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...Harvard Chaplains sponsored an all-day event yesterday celebrating Harvard’s religious diversity and exploring the role of religion on campus. The series of events featured panelists, performances, lectures, and a fast-breaking for Ramadan in the evening. According to Harvard’s Humanist Chaplain Gregory M. Epstein, the Chaplains decided to sponsor the events to share with the campus the sense of camaraderie that they had developed with one another. “We hardly ever celebrate religious pluralism and demonstrate respect and understanding for all other faiths,” Epstein said...
...Some states have tried to establish their own standards for truth in political advertising, but with little success. Washington State passed a law in 1984 that made it illegal to sponsor campaign commercials that knowingly "make a false statement of material fact." Violations could incur fines of up to $10,000 for each instance, and could also result in election outcomes being voided. After 14 years, the Washington State Supreme Court ruled the law unconstitutional, prompting one of the dissenting justices to complain that it was "the first court in the history of the Republic to declare First Amendment protection...
Speaking of being a moderator, last week 7 million viewers tuned in to watch the ServiceNation Presidential Forum at Columbia University, which I co-moderated with PBS's Judy Woodruff. Time was a co-sponsor of the forum and the summit the following day, which included First Lady Laura Bush, Caroline Kennedy and Senators Hillary Clinton and Orrin Hatch. It was there that Senator Hatch announced his bipartisan national-service bill, co-sponsored by Ted Kennedy. I'm proud of TIME's continued leadership on this front, and I'm already looking forward to our third annual service issue next...
...System. In 1996 he vaulted into the upper ranks of the literary world with Infinite Jest, his 1,079-page (and 388-footnote) meta-epic of tennis, drug addiction, art, terrorism and loneliness set in a future when each year is known by the name of its corporate sponsor (e.g., the Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar). Infinite Jest was the quintessence of 1990s literary maximalism, and it became instant required reading. Enough with those '80s party-boy writers! Here was a novelist with the industrial-strength intellectual chops to theorize even our resolutely anti-intellectual age. Wallace became...
...backed out of talks over a possible takeover of troubled Lehman Brothers last weekend - lavished a similar sum for the naming rights to the New Jersey Nets' planned Brooklyn basketball arena. If that sounds risky, consider its exposure in its home market: the U.K. bank is the proud sponsor of the English Premier League...