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...class, race--from too far away can make the resulting work seem bloodless. Standing too close puts the observer at risk of being sucked into the overly confessional world of daytime talk shows. In his new essay collection, Between God and Gangsta Rap: Bearing Witness to Black Culture (Oxford; $23; 218 pages), Michael Eric Dyson, a professor of communication studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, as well as a Baptist minister, gets the distance just right. In his prose one hears the fervor of a Sunday sermon; in his ideas one sees the analytic scrupulousness...
...former social studies concentrator, he said he plans to earn a doctorate in modern Jewish studies at Oxford and become a "socially-engaged academic...
...economics concentrator, he hopes to study modern Middle Eastern studies and economics at Oxford, focusing on the economic and political implications of the peace agreements in the Middle East...
Aiyar, who also worked with PBH, said she plans to get a Master's in politics at Oxford...
Last Friday night, Doris Tanner of Oxford St. planted herself next to the Holyoke Center Christmas tree. It was quite cold, and she is quite old, but threat of eviction from her Harvard-owned housing ignited protest. The apartment she lives in is one of 700 formerly rent-controlled units which the University plans to convert into student and faculty housing. Even if she was offered a option to buy, Tanner regrets, she could not afford the going market rates...