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...book's main character is Esther Jackson, an African American who is a midlevel manager at a bank in downtown Los Angeles. It's a few months after the 1992 riots, and racial tensions are high; nonetheless, Jackson starts up a friendship with a white co-worker, Mallory Post. When, as part of a diversity program, a black man is hired to be the new boss of the bank, Esther is overjoyed, and she even fantasizes about having an interoffice fling with him. But her happiness turns to dismay when he is accused of sexually harassing Mallory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Wary Friends | 10/17/1994 | See Source »

Campbell tells her tale not only from Esther's perspective but through the eyes of her other characters as well. We see sexual harassment from both sides; we experience the exultation of a black man who is promoted and the bitterness of the white man who is replaced; and we are given both views as two women, one black, one white, warily become friends. Writing with wit and grace, Campbell shows how all our stories -- white, black, male, female -- ultimately intertwine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Wary Friends | 10/17/1994 | See Source »

Unlike the final clubs, which are registeredwith the state as non-profit institutions, theChameleon was listed as a business by theCambridge City Clerk's office. The businesscertificate was signed by Esther E. Chang '95 andYulia Shapiro '95, both of whom are Crimsoneditors...

Author: By Margaret Isa, | Title: Women's Groups Proliferate | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

...think that Robin and Esther undoubtedly havea lot of very good ideas and they have lots ofsense in this direction," she said. "I also thinkthat Math Ar continues to have good ideas and goodpeople and we ought to be able to build on whatwe...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Popular Math Ar Professor Will Return | 5/6/1994 | See Source »

Senior Preceptor in Mathematics Robin Gottlieb and Preceptor in Mathematics Esther Silberstein have proposed an experimental course that will be tested next year: Math X, a two-semester class designed to integrate precalculus and calculus...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Popular Math Ar Professor Will Return | 5/6/1994 | See Source »

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