Tuesday, October 21, 2003

Journal.. announcement Posted here Tuesday, October 21, 2003 at 4:45:55 PM     HYLE's special issue on Aesthetics and Visualization in Chemistry, Part 2, is now available online, including our virtual art exhibition "Chemistry in Art" (see ToC below). http://www.hyle.org/journal/issues/9-2/index.html ********

New York Review Posted here Tuesday, October 21, 2003 at 4:15:39 PM     Take a look at the New York Review 40th annversarry isue http://www.nybooks.com/contents/20031106 Russell Baker on Paul Krugman John Updike on El Greco Elizabeth Hardwick on Nathanael West Andrew O'Hagan on Eminem Roger Shattuck on the Wright Brothers Luc Sante on New York City Ronald Dworkin on Terrorism and Civil Liberties Freeman Dyson on Einstein and Poincaré Garry Wills on Thomas Jefferson Rosemary Dinnage on Verdi Steven Weinberg on War Larry McMurtry on Garrison Keillor John Banville on George Orwell Joyce Carol Oates on American literary fiction Charles Rosen on classical music in the marketplace Tim Parks on Cesare Pavese Margaret Atwood on Studs Terkel Joan Didion on George W. Bush Robert Lowell on founding the New York Review ********

Costs of empire, washington dc meeting Posted here Tuesday, October 21, 2003 at 3:22:00 PM     Very interesting.. The Costs of Empire 10.23 A Conference organized and presented by The Coalition for a Realistic Foreign Policy Thursday, October 23, 2003, 3:00 pm Caucus Room, SR-325     Russell Senate Office Building Charles Peña, Director of Defense Policy Studies, Cato Institute, Conference Chair Panel 1: The Costs of Empire at Home Erin Solaro, Executive Director, Aretèa Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute, and former Special Assistant to President Reagan E. Wayne Merry, Former State Department and Pentagon official James Bovard, Author of Terrorism and Tyranny Panel 2: The Costs of Empire Abroad Michael Desch, The University of Kentucky Steven Clemons, Executive Vice President, New America Foundation Anatol Lieven, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Michael Vlahos, Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory The conference is free of charge. RSVP to Jenny Buntman at buntman@newamerica.net or 202-986-4901  Contacts: Christopher Preble, 202/218-4630, cpreble@realisticforeignpolicy.org Charles Peña, 202/789-5292, cpena@cato.org   ********