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Open poetry night
YOUNGSTOWN -- Pig Iron Literary & amp; Art Works will hold its Second Tuesday Open Poetry Reading on Tuesday at The Old Precinct, 32 N. Phelps St. Participants may sign-up at the door from 7 until 7:45, and readings will begin at 8. For more information about the reading program or other PILAW activities, call (330) 747-6932. For those arriving early, a full deli menu will be offered beginning at 6 p.m.
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Iacocca to release book
NEW YORK -- Former Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca will release a new book with a stern message for the business and political communities: "Where Have All the Leaders Gone?"
Simon & amp; Schuster plans to publish in time for Father's Day 2007. Financial terms were not disclosed.
"I'm writing this book because I flunked retirement," Iacocca, who stepped down from Chrysler in 1992, said in a statement issued by his publisher. "There is too much happening in the world and too much to be done to sit on the sidelines."
According to Simon & amp; Schuster, the 81-year-old Iacocca will offer a "no-nonsense perspective" on "government and business, what happened to the American automotive industry, the relationship between America and its allies, the challenge to America from China and India, the future for American workers and their families."
Iacocca's memoir, "Iacocca," was published in 1984 and sold more than 6 million copies. His 1988 book, "Talking Straight," was also a best seller.
Greenspan names writer to assist on memoirs
NEW YORK -- Alan Greenspan has selected a Fortune Magazine veteran, Peter Petre, to assist on his memoirs, for which the former Federal Reserve chairman received a reported $8.5 million.
Greenspan's literary representative, Washington, D.C. attorney Robert Barnett, said there were three reasons for choosing Petre, a senior editor-at large-at Fortune: His experience working on best sellers (Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf's "It Doesn't Take a Hero"); his expertise in economic issues, and "He's a delightful guy to work with."
The 80-year-old Greenspan, widely viewed as the most successful chairman in the Fed's 92-year history, served as chair from 1987 until his retirement, earlier this year. His book, currently untitled, is scheduled to come out in 2007.
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