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...Speaking (Vintage; 214 pages), a succession of machines are summoned, from the Xerox copier to the neon tube, to glow in the novel's velvety darkness. Here the things which bring people together also keep them apart. "I wanted to read certain omnipresent phenomena through this ambivalence," says Jones via e-mail. "The telephone for example is often represented as an estranging and distancing mechanism. I decided to go the other way and suggest that it may also represent new forms of intimacy, confession, radical disclosure...
...makes us look at everyday subjects in new ways, then Jones is an excellent one, and Dreams takes flight, skipping from descriptions of sound waves to Cellophane with bravura flair. But it is the invention of the Lumiere brothers that most delights the author and her characters. Whether transmitted via Greta Garbo's laugh or screen Delilah Hedy Lamarr (who we learn helped patent a frequency-hopping radio-controlled torpedo during WW II), cinema's light becomes the counterpoint to the private sorrows of Mr. Sakamoto and his confidante. The novelist says her love of movies began...
...Cisco Systems. He's also used technology to interact more openly with Issy's 63,000 residents. Issy was the first French town to start an Internet-based local TV service, and last December it held an online election for councilors for Issy's four districts. Candidates campaigned via their own blog pages and discussed issues with voters through the town's website. Such measures have bolstered Santini's local support: he won a landslide victory in the last municipal elections...
...entirely new election, administered via paper ballots, will take place at the beginning of next semester, according to Badaracco’s e-mail. All three candidates will again present speeches and answer questions from House members...
...income from the Faculty’s endowment. Sixty percent of that income will be raised by a University-determined increase in the payout rate of the Faculty’s annual income from the endowment. The other 40 percent—about $24 million—will come via a direct withdrawal from the endowment, in a process known as decapitalization...