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David Leavitt (Gay For Today)

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:01:00 GMT

David Leavit t born 23 June 1961 David Leavit t is an American novelist and author. He is probably best known for his 1986 debut novel The Lost Language of Cranes .

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NBCC Good Reads 3 [The Long Tail] David Leavitt Recommends.... (CRITICAL MASS)

Tue, 20 May 2008 20:54:00 GMT

NBCC member fiction finalist David Leavitt's pick for the NBCC Good Reads Spring 2008 list , recommendations by NBCC members, awards winners and finalists: Marshall N. Klimasewiski, "Tyrants." "Tyrants" is a collection of great range and breadth and imagination. Like Alice Munro, Klimasewiski writes stories on a novelistic scale, encompassing great swaths of history while carrying the...

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Civility with a backhand (Salt Lake Tribune)

Thu, 15 May 2008 00:06:00 GMT

David Leavitt, who was given the heave-ho at the state GOP Convention Saturday, issued a press release today to say he was standing by his decision to endorse Rep. Chris Cannon. Well, OK. . . . We didn't know there was a question but, whatever. The interesting thing, though, about the statement is the language used by the little brother of former Gov. Mike Leavitt to seemingly...

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Chaffetz and Cannon go toe-to-toe (Salt Lake Tribune)

Sat, 10 May 2008 22:47:00 GMT

by Robert Gehrke David Leavitt was eliminated on the second round of balloting at the Utah Republican Convention today, setting up a final-round showdown between Jason Chaffetz and six-term incumbent Rep. Chris Cannon. Leavitt endorsed Cannon in the final round, and his staffers, wearing orange Leavitt shirts, carried Cannon signs up and down the aisles of the convention...

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INDIAN CLERK IN THE NEWS (The Elegant Variation)

Tue, 06 May 2008 17:46:02 GMT

David Leavitt's wonderful The Indian Clerk - to which we recently devoted an entire week - is a PEN/Faulkner award finalist. Although a novelist who chooses real people and events has much of the details already available, Leavitt finds that...

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3rd District foes trade blows (Deseret Morning News)

Sun, 04 May 2008 07:16:35 GMT

With a week left in their bid to unseat six-term Utah Congressman Chris Cannon, Jason Chaffetz, David Leavitt and Joe Ferguson threw some haymakers at the incumbent during a debate Saturday in Provo.

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Correction: David Leavitt (Deseret Morning News)

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 07:49:47 GMT

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Cannon challenger stops soliciting cash (Salt Lake Tribune)

mcanham@sltrib.com (Matt Canham / The Salt Lake Tribune) — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:06:13 GMT

WASHINGTON - With the state convention less than a month away, congressional challenger David Leavitt has suspended his fundraising efforts. Instead he has taken out his checkbook.

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Cannon's coffers have a rival (Deseret Morning News)

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 06:18:35 GMT

Rep. Chris Cannon continues to be paced financially by challenger David Leavitt in the 3rd Congressional District race.

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THE GROVES OF ACADEME (The Elegant Variation)

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:07:00 GMT

David Leavitt partakes in a lengthy, candid interview about the "dire state of fiction" at Court the Jesters. In all honesty, even though I teach in an MFA program, I have mixed feeling about the MFA industry (and it is...

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Proof of life (The Telegraph India)

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:40:09 GMT

The Indian Clerk By David Leavitt, Bloomsbury, Rs 495

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Candidate aims to boost faith (Deseret Morning News)

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:26:21 GMT

Republican David Leavitt makes three main campaign "promises" as he attempts to unseat Rep. Chris Cannon, R-Utah, in the 3rd Congressional District. And one is to renew the religious faith of Utahns as it applies to government operations.

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Chaffetz planning attack on Cannon's votes (Deseret Morning News)

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 07:14:40 GMT

Jason Chaffetz may not have as much money as opponent David Leavitt or 3rd Congressional District Rep. Chris Cannon, but he has a three-ring binder full of examples on why Cannon should not be sent back to Washington and voters should opt for him instead of Leavitt.

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What Are You Recommending, David Leavitt? (CRITICAL MASS)

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT

NBCC members and finalists and winners of our book award were eligible to vote in the winter edition of the NBCC's Good Reads. Here's what former NBCC fiction finalist David Leavitt recommended and why: I've always loved William Trevor's stories. Each collection seems to outdo the one that precedes it. In Cheating at Canasta the stories are set, mostly, in Ireland and England, and are...

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Political reception scheduled for tonight (Deseret Morning News)

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:56:09 GMT

Congressional candidate David Leavitt will host a reception tonight at 7 at the Springville Art Museum.

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The Indian Clerk, by David Leavitt (The Independent)

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:00:01 GMT

Srinivasa Ramanujan was an exceptionally gifted mathematician who died at 32 in 1920. Born in Erode, now the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Ramanujan was a clerk in a soulless government department, personifying the babu - or the intermediary between the ruler and the ruled that Thomas Macaulay had thought necessary for the British to rule India. Ramanujan was not formally trained in mathematics, but...

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On David Leavitt's The Indian Clerk (The Middle Stage)

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 07:01:00 GMT

... fiction-making, the private corridors they open off public knowledge. This is the situation of David Leavitt's novel The Indian Clerk , which explores the relationship between the protagonists of one of the oddest, but greatest, partnerships in the history of mathematics: the Cambridge don GH Hardy and the Indian genius Srinivasa Ramanujan. Hardy – fiercely atheist, rationalist, contemptuous...

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Ferguson betting on experience (Deseret Morning News)

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:25:15 GMT

When it comes to challenging six-term Rep. Chris Cannon's bid for a seventh Republican nomination, Joe Ferguson has experience. Jason Chaffetz and David Leavitt don't.

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Calculated to please (The Telegraph)

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 00:01:00 GMT

Ed Lake reviews The Indian Clerk by David Leavitt

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Leavitt $$ flow in bid for House (Deseret Morning News)

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 07:13:05 GMT

David Leavitt continued to raise large amounts of money in the final quarter of 2007 in his bid to unseat Congressman Chris Cannon at the Republican convention in May or in a possible party primary in June.

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