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Used Book Sale Today; Open till 7:30 p.m.
An array of gently used fiction and non-fiction -- hardback and paperback -- will be on sale until 7:30 p.m. today, Oct. 2, in the Bloomberg Training Center on the 13th floor. It opens to Club members at 9 a.m.; members of the public are admitted at 10:30 a.m. Member prices are $2.50 for a hardcover book and $1 per paperback. Non-members will be charged $5 hardcover/$2 paperback. Proceeds benefit the Library programs. For admittance to the 90-minute period for members only, bring your membership card.
Type: News
Karachi Novel at Oct. 17 Books & Brunch
Author Maniza Naqvi will attend the Saturday, Oct. 17, Books & Brunch meeting to discuss her fourth novel, "A Matter of Detail," at noon in the Fourth Estate restaurant. The novel is about a Pakistani family that began with an eloping couple – a Jewish woman with a Muslim man, who later also married the Muslim woman to whom his family had engaged him. The educated children of this family live upper middle class lives, mostly in New York, but also in Karachi. Naqvi describes three cultures: Karachi in the 1950s and now as well as present-day New York. Naqvi, a senior social protection…
Type: News
Immigration Reform in the Spotlight after Thousands of Unaccompanied Children Cross into the U.S.
The issues of immigration and border security have been getting a lot of attention in recent months as the United States considers how to deal with the thousands of unaccompanied children from Central America who have crossed the Mexican border into the U.S. In this edition of Update-1, Broadcast Committee member Sofia Mannos discusses these topics with Michelle Mittelstadt, the director of Communications and Public Affairs at the Migration Policy Institute, an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit think tank that analyzes the movement of people worldwide. They talk about immigration reform,…
Type: Media
Used Book Sale 9 am Oct. 2; Open to the Public at 10:30 a.m.
An array of gently used fiction and non-fiction -- hardback and paperback -- will be on sale from 9 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 2, in the Bloomberg Training Center on the 13th floor. Members of the public are admitted at 10:30 a.m. Member prices are $2.50 for a hardcover book and $1 per paperback. Non-members will be charged $5 hardcover/$2 paperback. Proceeds benefit the Library programs. For admittance to the 90 minute period for members only, bring your membership card.
Type: News
This Week in National Press Club History
Sept. 27, 1959: Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev holds a press conference at the National Press Club on his return from a transcontinental tour of the U.S. Sept. 27, 1994: CNN founder Ted Turner says it’s over for newspapers, unfortunately, because of the not instantaneous transmission of news electronically. Sept. 28, 1938: First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt appears at the Club. Oct. 3, 1909: Explorer Frederick A. Cook appears at the Press Club and claims to be the first man to reach the North Pole. This Week in National Press Club History is brought to you by the History Committee, which is…
Type: News
This Week in National Press Club History
Sept. 27, 1959: Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev holds a press conference at the National Press Club on his return from a transcontinental tour of the U.S. Sept. 27, 1994: CNN founder Ted Turner says it’s over for newspapers, unfortunately, because of the not instantaneous transmission of news electronically. Sept. 28, 1938: First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt appears at the Club. Oct. 3, 1909: Explorer Frederick A. Cook appears at the Press Club and claims to be the first man to reach the North Pole. This Week in National Press Club History is brought to you by the History Committee, which is…
Type: News
This Week in National Press Club History
Sept. 27, 1959: Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev holds a press conference at the National Press Club on his return from a transcontinental tour of the U.S. Sept. 27, 1994: CNN founder Ted Turner says it’s over for newspapers, unfortunately, because of the not instantaneous transmission of news electronically. Sept. 28, 1938: First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt appears at the Club. Oct. 3, 1909: Explorer Frederick A. Cook appears at the Press Club and claims to be the first man to reach the North Pole. This Week in National Press Club History is brought to you by the History Committee, which is…
Type: News
"Philadelphia Story" at Dinner & Movie, 7 pm Oct. 1
"The Philadelphia Story" will be shown at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 1 in the McClendon Room for the monthly Dinner and a Movie. Haughty divorced socialite Tracy Lord is preparing for her second marriage. Enter Dexter Haven, her first husband, and Macaulay Connor, a tabloit reporter and a distrust for the wealthy. What follows is a rapid-fire war of words as the two men try to help Tracy the heart beneath the holier-than-thou exterior. Seating is limited, so come early. Also, choose from the great dinner selections on the Reliable Source Menu.
Type: News
Ike Pappas Interview Available Legendary radio and television journalist Ike Pappas, a correspondent for CBS News for 23 years, covered a variety of history-shaping events throughout
Legendary radio and television journalist Ike Pappas, a correspondent for CBS News for 23 years, covered a variety of history-shaping events throughout the world: The civil rights movement, the Vietnam and Six Days wars, and the Apollo 11 flight to the moon, among many others. Pappas died in September at 75. Among the countless stories he reported, Pappas will forever be remembered as the reporter who shouted "Oswald has been shot!" as he saw Jack Ruby murder Lee Harvey Oswald just inches away, days after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas in November 1963. Pappas provides a…
Type: News
U.S. Launches Public Diplomacy Initiative
The State Department will conduct an online video contest designed to “amplify U.S. public diplomacy using web-based outreach campaigns and social media platforms,” Goli Ameri, Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs, said at a Dec. 1 Newsmaker. "Our new ExchangesConnect, hosted on the Ning platform, is designed to be the digital foundation for the alumni of our exchange programs, youth audiences and other groups around the world interested in international dialogue,” Ameri said. She said the State Department “has been actively engaged in a broad effort to use…
Type: News