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...turbulent history of Cambridge mayoral elections—coupled with what some view as inappropriate roles in the mayor’s job description??has led several elected leaders to call for change in the selection procedure...

Author: By Xi Yu and Julie M. Zauzmer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Cambridge Runs Mayorless | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...major argument against including more female and nonwhite writers on the Social Studies 10 syllabus calls attention to the course description??s stated mission. Social Studies 10 is, according to the course description, a study of classic texts; as such, it bears no responsibility to diversify and perhaps shouldn’t. This argument, however, is complicated by the fact that Social Studies 10 is one of the only courses required of all concentrators and thus binds together an otherwise loosely-defined humanities concentration...

Author: By Sabrina G. Lee | Title: The Social Studies Ideology | 2/10/2010 | See Source »

...Faces of America”—about Ma’s recent trip to China where he visited an ancestral cemetery. The combination of the woman’s letter and Ma’s touching description motivated Gates to move outside his “job description?? and engage with the issue of American heritage as a whole...

Author: By Sofia E. Groopman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Skip Gates Traces Ancestry of the Famous | 2/8/2010 | See Source »

...approach this ideal, but “Invisible” has no moments of literary magic, or of any real beauty. And it’s not because the words themselves are simple, but instead because they are used so formulaically, without experiment. There is plot, there is description??but there is no poetry; and so the novel itself, like Walker, melts away...

Author: By Hana Bajramovic, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ‘Invisible’ Remains Transparent | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

...think the easiest description??or category to put us in—would be a jazz group,” says The Bad Plus drummer, David King. “But a more accurate description, if you really wanted to get pompous, is that we do music of novelty.” The band, which incorporates various techniques and multiple genres into its musical selection, transcends the classification of being simply a jazz group. Comprised of King, bassist Reid Anderson, and pianist Ethan Iverson, The Bad Plus will be performing at the Berklee Performance Center this evening...

Author: By Susie Y. Kim, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Bad Plus Adds Diverse Musical Elements to Jazz | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

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