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...fascinated Goldin as she has studied the factors leading to inequality—in gender, race, and education.Previously, this has led her to study slavery in the antebellum South, labor participation of black and white women in the 1970s, and the history of wage inequality in the U.S.The latter topic is the subject of her latest book, co-written with her partner and colleague, Allison Professor of Economics Lawrence F. Katz.For Goldin, writing about women is not a political decision but an academic one.“Women were always the interesting group to study among economists...women were...
...knew as a child. It was intensely personal.” About 20 students attended the talk, asking the authors for advice on how to become a writer in the face of societal pressures to pursue professional careers. Recently, the experiences of Indian immigrants have become a hot topic in literature. Last year Kiran Desai’s “The Inheritance of Loss” won the Booker Prize, and Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Interpreter of Maladies” won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000. Last month, a film based on Lahiri?...
...topic was too taboo for the competitors in Tuesday Magazine’s freestyle rap battle “Outwit.” The event, which was co-sponsored by WHRB’s The Darker Side, drew both the ghetto fabulous and the desperate wannabes to convene in Ticknor last Saturday night...
What Kerry didn’t seem to realize is that the Cape wind farm was the most important topic he would discuss at the event. Massachusetts’ residents are growing tired of primetime, camera-crazed Kerry, to the extent that if he wishes to remain in elected office, he had better start striving earnestly to appeal to his constituents. They don’t want to hear about his quixotic quest to transform America into an ecological wonderland, and they could care less if he reaps positive national media coverage as a result. They want to hear...
...variation is what makes the publication so powerful. “The stories demonstrate that sexual assault is not only something affecting the assault victim, but also significantly affecting the sons, daughters, boyfriends, and fathers and friends,” Homaifar says. The writing does shed light on a topic often excluded from polite conversation, but does not seem to offer a solution to this growing problem. Each story walks a fine line between portraying a powerful message and sinking into a familiar trope. But occasional clichés aside, the reader is intended to gain inspiration and hope from...