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What was the situation in Spain? The construction bubble was widely recognized, discussed, worried over and even acted upon in the years before the bust.
I recently read in the New York Times about a study of Princeton University Students who actually believed that they had an impact on the Super Bowl merely by thinking about the game. How ridiculous is that?!
Whether a school boasts an employment rate of 95 percent or 50 percent post-graduation, this does not guarantee that the numbers will stay the same from year to year. A great year for employment could be followed by a dismal one.
Disregarding the importance of race is tantamount to disregarding the important of emotions. We cannot change -- at least not with great speed or conviction -- our visceral response to race.
The fact that the subject of Ivy League students entering finance arouses curiosity reveals some of the prejudices of the curious. If we agreed that Wall Street were a great place to begin a career, the question wouldn't be worth thinking about.
I don't recognize myself in the landscape of Princeton. Although it is often incredibly beautiful, I feel removed from its beauty, as if I were looking at a postcard.
In a serious epidemic, people facing decisions that may have life or death consequences will need to trust their information sources. If health officials and the media lose their credibility, it may be impossible to recover.
Unlike W.E.B. DuBois and other black intellectuals of the past, black intellectuals are not leaders in the way we once might have claimed. This leaves people like Professors Melissa Harris-Perry and Cornel West in unique and often viciously conflicting positions.
If you are considering doing a job just for the money, it's time to grow up.
How would your college kid describe you? How often do you speak to them while they're away? When you call do they answer?
When I was a little girl and watched A Cinderella Story, I wanted to attend Princeton because, according to the movie, both princesses and Hilary Duff went there. Things changed.
Given the power such a relationship holds, people should seriously question if any academic should be allowed to name their university affiliation when pushing a personal, values-laden agenda.
I've been thinking a lot about change recently because of the course I'm teaching this semester, which looks at the experience of conversion from historical, sociological and anthropological perspectives.
My claims are that bullshit gets a bum rap, and, paradoxically, that it's simultaneously becoming both more ubiquitous and more endangered today.
"The model was the starving, but well fed artist. We went in figuring we're going to make what we want and how we want it, and do it the best we can a...
Our lazy and self-comforting reductionism says nothing about Haiti or Pakistan, and all too much about us Americans. The earthquake in Haiti and the floods in Pakistan were natural disasters, but didn't happen in a geopolitical vacuum.
