Libel. Words Libelous per se. New York Bureau of Information v. Ridgway-Thayer Co., et al., 104 N. Y. Supp. 202

1907 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 61
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Per Se

This Is Your Book: Marketing America to Itself

PMLA ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 118 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lori Ween
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
African American ◽  
American Literature ◽  
New York Times ◽  
The United States ◽  
Ivory Tower ◽  
American Novel ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Book World ◽  
Important Shift

In February 2001, Knopf Publishing Company, a division of Random House, reportedly purchased the rights to publish two novels by Stephen L. Carter for $4 million. As the Daily Variety Gotham stated, “Yale law professor Stephen L. Carter emerged from the ivory tower last week and shook the book world from its February doldrums” (Bing 43). And the New York Times wrote, “The advance is among the highest ever paid for a first novel and is all the more unusual because of the author's background. Mr. Carter, 46, is an African-American who has written several works of nonfiction, including ‘Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby’ and ‘The Culture of Disbelief‘” (Kirkpatrick, “Knopf”). Whether this purchase is considered “unusual” because it is a first novel or because the author is African American, it is part of an important shift for American literature: the jacket art, prepublication publicity, and sales materials shape this novel as a mainstream, blockbuster, best-selling legal thriller, not as an African American novel per se. The mainstream feel of Carter's novel brings up pertinent questions about race, literature, and the marketing of ethnic identity in the United States. Looking at the positioning of this novel allows us to understand how the publishers, newspaper reporters, and marketers have planted seeds that will influence the reception of the text by reviewers and readers.

scholarly journals Manipulating incantation texts: Excursions in Refrain A

Iraq ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 64 ◽  
pp. 259-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erica C.D. Hunter
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Jewish People ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Near Eastern ◽  
The Past ◽  
Male Client ◽  
Hebrew University ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Private Collections

On 9 October 1851 the British Museum purchased eight incantation bowls from Col. Henry Rawlinson. Of these, seven were written in Aramaic. They were recorded by the Minutes of the Trustees of the British Museum as coming from “a tomb at Babylon”, per se a most unusual provenance since incantation bowls are usually associated with domestic loci. The seven incantation bowls all name the same male client, one Mahperoz son of Hindo. Palaeographic studies on the typical Babylonian Aramaic script in which they were written reveal that they were the product of the same hand. The physical typology of the incantation bowls (hemispherical in form with simple rims measuring 0.6 cm thick and shaved bases) suggests that all seven were selected from the same workshop, and possibly even from the same batch of pottery. In such a situation, where the incantation bowls clearly form a group and were written for a single client, one might expect the texts to be duplicates.Four of the seven bowls purchased from Rawlinson were inscribed with a common incantation text that Ben Segal has designated as Refrain A. This commences with a distinctive call for the overthrow of the world and heavenly order as well as the reversal of female cursers. Over the past one hundred and fifty years a dozen examples of this text have have come to light in a variety of international museums and private collections. The largest group is that of the British Museum which has no less than eight examples, including the four Rawlinson bowls as well as a small flat-bottomed stopper that Hormuzd Rassam obtained from Sippar during the excavations which the British Museum conducted at that site between 1881 and 1882. The remaining four examples of Refrain A are in the Iraq Museum, Baghdad, the Institute of Archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and in collections of antiquities that are owned by the Churchs' Ministry amongst the Jewish People, St Albans, England, and Near Eastern Fine Arts, New York, U.S.A.

Immigrants and the Distribution of Resources Within an Urban School District

2004 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 303-327 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Ellen Schwartz ◽  
Leanna Stiefel
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Immigrant Students ◽  
Educational Needs ◽  
School Resources ◽  
Foreign Born ◽  
Distribution Of Resources ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Educational Need ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

In New York City, where almost 14% of elementary school pupils are foreign-born and roughly half of these are “recent immigrants,” the impact of immigrant students on school resources may be important. While immigrant advocates worry about inequitable treatment of immigrant students, others worry that immigrants drain resources from native-born students. In this article, we explore the variation in school resources and the relationship to the representation of immigrant students. To what extent are variations in school resources explained by the presence of immigrants per se rather than by differences in student educational needs, such as poverty or language skills, or differences in other characteristics, such as race? Our results indicate that, while schools resources decrease with the representation of immigrants, this relationship largely reflects differences in the educational needs of immigrant students. Although analyses that link resources to the representation of foreign-born students in 12 geographic regions of origin find some disparities, these are again largely driven by differences in educational need. Finally, we find that some resources increase over time when there are large increases in the percentage of immigrants in a school, but these results are less precisely estimated. Thus, elementary schools appear not to be biased either against or for immigrants per se, although differences in the needs of particular groups of immigrant students may lead to more (or fewer) school resources.

scholarly journals Alfred Stepan (editor), Americas. New interpretive essays, New York/Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1992, 327 pp.

1998 ◽  
Vol 5 (9) ◽  
pp. 201
Author(s):  
Gabriela Pulido
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Oxford University Press

<p>Decir que la especialización en el conocimiento se ha diversificado de manera acelerada, por lo que la interdisciplinariedad es un requisito en cualquier ámbito de discusión científica, no es algo reciente. De hecho se ha convertido en un tema <em>per se</em>, con múltiples aproximaciones metodológicas. Por el contrario, sí lo son los resultados concretos de la experiencia que ello conlleva.</p>

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irfan Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Amartya Sen ◽  
Nation State ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Cartesian Cogito ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Partha Chatterjee

It begins with a New York Times (2006) story about critique, reason, and religion. Situating the assumptions of that story in the relevant body of works –mainly but not limited to anthropology – the Introduction lays out the four-fold argument the book enunciates. First, Western and the Enlightenment notion of critique is not critique per se but only one among several of its modalities like the Islamic one it foregrounds. The suggestion is to see Islam as critique; indeed, Islam as permanent critique. Second, in and of itself reason is neither sufficient nor autonomous in arriving at judgements. Third, the truncated reason of Cartesian cogito does not resonate well with the Islamic conception of reason that is much broader, nondualistic, and holistic. Fourth, critique ought not to be the sole preserve of salaried professional intellectuals; nonintellectuals too enact and participate in critique. The Introduction mounts a critique of Indian liberalism – exemplified, inter alia, by Amartya Sen, Partha Chatterjee and Ramchandra Guha –for its servility to nationalism and silencing of Muslim thoughts. Showing flaws in conflating political with epistemological borders, the book outlines the path to track the silenced Muslim tradition of critique across the recent, imperially planted borders of the nation-state.

scholarly journals An Analysis of Two Alternative Funding Sources for Northeast Banks Lending to Agriculture

1985 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-87
Author(s):  
Kenneth Carraro ◽  
Eddy LaDue
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Interest Rates ◽  
Commercial Banks ◽  
New York State ◽  
York State ◽  
Alternative Funding ◽  
Funding Sources ◽  
Low Interest Rates ◽  
Farm Credit ◽  
Per Se

A survey of agricultural banks in New York State found that inability to compete with the low interest rates offered by the Farm Credit Service (FCS) rather than the unavailability of funds per se was limiting agricultural lending by commercial banks. A MASI-like intermediary would (1) be of assistance only to banks unable to use loan participations and with high CD costs and (2) would likely require a large multistate area to be feasible. Only eight percent of the New York banks serving agriculture qualify for FICB funding. Further, FICB funding would be profitable only if banks experienced illiquidity at least 50 percent of the time.

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