| Script with 'just errors'
JIMMY WALES'S life reads like a Hollywood script - which is probably why there's said to be a couple of books and a documentary in the works. Born in 1966 in Huntsville, Alabama, where his father worked in a grocery store, Wales began his education in a small private school which he later described as "an Abe Lincoln type of thing". Called the House of Learning, the school was run by his mother and grandmother and it's where the Wikipedia thing started. "I just spent many, many hours just pouring over the World Book Encyclopedia," he told a C-Span interviewer in 2005. Wales studied finance at university before going to work in Chicago as a futures and options trader. He quit after he had "made enough money". "I'm not a wealthy person but I'm a person who lives within my means," he said.
SAUL WILLIAMS WRITES OPEN LETTER TO OPRAH WINFREY
Poet and musician Saul Williams wrote an open letter to Oprah Winfrey, in which he states that there is no hatred of women in hip-hop music, claiming that the emcees of my generation are the ministers of my fathers generation.
Williams letter follows:
Dear Ms. Winfrey,
It is with the greatest respect and adoration of your loving spirit that I write you. As a young child, I would sit beside my mother everyday and watch your program. As a young adult, with children of my own, I spend much less time in front of the television, but I am ever thankful for the positive effect that you continue to have on our nation, history and culture. The example that you have set as someone unafraid to answer their calling, even when the reality of that calling insists that one self-actualize beyond the point of any given example, is humbling, and serves as the cornerstone of the greatest faith.
Festivities celebrate Israeli independence, culture
From Israeli-style dinners to hookah smoke in Bruin Plaza, Jewish student groups plan to celebrate Israel's 59th birthday with a week of events celebrating the country's culture and people. Organizers said they hope to give students a glimpse of the real Israel, beyond the images of war and violence in the news. The events for this year's Israeli Independence Week, which began last Wednesday and end this Friday, were organized by Bruins for Israel and Hillel at UCLA. The biggest planned event of the week is the Israel Expo to be held in Bruin Plaza on Tuesday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., which will include Israeli food, music and speeches by students, Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller of Hillel at UCLA, and the Consul General of Israel in Los Angeles. Shirley Eshaghian, secretary of Bruins for Israel, said in response to the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict that the focus of Israeli Independence Week is to dispel misconceptions about Israel and emphasize Israel's desire for peace with its neighbors.
What’s with the art world’s fascination with ‘bad boys’? by Nancy ...
I recently watched The Devil Wears Prada (2006) on a flight from London to New York, a not-so-new film that got a lot of press attention because of Meryl Streeps Oscar nomination for best actress. I had been curious about this movie since it tells the story of a mega-successful woman (its a thinly veiled portrait of US Vogue editor Anna Wintour) and her young female protge in the cut-throat, high-glamour world of fashion. In our allegedly post-feminist culture I wanted to see how Hollywood would treat the proverbial phallic woman, whether it would allow her to revel in her hard-earned authority or crush her under her own emotional shortcomings which, of course, is the typical outcome. (Full disclosure here: I once worked for Wintour while a fact-checker at New York magazine, hence my more than passing interest in the subject.) I wasnt too surprised that the film reiterated every misogynist Hollywood trope.
Kenya: African Examples
He was the first African prelate to be elected General Secretary of the World Council of Churches in 2003. Locally, he is remembered as one of the many voices that called for change at the height of the clamour for multi-partyism in the 1990s. He is a prelate, an administrator, served as chair to Kenya's Election Monitoring Unit, helped broker peace among warring factions in Sudan and has several book titles to his name. .
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