Ann-Marie Slaughter Examines the Libya Situation

Ann-Marie Slaughter, who recently left the State Department to return to Princeton, wrote this opinion piece, "Fiddling While Libya Burns," in the New York Times critiquing the US response to the revolt in Libya and calling for a no-fly zone.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/14/opinion/14slaughter.html

Port o' Call Sharon Keld: Armenia Ho!

Sharon Keld has started her new posting with the Peace Corps in Armenia. She is writing about the experience in her new blog, armeniadreamin.blogspot.com

Meanwhile, a photo of Sharon and other volunteers being sworn in appeared on the home page of the Peace Corps. It shows Armenia's first group of Peace Corps Response Volunteers. Volunteers Brian Kremer and Sharon Keld (RPCVs, Morocco), and Jeanne and Gordon Korstange (RPCVs, India) were sworn in last week. Jeanne and Gordon will be working with the Ministry of Education and Sharon and Brian will work with Homeland Handicrafts, a non-governmental organization, as marketing consultants.

Honorary Classmate Michael Graves Featured in NY Times Article

The paintings of honorary classmate Michael Graves will be appearing in a show at Rider University Art Gallery. The New York Times ran a big illustrated story about Graves, an architect, and the show. The story begins,

SCRATCH most architecture wonks, and at some point they’ve studied the house that Michael Graves began creating for himself here in 1969. A 1920s furniture storehouse remade to evoke a Tuscan villa, it sits as solidly in the canon as it rests in the Italianate grounds he laid out around this laboratory for the classically inflected ideas, forms and design vocabulary that helped make his name. It has been widely covered, visited and debated. Every room, niche and cranny, which helped give shape to the movement that became postmodernism, has been photographed.

Princeton Alumni Weekly: Goodbye, corporate life!

Sharon Keld published an essay in the December 8, 2010 Princeton Alumni Weekly about her adventures in the Peace Corps, what comes next after her time in the corporate world.

Princeton Alumni Weekly: Goodbye, corporate life!

Florence Hudson Discusses Business Travel in NY Times

Florence DiStefano Hudson provided a first-person view of her corporate travel experiences in the Tuesday, November 23 "Frequent Flyer" feature of the New York Times. Florence gave an interview under the headline, "Lessons in Inefficiency, Learned in Airports Around the World." The article started,

I’m a problem-solver and pattern-recognizer. Traveling as much as I do is always an adventure. I have to admit that a lot of the time, I’m wondering how we actually make it from Point A to Point B since everything is so inefficient.

John Rogers named head of Advisory Council on Financial Capability

John Rogers last month was named as head of the Advisory Council on Financial Capability, a new committee created by an executive order to complement recent consumer-protection legislation, aims to help President Barack Obama create effective policy to help Americans make better, more informed financial decisions. An October 25 article in The Daily Princetonian detailed the appointment.

More information about the Advisory Council can be found on the White House website.

Adam Bellow's New Gig: Conservative Books at HarperCollins

Starting in January, Adam Bellow will be in charge of the new imprint Broadside Books at publisher HarperCollins. The line will focus on "culture wars, books of ideas, books of revisionist history, biographies, anthologies, polemical paperbacks and pop-culture books from a conservative point of view," according to a September 27 article in the New York Times. The article quotes Adam,

“What I intend to do is uphold a standard of intellectual seriousness on the right,” Mr. Bellow said. “They should be written in a way that they are serious, soberly argued, well researched, and make a respectable case — agree or disagree.”