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	<title>The Wesleyan Connection &#187; Alumni News</title>
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		<title>Cunliffe &#8217;78 Wins Grammy for Instrumental Arrangement</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2010/03/03/california-state-professor-cunliffe-78-wins-grammy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:55:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Low</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bill Cunliffe ’78 received a Grammy Award in January for his arrangement of “West Side Story Medley.” The track appears on the CD Resonance Big Band Plays Tribute to Oscar Peterson (Resonance Records). Cunliffe, an associate professor of music at California State University, had been nominated for a Grammy twice before for best instrumental arrangement.
In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wood &#8217;84 Finds Home in Off-Broadway’s Clybourne Park</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Low</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tony winning actor Frank Wood ’84 is currently starring in Clybourne Park, a darkly comic play by Bruce Norris, which deals with race relations among neighbors. The play opened to good reviews in February, and runs through March 21 at off-Broadway’s Playwrights Horizons.
Clybourne Park begins in 1959 in a Chicago neighborhood as a white family [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Richter &#8217;66 Named to N.J. Hall of Fame</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2010/03/03/richter-66-named-to-n-j-hall-of-fame/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:52:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia Rockwell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Irvin Richter ’66, chairman and chief executive officer of Hill International (NYSE:HIL), was named to the New Jersey Business Hall of Fame.  He was one of only four laureates this year.
This is a lifetime achievement award for individuals who have made a significant contribution to the quality of life and the business climate in New [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rotella &#8217;86 Profiles Secretary of Education Arne Duncan</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2010/03/03/rotella-86-profiles-secretary-of-education-arne-duncan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:51:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Low</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the Feb. 1 issue of The New Yorker, Carlo Rotella ’86, the director of the American Studies Program at Boston College, profiles U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.
Rotella points out that President Obama has allotted Duncan more than 70 billion dollars in federal economic-stimulus funds to hand out to the states—more money than any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Litvak &#8217;76 Takes a Fresh Look at the Hollywood Blacklist and McCarthy Era</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2010/03/03/litvak-76-takes-a-fresh-look-at-the-hollywood-blacklist-and-mccarthy-era/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:50:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Low</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In The Un-Americans: Jews, the Blacklist, and Stoolpigeon Culture (Duke University Press) Jospeh Litvak ’76 offers a rethinking of the Hollywood blacklist and McCarthyite America by uncovering a political regime that did not come to an end with the 1950s or even with the Cold War, in which the good citizen is an informer, ready [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heaney &#8217;09 Awarded Fellowship to Study Law Ethics</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2010/03/03/heaney-03-awarded-fellowship-to-study-law-ethics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:49:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia Rockwell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(By Anne Calder ’11)
Allison Heaney ’09 has been awarded a Fellowship at Auschwitz for the study Professional Ethics. A law student at Duke University, she will spend two weeks this summer traveling to New York, Poland and Germany.
The Fellowship enables students in law, medical, seminary, journalism and business to address contemporary and future ethical issues [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McKenna &#8217;84 Lead Writer for HBO&#8217;s The Pacific</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2010/03/03/mckenna-84-lead-writer-for-hbos-the-pacific/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bruce McKenna ’84 is the lead writer for the HBO series The Pacific. Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks produced this as follow up to Band of Brothers, for which McKenna also wrote.
According to a Feb. 28 article in The Los Angeles Times, McKenna accompanied a locations crew to a tiny coral island near Guam known as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Installation by Sasamoto &#8217;04 at Whitney Biennial</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2010/02/08/installation-by-sasamoto-04-at-whitney-biennial/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:15:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Low</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A performance/installation work by Aki Sasamoto ’04, titled &#8220;Strange Attractors&#8221; will be on view as part of the 2010 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art (945 Madison Avenue at 75th St., 212-570-3600, www.whitney.org/Exhibitions/2010Biennial) from Feb. 25–May 30 in New York City.
Sasamoto will be performing occasionally as part of the installation (on days of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Talbot &#8217;70, Davis &#8217;70 Create PBS Music/Politics Series Pilot</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2010/02/08/talbot-70-davis-70-create-pbs-musicpolitics-series-pilot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:06:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia Rockwell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The pilot for Sound Tracks: Music Without Borders, aired nationally on PBS in late January. Described as a magazine show “about the intersection of music with life, politics and culture around the world,” it is a collaboration between two alumni of the class of ’70—executive producer Stephen Talbot and executive producer for Oregon Public Broadcasting David [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bluemel &#8217;86 Edits Critical Essay Collection</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2010/02/08/bluemel-86-edits-critical-essay-collection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:03:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Low</dc:creator>
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Kristin Bluemel ’86, a professor of English at Monmouth University, has edited a new essay collection, Intermodernism: Literary Culture in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain (Edinburgh University Press). This volume of original critical essays encourages readers to accept a new term, new critical category, and new literary history for 20th-century British literature.
Its primary subject is the intriguing and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zeitlin &#8217;03 Earns Accolades for King Pajama&#8217;s Something Sweet</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2010/02/08/zeitlin-03-earns-accolades-for-king-pajamas-something-sweet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:02:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia Rockwell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Something Sweet, Nina Zeitlin’s ’03 family/kids’ album, was named in the Top 10 on NPR’s “2009 Best Music for Kids and Their Families.&#8221; In a story for WXPN’sKids Corner in Philadelphia, host Kathy O’Connell noted that she’d remember 2009 as “the gold standard in kids’ music,” and included Zeitlin’s musical ensemble, King Pajama, as one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ravenal &#8217;81 President of Art Museum Association</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2010/02/08/ravenal-81-president-of-art-museum-association/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia Rockwell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Ravenal ’81 is now president of his professional organization: the Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC).
The Sydney and France Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Ravenal has become the fourth president of AAMC since the organization was founded in 2001.
Ravenal joined the Virginia [...]]]></description>
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