The Friends of the U-M Library are sponsoring a book collecting contest, with prizes of 3, 2, and $100 for first, second, and third places in two divisions: one for graduate students, and one for undergrads. It’s a start, I suppose: Harvard’s contest has a $1,000 prize.
“The Midland-based Mackinac Center for Public Policy questions whether a state-government-led effort can produce cool cities. Michael LaFaive, the center’s director of fiscal policy, says cool developments, such as the SoHo area of New York, succeeded because they “flew below the radar screens of control-seeking bureaucrats, politically connected developers and local zoning bureaucracies.” LaFaive argues […]
Antiwar Action! and Moveon.org are sponsering a showing the documentary “Uncovered” about Bush’s invasion of Iraq at 7PM tomorrow (Sunday) in the Pendelton Room of the Michigan Union. Attendence is expected to be high, so come early to get a seat.
Granted, I haven’t read them all, and not that many people are participating, but the number of comments on my post about affirmative action has set a Goodspeed Update record, as far as I know.
Articles of note: > AANews: “Apple handed to history professor”> And a sparkling gem of local journalism: “Midnight Madnes a Tree Town Tradition” And new blogs keep popping up all over the place, here’s a mysterious one that links to me: “The Last URL”
Jayson Blair, the young journalist whose unethical journalism caused a crisis at the New York Times last sprint has written a book scheduled to be published in March. Judging from the cover and title, it sounds interesting. The book’s title? “Burning Down My Master’s House: My Life at the New York Times”
Daily editorial page editor Zac Peskowitz writes the following article for the online magazine Slate: “A Winter Thaw – Can India and Pakistan compromise on Kashmir?”