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As it stands, the lack of confidence induced by both rejection and poor advising can have an overwhelming effect, and all too often does. Disproportionately affected are minority students. In the New York City class of 1998, according to a report published by Jay P. Greene at the Manhattan Institute...
For example, he observes, when it was first realized that planets go around the sun, astronomers hoped they might find an underlying principle that would explain why the planets orbit at the precise distances they do. But now we know the orbits are the result of pure chance. The elliptical...
Greene relished the opportunity to champion the victim’s voice. In fact, Greene’s penchant for taking up the cross of the troubled more than once earned the ire of critics. But for someone who so frequently stirred the pot of conventions, Greene was sensitive to...
Greene responded defensively to criticism of his coverage of the Vietnam War in his 1955 novel The Quiet American, claiming, “the New Yorker reviewer condemned me for accusing my ‘best friends’ [the Americans] of murder since I had attributed to them the...
It was a response characteristic of Greene, who always looked to give the victimized a voice, and 100 years later, modern readers still appreciate his perspective. -