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...Professor of International Peace Jeffry Frieden and truly excellent TFs provide four, count ’em, four theoretical approaches to understanding the interaction between politics and economics on a global scale. What I really loved about this class is that you didn’t need a strong background in math or economics to take it, but students still read contemporary scholarship, not a Readers’ Digest-like summary of it in a textbook...
...Critical Approach. Far from the uber-liberal gut many were expecting, Barker Professor of Economics Stephen A. Marglin successfully (and stressfully) crams all of Ec 10 into a semester, adds new material from Ec 1010a and 1010b, and offers criticism of economics as a discipline. The economics is essential background, but just as important is the need to question the foundational assumptions of the discipline—and, indeed, the fundamental assumptions of modernity in the West...
...unforgiving desert sun, they fortuitously stumble upon a decades-old downed plane. Cut to the next scene: we find the heroes of Sahara windsurfing amidst the desolate landscape using the plane’s right wing as a makeshift sail, as good ole American rock blares in the background. And that’s when it hits you: you have no idea what’s going on, or even what movie you’re watching anymore...
...host of ragged gestures. Basquiat may not have been trained in academic drawing, but at least in his first years, he could mark a canvas in interesting ways. And in a typical Basquiat, nothing was minimal. Everything was cluttered, unbuckled and dripping. Although he came from a middle-class background--his father was an accountant--collectors tended to see him as the authentic representative of the urban underworld, the new wild child. They came running with their wallets open. They have kept them open too. Last June an untitled Basquiat from 1982, a head with fangs, sold at auction...
...course, the radio show commentator and callers weren’t calling Turpin weak because of his background. They were calling him weak because he killed himself. To them, suicide was a sign of fragility. It is not, and I know because I have battled depression myself...