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Play Gender Bias Bingo!

Joan Williams | Posted 11.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Women and Science, Professor, Gender Equality, Academics, Gender Stereotypes, Discrimination, Working Mothers, Mothers, Business News
Joan Williams

For over a decade, I have studied thirty years of experimental social psychology studies of gender bias. One message is clear -- gender bias, alas, is alive and well.

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Crossing Washington Square: A Chick Lit Author Hits Her Stride

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 10.22.2009 | Living

Read More: Friend, Women, Joanne Rendell, Manhattan U, Living News, Relationships, Friendship by the Book, Irene S. Levine, Breaking News, Competition, Professor, The Professors’ Wives Club, Friendship, Crossing Washington Square, Nyu, Female, Chick Lit, New York University, Breaking Living News, Living News
Dr. Irene S. Levine

I was delighted to have the opportunity to interview Joanne Rendell, author of Crossing Washington Square. This is intelligent chick lit, an engaging story beautifully told.

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Where You Sit Is Where You Stand (on Crowley-Gates)

Natalie Holder-Winfield | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gates, Professor, Teachable Moment, Beer, Color, Obama, Race, Crowley, Politics News
Natalie Holder-Winfield

Many blacks cheered Obama for saying that Sgt. Crowley acted stupidly. They wanted more public dialogues on race. Instead, last night they saw a white guy get over again.

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Beer Metaphor Becomes Frosty-Cold Reality

Chris Weigant | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, General Grant, Have a Beer With, Policeman, President Obama, Racial Relations, Stupidly, Teachable Moment, Winston Churchill, Andrew Jackson, Obama, Civil War, Race, Sarah Palin, Bush, Abe Lincoln, Log Cabin, Professor, Grant, Teaching Moment, Harvard, Republican Cloth Coat, Clinton, Abraham Lincoln, Honest Abe, Cop, Acting Stupidly, Dubya, Lincoln, Bill Clinton, George HW Bush, Whiskey, Man of the People, WC Fields, Beer, Cormac O'Brien, Massachusetts, Stupid, Bubba, Ulysses S Grant, Have a Beer, Barack Obama, Jackson, Attitude, Chris Weigant, Secret Lives of the US Presidents, George W Bush, Hillary Clinton, Lyndon Johnson, Nixon, Arrest, Churchill, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Barack Obama is the first president to not just accept the premise of the "having a beer" test, but to embrace it and turn it into reality.

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The Prisoners' Professor

John Lundberg | Posted 07.22.2009 | Living

Read More: Professor, Community, Community Service, Education, Prison, Abolitionists, The Giving Life, Jim Lehrer, Living News
John Lundberg

Richard Shelton's first interest in a prisoner's poetry was born from curiosity rather than charity. In 1970, a convicted murderer named Charles Schm...

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It's About Knowledge, Not Experience

Nathan Gonzalez | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Vice President, President, Alaska, John McCain, Pundits, War, George W. Bush, 2008 Election, Mccain, Obama, Election, Experience, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Foreign Policy, Bush, Professor, Palin, Change, Judgment, Constitutional Law, Nathan Gonzalez, Wasilla, Politics News
Nathan Gonzalez

Obama understands that we live in a complicated, nuanced world, one in which cowboy-style "straight talk" does little but earn us dismissive laughs from friends and enemies overseas.

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