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...Cambridge Common and the again-defunct Team Zebra), and the world. These journalists have used the fame of their blogs and their technological savvy to win everything from book deals, to journalism jobs, to the hatred of would-be brides everywhere. BLOGS FOR BLOGS’ SAKEA political junkie, activist, and blogger for Cambridge Common while on Harvard’s campus, Andrew H. Golis ’06, who was also a Crimson columnist, found an ideal job after graduation. Currently, he blogs and edits for TalkingPointsMemo.com (TPM), an influential blog nexus.TPM, which recently broke the story...
Over the past three years, while researching a book on what I call secular epiphanies, I found people who had pulled a big U-turn in their lives. There was a slaughterhouse worker who became an animal-rights activist, a venture capitalist who quit to found a high-minded nonprofit, a death-penalty advocate who became a leading death-penalty opponent. Often the insight came in a forehead-smiting moment in the middle of the night: I've got it all wrong...
...Roland Freeman, a civil rights activist and photographer who has been documenting African American quilters for nearly 30 years, has another take on why the story is so popular. "Hidden in Plain View is how we got over those white folks. Right under the nose of white folk we're sending signs and symbols and they didn't know it. While I think it's so ridiculous, African Americans are starved for those kind of stories in our culture and we're willing to accept it because it's what we want to hear...
...according to estimates by women's rights groups. Only about a hundred abortions - within the letter of the law - are being carried out every year in Poland since the introduction of the legislation. "Women seeking help in public hospitals are being treated like beggars," said Kazimiera Szczuka, a feminist activist. "The case of Alicja is not the only...
With his curly, salt-and-pepper hair and thoughtful demeanor, Chris West looks like just another mid-career professor as he crosses the streets of Oxford University. But West, trained as a zoologist, is more an activist than an academic these days. From his cramped office around the corner from Balliol College, he directs the government's UK Climate Impacts Program, which educates individuals and businesses in Britain about the risks they face from climate change and the ways to cope with...