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Jul.16.2010 Extraordinary Body: A Model's Advice for Achieving One I just read that the average woman is a size 14! That’s good news for those of us who view ourselves as oversized. It's a mindset we've cultivated after years of looking at models in magazines and on television. Being told my dress size is average is particularly empowering if I take it to mean...	Jun.11.2010 An Education: Ivy League Hookers An Education: Ivy League Hookers by Precious Williams first published in Glamour magazine WHEN I meet Celine she is wearing a floor-length Marc Jacobs coat over Chloe jeans, a TSE Cashmere sweater and Jimmy Choo spike heels. She jokingly calls herself a "label whore." In reality...
May.31.2010 Hindu Myth, Image, and Pilgrimage How do you make foreign cultures more accessible to students without oversimplifying them? And how do you invite students from foreign backgrounds to investigate and connect with their own cultural roots? In her course Hindu Myth, Image, and Pilgrimmage, Professor Diana Eck engages both audiences...	May.14.2010 Manhattan Flannel There they go again. The Democrats, that is. All Mitch McConnell had to do was threaten to wave his arms and intone his mantra of "Activist Judges!" and they flinched like a red headed stepchild in goal at the NHL Stanley Cup Finals. On the other hand, when Republicans pick a Supreme Court nominee...
May.14.2010 Manhattan Flannel There they go again. The Democrats, that is. All Mitch McConnell had to do was threaten to wave his arms and intone his mantra of "Activist Judges!" and they flinched like a red headed stepchild in goal at the NHL Stanley Cup Finals. On the other hand, when Republicans pick a Supreme...	Mar.05.2010 MY CAREER AS A PETTY THIEF/PART EIGHT/Part Three I GET AN EDGEPART THREE"I BECOME A CHESS HUSTLER." My new partner in crime chain-smokes Gauloises and scratches his forehead until it bleeds. He's sparse with the bio, doesn't even introduce himself. But when I ask about his chess ranking is he can't help bragging. "I'm a Master,...
Sep.28.2009 The Daily Sam: The Best Kindergartens in the World We have some of the best kindergartens in the world here in San Francisco. Or they should be, given what kids and parents have to go through to get into these elite institutions. The screening begins at age three and a majority of applicants are turned down for their first choice of kindergarten....	Jul.30.2009 Happy Hour at The White House: 1/2 Price Drinks and All You Can Eat Wings I am not going to mention healthcare today. Well, I won't mention it again, today. Support for Obama's plan is slipping quickly, so great job to all of you who have been contacting your representatives. If it fails, maybe a real discussion of true reform can begin, rather than an expansion of...
Jul.25.2009 Imagination Nation What is the extent of our capacity for imaginative empathy? When is it easy to put oneself in the place of other, and when is the stretch too far to manage? I don't have much trouble imagining how Henry Louis Gates felt earlier this week when he was arrested at the door of his own home. I was...	Jul.24.2009 The Daily Sam: Higher and Higher Education Here in America, it isn’t only the young people who attend Harvard who do well—those who go to Yale and Stanford do pretty good, too. Me, I went to public school. That’s why I write in this Brooklyn accent. I am a proud graduate of the State University of New York at Purchase, though admittedly...

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