The "Big Box" Phenomenon: Wal-Mart and the Future of American Business UCSB History Associates event, $10 members, $12 non-members. See the UCSB Daily Nexus, Wednesday, October 7, 2009: Lichtenstein Lectures on Retail Giant According to UCSB labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein, judgment day may be fast approaching for revolutionary retail giant Wal-Mart. hm 9/11/09, 10/7

The island of Sri Lanka has been known by many names throughout its history: Ratnadipa, or the "land of gems" in Buddhist Sanskrit literature, Taprobane among Greeks and Romans, Serendib to the Arabs, and Ceylon under the British Empire. This small island, only 25,000 square miles in size, lies off the southern tip of India. […]

A 2006 Golden Globe winner for best foreign language film, Paradise Now intensely and powerfully tells the story of two lifelong friends that are tapped by an unidentified Palestinian resistance organization to carry out a suicide bombing together in Tel Aviv. Hany Abu-Assad, 91 min., Arabic and English, 2005, Palestine. In the MultiCultural Center's Cup […]