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...award. “I was delighted by the selection because I think Dani Rodrik is about the most interesting mid-career economist around,” Calhoun said. “Like Hirschman, he is an economist who is able to connect the analysis of market phenomena to broader kinds of social and political phenomena.” Rodrik’s most recent book is “One Economics, Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth.” After graduating summa cum laude from the College, he went on to earn a Ph.D. in economics...
...full house and was followed by a question-and-answer session with Soyinka. Jacqueline Bhabha, executive director of the University Committee on Human Rights Studies, called the speech “brilliant.” “He did an excellent job of contextualizing the problem within a broader context,” Bhabha said. Soyinka, who won the Nobel Prize in 1986, is primarily considered a playwright, though his novels and poetry collections have also garnered critical acclaim. Soyinka, originally from western Nigeria, is also known for his political activism, including outspoken criticism of dictatorships in Nigeria...
...will rarely be wholly undone. In the earlier stages of the Internet age, some worried that the Internet would leave little historical record, but the opposite appears to be true. Google and YouTube seem to guarantee that our mistakes will never die, and will, in fact, reach an ever broader audience...
...personality, but also the ethnic influences he has absorbed. And so I think that it really pulls in the kind of disciplines the students are constantly working with, social, history, economic, cultural investigation, and we get all of these in one artist,” said Everett. This broader social context was one of the themes addressed in “A Conversation with Eddie Palmieri.” In the hour-long discussion, Palmieri talked about growing up in the Bronx, how he got into jazz, and the sounds that influenced him at the time he was growing...
Caldwell’s statements reveal a much broader mindset about sexual violence. By focusing only on victims, many people tacitly excuse the attackers from responsibility. Rape cases often become interrogations of victims, their social lives, and the relational circumstances surrounding the rapes. Victims are forced to defend their own innocence because of the widespread attitudes Caldwell’s column advocates. Whether a victim is a stripper, wears short skirts, or attends Harvard University is irrelevant; all accusations need to be treated seriously. To do otherwise suggests that certain classes of women deserve or invite the attacks that take...