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MoveOn's latest campaign is its most ambitious--a $10 million drive to fund anti-Bush commercials in key battleground states later this month. Billionaires Soros and Peter Lewis last week offered to give $1 for every $2 given by members, up to a cap of $5 million. Meanwhile, Moby and a host of celebrity pals (like Jack Black and Janeane Garafolo) are getting ready to judge the best commercial made by members, which MoveOn will air around the State of the Union...
Truth is a slippery thing. Just ask Peter Carey. In True History of the Kelly Gang, which won the Booker Prize three years ago, the cunning Australian built a palace of fiction from the "true story" of a legend, the Aussie outlaw Ned Kelly. For My Life as a Fake (Knopf; 266 pages), his point of departure is an even more intricate falsehood, the Ern Malley affair...
...purpose of this symposium is to ask ourselves how what we are doing in this curricular review is relevant to what is going on around us,” said Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilization Peter K. Bol, who is co-chair of the review’s committee to study general education. “We were concerned we weren’t asking the larger questions...
...effort, including face-to-face meetings with President Jacques Chirac. Paris has now made a counter-offer that gives both men immunity; the Los Angeles prosecutor's office will decide this week whether to take the money - or start a spectacular trial of France Inc. on hostile turf. - By Peter Gumbel We Take Foreign Currency U.S. federal prosecutors charged 47 traders with fraud following an 18-month probe into the $1.2 trillion-a-day foreign exchange market. Authorities uncovered schemes allegedly bilking small investors and Wall Street banks out of millions of dollars...
Poet Lisa Jarnot, currently teaching at the Naropa Institute’s Jack Kerouac School for Disembodied Poetics, reads from her new book Ring of Fire. Award-winning poet and UMass Amherst professor Peter Gizzi joins Jarnot to present poetry from his new book, Some Values of Landscape and Weather. 5 p.m. Free. Wordsworth Books...