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...nascent interest in literature. Though he concentrated in biology at Harvard, he realized during his junior year that his true calling was English, not medicine. After his work was accepted and published by the Advocate, Mao describes feeling encouraged. “The Advocate helped me feel where my heart was going,” he says...
...drawing ire from colleagues as a result of being overly sensitive to them—a balancing act that he sometimes finds difficult. “I don’t get invited to parties much nowadays,” he joked. Jensen, who is the author of The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege, began the discussion by quoting a passage from the W.E.B. Du Bois book, The Souls of Black Folk. In this excerpt, Du Bois commented on a question that he felt Caucasians often implicitly asked of him, “How does...
...first novel. Karen Russell, who attended Columbia’s MFA program with James and had several workshops with her, praised her former classmate’s work. “Her sense of humor has an incredible inventiveness, but there is also a lot of heart to it,” said Russell, also a published author. “And there is sort of a kinetic energy to her writing—every sentence is humming with life.” Jordan Pavlin, a senior editor at Knopf for both James and Russell, expressed optimism not only about...
...professor at DePaul University and former head of the Illinois Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. "Holding up sick children and the doctors caring for them seems like an emotional matter that's not going to play well for him before a jury," Lyon says. If that's not heart-wrenching enough for prospective jurors, Blagojevich et al. are also accused of trying to shake down a teachers' retirement fund, withholding state work from firms that would not do business with his wife and trying to extort money from a Congressman looking for funds for a school. That Congressman has reportedly...
...again integrity and respect for the law ... Defense counsels probably have one of the most difficult and unpopular tasks in any democracy," he adds. "If they didn't take their role seriously and aggressively, then democracy wouldn't function." The substance of Mohamed's claims, which lie at the heart of this twisted tale, is that at least for a time, the U.S. and U.K. democracies ceased to properly function...