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...your race for governor in 1978, many of your supporters dubbed themselves “Graham crackers.” Sylvester Graham, inventor of the Graham cracker, believed—and I quote the Chicago Reader—“excessive carnal exercise would cause indigestion, headache, feebleness of circulation, pulmonary consumption, spinal diseases, epilepsy, insanity, and early death of offspring, among other things. He thought men should remain virgins until age 30 and then should make love only once a month.” What’s your take...
...workers at least $10 per hour plus benefits. Through a series of successful campaigns, living wage activists in Illinois have changed the political culture in that state. “Collaboration is the mode of getting things done now,” says Madeleine Talbots, an ACORN organizer in Chicago. “It didn’t used to be that way.” Living wage initiatives may not always be enough to get Democrats elected, but they do provide a great impetus to organizing. The best test of the power of these movements is not whether Kerry...
...With reporting by Jeremy Caplan / New York; Matt Kettmann / Santa Barbara; Kristin Kloberdanz / Chicago and Barbara Liston / Orlando
...bustling city big shots, say Cambridge is a unique city. “It’s really convenient to have outside the walls of Harvard a whole city of stores at your exposure,” said Rafael F. Garcia ’09, who is from suburban Chicago. These stores range from an array of ethnic restaurants to owner-operated businesses. Late at night, Harvard students and Cambridge residents alike can be found at Felipe’s Taqueria, a fast-food Mexican restaurant that contributes to Cambridge’s unique character. Cambridge...
...classroom. “In addition to teaching, I expect to do a fair amount of work on common law theory, and the university where [Jeremy] Bentham studied will be an ideal place to work.” Schauer is currently completing a visiting professorship at the University of Chicago law school. Of the 65 previous Eastman fellows, 13 were Nobel Prize winners. Schauer will be the third lawyer to hold the post, along with former U.S. Supreme Court Justice and former HLS professor Felix Frankfurter in 1933-34, and Eugene Rostow, the former dean of Yale Law School...