A rap by Madeline Toubiana I’m a little woman you sayWorthless in every which way Mentally ill, deranged, lacking a spinemy blood is a weakness ruining your line. I fail as Jew, as a mother, as a wifeMy paycheque too small to handle your spite. I hear I’m a fucked up racist, a fucked up […]
by Loïc Wacquant A dark-skinned, broad-shouldered, African American with searching eyes and a slight stutter, Jake “the Snake” Torrance resides in a depressed neighborhood of the depressed industrial town of East Chicago, Indiana. He rents an unfinished basement in the house of a friend where he lives alone (at age 32, he is single with no
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by Madeline Toubiana Fingernails jagged, tanned and thick Aged, well worn like rough leather Spotted with white, from cortisol’s touch His hands, they swallow me up Those hands, they kept me held me tight In their comfort, everything was safe Love is a squeeze an understanding of mutual need No need for words, they said
by Innan Sasaki The first wild rose of the summer has bloomed. It is early May. The wild pink roses are resilient if fragile, modest but charming and, like the people here, tough. I arrive early in the morning. The city is quiet and cold. The morning traffic hasn’t yet started. I wait for the
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by Randall Collins Most famous of all the Emperors of China was Ying Cheng, King of the state of Ch’in, who united the Warring States and took the title Ch’in Shih-Huang-ti, the First Emperor. The thousands of life-sized terracotta warriors buried with him are described by tour guides as the Eighth Wonder of the World.
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by Henry Mintzberg “I hope your visit to the refugee camp is not too depressing.” This was just an innocent comment in a message that arrived on my final day. Yet that last word leaped off the page, indeed coalesced my thoughts about the entire experience. When I showed it to Abbas, my host, he laughed.
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by Brian Pentland Since the dawn of time we’ve used the axe People use tools to do tasks Now people use digital artifacts People use tools to do tasks So-ci-o-ma-ter-i-al People use tools to do tasks It sounds so ethereal People use tools
by Yiannis Gabriel You have heard the one about the soldiers who got lost during a snow blizzard in the Alps but eventually managed to find their way back to base camp, thanks to a map in one of the soldiers’ pockets. You have heard the one about the soldiers who got lost during a
by Brian Pentland Thank you all for coming You’re lucky to be here Welcome to my TED talk Enlightenment is near Don’t wanna overstate my case But the facts are very clear The science will persuade you To make my career It’s blindingly obvious, A fundamental truth If this talk is slick enough Then you
by Neil Stott Not many people know that. With the ten-yard stare of an academic who had delivered the same material to an MBA class since 1922 he yelled; “hamsters to the Southwest, thousands of em!” Some people just want to watch the world burn. Or blow the bloody doors off. I am not sure
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