Midwest Voices | Tell a success story to your child - Kansas City Star12 May 2012

Midwest Voices | Tell a success story to your childKansas City StarBy YANWEN XIA When I was teaching sociology courses in the 1990s, there were a few Jewish boys who were the top students in my class. Still, they wanted to be better than the best. Once I asked one of them, “You are already the best in the class.

The future of Greece: diary of an election - Telegraph.co.uk1 May 2012

Telegraph.co.ukThe future of Greece: diary of an electionTelegraph.co.ukUnder the country's proportional representation system, those votes will translate into 20 or so seats in the 300-seat parliament. At their final rally in Athens, there weren't more than a few hundred people there, but the party performed well, ...and more »

Arab Spring: Developing Unity through a Common Language of Normative and ... - American Muslim29 Apr 2012

Arab Spring: Developing Unity through a Common Language of Normative and ...American MuslimParadigms are premises of thought that frame one's outlook on life and one's interpretation or even one's recognition of facts. A paradigm may narrow one's vision and blind one to changes that have accumulated over time. Or paradigms may widen one's ...and more »

The Humanities, Digitized - Harvard Magazine27 Apr 2012

The Humanities, DigitizedHarvard MagazineThe passengers are students seated in a visualization center (built for earthquake simulations and the study of geology, but generously loaned by Dudley professor of structural and economic geology John H. Shaw) in front of a 23-foot-wide, ...

Your opportunities - Corvallis Gazette Times27 Apr 2012

Your opportunitiesCorvallis Gazette TimesStudents should submit their best writing in any genre — poetry, fiction, nonfiction, drama or translation. The award offers a cash prize of $1000 and is sponsored by Poetry Enterprises, a 501(c)3 nonprofit. Prior to his death in an Alabama traffic ...and more »