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...Around mid-day a middle-aged Afghan woman turned up at our office gate. She appeared educated; at one time she probably belonged to the upper-middle class strata of her society. She looked hungry. She appeared desperate. She had a note written in English begging for a teaching job. Two days ago a stray bomb hit her house. Her sister and mother died. She has nobody...
...Professor and the Madman" told the story behind the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary. His new book, "The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology" (HarperCollins; August 14) tells the story of William Smith, "whose lifelong obsession with fossils and the strata of rock formations proved to be the foundation for the science of geology." Kirkus adored it, giving it a starred review. "A fluid, fascinating, emotional story of an unlikely genius who created a science." HarperCollins is really behind this book, which goes on the WSJ bestseller list this week...
...bubbly synth pop, it's not social awkwardness they're worried about; should things go awry, the audience is led to believe, they may be pummeled within an inch of their lives. "Crowd" is also crucial in "The Breakfast Club" (1985), in which teenagers from five different social strata thrown together in detention spend a whole movie figuring out how to get along, "Can't Buy Me Love" (1987), in which a dork bribes a popular girl into pretending to date him, "Some Kind of Wonderful" (1987), in which Eric Stoltz must choose between a little drummer grrrl...
...after third grade. My first memories of Athens are awe at the density of the city's history. Not simply the presence of stones, statues, monuments but also the range of discursive memory stretched father and deeper than I had ever seen; in the absence of totalizing newness, the strata of the city's building and becoming was testament to a continuity of production on a scale dwarfing the (European) self-construction of the American heartland. My first insight into the possibility of history was appropriately one of the oldest and commonest thoughts in history, while seeming to me both...
...that culture? It is a culture defined by a socio-economic stratification that is remarkable for both its persistent rigidity and its extraordinary visibility. There are hardly any physical spaces on this campus open to those not endowed with exceptional wealth. Those who are excluded from the upper strata are left clambering for a student center. Those who populate that strata abscond to their clubhouses and their downtown parties, their sense of perspective and justice obliterated in a wash of luxury and privilege...