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Sharply attired in a slim-fitting black suit and stylish thick-rimmed glasses, Matthew B. Kaiser folds his elbows neatly on his desk. For a professor who leads a class on crime and horror, his Barker Center office is strikingly cheery. The plush red rug matches the pillows arranged on...

Author: By Chelsea L. Shover, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Freshman to Faculty | 2/25/2009 | See Source »

In short, multiracial kids seem to create their own definitions for fitting in, and they show more psychological flexibility than those mixed-race kids who feel bound to one choice or another.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Mixed-Race Children Better Adjusted? | 2/21/2009 | See Source »

Yet in each of Goody's incarnations and in her hardscrabble past as the daughter of a drug-addicted, mixed-race petty criminal and a needy mother (a lesbian who lost the use of her arm in a motorbike crash - and no, that's not made up), Goody has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jade Goody's Reality: A TV Star's Very Public Dying | 2/19/2009 | See Source »

When two figures as imposing as Igor Stravinsky and W.H. Auden collaborate to produce a work of art, the result is bound to mesmerize. Yet “The Rake’s Progress,” a modern opera first performed in Venice in 1951, is seldom included in...

Author: By Diego H. Nunez, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Rake's Progress' Progressive | 2/17/2009 | See Source »

The Rokia Traoré concert at the Somerville Theatre last Friday was a real live example of what Christian Lander, author of blog and book “Stuff White People Like,” has been talking about in his ongoing list about the white middle class. The Somerville...

Author: By Rebecca J. Levitan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Traore a Natural Performer | 2/17/2009 | See Source »

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