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...thrilled,” Lepore said. “I’m interested in how ideas of the past change—what we know and what we forget.” Her work, “New York Burning,” which studies an 18th-century slave rebellion in New York City, is part of that tradition, Lepore said.Reached in his office yesterday afternoon, Gordon expressed delight over his department’s Pulitzer laurels. “It’s all reflected glory for me,” Gordon said...
...African Diaspora can make its contribution.” Blake showed a documentary chronicling the transition of the Organization of African Unity, founded in 1963, into the African Union in 2002, and spoke of reconnecting Africans who had been brought to the west because of the trans-Atlantic slave trade with the Africans currently in the continent. “There is no country in Africa that needs to be free. What we need to do now is consolidate our freedom,” Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe said in the documentary. “We must go a much...
Batali the mogul is an emerging figure, but Batali the chef is captured in an incisive, cracklingly funny book scheduled for release May 30. Actually, as you can guess from the title--Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher (Alfred A. Knopf; 325 pages)--the book is mostly about the author, Bill Buford, a former New Yorker editor and freakishly dedicated foodie. Buford went to work as a cook at Babbo, one of seven Batali-Bastianich restaurants in Manhattan. But Batali is the book's most memorable, entertaining...
...difficult to understand how we ended up here. There’s very little incentive to keep the cost of coursepacks down. Let’s face it: Most professors don’t even know how much their coursepacks cost, so why should head teaching fellows slave to make them cheaper? Harvard students, or our parents, dutifully foot the bill for course materials without complaining. At the end of the day, we have no alternative but to cough up. The good news is that change is simple and on the way. The Undergraduate Council is currently working with...
...economist Liu Guoguang fired a warning shot: "We must make sure leaders at every level are really Marxists, instead of having a red [communist] surface and white [capitalist] core." Then, noted Peking University law professor Gong Xiantian assailed the property law draft for "copying capitalist civil law like a slave...