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The South By Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, announced Monday that former Vice President Joe Biden will give a speech Sunday about plans for his new cancer- fighting initiative. Biden has said that the initiative will focus on improving data standards to help researchers, work with community care organizations to improve access to care, and push to ensure patients can afford treatments. Biden, the nation’s 47th vice president, previously led a White House “cancer moonshot” effort to accelerate developments toward a cure. He has focused on improving cancer research efforts since his son, former Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, died of brain cancer in 2015. Unlike last year’s festival keynote address by then- President Barack Obama, there are no plans to livestream Biden’s talk, festival organizers say. Instead, they plan to release a video on the festival website after the presentation.
British actress Emma Watson has hit back at critics who claimed her recent photoshoot for Vanity Fair betrayed her feminist ideals. In one image from the shoot, photographed by Tim Walker, Watson poses in a revealing crochet white top. The 26- yearold Watson said in an interview Saturday that the controversy represented “a fundamental and complete misunderstanding of what feminism is.” She said that “feminism is about equality and it’s about choice,” adding, “Feminism is not a stick with which to beat other women.” Watson stars as Belle in Disney’s live- action version of Beauty and the Beast.
The family of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia will donate his papers to the Harvard Law School library. The school announced Monday that the collection would include Scalia’s writings from his tenure on the Supreme Court as well as from his time as a federal appeals judge and law professor, and his service in other government posts. A statement from the school says the collection will be available for research on a schedule agreed upon by the Scalia family and the library. Papers from Scalia’s work as a justice and appeals judge will be accessible starting in 2020, but material related to specific cases won’t be opened during the lifetime of other justices or judges involved in the case. Scalia, who died a year ago during a hunting trip in Texas, graduated from Harvard Law School in 1960.