• John Updike on the Ethics and Poetics of Criticism0

      As beloved author John Updike said, "Better to praise and share than blame and ban." We need to relearn the skills of making criticism constructive rather than destructive, and we need look no further than the introduction to John Updike’s 1977 anthology of prose, Picked-Up Pieces, where Updike codifies the ethics and poetics of

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  • Joe Mantegna to Host Golf Tournament For Autism0

    Joe Mantegna, actor from Criminal Minds, will host Autism Care and Treatment Today!’s (ACT Today!) 5th Annual Charity Golf Classic on September 12, 2011 in California. Proceeds from the golf tournament will help provide resources and treatment for Autistic children whose families can’t afford the necessary tools their children need to achieve their full potential.

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  • Jobs program for people trapped in unemployment0

    There are nearly four million people facing long term unemployment in the U.S., struggling to find jobs. Joe Carbone is president of The Workplace, the state unemployment office in southwest Connecticut, which offers job training and placement help. Carbone is assisting over 14,000 people who have spent their last unemployment checks with nowhere to go.

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  • Job Searching: Old Ideas No Longer Work0

    The times are challenging and the rules for how to find a job are changing, as Carolyn Kepcher points out with advice on what works to get work. NY Daily News, 9/8/2011

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  • JK Rowling’s Books Save Ancient Trees in the Muggle World0

    Harry Potter author JK Rowling works to change the demand in Canada from ancient trees to environmentally friendly paper. Rowling’s Harry Potter series comes to a total of 4, 195 pages, which have sold millions of copies in 65 different languages. On the importance of the ancient trees, Rowling said, “The forest at Hogwarts is

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  • Jimmy Fallon: ‘I Never Knew I Could Be This Happy’0

    It’s been quite a year for Jimmy Fallon. Becoming the host of The Tonight Show is certainly something to be rightly proud of. But in a cover story for People magazine, he shares the achievement that may mean the most to him: “Being a father is the most exciting, amazing thing that ever happened to me. And everything is going well on the show. My life has never been this cool.”

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