Nation Let’s not be strangers ‘Seeing Others’ author Michèle Lamont has an escape plan for people fed up with years of bitter division
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Arts When ‘The Boss’ is your therapist New book by psychologist, sociologist surveys depth, complexity of Bruce Springsteen’s connection to his female fans
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Arts & Humanities Saturday Is for Funerals <h4>Harvard University Press, May 2010</h4><h5>By Unity Dow and Max Essex</h5> DateSeptember 2, 2010 Share Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Trending Is organic better? How federal missteps opened door to COVID misinformation So what exactly makes Taylor Swift so great? Tab for liver disease tied to drinking projected to double over 20 years Claudine Gay has big plans Max Essex, the Mary Woodard Lasker Professor of Health Sciences, and Unity Dow track the Botswana HIV/AIDS crisis through heartrending narratives of those affected by the disease — an estimated one out of four adults.
Arts & Humanities ‘Africans in Black & White’ Arts & Humanities ‘Africans in Black & White’ Spurred on by her mother, the beautiful Salome requested from Herod the head of John the Baptist on a platter (Mark 6:14-29). Starting with Titian, artists often portrayed the bearer of the dish with John's severed head as a young black boy. In Rembrandt's etching, a black boy, clutching the empty dish against his chest, is shown observing the killing itself. The boy's humanity and innocence stand in sharp contrast to the brutality and aggressiveness of the executioner. (Detail of image) Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, The Beheading of John the Baptist, 1640, (detail), Harvard Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum, Anonymous Loan in honor of Jakob Rosenberg, 41.2000 Imaging Department © President and Fellows of Harvard College
