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...Wilson, a former Harvard professor and Moynihan’s close friend, who said the deceased politician never assigned blame to individuals for the often high rates of poverty, unemployment, and incarceration in the black community. Instead, Moynihan saw slavery and persisting discrimination as the main culprits, Wilson said. Geyser University Professor William J. Wilson said that local editorials at the time “embellished” Moynihan’s words and quoted only his most “bold” and “attention-grabbing” statements out of context. Following the speeches, attendees...
...Wednesday stirred the anxieties of New Yorkers who have experienced plenty of them since 9/11. But given the decrepit state of the country's urban infrastructure, the debacle could very well have been at a bridge in Boston or a sewer in Philadelphia. Indeed, the Manhattan steam-pipe geyser might be compared to the flooding of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina and the 2003 blackout of the Eastern Seaboard: accidents and catastrophes that might have been prevented with the right funding and political priorities...
...After conducting field research about the neighborhood’s identity for the semester, students in the class—which takes its title from Harvard’s Geyser University Professor William Julius Wilson’s work of the same name—will present strategy reports, outlining what planning intervention, if any, is necessary...
William Julius Wilson is the Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor...
There are few sociologists in America as important as Geyser University Professor William Julius Wilson and Richard P. Taub of the University of Chicago. Wilson—who left Hyde Park for Cambridge a decade ago—and Taub conduct sociology in the classic Chicago style: sending well-trained graduate students into Chicago’s diverse neighborhoods to probe the city’s complex race, class, and social interactions...