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...class was sucked into the fray. The macro-structural socio-economic sources of this conflict were brilliantly documented in William Julius Wilson’s 1978 essay The Declining Significance of Race, which appeared just as the political and geographic isolation of the Black underclass from the middle and upper classes was being institutionalized. This cultural decay now affects almost all social classes but is most damaging in the lives of our poorest children. Here we have a generation of children imprisoned in very poor black neighborhood and left to die. It is clear that in Massachusetts cities like Boston...
...pretty much all there in the subtitle. Conley, a New York University sociologist, asks why middle- to upper-class professionals who were once able to put in a full day's work at the office, enjoy their leisure time, save up for a house and retire well now find themselves working more for seemingly less. There's a new class of Americans in town, says Conley. "Changes in three areas - the economy, the family and technology - have combined to alter the social world and give birth to this new type of American professional. This new breed - the intravidual - has multiple...
...navigate multiple worlds" - is fascinating. So is another useful but slightly silly neologism: "weisure," Conley's term for our increasing tendency to work during leisure time, thanks to advances in portable personal technology. As Conley writes, there are fewer and fewer boundaries in the world of the middle- to upper-class professional. "Investment v. consumption; private sphere v. public space; price v. value; home v. office; leisure v. work; boss v. employee" - the walls between them all are increasingly blurring or falling altogether. We seem to work all the time because technology now makes it possible to do so. Constant...
...argument that Israel's incursion will give the nation an upper hand in any future talks - and allow it to dictate the terms of a new cease-fire - doesn't really wash. Any new truce will be brokered by third parties; while U.S. President-elect Barack Obama chooses to remain silent, France's Nicolas Sarkozy is offering himself for the role. That alone means Israel won't have everything its way. The international outcry over the humanitarian tragedy unfolding in Gaza means the broker will insist that Israel loosen the economic shackles as well as withdraw troops. And when...
...look at ‘how does this person get better and what do they need to work on?’”With minor adjustments, the Crimson can anticipate bolstering the win column this spring.LONESTAR DUALSThree Harvard grapplers went undefeated and Caputo (19-3) earned upper-weight Outstanding Wrestler honors, but the Crimson struggled to overcome early deficits. Despite additional 3-0 performances from junior co-captain J.P. O’Connor (16-2) and sophomore Corey Jantzen (11-2), Harvard continually suffers by forfeiting the 125 lbs. weight class.“If you have someone...