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Julia Alvarez, the famous Dominican author whose work focuses on the immigrant experience, described her growth as a Latina author to a crowd of nearly 500 in Sanders Theatre last night...
...author of five collections of poetry and five books—including “How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents”—Alvarez related the factors that shaped her evolution as an writer. She described her family fleeing from the dictatorial regime in their native Dominican Republic, as well as the subsequent struggle to find her identity and voice as a young immigrant to America...
...book attempts a rousing reveille to the Energy Climate Era, where global warming, world-wide middle class expansion, and population growth led to the titular characteristics: hot, flat, and crowded. The book tells a five-part story, à la Shakespeare, but it’s clear that the author neglected to borrow from the literary greats the necessary ingredients of creativity, sophistication, and substance. Reading the book means slogging through a wearing morass of self-aggrandizing anecdotes, utopian musings, and kitschy catchphrases, none used more liberally than “hot, flat, and crowded,” which appears...
...Some of them were festooned with all kinds of different stuff," notes Auburn economist David Laband, the lead author of the study. Using the records from the November 7, 2006 Election Day, the economists figured out how many properties housed a resident who voted that year. In the statistical analysis, they controlled for two variables. The first was the assessed value of the homes, since those with more expensive property probably have higher incomes, and richer people are more likely to vote. The second was the number of years the owner lived in the house. The longer you're entrenched...
...Robert Baer, a former CIA field officer assigned to the Middle East, is TIME.com's intelligence columnist and the author of See No Evil and, most recently, The Devil We Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower...