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Voting in a slate of candidates who emphasized a renewed commitment to public service, about 80 students gathered Sunday night in Science Center E to elect new officers for the Black Students Association...
...Muammar Gaddafi, who promised $1 billion in support of minority business ventures in this country. Whether Gaddafi would make good was a moot point: U.S. sanctions against Libya blocked acceptance. Last year PATTY STONESIFER directed Microsoft's move from software into "content," meaning movie-quality games, online publications like Slate and news services like msnbc, a step that will change the shape of news and entertainment. In December she left in a company-wide shake-up. People who think Microsoft is a teenage boy's tree house say she was shaken out of the tree...
...Beresford. The vocal arrangements they made still exist and are used in the movie. But in shaping their tale for the screen, shouldn?t he have honored their courage?and, yes, inventiveness?with something other than cliches?" TELEVISION . . . GUN: The latest?and most impressively pedigreed?of this spring's slate of cop shows is ABC?s 'Gun,' which starts on April 12 (Saturdays, 10 p.m. ET). Conceived by director Robert Altman, Gun aims to follow the life of a single pistol?an intriguing premise until you realize that no single episode will have any relation to the last. But then...
...have a new Poet Laureate, and we should all be proud. Robert Pinsky, translator of Dante's Inferno and poetry editor of Internet magazine Slate, was named United States Poet Laureate on Friday. Pinsky, a 56-year-old native of Long Branch, New Jersey, teaches creative writing at the graduate center of Boston University. He has taught at Stanford and Wellesley in the past and is off to Northwestern to be writer-in-residence...
...wigs are deep into the Internet thing, that's for sure. James H. Billington, the Librarian of Congress, referred to Pinsky's job at Slate as "his interest in making poetry accessible through digital technology on the Internet." Why mention digital technology? Why mention technology...