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Domna’s presence has been pervasive on campus over her many years as Annenberg's steward. A 2002 Class Ode written for Commencement began with the lines: “Fair Harvard we swipe in our old ID cards/For one last encounter with Domna/If your card is forgotten then all will be lost/Not unlike the crashing dot-comna...
...against the Soviet Union was as crudely misleading as Benjamin Netanyahu's fantasy that the Iranian government is a "messianic apocalyptic cult" led by mad mullahs likely to nuke Israel. The truth is, Iran's government is a conservative, defensive, rational military dictatorship that manages to subdue its working-class majority softly, by distributing oil revenues downward. (On June 23, Ahmadinejad announced that doctors' salaries would be doubled, for example...
...possible that for the first time we could actually get what pop music looks like from the point of view of the people listening to it. But my guess is that if you look at all the bloggers, you would find that they are still disproportionately white and middle class...
Warren's concern for the middle class is the prism through which she sees every economic indicator. It is also the driving force behind her work with the oversight panel. The first two reports it issued, in December and January, criticized Paulson's department for its lack of transparency and argued that its policies were doing little to help reduce home foreclosures or alleviate stress on families. Even if accurate, those early pronouncements did not help to pave the way to a functional working relationship between Warren and the people she was supposed to oversee. Former Treasury officials seem...
...Smith Goes to Washington Warren was an unlikely choice to head the oversight panel, not least because of her lack of familiarity with Washington parlor games. Her academic specialty is bankruptcy law, especially as it pertains to the American middle class. She emerged on the public stage in 2003, when she published the book The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Parents Are Going Broke, co-authored with her daughter. The book argues that women and middle-class couples were driving themselves to ruin trying to buy houses in good public-school districts: "Having a child is now the single...