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More than three months ago—mere days after cancelling Tom Paulin’s original invitation—the English department decided to reinvite the controversial Irish poet, who was slated to deliver the prestigious Morris Gray Lecture...
Porter University Professor Helen H. Vendler, who is a member of the three-person committee who decides the Morris Gray lecturers, said no progress has been made in efforts to have Paulin speak at Harvard...
Meanwhile, the English department quietly posted on its website that Slovenian poet Tomaz Salamun—not Paulin—will deliver the Morris Gray lecture in March...
...Rowland, elected as a tax cutter in 1994, began his third term by proposing a 1% income-tax surcharge on millionaires. G.O.P. Governors are also pushing new taxes in Idaho, Arkansas, Ohio and Nevada. The Democrats, meanwhile, are mostly relying on spending cuts to balance the books. California's Gray Davis is one of the few to back a big tax hike, seeking to plug part of the state's $35 billion deficit. But his Democratic counterparts in Wisconsin, Illinois, Tennessee and Michigan are all pledging to hold the line on taxes and trim their budgets instead. In New Mexico...
...rate, it doesn't do the company much good. The gray-market audience doesn't help sell ads, partly because the number of additional viewers can't be quantified and partly because local cable operators strip out advertisements from the media giants' clients and splice in commercials from local businesses, picking up a nice though illicit revenue stream in the process. Indeed, there is a noticeable dearth of revenue-producing ads on the Starry Sky channel...