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    <title><![CDATA[Re: Bernie "It Was Too Good To Be True" Madoff at the MJJC]]></title>
    
    
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      <![CDATA[yeah, everybody thought it was too good to true but everybody wanted to be part of it and didn't care that it might be a bit shady as long as they were getting a piece of the action.  Just saying.
        
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    <title><![CDATA[Re: Bernie "It Was Too Good To Be True" Madoff at the MJJC]]></title>
    
    
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      <![CDATA[Speaking of Ponzi schemes; what about social security?  It works the same way and the politicians are never arrested!  The government squandered the funds that are allegedly for our retirement, yet present generation workers are paying for the retired folks.  Recently, the new House health care plan has a long-term insurance program that starts collecting premiums in 2011, but doesn't start paying the benefits until 2016.  It then runs out of money in 2029.  Democrat Kent Conrad of North Dakota called it "a Ponzi scheme of the first order, the kind of thing that Bernie Madoff would have been proud of".  (interview in the Washington Post in late Oct).
        
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    <title><![CDATA[Re: D'Army Bailey: Activist, Attorney, Actor]]></title>
    
    
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      <![CDATA[sounds like an evocative work on both memphis and black politics, its convinced me this is a book i need to actually read
        
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    <title><![CDATA[Re: D'Army Bailey: Activist, Attorney, Actor]]></title>
    
    
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      <![CDATA[Truly, One of my Black heros in Memphis!!!
        
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    <title><![CDATA[Re: D'Army Bailey: Activist, Attorney, Actor]]></title>
    
    
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      <![CDATA[Thanks for printing that... good to read the thoughts of a very perceptive man.
        
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    <title><![CDATA[Re: D'Army Bailey: Activist, Attorney, Actor]]></title>
    
    
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      <![CDATA[D'Army is smart, thoughtful,and wise enough to use history to encourage others and himself to seek a better truth that could result in advancing our community and mankind!
        
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    <title><![CDATA[Re: Mark Greaney: Good Aim]]></title>
    
    
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      <![CDATA[I'm half-way through the book and can't put it down. It is great. Very impressive. Mark Greaney will be right up there with the big guys, for sure.
        
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    <title><![CDATA[Re: Writers Series This Fall? Not So Much]]></title>
    
    
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      <![CDATA[I certainly hope so.
        
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    <pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:03:07 -0500</pubDate> 
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    <title><![CDATA[Re: Writers Series This Fall? Not So Much]]></title>
    
    
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      <![CDATA[I suppose it may not be common to do contracts, but I think there is a sort of tacit agreement that any books sold will come through the bookstore, does that make sense?  On campus, any books sold would have to go through the University bookstore. <br>
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Regardless, I think the RCWS will rise again.  It's so true that it's an asset to our community, and certainly to the students.  Just in the past couple of years we've had Pulitzer prize winners, National Book Award winners, poets, journalists, novelists, nonfictionists . . . a really great collection.
        
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    <pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:45:48 -0500</pubDate> 
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      <![CDATA[I've never been asked to sign a contract to do a book signing. Granted, I haven't had many, but nobody ever asked me to do that. But I had no idea you had to pay the University for the use of a room. If they won't give you money to sponsor the series, and then turn around and charge you money to hold an event, that's just wrong.<br>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:26:10 -0500</pubDate> 
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      <![CDATA[That may be true, Jeff, but generally, writers coming through town on tour are committed to whatever bookstore is bringing them in, often there is a contractual obligation to only appear in one spot.  Also, amazingly, The University charges for the use of almost all the rooms on campus where one might host a reading, and, then dining services charges for setting up a water station, or whatever.  So, just because we might be able to successfully ask artists to give of their time for free (something that is very common, and frequently annoying, as if an artist's time is not worth much), that doesn't really mitigate the expense of having an event.  If you've ever been to a reading in Patterson 456 (the multi-purpose aka Free room), you'll know that it's not exactly inspiring (to the artist or the audience).  <br>
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Anyone want to hold a bake sale for RCWS?!
        
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    <pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:59:11 -0500</pubDate> 
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      <![CDATA[Call me crazy, but there's probably a lot of writers out there who would do the River City Writers series for free. Time it when they're doing a swing through town on a book tour. You probably won't get the two or three day event, with workshops and whatnot, that the series usually offers to students, but at least you'd get the exposure.
        
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    <pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:47:11 -0500</pubDate> 
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      <![CDATA[You're so right that it is a sad state of affairs.  Unfortunately money just doesn't seem to flow quite as easily into the halls of Patterson as it does a few blocks to the north.  Still, we do have a few writers coming through town this fall, at least one under the moniker of RCWS.  Robert Root will be reading on October 1st in Mitchell Hall at 7pm.  <br>
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Robert Root is co-author of The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers of/on Creative Nonfiction and author of E. B. White: The Emergence of an Essayist,  Wordsmithery, and  Working at Writing: Columnists and Critics Composing. His essays have been published in The North Dakota Quarterly,  The Dunes Review,  The Rockhurst Review, and elsewhere. He teaches nonfiction, editing, and composition at Central Michigan University.
        
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    <pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:38:26 -0500</pubDate> 
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    <title><![CDATA[Re: Wayne White At Risk]]></title>
    
    
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    <author><![CDATA[Pam Denney]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Love this post! I've sent it to my daughter in NYC.
        
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      <![CDATA[This is a sorry state of affairs, indeed. The River City Writers Series is one of the very best offerings from the UofM, for both students and the community. PLEASE let university movers and shakers know how disappointed we are!
        
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      <![CDATA[You're reviewing short stories now? I think that's a great idea and hope to see many more like this. <br>
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Congrats to Marshall.
        
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