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...nini wikendi?” she asks the others, as they take a seat at the round table. After a few minutes of laid-back Swahili chatter about their weekends, Pillsbury stands up and heads toward the blackboard. It’s time for her to begin teaching.Pillsbury is one-fourth of the Swahili Teaching Fellow (TF) crew, all of whom are undergraduates this year. “I really like the opportunity to expose other people to Swahili,” Pillsbury says. “It’s a language I think is important to learn...
...Early Republic.” This is actually the latest book project by John Demos, a preeminent scholar of early America and winner of the Bancroft Prize. He mocks also that one of the fellows, an art critic of ancient times, is studying woven representations of Christ. Now, what else would an art historian of ancient times be doing? Finally, he neglects to mention that about one-fourth of the fellows are male, only six of 50 are pursuing “irrelevant” “gendered” topics, and a fair share of them are studying...
...where capital punishment is virtually extinct, believers and nonbelievers see the practice as the clearest sign of a troubled American ethic - perhaps even more than any aggressive Washington foreign policy. In recent polls, more than 60% of West Europeans say they oppose the death penalty, compared to less than one-fourth of Americans. Letter-writing campaigns against the death penalty are constant; Parlia-ment declarations denouncing the punishment frequent. Just down the road in Rome, the Colosseum is regularly illuminated to honor death-penalty victims, and before Summers, Italy had twice allowed men executed in the U.S. to be buried...
...form “Vote or Die,” the initiative to increase diversity on the Undergraduate Council (UC) and collaboration with student groups. Amadi made sure that the initiative itself did not die, and two years later, Vote or Die can claim a phenomenal success once unimaginable: one-fourth of the UC identifies as black—up from four percent...
...antidepressant-withdrawal symptoms? Researchers at the Rabin Medical Center in Israel think they do. A study of 120 newborns found that among those whose mothers took the antidepressants known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), nearly one-third experienced neonatal-abstinence syndrome--drug withdrawal characterized by such symptoms as tremors, gastrointestinal distress and sleep disturbances. Depression will affect between one-tenth and one-fourth of women and is often exacerbated by pregnancy. Doctors aren't telling severely depressed mothers-to-be to stop taking antidepressants, but they should be aware that doing so poses certain risks for newborns. The researchers...