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Sunday, October 03, 200

Postscript Richard Avedon

from The New Yorker - Postscript Richard Avedon by
Adam Gopnik:
To know Dick Avedon was to know the sun. He
radiated out, early and daily, on a circle of
friends and family and colleagues, who drew on his
light and warmth for sustenance. When he died,
last week, at the age of eighty-one, some light
seemed to go out in many lives and around many
pleasures. For, though he was incandescent in his
presence, he was surprisingly domestic in his
enthusiasms; he believed in family as passionately
as he believed in art, and could leave an
hour-long conversation about Goyas horrors to
talk with the same avidity about how to light a
room or roast a leg of lamb. […]
more


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Yo Mama

Forget Sex & The Ci–wha? Check out the heiresses
that buy art in New York…Rothko, Mahnolo
Blahnik, Fred Leighton, De Kooning. Blahnik seems
the most popular.


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Art, Bubblegum & War


Check out The NYTimes The Guide a new Arts
section penned weekly by Choire Sicha (thank Tyler
Green for spilling the beans over at Modern Art
Notes).
Heres a sampling [links provided by NEWSgrist]:

Sunday 10/3
TO GRANDMOTHERS HOUSE
In an evening of explorations of Little Red Riding
Hood, the most notable is a 1997 short film
starring Christina Ricci, narrated by the late,
great eccentric Quentin Crisp.
Makor/92nd Street Y, 35 West 67th Street; 7:30
p.m.; $15.

Monday 10/4
BABIES AND TERRORISTS
Deep in the musty basement of the Sculpture
Center, a video exhibition stretches along a tight
hallway. Two of the pieces make a great pairing.
"Babies (NYC)," a new four-minute video by Harrell
Fletcher and Lisa Levine, is a salute to
stroller-riding infants. Nearby, "Untitled
(Potential Terrorist)," a 30-minute film that
Kerry Tribe made in 2002, records 29 actors who
responded to a casting call for potential
terrorists. Mix and match: which baby looks like a
potential future terrorist? Also on view: Marit
Folstads "Bubbles," a catalog of chewing gum
disasters.
Sculpture Center, 44-19 Purves Street, Long Island
City, Queens , $5. (On view until Nov. 29.)

Wednesday 10/6
VERMEER, WAR PAINTER
In 1996 Lawrence Wechsler, covering the Bosnian
War Crimes Tribunal for The New Yorker, found that
the presiding judge regularly relaxed after work
before Vermeers paintings. This sent Mr. Wechsler
off on a reevaluation of Vermeer: that the artist
was not, as frequently thought, a reclusive
devotee of serenity, that his paintings are not
just studies in domestic tranquility. And those
women arent just ethereal layabouts; theyre
waiting sadly for a soldiers return. In a lecture
adapted from his article, Mr. Wechsler goes on to
make a surprising case for the exact opposite -
that, in fact, most artists (and their art) have
been on the side of war, ethnic cleansing, and
nationalism.
Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, Metropolitan
Museum of Art; 6 p.m.; $22.

THE LOUDEST MUSEUM
When Laurie Anderson popularized the phrase
"difficult listening music," she could almost have
been thinking of the work of Sleepytime Gorilla
Museum. These Bay Area musicians make some of
their own instruments and torture them quite
efficiently, hilariously and loudly on stage in a
dada-inspired rock orchestra.
Sin, 150 Attorney St.; 11 p.m.; $10 - $12.

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Timeline of Computing at Columbia

The worlds most powerful computer at Columbia
Universitys Watson Lab in 1954.

via anil dashs daily links:

A Chronology of Computing at Columbia University
Compiled by Frank da Cruz
Academic Information Systems (AcIS)
Watson Laboratory, Columbia University
"includes some cool information on the manhattan
project" – not to mention historic computer
photos from the 50s, profiles of key
personalities… with Links to Related or Similar
Sites - heres a sample from the list:
# The IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
# The Computer Museum History Center
# IBM History Archives
# IBM Watson Laboratory (in Korean)
# IBM - A Cavalcade of Mainframes
# Charles Babbage Institute (University of Minnesota)
# A Brief History of Computing Technology, 1943 to
1950 (Derek J. Smith).
# The Virtual Museum of Computing
# Historic Computer Images (US Army)
# IBM Punch Card Systems in the U.S. Army
# Histoire de lInformatique: Lre de llectronique
# ENIAC 50th Anniversary (University of Pennsylvania)
# 100 Giant Computers Before 1956
# IBM 7090/94 Architecture
# The IBM 7094 and CTSS (MIT)
# IBM STRETCH (Eric Smith)
# IBM Stretch (7030) – Aggressive Uniprocessor
Parallelism (Mark Smotherman)
# Interview with Ken Olsen (Smithsonian Institution).
# A History of MTS – 30 Years of Computing
Service (U of Michigan)
# The Michigan Terminal System (U of Michigan)
# The History of Computing at the University of
Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
# The University of Manchester Celebrates the
Birth of the Modern Computer
# 40 Years of Computing at Newcastle (U of Newcastle)
# Punched Cards - A brief illustrated technical
history, Douglas W. Jones, University of Iowa.
# Punched Cards: A Brief Tutorial by Robert V.
Williams, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing.
# In the Beginning Was the IBM Card
# "Do not fold, spindle or mutilate": A cultural
history of the punch card by Steven Lubar.
# Stanford University History Exhibits.
[…]
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Friday, October 01, 2004
Post-Debate: Polls
Bush_is_toast

thanks jonathan!


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Thursday, September 30, 2004

Let the Sun Set on the Patriot Act

from the NYTimes:
Judge Strikes Down Section of Patriot Act
By JULIA PRESTON
A federal judge struck down an important
surveillance provision of the antiterrorism
legislation known as the USA Patriot Act
yesterday, ruling that it broadly violated the
Constitution by giving the federal authorities
unchecked powers to obtain private information.
The ruling, by Judge Victor Marrero of Federal
District Court in Manhattan, was the first to
uphold a challenge to the surveillance sections of
the act, which was adopted in October 2001 to
expand the powers of the federal government in
national security investigations.
The ruling invalidated one piece of the law,
finding that it violated both free speech
guarantees and protection against unreasonable
searches. It is thought likely to provide fuel for
other court challenges.
The ruling came in a case brought by the American
Civil Liberties Union against a kind of subpoena
created under the act, known as a national
security letter. Such letters could be used in
terrorism investigations to require Internet
service companies to provide personal information
about subscribers and would bar them from
disclosing to anyone that they had received a
subpoena.

Such a subpoena could be issued without court
review, under provisions that seemed to bar the
recipient from discussing it with a lawyer.
Judge Marrero vehemently rejected that provision,
saying that it was unique in American law in its
"all-inclusive sweep" and had "no place in our
open society."
He ordered that his ruling would not take effect
for 90 days, to give the Bush administration time
to appeal.

Anthony Romero, executive director of the
A.C.L.U., called the ruling a "stunning victory
against John Ashcrofts Justice Department." He
said it would reinforce arguments the group had
made in a separate challenge in Michigan to
another surveillance section of the act. [full
article]
More info from Corante.

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Wednesday, September 29, 2004

Saving the Artistic Orphans

from Wired News, via Academic Copyright -
Elizabeth Townsend:
Valuable resources are being lost to students,
researchers and historians because of sweeping
changes in copyright law, according to digital
archivists who are suing the government.
These resources – older books, films and music –
are often out of print and considered no longer
commercially viable, but are still locked up under
copyright. Locating copyright owners is a
formidable challenge because Congress no longer
requires that owners register or renew their
copyrights with the U.S. Copyright Office.
[…]
"Because of the indiscriminate nature of copyright
today, the burden of copyright regulation extends
to work whether or not the original author has any
need for continuing protection," […]"That
unnecessary burden blocks the cultivation of our
culture and the spread of knowledge."
full article

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New Florida Ballot


Check it out.
via Eyeteeth


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Blasting Through


Kevin Sites | blog via BoingBoing:
Tuesday, September 28, 2004
Behind the Blast Walls
We are living vicariously through our local fixers
and crews. The conventional wisdom in Iraq now (at
least for highly conspicuous tv news) is, "go out
heavy (embed with the military) or dont go out at
all."

Obviously that can create a bit of a warped
perspective. To cover the daily lives of Iraqis
when not accompanied by armed-to-the-teeth
American forces – we have to send Iraqi or Arabic
speaking staff to do the jobs we used to be able
to do. But even they are in danger from the
threats of violence and rampant kidnapping that
surround us. They cant say they work for western
media or they become as vulnerable as we are. We
are like infants – must be spoon fed information
to stay alive.

But behind these blast walls meant to protect us,
our spirits wither. All of us who cover conflict
on a regular basis got into this kind of
journalism because we wanted to be immersed up to
the eyeballs in our stories.

To live them – not just cover them. Most of us
have given up the communities, comforts and
relationships that are the staples of more
"natural" lives. To live and work like this is an
anathema to our normal rhythms. So when our
interpreter/producer Ashraf brought the video of
his wedding to the bureau – we all crowded around
a tiny three-inch mini dv player – like it was a
crystal ball.

We watched us our colleague made the commitment of
his lifetime to a stunning, young Iraqi woman –
dressed in a splendid royal blue gown, sprigs of
white babys breath in her hair. The camera moved
around the room, allowing us to meet his family
and friends – some of them other Iraqi colleagues
we knew – but had never seen outside of work in
this kind of setting, being themselves, full of
smiles, the seriousness of newsgathering melted
away for a few hours. […]
more from Kevin Sites.

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Tuesday, September 28, 2004

Artists & Fair Use: Survival Skills Workshops

Wednesday, October 6th, 6:30-8:00 pm
Protect Yourself: Copyright issues and fair use
information for artists.
Speakers: John Koegel, Attorney at Law and Joy
Garnett, Artist.
Artists Space
38 Greene Street
3rd Floor
NYC

via artistsspace.org:
Do you live in the moment but wish you could find
ways to be better prepared financially,
professionally, creatively? Launched in the Fall
of 2003, Artists Space is proud to offer an
ongoing series of workshops and opportunities that
will provide a broad range of survival skills for
the practicing artist. Please visit this page for
information about this program, and to sign up for
future workshops. To sign up for a workshop please
click the appropriate button below the workshop
description. If you have any questions about the
Artist Survival Skills Workshop series please
contact Jennifer Chapek at [email protected]

To sign up for this workshop click here.
Past workshops

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NYC Critical Art Ensemble benefit, October 3
Ocularis
Sunday, October 3 at 7:00 pm
Screening, Talk & Benefit
for the
Critical Art Ensemble
organized by
Autonomedia and Marianne Shaneen
Ocularis
at: Galapagos Art & Performance Space
70 North 6th Street (between Wythe and Kent)
Williamsburg Brooklyn, NY 11211
tel/fax: 718-388-8713

FILMS BY: Manual DeLanda, the Critical Art
Ensemble, Keith Sanborn, Peggy Ahwesh, Eli
Elliott, Dara Greenwald, Eric Henry, Rachel Mayeri
and the United States Dept of Defense

Full Schedule
WITH COMMENTARY BY: Nato Thompson (MASS MoCA),
Greg Sholette, Keith Sanborn, and John Henry
(Institute for Applied Autonomy)
Since May 2004, Steve Kurtz, founding member of
the acclaimed Critical Art Ensemble and professor
in the Art Department at SUNY Buffalo, has been
under investigation by the FBI along with
colleagues and friends, on Grand Jury charges
relating to bio-terrorism under the Patriot Act.
The ordinary biological equipment and bacteria
seized by the FBI from Kurtzs home can be found
in any high school science lab, and was used to
create art that critiques the hazardous and
unmitigated use of biotechnology, and the history
of US involvement in germ warfare experiments,
(including the Bush administrations earmarking of
hundreds of millions of dollars to erect
high-security laboratories around the country).
Since then the FBI has changed tactics and
formally charged Steve Kurtz of Critical Art
Ensemble and his collaborator, Robert Ferrell,
Professor of Genetics at the University of
Pittsburgh, with four counts of mail and wire
fraud, which each carry a maximum sentence of 20
years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

The Federal charges have been met with a huge
outcry from artists, scientists, researchers, and
professors. Clearly the absurd and disturbing
charges are an attempt to use the Patriot Act to
target and intimidate artists and researchers who
are critical or controversial, and to curtail
artistic and intellectual freedom.
please visit http://caedefensefund.org

more info:
For nearly 20 years, the Critical Art Ensemble has
produced art, performance, and texts critically
examining the relationships between science,
politics, social life and the State. Since May
2004, some of this work has triggered a Federal
investigation and lawsuit, with a founding member
facing numerous indictments, possible prison time
and excessive fines (details below). In the face
of huge legal defense bills in this case, many
fundraising events are being organized
internationally and online.

On October 3rd, 2004, Ocularis will present an
evening of film and video work with a focus on
science and political critique, with commentary by
some primary figures in the Critical Art
Ensembles case. Filmworks range from animations
about bioengineered "Frankencorn" and documentary
work around the Human Genome Project to a video
"cut-up" of a Department of Defense training video
and an archival DoD propaganda film on how to deal
with biological warfare. Speakers include the
curator of this MASS MoCA show on interventionist
art where subpoenas were delivered to the CAE, and
a member of the Institute for Applied Autonomy,
who developed the "TXTMOB" phone-messaging
technology widely used during the Republican
Convention protests. Books by the Critical Art
Ensemble will be available, and all proceeds will
go to the Steve Kurtz Defense Fund.

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CPirate (the Tshirt)

Downloadable Tshirt materials from www.mais.3000.it
via (WebTV)

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Saturday, September 25, 2004

Tolstoy of the Comic Strip

"Trudeau is the Tolstoy of comic strip artists."
[thanks Axel!]


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Thursday, September 23, 2004

On the Road to Democracy: Voting in Ohio

via Im Voting Bush OUT:
Im Voting Bush OUT plans to sponsor 15 cars &
drivers from NY to Ohio to get out the vote there.
Thanks to all of you who came to our fundraising
party last month, weve raised enough money to
fund these trips–roughly $100 per car.
WHY SHOULD I GO TO OHIO? Ohio is a crucial swing
state. No Republican has ever won the White House
without carrying Ohio. Ohio has 20 electoral
votes- thats huge. The Republicans know this.
Theyre organizing in full force. We need to do
the same.
ACT has the largest progressive field operation on
the ground, they have it all mapped out, we just
have to go there and put in the time. ACT focuses
on locating progressive voters, registering them,
and then following up by phone to remind people to
vote. They will also provide transportation to the
polling places on election day, so that we wont
have another Florida. […]
read full letter.

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Manipulation/Disintegration

Grace Graupe-Pillard:
Manipulation/Disintegration
September 24, 2004 - January 2, 2005
Frist Center for the Visual Arts.
Grace Graupe-Pillards large-scale paintings
comment on the fragmentation of life for survivors
in war-torn countries. Inspired by recent news
photographs of bombings, refugees and prisoners,
she transforms these images into nearly abstract
paintings. By camouflaging the stark images of war
into seductive arrangements of pure color,
Graupe-Pillard creates a metaphor for the idea
that photojournalisms construction of reality is
no less artificial than that of painting.* The
photographers selection of subjects and subtle
manipulation of images, and the choice of
photographs for publication result from
decisions–aesthetic, commercial, and
political–that extend beyond the goal of
representing the reality of war as objectively as
possible.

from the artist:
"Yes, this Museum is named for (Bill) Frists
family, I believe his brother sits on the Board,
so it is
ironic that my new artwork
"Manipulation/Disintegration dealing with War and
its disastrous aftermath is being shown there. One
issue, among others, that really interests me is
how war is presented to the public - ie: how
information gets mediated by both the camera and
the computer. I literally use digital filters as a
metaphor for the filtering of information trying
to make visually evident the fragmentation of news."

*A good read on this subject is Susan Sontags
most recent book, Regarding the Pain of Others.

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Monday, September 20, 2004

Fair Use Lecture #1: Painting Mass Media

This Thursday, September 23, 2004, 6pm:
Joy Garnett: "Painting Mass Media and the Art of
Fair Use"
at:
Columbia School of the Arts
Art & Technology Lectures
Open Source Culture: Intellectual Property,
Technology, and the Arts
The Art & Technology Lectures explore critical
issues at the intersection of art and technology.
In Fall 2004, the series examines the legal,
technological, and conceptual issues that confront
artists in the age of open source culture.
Streaming video of each lecture will be available
at this web site. Streaming video of the Spring
2004 lectures is available here. Production
support for streaming video has been generously
provided the Columbia Center for New Media
Teaching and Learning.

The Art & Technology Lectures are organized by the
Digital Media Center and sponsored by the Computer
Music Center.
Schedule:
Joy Garnett
Thursday, September 23, 2004, 6pm
702 Hamilton Hall, 1130 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY
Jeffrey Cunard
Thursday, October 28, 2004, 6pm
702 Hamilton Hall, 1130 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY
Siva Vaidhyanathan
Thursday, November 18, 2004, 6pm
702 Hamilton Hall, 1130 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY
Jon Ippolito
Thursday, December 2, 2004, 6pm
702 Hamilton Hall, 1130 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY
Cory Arcangel
Thursday, December 16, 2004, 6pm
Leroy Neiman Gallery, 310 Dodge Hall, 2960
Broadway, New York, NY
more info

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The Election Show

Call for Entries: University Galleries

The University Galleries at Illinois State
University has extended a call for entries for a
planned Oct. 12 to Nov. 7 exhibition titled The
Election Show.

Artists with two-dimensional and three-dimensional
works (no larger than two feet by two feet by two
feet) reflecting their views on the 2004
presidential election have until Oct. 5 to submit
their works at the gallery, which is located in
the Center for the Visual Arts at the south end of
campus.

Questions about submitting to the exhibition
should be directed to the galleries at (309) 438-5487.

University Galleries is one of the most active
public exhibition spaces in downstate Illinois
representing a wide yet critical survey of
contemporary art.

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Report From Baghdad contd: Better than what?


[Image via Baghdad Journal, Artnet.com; full contents]

Due to the many messages NEWSgrist has received
(and the intense conversations Ive had) regarding
Steve Mumfords recent email from Baghdad which
could appear to support the Bush agenda there, I
am posting Steves clarification as posted by MTAA
on 9/7/04 in its entirety, along with MTAAs
editorial comments:

via MTAA (M.River & T.Whid Art Associates)
Sep 07, 2004 posted at 10:28 /news/twhid
More from Baghdad

Steve Mumford responds to the consternation in my
last post (near the bottom).

To summarize, Steve recounts how his Iraqi friends
see things as getting better and I ask Better
than what? things must have been pretty shitty
if the current conditions in Iraq are better.

Steves response cut and pasted below (with a wee
amount of formatting):

Hi Tim,
You ask: things now in Iraq are better than what -
all-out war and constant bombings?

Its a fair question, and highlights the
psychological divide between Americans and Iraqis.
I think its very difficult for us to really
understand what life under Saddam was like. The
problem is made more difficult because its
impossible to frame without a political subtext,
ie., if you say things were worse under Saddam you
can sound like a propagandist for Bush, with his
hall-of-mirrors justifications for going to war.
When I say that things were indescribably worse
under Saddam, Im not justifying our going to war
in Iraq, just explaining how its possible for an
Iraqi to be more hopeful for their future now than
in the last 30 years.

When you get to know Iraqis well and personally
you begin to see the scars from Saddam. Its not
enough to catalog the bizarre and horrific crimes,
the Caligula-like escapades through Baghdad, the
arbitrary arrests and beatings, the sense of
complete irrationality and injustice that marked
these years. Its the feeling of residual fear,
frustration and hopelessness that I sometimes see
in my friends. Its a country suffering from
post-traumatic stress, where ambition and courage
are thwarted and even the lives of the living
have, in a sense, been lost.

My friend Esam Pasha told me about a conversation
he had with Naseer Hasan, the poet, back in the
90s. He was describing his anger at the Baathist
regime, his having to live in fear, not being able
to talk openly in public about anything related to
politics (almost everything, you had to talk in
kind of bland code), the abuses of his military
service. Naseer is 15 years older. As a communist
party member, he spent 5 years on the run, hiding
with relatives, after a colleague was captured and
he feared that under torture hed give his name up.

Naseer said, Look, you cant think of it like
that. You cant wish for things to get better,
because youll become obsessed. You must think of
the regime as an unwelcome house guest that you
can never ask to leave; instead you have to get
used to them in your house, and all your daily
life things are just done knowing that they are
around you. Esam says this helped him a lot.

Naseer feels he lost the best years of his life to
this regime, the years we take for granted in the
West, when youre young, energetic, and the world
seems new.

Another artist, one of Baghdads bright lights in
painting, often suffers from depression. He says
his military service still haunts him. And he
wasnt in any wars - just having to serve in an
army where cruelty and arbitrariness marked each
day. He often stood up to the abusive officers,
yet hes haunted by his failures, and the fear of
those days which are often vividly recalled in his
dreams.

Perhaps I cant convince you that this is worse
than war - but it is. Ive seen a little of the
war out here, though not much. Ive found that Im
not greatly affected, on a psychological level,
because these events are over relatively quickly
and I have a relatively healthy ego. But imagine a
trauma which is not as great, but goes on for
years, with no end in sight, each hope dashed,
each avenue of escape cut off, each slip of the
tongue a cause for paranoia. This, your life since
birth.

The only analogy that I can come up with for this
is Stalinist Russia. In this sense the Bush
administration got it wrong: they imagined that
they were liberating the French from the Nazis.
Its obviously more complicated when we invade a
country with a homegrown tyranny, and weve
compounded the problem with inadequate resources
and bad decisions. But even so, I think that many
Iraqis feel they are better off now, and most look
to the future as having real potential for
positive change.

[MTAA comments contd]:
Steves words could be used to bolster the
right-wing radical agenda of Bush and Co. but that
would be a misuse. We Americans were sold the war
on national security fears (many never bought of
course). The WMDs do not exist so the Bush
administration and its apologists fall back on the
excuse of freeing Iraqis from Husseins tyranny.
Would the majority of Americans have supported
this war if it was to be fought only to free
Iraqis? Of course not.

And, as the current administration continues to
use fear-mongering and lies to bolster their
political position, one must ask: are we buying
Iraqi freedom at the price of our own?

[thanks for posting this Tim]
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Irreparable Harm

via Choire Sicha:
A Free Press Is A Coopted Press
Renata Adler, whose Irreparable Harm is a
must-read on the Supreme Court and the election of
2000, is doing some re-thinking of New York Times
v. Sullivans contribution to libel law and the
use of anonymous sources in journalism:

The myth was that the reason you have a privilege
for journalists is that so whistleblowers can,
without retaliation, speak anonymously, right?
Almost every time you hear an anonymous source
cited in any newspaper now, its an official. Why?
Its a way for the police to speak. If you want to
go that far left with it – its a way for power
to cover over what it wants to say and they have
really learned it. Its a public relations game.
And there is no way an individual can play.

[end]

More about Irreparable Harm: [via Amazon]

Editorial Reviews
About the Author
Renata Adler is a former staff writer for The New
Yorker and is the author of Canaries in the
Mineshaft, Pitch Dark, and Reckless Disregard. She
was one of the first female journalists to cover
the war in Vietnam. She was an advisor to House
Speaker Peter Rodino on the Watergate committee
and is a professor at Boston University. She lives
in Boston, Massachusetts.

Book Description
The legal precedents cited in the Supreme Courts
decision to uphold George W. Bush as the winner of
the disputed 2000 presidential election are
examined and proven faulty in this probe first
published in the New Republic. Specific examples
of judges misquoting their previous decisions
reveal that the legal grounding of the landmark
case does not hold up under scrutiny. This
blistering, no-holds-barred account offers an
argument not based on partisan divisions as the
author is a Republican and former advisor during
the pivotal Watergate hearings.

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