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...What does Obama's victory mean? O for One America, B for Black is Beautiful, and A-M-A for the Ability, Management and Amiability of the U.S. in world affairs. Jacob Sahayam, Adelaide, South Australia...
...pretty energetic place. But it became a scarier place too. In the newly deregulated American economy, fewer people had job security or fixed-benefit pensions or reliable health care. Some got rich, but a lot went bankrupt, mostly because of health-care costs. As Yale University political scientist Jacob Hacker has noted, Americans today experience far-more-violent swings in household income than did their parents a generation ago. (See pictures of the 1958 recession...
Stebbins has served as the head curator of American art at the University since its inception in 2002. In the past eight years, Stebbins has acquired 96 new pieces for the museum, including notable works by Jacob Lawrence, Georgia O’Keefe, Joseph Stella, and Arthur Dove...
...dirty, dangerous time but also a weirdly innocent one. Slavery exists--a humane farmer named Jacob Vaark accepts Florens as payment for a bad debt--but A Mercy is not precisely a novel about slavery. When Florens enters Jacob's household, she finds not a rigid caste system based on race but a fluid, funky multicultural arrangement that includes not only Florens but also Jacob's wife, a Native American maid, two indentured servants and an orphan foundling. Their relationships with one another are flexible, and race is just one of any number of things that define them...
...What is most interesting is what it means in terms of our backyard,” said Daniel J. Jacob, a professor of atmospheric chemistry and environmental engineering and Leibensperger’s thesis adviser. “One thing that Eric’s work has established is that with climate change you have more stagnant...