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Re: IP: Not pleasant reading: from the January 17 issue of TheNew York Review of Books.
From: David Farber <dfarber () earthlink net>
Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 07:04:46 -0400
-----Original Message----- From: mhoward () nybooks com (Matthew Howard) Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 17:22:54 To: farber () cis upenn edu Subject: Re: IP: Not pleasant reading: from the January 17 issue of The New York Review of Books. Dave, I thought you might be interested to know that as a result of the posting below, Jo Procter and I met, and she kindly invited me to visit Williams College, where last week my colleague Edwin Frank and I spoke to faculty, staff and students about electronic publishing (my work with the New York Review's archives) and books (Edwin's work with the NYRB Classics series). The talk was sponsored by the Center for Technology in the Arts and Humanities at Williams, and CTAH's director Mark Taylor (whose name you might recognize from his work with Herb Allen on the Global Education Network) gave us a warm welcome and a provocative introduction to the discussion. It was really an excellent event. This may be a rather small ripple in the IP pond but I thought you might like to hear an example of how your readers are making non-virtual connections as a result of your work. Best regards, Matthew At 3:59 pm -0500 1/4/02, David Farber wrote:
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 15:49:55 -0700 From: Jo Procter <Jo.Procter () williams edu> To: farber () central cis upenn edu <http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15106> Manual for a 'Raid' By Kanan Makiya and Hassan Mneimneh Three handwritten copies of a five-page Arabic document were found by the FBI after the September 11 attack: one in a car used by the hijackers and left outside Dulles International Airport, one in a piece of Mohammad Atta's luggage that, by accident, did not get on the plane from Logan Airport, one in the wreckage of the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania. ... We don't know who wrote this document. From everything in it, the author seems to have been an organizer of the attacks. But the text contains a valuable record of the ideas that the hijackers would have been expected to accept. One of its underlying assumptions is that all its intended readers were going to die. A.Jo Procter, News Director Williams College Hopkins Hall, Box 676 Williamstown, MA 01267 Direct Line: 413-597-4279 Fax: 413-597-4158 www.williams.eduFor archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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