LOCAL

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Writing workshop
AUSTINTOWN -- Local author Jo Anne Cassity will hold a writing workshop from 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday at the Heron's Landing Clubhouse in Austintown. Seating is limited. To ensure a place, e-mail Cassity at jo1956@zoominternet.net or write her at P.O. Box 64, Canfield, OH 44406.
The workshop will include a light lunch, in-class assignments and participation. Participants will need a pen and notebook. This month's topic is "Writer's block -- What is it? What causes it? How to write past it?" and "Dealing with Rejection."
REGION
Turow to attend CSU events
CLEVELAND -- Best-selling novelist Scott Turow will visit Cleveland State University's Cleveland-Marshall College of Law for two events Wednesday .
Turow, whose books include "Presumed Innocent," "The Burden of Proof" and "Personal Injuries," will participate in a ceremony at the college's law library at 4:30 p.m. and lecture on "Confessions of a Death Penalty Agnostic" immediately after the ceremony. The lecture is part of the law school's 2003-04 Criminal Justice Forum series, is free and open to the public and offers one free hour of Continuing Legal Education Credit.
Turow, a graduate of Harvard Law school is a partner in the Chicago law firm of Sonnenschein, Nath & amp; Rosenthal, where he has successfully represented, pro bono, two death row inmates. His most recent book is the nonfiction "Ultimate Punishment: A Lawyer's Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty."
Visit www.law.csuohio.edu or call (216) 687-6886.
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Study on fundamentalism
"Religious Fundamentalism in the Contemporary World: Critical, Social and Political Issues," by Santosh C. Saha (Rowman & amp; Littlefield, $75)
ALLIANCE -- Dr. Santosh C. Saha, an associate professor of history at Mount Union College, recently published his 10th book. "Religious Fundamentalism in the Contemporary World" provides an analysis of sociopolitical issues in the context of religious fundamentalism. Contributors include scholars from Hong Kong, India, Russia, Israel and India, and they painstakingly tackle the question of how to define the contours of current religious fundamentalism.
Saha earned his Ph.D. from Kent State University.