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...what black men think of us, and how they treat us, because someone else is writing the pedagogy that informs this frame of mind. Intellectual rap-diva Tricia Rose has this to say: "The second example I want to draw on to illuminate the tension between aesthetics and sociohistorical contexts of rap's sexism and misogyny. Sherley Anne Williams's talk about rap grossly misunderstood the context within which rap develops and, unintentionally perhaps, located sexism in rap as an anticommunity symptom of a postindustrial urban nightmare rather than a manifestation of a long-standing set of gender relations...
...importance of emotional and mental factors in pain. Professor Anne Harrington of Harvard s History of Science Department has written extensively on the cultural and scientific nuances of pain. For her there is no doubt that pain is "mutable" and "porous to cultural expectations." Indeed, "The idea of a context-free human biology is an outmoded proposition...
...Prof. Harrington s introduction of a cultural context might, it seems, be usefully applied to the discussion of RSIs at Harvard. One of the central RSI mysteries is its reputation as a strictly Harvard problem. Last year, even as the least fatalistic Harvard undergraduates began to resign themselves to the inevitability of voice-activation software and scribes (a combination of high-tech wizardry and ancient luxury that did have a certain appeal), it was hard to ignore the fact that our long-distance boyfriends and high school roommates and co-salutatorians attending other similarly stressful and high-powered colleges...
...then, in other schools where students use computers, slouch, and get stressed out, have so few students even heard of the disease, much less suffered from it themselves? Maybe it is in what Prof. Harrington calls the "context" of a disease. Gordon, with a note of amusement in her voice, describes a herd instinct she has observed in students reporting problems, "Whenever there s an article in the paper about that sort of thing we get a lot of people in here wondering if they have it." If RSI and chronic pain conditions like it are as culturally mutable...
...Within the narrower context of the trial, it's at least clear that somebody's lying. Steele says she didn't hear about the alleged grope until 1997, when Newsweek wanted her to corroborate Willey's story. Willey says she confided in Steele not only hours afterward, in November 1993, but repeatedly throughout the years following. Steele, Willey testified Wednesday, "wanted to be very much into this story" and "wanted to make money off of it." Novak says Willey's credibility has some big bruises -- she's even lied to the independent counsel -- but Starr's biggest hurdle...