new policy "smacks of totalitarianism...