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The Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Centerpresented the controversial Michael Moore documentary <em>Fahrenheit 9/11</em> to a packed KJ Auditorium on Sept. 23. Afterwards, most audience members stayed to listen to a panel discussion about the film and about the issues that it raises. The panel featured students Hilary King '05 and Joe Jansen '07, and professors Phil Klinkner of government and Peter Rabinowitz of comparative literature.

Attorney Myron Beldock '50 was featured in a New York Times profile titled "A Foe of Injustice and Champion of Lost Causes" (9/21/04). According to the Times article: "He made news most recently by persuading a federal judge this month to overturn a jury verdict in the case of Gidone Busch, a Hasidic man shot to death in a 1999 confrontation with the police. Mr. Busch's family, who sued the city for damages and lost, can get a new trial." Beldock's most famous case was "a 13-year effort that won freedom for the former middleweight boxer (Hurricane) Rubin Carter, after Carter was found guilty of killing three people in a Paterson, N.J., tavern and imprisoned for nearly 19 years."

Hamilton College Performing Arts opens its Classical Connections series with The Adventures of the Monkey King: A Beijing Opera, on Saturday, Oct. 16, at 8 p.m. in Wellin Hall. Monkey King includes three action-packed plays that draw on the fables of the Monkey King, the greatest of all Chinese myth cycles. These three tales follow the Monkey King Sunwukong, a magically powerful but extremely mischievous "superhero" or "warrior clown", as he accompanies the Buddhist monk Xuanzang on his journey to India to seek the Buddhist scriptures.

Ann Owen, director of the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center and associate professor of economics, was quoted in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution article "Fed sees economic 'traction'; Interest rates raised quarter-point."  Owen said, "The rate boosts are a calculated gamble. By raising rates, the Fed can hope to reduce inflationary pressures throughout the economy, but it cannot have a significant impact on oil prices, and the increased interest rates will undoubtedly cost jobs."

Ann Owen, director of the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center and associate professor of economics, was interviewed for an article in the Washington Times about the increase in interest rates.  Owen said, "The Fed is in a tough position today because an important underlying cause of inflationary pressures is a rise in oil prices - something that the Fed cannot affect with interest rate increases." 

Susan Mason, director of educational studies and director of the oral communication center, was quoted in the September American Way article "Offshoring 101."  The articile refers to a seminar Mason designed and wrote for the American Management Association on the topic of leading virtual and remote teams and the basic human communication challenges presented by virtual and remote environments.  Mason said, "Companies often don't understand the difficulties in managing remote teams.  They think, 'If we can only get the technology right, this will all work.' It's easy for remote workers to become unproductive.  The real issues are how to keep remote workers directed, how to maintain trust, how to help people feel part of the company.  Answers don't come easy."

Danielle DeMuth, visiting assistant professor of women's studies, led a trip with five students to Nicaragua in August.  The trip, facilitated by Witness for Peace, focused on the impact of globalization and U.S. foreign policy on women's lives.  Sarah Mattingly '05, Liz McPhillips '05, Latoya Malcolm '06, Wangechi Thuo '06 and Caroline Beaudrias '06 traveled with DeMuth.

Ann Owen, director of the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center and associate professor of economics, was interviewed for an United Press International article, "Fed raises rates but downplays oil fears."  According to Owen, "The problem for the Fed, though, is that policymakers must continue to steer monetary policy with an eye toward the energy market, even though the central bank has no control over setting oil prices." By deciding to tighten policy this time around, the Fed can hope "to reduce inflationary pressures throughout the economy, but it cannot have a significant impact on oil prices and the increased interest rates will undoubtedly cost jobs," Owen said.

Hamilton alumnus Andy Burns' firm, Strategic Financial Services, LLC, (Utica, N.Y.), was ranked 63rd in the September 20, 2004, Barron's ranking of the "100 best wealth advisers from the brokerage industry." More than 3,000 firms were eligible. Burns is a 1978 graduate of Hamilton.

Chief-edited by De Bao Xu, associate professor of Chinese and James Huang, professor of linguistics at Harvard University, the second edition of Contemporary Linguistic Theory Series (12 volumes) is being published by China Social Sciences Publishing House in Beijing, 2004.