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...Even then, her presence in this swank coffee shop in Stanley, a ritzy beachside Hong Kong neighborhood marked by flashy cars and exclusive country clubs, would have been hard to envision amid the squalor and deprivation of her native village in Cagayan province, northern Philippines. But Unite, a self-taught artist and singer-songwriter, knows better than most how closely the two places are linked...
...equally at home serving art and Mammon, and they found what they were looking for in John Barr, who spent 18 years at Morgan Stanley before co-founding a boutique investment-banking firm on his own. During that time he also published six books of verse and taught in the writing program at Sarah Lawrence. "For me all the stuff I've experienced in the business world was, in a deep way, feedstock for my writing," Barr says. "I think living broadly and writing boldly go together...
...Keohane taught at Swarthmore College, Stanford University, and the University of Pennsylvania before serving as president of Wellesley for twelve years. In 1993 she moved on to Duke, where she served as the university’s first female president and presided over one of the largest capital campaigns in the history of higher education...
Summers on May 2, addressing the final lecture of Psychology 1002, “Morality and Taboo”—a course inspired by the furor that dogged his presidency. Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, who co-taught the course with Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker, responded, “Well, maybe that was the problem...
...G.O.P. debate - McCain's rivals clobbered him with the term, and he turned it on them as well, saying that doing nothing is "silent and de facto amnesty." Why are the bill's supporters so skittish about the word? If the past five years of immigration debate have taught us anything, it's that railing against the illegal invasion is easy, popular and effective. Now politicians are being roasted for conceding a reality: illegal or not, most of those 12 million are here to stay...