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Hilary De Vries, whose last book was about publicists, has a new novel called The Gift Bag Chronicles. ?It's kind of sad. It's greed on display,? says De Vries. And the virus, she says, has spread beyond celebrities. ?There are tons of reporters who won't go to events if the bag isn't up to snuff. If they show up, the publicist can say this media outlet was here. And they can hand that list to the corporate client.? I have finally found a class I can teach at journalism school...
...certain where this fascination with white skin originated. Thakur and Goenka point to pale-faced conquerors from Britain and central Asia who forcefully instilled a reverence for whiteness. Cultural conservatives complain Hollywood is pushing aside Indian heroes in favor of Westerners all too ready to display their pale flesh. Some sociologists argue that in a country where most people still farm, dark skin is associated with lowly labor in the outdoors...
Some 900 works are on display in what John Carlin, a curator of the show, describes as "an art history of comics. When I started doing research, I felt this was a lost continent. Comics are one of the most important forms of artistic expression in America, and they were never given proper attention." To focus that attention, Carlin and fellow curator Brian Walker selected 15 artists who created their own visual languages and did so with distinctive graphic grace and power...
...United Nations (UN) World Summit on the Information Society (with the obligatory acronym “WSIS”) ended. Nothing groundbreaking happened, but that’s simply to utter a truism of UN functions. The summit did, however, put on display yet more signs of animosity towards the U.S. In case you haven’t noticed, America’s standing in the world isn’t what it once was. Only two years ago the European Union was all-aboard in allowing the U.S. to continue “governing the Internet...
...prominent,” she said. Alka R. Tandon ’07, president of the Harvard South Asian Association (SAA), said that she has been impressed by the interest that Harvard students have in other cultures. “I’ve never actually heard of any display of hate directed at any members of the SAA or at HIS at all,” she said. “I’ve only been amazed at how willing Harvard students are to appreciate South Asian culture and cultures that are different from their...