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...challenged the uncultured stereotype of the Bush White House. This weekend, Laura Bush hosted the second annual National Book Festival, which was an event devoted to encouraging reading and the love of literature. This book festival comes just a month after the First Lady’s latest writing symposium. A librarian and schoolteacher, Laura Bush has thrown her energy behind infusing the White House with some literary culture, and has held symposiums on Mark Twain, the Harlem Renaissance and writers in the American West—all of which drew literature experts and enthusiasts alike. Needless...
...these literary symposiums help the President’s image not just by bringing “cultured” people into the White House. It is the way these people are selected and invited that is most impressive. The writers and literary experts recruited for these events were not the party faithful. Some of the guests have been very critical of President Bush and his policies. As the New York Times pointed out, one visitor to the literary symposium in September, Justin Kaplan, received his invitation even though he had publicly condemned the President?...
Best experience at Harvard: Chairing the planning committee for the “Transforming Democracy” Symposium at the Kennedy School...
Sachs, who now serves as the director of the Earth Institute at Columbia, spoke at Harvard as part of the ninth annual Thomas J. White Symposium...
...three-day symposium was officially called “New Frontiers in Chemical Physics” but the attendees quickly nicknamed it “Dudfest 2002.” The many weekend events, which included discussions on chemical physics and the role of science in society, also featured a gala banquet at the Museum of Science in Boston on Saturday night...