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Bart Moore-Gilbert, professor of post-colonial literature at London's Goldsmiths College and author of a book on Kureishi, places the writer in the tradition of Dickens and H.G. Wells, with their "old-fashioned concern with the condition of England." Especially when that condition changes. Kureishi says the Muslims his sons go to school with aren't attracted by extremism. Islam is "what it was for people when I was a kid - a quarter of their lives," he says. "You're a soccer fan, you go shopping, watch TV and you're a Muslim." The England Kureishi chronicles - indeed...
...resemble their elders—four-fifths of whom voted for President Barack H. Obama—most lean left. Diverse backgrounds do not necessarily mean diverse perspectives. Unfortunately, the readings the FDO has assigned—specifically those by Beverly Tatum, president of Spelman College, Frank Wu, a professor at Howard University, and Felice Yeskel, co-founder of Class Action—reinforce this misconception. The authors offer different experiences but identical conclusions: Groups define individuals...
...population, they are less than one percent of Montana’s population. They can move there if they wish. But “to ‘level the playing field,’ should we bus blacks into the state?” asked Walter Williams, a professor of economics at George Mason University. “I damn sure don’t want to go to Montana...
...their best to minimize the impact [of the cuts] on both students and services,” there was “no question [that] it’s not possible to maintain the same level of service” after the changes.Brian K. Price, a clinical law professor who oversees CEP, said that his unit’s clientele would now expand beyond low-income clients, and that CEP will be renamed the Transactional Law Clinics to reflect the broader mandate. McArdle said that moving CEP did not detract from LSC’s core mission of poverty...
...fields such as economics, ethics, immunology, and virology.“It’s been a terrific source of funds for us to launch new efforts and be able to help recruit new faculty,” said Bruce D. Walker, director of the Harvard CFAR and a professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Harvard CFAR is one of only 20 accredited AIDS research centers nationwide. According to Walker, the Harvard CFAR’s role in studying the intersection of the HIV and Tuberculosis epidemics is just one example of how otherwise independent investigations can come together...