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...terms of their effects on the national consciousness, the distinctions between the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and, say, the JonBenet Ramsey murder case, are too grossly obvious to recount. No other event in our history has been equal to the attacks, in terms of the range and complexity of questions presented, the sheer breadth of people affected and responses provoked. In other words, Sept. 11, from a publisher or bookseller’s view, carries enough weight to completely collapse any established marketing approach that may try to encompass...
...they do all their shows, Rockwell Church ended their set with a cover of a popular song. While few events will ever equal this summer’s acoustic and harmonized version of Britney Spears’ “Oops! I Did It Again” at Club Passim, last Saturday’s rendition of the Culture Club’s “Karma Chameleon” definitely had Passim a-rockin’ and the audience thinking that, yeah, Boston will suck until Rockwell Church come around again...
...Boys and girls. I can't tell the difference from my mail. I get an equal amount of mail from boys. I think if the character is kidlike enough, and in this case sort of naughty in a lot of innocent ways, boys like that. I think kids like to read about other kids who are normal, who make mistakes and get in trouble and blurt things out. And of course they love humor, so that's just almost too easy sometimes...
...woman was first allowed to enter a Harvard classroom. Twenty full years later, a woman was first awarded a Harvard diploma. In 1975, Harvard and Radcliffe admissions merged, establishing equal admissions standards for both male and female applicants. Today, Harvard women are able to enroll into a field of concentration created to focus on the theory and history of their position in culture and society. The creation of the women’s studies concentration was, according to the Handbook for Students, an impetus to bring together the “new scholarship on women and gender that has come...
...same year that women gained admissions standards equal to their male counterparts, a similar course of action was underway for the Harvard’s “other woman.” Although it had been 80 years since the distinguished W.E.B. Dubois became the first black person to receive a doctorate degree from GSAS, it wasn’t until 1975 that the Harvard administration took its first step toward equalizing academic footing for ethnic minorities...