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First used some 20 years ago in the United States to describe low-paying, low-skill jobs that offered little prospect of advancement, the term McJob was popularized by the author Douglas Coupland in his 1991 slacker ode Generation X, which chronicled the efforts of a "lost" generation of twenty...
My white European ancestors came to America of their own free will to find a better life and to escape the petty oppressions of the Old Country. Thanks to their gamble, I’ve enjoyed many privileges in my life, and I’ve never encountered the kind...
After her son James was killed by Klansmen in Mississippi during the "Freedom Summer" of 1964, Fannie Lee Chaney moved out of the state to escape death threats. The murders of Chaney and two fellow civil rights workers inspired the movie Mississippi Burning --but led to no state murder indictments...
Blind Mountain. A college-educated city girl, promised a good job in a remote village, finds herself abandoned and sold into marriage. Can she escape, or somehow take revenge? The woman-in-chains story has been told countless times; the twist here is that it's a parable of inequities...
With Reading Period in full swing, now’s your chance to nab that prime studying location in the labyrinth known as Lamont Library. Farnsworth Room, Fifth Floor. Lamont’s own final club replete with leather chairs, dim-lighting, and butlers. As if computers were only for...