Stanford UniversityNews and information about Stanford University. News and information from the best feeds offered by Stanford University.Political show promises rare commodity: civility - Globe and Mail- September 15, 2008 It is a showdown made in cable-talk heaven, and it will be a staple of The Rachel Maddow Show , which premiered on MSNBC last week. Maddow, a 35-year-old lesbian and former San Francisco ACT-UP activist, squares off against 69-year-old Pat Buchanan ...http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080915.MADDOW15/TPStory/Entertainment/ Football Goes For 3-1 At Stanford - San Jose State University Spartans- September 15, 2008 San Jose State record: 2-1. Most recently, the Spartans defeated San Diego State (35-10). Stanford record: 1-2. The Cardinal has a two-game losing streak after losing at TCU (31-14). Radio Coverage: KLIV (1590 AM, San Jose) originates San Jose State ...http://www.sjsuspartans.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=5600&ATCLID=1582366 Kent States Muthuswamy to Deliver Keynote at Prestigious Futures ... - dBusinessNews.com- September 15, 2008 Cleveland - Dr. Jay Muthuswamy, Kent State associate professor of finance, will deliver the keynote address at the annual Futures Industry Association Asia Derivatives Conference in Tokyo, Japan, on Friday, Sept. 19. The fourth annual conference ...http://cleveland.dbusinessnews.com/shownews.php?newsid=165867&type_news=past Ruling favours copyright holders - The London Free Press- September 15, 2008 A recent U.S. Federal Appeals Court ruling has found that copyright laws apply to free software licences. The Court in Jacobson versus Katzer held that copyright holders "who engage in open-source licensing have the right to control the modification ...http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/Business/Columnists/2008/09/15/6766816-sun.html Prof. Jennifer Summit's new book, Memory's Library- September 5, 2008 "Memory’s Library is a superb book, as excellent in execution as it is original and ambitious in conception.” (Peter Stallybrass) “Jennifer Summit offers persuasive—and original—views of the role played by Renaissance librarians in seeking and defining scientific knowledge. With deft strokes, she paints a picture of how collecting medieval manuscripts helped humanist scholars create the concept of textuality we still live with. Without the librarians, Summit..http://english.stanford.edu/index.php?news_id=215 Prof. Denise Gigante's new anthology, The Great Age of the English Essay- September 5, 2008 “Denise Gigante’s volume of the major English familiar essayists is the best available. She covers the entire range from Addison and Steele through the greatness of Dr. Johnson on to the high Romantics Hazlitt, Lamb, and De Quincey. This book will be widely and gratefully read.” (Harold Bloom) “This is a splendid project. No other collection of its scope and variety exists.” (James Engell) “I’m not sure when I’ve had so much pure reading...http://english.stanford.edu/index.php?news_id=213 |