Humanities fest lures Albee, Trillin, Styron

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee, author of suchworks as "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf," "A Delicate Balance" and"Three Tall Women," will give the keynote address at the seventhannual Chicago Humanities Festival Nov. 8-10. The three-daydawn-to-dusk event, to be held at locations throughout the city, willexamine the theme of birth and death.

Albee's lecture, scheduled for Nov. 10 at Orchestra Hall, istitled "The Rise of the Unhumanities." It will consider "the growingthreats to our national well-being as a culture, to our educationalsystem and to our moral health." Two early Albee one-acts - "TheSandbox" and "The Death of Bessie Smith" - will be performed …

Northern Ireland man charged over car bomb

DUBLIN (AP) — A suspected Irish Republican Army dissident already facing trial over one bomb was arraigned Tuesday on a charge of planting a car bomb outside a Northern Ireland courthouse.

Eamon Cassidy, 49, offered no plea and was ordered held without bail over his alleged role in planting a 100-pound (45-kilogram) car bomb across the street from the courthouse in Londonderry, Northern Ireland's second-largest city, in March 2011. Tuesday's arraignment took place in the same building.

Cassidy is already being held in Northern Ireland's main prison, Maghaberry, while awaiting trial over a small bomb that Londonderry police found in September 2011 when searching a car carrying …

VWilliams loses to Petrova at French Open

Venus Williams' celebrated corset went under wraps Sunday, and now it's out of the French Open.

Playing with a long-sleeve top over her black lace outfit on a chilly afternoon, Williams lost in the fourth round to Nadia Petrova, 6-4, 6-3.

Williams came into the tournament seeded No. 2 behind her sister Serena, but Petrova spoiled the possibility of a sibling showdown in the final.

"I'm obviously disappointed," Williams said. "I feel like I had a day where I wanted to hit the ball cross-court and it went down the line. It just wasn't a good day."

Petrova has been a nemesis for the Williams family lately _ she beat Serena …

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LA ESCRITURA DE LA VIOLENCIA. LA VIRGEN DE LOS SICARIOS, DE FERNANDO VALLEJO, TESTIMONIO PARÓDICO Y DISCURSO NIETZSCHEANO

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"�Tiene Colombia cultura?" En un art�cule reciente Michael Palencia-Roth hace un recuento de las muchas alusiones a la violencia que hay en cualquier art�cule de la prensa mundial referida a Colombia, y lamenta que el pa�s vea su enorme riqueza cultural constantemente eclipsada por el horror de violencia (Palencia Roth 25). A�n reconociendo este hecho, es obligado examinar varios textos que se han escrito recientemente sobre la violencia actual en Colombia, siquiera porque �stos ofrecen una alternativa a lo que Jos� Cardona L�pez ha llamado "la palabra sitiada" o el gastado discurso pol�tico actual (Cardona L�pez 378). A la necesidad de representar los sicarios en …

2 Canadians killed in Mumbai shooting

A septuagenarian and longtime family physician was days away from returning to Canada after a four-week holiday in India when he was killed in the Mumbai terrorist attacks this week.

Dr. Michael Moss was one of two Canadians killed when gunmen took Mumbai by siege on Wednesday in a 60-hour rampage that killed at least 195 people in India's financial capital.

Canada's Foreign Affairs Department confirmed the death of a second Canadian late Friday but no details about the victim have been released.

According to Foreign Affairs, of the 21 Canadians at the sites targeted by the attackers, 17 were confirmed safe. Two others were injured _ Montreal …

William Rubin, former Morrison Hotel chief

William Henning Rubin, 76, a retired attorney and past presidentof the Morrison Hotel Corp., died Wednesday in Northwestern MemorialHospital.

Mr. Rubin, an attorney who specialized in real estate, practicedlaw for more than 40 years. His offices were in the First NationalBank Building.

The Morrison Hotel, which was at Madison and Dearborn, was thetallest hotel in the world at the time it was built. Mr. Rubinserved as president of the corporation until the hotel was demolishedto make way for the First National Bank …