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...achievements of the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Thursday also brought news of Barack Obama's 2008 book earnings - with the same publisher, Crown. The President picked up $2.5 million in royalties last year for his memoir Dreams from My Father (139 weeks and counting on the New York Times paperback nonfiction list) and The Audacity of Hope (64 weeks on the same list). Add that to Obama's 2007 haul of $4 million for the same two books. Obama already has a contract to write a third nonfiction book for Crown when he leaves office. Crown also announced...
...they walk in and hear cowboy songs,” says David Gurney, former Vice President of HCAMA. “We wanted to utilize the pub because its obviously a new installment and jazz, Irish and bluegrass musicians historically have found that pubs, whether they be in New York, Dublin, or Nashville, are great social figures for music making,” says O’Connor. The sessions are broken up into four categories: electric, jazz, bluegrass, and Celtic. Although members are welcome to try musical styles that they may not be familiar with, there is no pressure...
...production of The Nose--Shostakovich's 1930 opera based on the Gogol story about a Russian bureaucrat who awakens one morning to discover that his nose has left his body and begun to pursue its own career up the social hierarchy--that the Metropolitan Opera in New York City will mount next year. The San Francisco show, which was organized by Mark Rosenthal, a curator at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Fla., climaxes with a multiscreen gallery of films connected to that production. The nose climbs a ladder in silhouette (and tumbles down); a Cossack dances...
...College Innovation Challenge. The night’s largest catches came in the form of three $15,000 McKinley Family Grants, which went to a Web-heavy slate that included online enterprises geared towards providing free SAT prep to low-income students, making holiday travel cheaper, and navigating New York City more easily. The I3 event was intended to spur greater student interest in entrepreneurship projects, which tend to go underrepresented on campus, according to Elizabeth L. Altmaier ’09, vice president of the Harvard College Entrepreneurship Forum and lead organizer of the event. “Everybody...
...volunteers to serve as "points of light" in their communities; President Bill Clinton established the Corporation for National and Community Service. And on Sept. 11, 2008, in the midst of a spirited general-election campaign, Senator John McCain and I put aside our differences and came together in New York City to issue a joint call to public service. It was an important reminder that while our politics is often focused on what divides us, there is much more that unites...