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...When Adam Clymer ’58 was covering the 2000 presidential campaign, he wrote several articles that the Bush camp considered unfavorable. In a remark that was unintentionally picked up by microphones—and then by major media outlets—George W. Bush turned to Dick Cheney at a campaign stop in Illinois and said, “There’s Adam Clymer, major league asshole from The New York Times...
...Adam M. Guren ’08, a former Crimson editorial chair, is an economics concentrator in Eliot House. Ari S. Ruben ’08, a former Vice President of the Student Advisory Committee of the Institute of Politics, is a history concentrator in Leverett House. Daniel J. T. Schuker ’08, a former Crimson news executive editor, is a social studies concentrator in Quincy House...
Still, says Adam Pertman, executive director of the Donaldson Institute, we're doing a disservice to children if we try to ignore those racially based anxieties. "We just want to assess whether people are ready to parent a child who's going to face racism," he says. "Helping kids feel comfortable in their own skin leads to better outcomes." That can certainly be accomplished by finding the best parents for the children who need them regardless of race, but also by supporting adoptive families with consideration for their ethnic make-up. Says Pertman: "Nobody's saying black kids shouldn...
...sold in DVD form on street corners in major cities across the country. Defense attorneys have also challenged the competence of the case's detectives - questioning, for instance, why they didn't bother to interview Kelly immediately after the tape surfaced. In his opening arguments, defense attorney Sam Adam Jr., said of the tape: [This] "evidence is, at best, a copy of a copy of a copy - that went through an editing process. But, who did the editing? We don't know." Can prosecutors prove that Kelly is the man who made the tape, Adam asked. "I'm telling...
...workplace totem pole don't end up there for lack of ability, but rather that being low and powerless in a hierarchy leads to more mistakes. It's a finding that surprised even the study's authors. "I'll be totally honest. When we started this research," says Adam Galinsky, a co-author and a social psychology professor at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, "we first had the hypothesis that maybe power might impair [cognitive] functioning...