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...University has tried this year to respond to another of students' concerns, appointing a Latino tenured professor, but prominent Puerto Rican essayist and novelist Luis Rafael-Sanchez, invited as a visiting scholar, turned down an offer...
...journalism, sportswriting falls somewhere in between news and art criticism. It requires both the reporting skills of a newshound and the analytical and stylistic skills of an essayist...
Luis Rafael-Sanchez, a prominent Puerto Rican essayist and novelist, would have served as a visiting professor next spring. Peter G. Schultz, a biological chemist at the University of California at Berkeley, was offered a tenured post by the Chemistry Department...
...Democracy," essayist John Simon writes, "encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant." Nowhere is that more true than in America. How many of that exalted species, the American voter, can coherently explain the difference between the federal deficit and the national debt? How many can formulate a cogent account of why living standards are stagnating...
...trends for African-American culture. They're not set by Blacks because they don't have the power. They got upset with me when I walked out of the establishment and set up my own establishment. I set up institutions, I set up publishing. I founded PEN Oakland--Poets, Essayist and Novelists--an international organization because I got tired of these country club PENs in LA and New York. We are an activist PEN. We've led two media boycotts because we believe the diversity movement has to challenge the media now. There's a lot of poison in everyday...