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...same time, neither would Oprah's role as a cultural arbiter be diminished by her foray into politics. When her speech reached its climax, the touchstone was not the words of Martin Luther King Jr. (though he was mentioned), but a novel: The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. The slave Jane Pittman, Oprah said, looks for the one who might free her for years, asking, "are you the one?" Oprah then told the crowd...
...policy for the long term is risky. Venezuela, like Mexico and Iran, needs reinvestment and foreign investment to keep its $100�billion industry in prime condition. But with China's and India's demand for crude inspiring projections for exponential growth and the U.S.'s determination to remain a slave to oil, the oil industry may well have hit a point when the short term is the long term--every barrel not pumped today will be worth more tomorrow. "The Venezuelans are investing as much as they want to," says economist Mark Weisbrot, a co-director of the Center...
...Authentic Toga Party: Those grants will buy you a lot of bedsheets, grapes, Roman laurels, and at least two nubile slave girls from the tribes along the R. Volga...
Pulitzer-prize winning historian Steven Hahn advocated for a new perspective on the historical legacy of the Civil War yesterday evening to a crowd largely made up of fellow academics. In his talk, entitled “‘Slaves at Large’: Slavery and the Emancipation Process in the U.S.” Hahn, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, suggested that the divide between North and South was not as distinct as historians portray it, and that emancipation was a longer and more gradual process. Hahn emphasized the importance of looking at the Civil...
...Civil War at an exhibit in the Fogg Art Museum. The exhibit featured Kara Walker’s reinterpretations of traditional Civil War images in fifteen large-scale prints. She combines lithographic reproductions from Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War with haunting silhouettes of black slaves screenprinted over them. Faust’s appearance at the museum came the day after she announced the creation of a university-wide task force aimed at reinvigorating the arts at Harvard. The effort to better integrate the arts on campus has become an early centerpiece of Faust?...