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...candidates poll and how they perform in the election itself,” Hopkins said. He added that he does not anticipate that there will be a significant Bradley effect in Tuesday’s election. But Evan P. Apfelbaum, a doctoral candidate at Tufts, who recently authored two articles on how people deal with race in social situations, said that he had his doubts about whether or not a Bradley effect exists. “I’m not entirely convinced that such a discrepancy [between pre-election polls and election results] would necessarily be the result...
...Across the table, Christian L. Garland ’10, the Dems’ secretary, is helping Membership Chair Marianne Eagan ’10 call students to ask them to come on the club’s weekend campaign trip. Garland is the author of the amalgam of club announcements and biting satire known as the “Harvard College Democrats Weekly Bulletin.” Peppered with sentences like “BRING UR CELL PHONEZ AND UR LAPTOPS, ’cause we gon’ hit up Collaradda” and phrases like...
...numerous best-selling mystery novels about two Navajo policemen, Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, portrayed the American Indians of the Southwest with accuracy, color and affection. Hillerman, who died Oct. 26 at 83, was the first popular author to consistently write about the Navajo as fully rounded characters. Over 18 novels, starting with 1970's The Blessing Way, he portrayed the Navajo with good traits and bad, as heroic and villainous, just as novelists had written about people of other races and cultures. He understood that Navajo are not the primitives depicted in old western movies, and he wanted...
...about—but look! There, peeking out from behind the clouds! It’s the incandescent glow of Suskind’s benevolent wisdom, a glow that the Pulitzer Prize bestows on all its recipients. I was going to take a peek at Suskind’s author photo, but then I remembered that incandescent wisdom-auras can’t be photographed. They can only be basked in. HOT, FLAT, AND CROWDED: WHY WE NEED A GREEN REVOLUTION—AND HOW IT CAN RENEW AMERICA by Thomas L. Friedman The painting that stretches across...
...Baird’s first reaction: “Who is this?” But after being filled in (Le Guin is a sci-fi fantasy author) the designer quickly comes up with a vision for her creation...