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<p class=MsoNormal style='tab-stops:.3in'><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Contact:</span></font></b><font
size=3><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt'><span
style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span>Richard G.
Carlson, Events Coordinator<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in;tab-stops:.2in'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt'>Yale Bookstore<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt'>(203) 777-8440 (Ext. 165)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-weight:bold'>Media Alert from The Yale Bookstore<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<h3 style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-1.0in'><b><i style='mso-ansi-font-style:
normal;mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal'><span
style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt'>What:</span></span></font></i></b><span
style='font-style:normal'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span>Emily
Bernard reading from and signing copies of her book, </span><span
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Some of My Best Friends:<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Writings on Interracial Friendships<b><span
style='font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></h3>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold'>When:</span></font></b><font
size=3><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt'><span
style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span>Monday,
October 25, 2004 at 6:00 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Where:<span
style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span></span></font></b><font
size=3><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt'>The Yale
Bookstore, 77 Broadway, New Haven, CT 06511<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt'><span style='mso-tab-count:2'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold'>About The
Book:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></font></b><font
size=3><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt'>Can friendship
transcend the boundaries of race?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Do certain companionable qualities or life circumstances make
interracial friendships more likely to flourish?<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>Should true friends forgive one another occasional incidents
of racial ignorance or even insensitivity?<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>Emily Bernard, a black woman who has had white friends from
the time she was a little girl, has long contemplated questions like
these.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>For answers, she sought out
writers from an array of backgrounds—white, black, Latino, Asian, Jewish—and
asked them to share experiences, insights, and feelings.<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The result is a collection of
thought-provoking strikingly diverse essays on a timely, vital, and complicated
issue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'><span style='font-style:italic'>Some of My Best Friends </span></i>celebrates
interracial friendships as it examines their challenges.<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Among the contributors are Pam Houston,
Jee Kim, Darryl Pinckney, Luis J. Rodriquez, Trey Ellis, Sandra Guzman, Suheir Hammad,
William Ayers, and Susan Straight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>They each reveal the mysteries, frustrations, disappointments, and
precious gifts of friendships, interracial and otherwise..<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold'>About The
Author:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></font></b><font
size=3><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt'>Emily Bernard
is the editor of the critically acclaimed <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span
style='font-style:italic'>Remember Me to Harlem:<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten,
1925-1964.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></i>She holds a
Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University and has received fellowships
from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Ford Foundation, and the
W.E.B. DuBois Institute for African-American Research at Harvard.<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>A native of Nashville, Tennessee, she
is currently an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Vermont.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<h1><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt'>About the
Yale Bookstore:<o:p></o:p></span></span></font></b></h1>
<h1><b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><span
style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt'>The Yale Bookstore, a Barnes and Noble
College Bookstore is located at 77 Broadway at York Square, New Haven, CT,
06511, (203) 777-8440, www.yalebookstore.com.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>All events are free and open to the public.<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The bookstore offers a wide selection
of bestsellers, titles by Yale and local authors, Yale course books and
emblematic merchandise, dorm supplies, gifts, stationery and Clinique
products.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The Yale Bookstore Cafe
serves Java U coffee and snacks.<o:p></o:p></span></span></font></b></h1>
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