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...shown at numerous screenings and film festivals and has received multiple awards, including an honorable mention at the 2004 EarthVision Environmental Film Festival. And her thesis fame and glory doesn’t stop there—the theme of power relations she explores in her thesis is also central to her first novel, “Blood Kin,” which will be published in 14 countries and was released in the U.S this month. Since then, Dovey has been traveling around the country for book readings. Acclaim, travel and a book deal? Maybe those months spent exclusively...
...prestigious history prize, awarded annually by the trustees of Columbia University, for his book, “The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product that Defined America.” “The premise of the book was that cigarettes represented so many central aspects of our culture,” Brandt, who was traveling and could not be reached by phone, said in an e-mail yesterday. Brandt called the experience of working on his book “very rewarding.” “It gave me a chance...
...been vetted in various ways by your peers, who has discussed this topic broadly with those peers, and who has our confidence,” he wrote to Sundquist. Sundquist and UC Vice President Randall S. Sarafa ’09 made Ad Board reform a central focus of their campaign for the Council’s top spots in December, citing a lack of transparency and student representation as two of its major flaws. Last semester, the UC formed its Ad Board review committee, which includes both UC representatives and other students, to seek a student voice...
...official: amid a bout of global financial instability not seen in years, Japan, the world's second-largest economy, has no central bank governor. Toshihiko Fukui, the current Bank of Japan (BoJ) chief, has packed his bags-his five-year term ended at midnight, March 19-and due to a political deadlock in Japan's parliament, it may be weeks before a successor is appointed...
...course, this doesn't mean the country is facing economic chaos. Central bank policies will continue to be carried out by Masaaki Shirakawa, who was approved by parliament last week as a deputy BoJ governor and who will temporarily take over for Fukui. But the Diet's inability to compromise with Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda and choose a new bank chief is seen by many as unsettling evidence that Japan has reached political gridlock and could face serious problems in the months ahead. "This is the kind of thing harms the image of Japanese governability," says Jun Iio, director...