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...Banda, as her son. She was then accused by the international community of using her celebrity status to side-step Malawi’s laws. The birth father subsequently made and retracted statements of consent to a gleeful media, and a great many international figures have spoken on the topic...
Those are questions brothers Chip and Dan Heath parse in their upcoming book, Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die. The exploration follows from a class Chip, 43, a professor of organizational behavior, teaches at Stanford's Graduate School of Business. He comes to the topic by way of research into urban legends and conspiracy theories--ideas that are wrong but so annoyingly sticky they just won't go away. Dan, 33, draws his interest from working as an education consultant and trying to figure out what makes some teachers so effective...
...bound to have limited audience appeal. But, of course, serious documentarians never work for money or fame. Since the beginnings of the genre, their aim has usually been to call attention to injustice and, if possible, correct it. Berg got onto this story by making segments about the topic for news programs, then found she could not avoid making the O'Grady case the focus of her first full-length film...
...still others on biblical history), it just doesn’t hang together as a coherent requirement. Again, we have to keep in mind that the requirement will attract attention from far and wide, and for a long time. For us to magnify the significance of religion as a topic equivalent in scope to all of science, all of culture, or all of world history and current affairs, is to give it far too much prominence. It is an American anachronism, I think, in an era in which the rest of the West is moving beyond it. These reservations should...
Activism is not about controversy for its own sake. HRL and other activist-minded organizations strive to create dialogue about their respective chosen causes because of the dearth of discussion on such topics at Harvard. Whether the topic is abortion or the daily life of a Harvard janitor, the average Harvard student is not sufficiently challenged to question the assumptions that he or she takes for granted...