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• Opposing the Stupak Amednment, Respectfully

  
  The New Republic - the treatment Feed — Authority: 138
  Harold Pollack is a professor at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration and Special Correspondent for The Treatment. Some weeks ago, I was standing out front of a traditional Italian grocery wearing a Knights of Columbus smock raising money for programs that serve the mentally disabled. I ...
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• Logan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts, University of Chicago / Tod Williams Billie Tsien & Associates

  
  ArchDaily — Authority: 646
  Reva and David Logan Center for Creative and Performing Arts, © Tod Williams Billie Tsien Tod Williams and Billie Tsien Architects , a renowned practice with expertise in public/cultural buildings, just unveiled the details for the new Reva and David Logan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts at the ...
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• Women’s soccer: Bears fall to Chicago, tie for UAA crown

  
  Student Life — Authority: 602
  Sophomore Emma Brown had two shots in the Nov. 7 loss to the University of Chicago. Wash. U. tied for the UAA title with the University of Rochester and earned an automatic NCAA bid. (Matt Mitgang | Student Life) Despite holding an undefeated streak dating back to Sept. 5, the Washington University women’s soccer ...
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• Cat Ladies

  
  Fire In The Bones — Authority: 110
  So it turns out that in some places with wise city fathers it will soon be illegal to own more than three cats at a time . This is: a)     Good. My cat allergy + my current hosts’ four cats (also a drooling, shedding dog ) + the person who lives here who likes cats threatening to get more cats + the person ...
  3 days ago

• The Best Way To Take A Study Break

  
  The New Ledger Chequer-Board — Authority: 141
  I can, of course, testify to the description found in this post concerning the quality of social life at the University of Chicago, where the words “study break” equated either “study another subject,” “brush your teeth,” “attend class,” or even “sleep for a few hours, but don’t overdo it.” But ...
  4 days ago

• Nietzsche’s Niche: Kirp on the University of Chicago

  
  decasia: critique of academic culture — Authority: 98
  I was just reading Christopher Newfield’s interesting 2003 book review on university-industry relations when I noticed that he mentioned a chapter by Kirp on the University of Chicago . The following rather florid (occasionally insulting) prose is interesting — at least to me — because it proceeds from ...
  6 days ago

• Figure Theater: Nori Sawa blends Japanese and Czech puppetry

  
  The Chicago Weekly — Authority: 130
  (courtesy of the artist) In a Japanese legend, a wounded soldier collapses unconscious in the woods, where a white woman appears to him and lures his spirit from his body. He soars skyward with her, but glimpsing his body still lying on earth, decides to return to it. The white woman disappears; the soldier ...
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• Renaissance Man of Sound: Joe McPhee’s Survival Unit III brings avant-garde jazz to Bond Chapel

  
  The Chicago Weekly — Authority: 130
  John McPhee (Andy Newcombe/flickr) Joe McPhee is a Renaissance man of sound . The 70-year-old horn and reed player’s versatility has made him one of the free music community’s most cherished members since he released his first recordings on his own label in the late 1960s. The idea of revolution has been ...
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• 2009 Election News

  
  MANSIZEDTARGET.COM — Authority: 118
  I thought Dick Morris and Charles Hurt had interesting things to say on last night’s election results.  Gay marriage lost in Maine, which suggests the momentum of this judge-and-elite-driven social change may be losing steam. Republicans won the governorship of Virginia, which is an Obama swing state and the ...
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• A Failure Built to The Sky: Looking at the History of Public Housing in Chicago

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 140
  D. Bradford Hunt, Blueprint for Disaster: The Unraveling of Chicago Public Housing, University of Chicago Press, 2009.  392 pages. By Matthew Blake In 1994, Republicans seized control of Congress for the first time in 40 years, and new Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich set out to vanquish what remained of ...
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• Would You Become a Vegetarian to Save The World?

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 596
  Lord Stern of Brentford, one of the leading experts on global warming, has everyone in the meat market gritting their teeth. Lord Stern suggests that to solve global warming, people will need to adopt a vegetarian diet. He is not alone in this sentiment. Other global warming guru’s like, Rajendra Pachauri, echo the ...
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• Chicago theater openings/closings this week

  
  Chicago Theater Blog — Authority: 431
  show openings A You Like It - Loyola University Burlesque Is More - Annoyance Theatre   Gossamer - Adventure Stage Chicago High Holidays - Goodman Theatre Horrible - Apollo Theatre Murder in Green Meadows - Citadel Theatre The Music Man - Rising ...
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• Please Dont Dive Into this Pool

  
  The New Republic - the treatment Feed — Authority: 138
  Harold Pollack is a professor at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration and Special Correspondent for The Treatment. At the 11:57 th hour, Republicans are set to announce their own health plan, as Jonathan notes below. According to the Wall Street Journal Mr. Boehner said the ...
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• The Hidden Advantage of Professional Stock Pickers

  
  The New Republic - the stash Feed — Authority: 138
  Its a truism that the average investor (i.e. one who doesnt get paid to pick stocks) is better off putting his money into a passive index fund than paying a pro to choose stocks for him. Once you factor in the extra fees actively managed investment vehicles charge, actual returns wind up being lower than what an index ...
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• Fellow Univ of Chicago Professor Owns Super Freaky Economist Levitt

  
  Get Energy Smart! NOW!!! — Authority: 605
  Professor Raymond T. Pierrehumbert, Louis Block Professor in the Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago Geosciences, has published An Open Letter to Steven Levitt, the nation’s Super Freakiest Economist. To put it simply, Pierrehumbert owns Levitt.By now there have been many detailed dissections of ...
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• How Tough a Place Is the University of Chicago?

  
  Fuck Bankers — Authority: 167
  Just about every university has an alumni magazine, and they all follow the same tried-and-true recipe: highly partisan stories touting the wonderful accomplishments of the faculty, students, athletics, and alumni. I had always thought of my university’s alumni magazine as being cut from the same cloth. Until I ...
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• How Tough a Place Is the University of Chicago?

  
  Freakonomics — Authority: 759
  Just about every university has an alumni magazine, and they all follow the same tried-and-true recipe: highly partisan stories touting the wonderful accomplishments of the faculty, students, athletics, and alumni.I had always thought of my universitys alumni magazine as being cut from the same cloth.Until I read the ...
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• How Tough a Place Is the University of Chicago?

  
  Gulag Blog — Authority: 167
  Just about every university has an alumni magazine, and they all follow the same tried-and-true recipe: highly partisan stories touting the wonderful accomplishments of the faculty, students, athletics, and alumni. I had always thought of my university’s alumni magazine as being cut from the same cloth. Until I ...
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• Academic Freedom

  
  Educated Nation | Higher Education Blog — Authority: 414
  The notion most of us have when thinking about the University (read that with a deep and important voice, please) is of a well-architectured limbo-land full of higher thought, in-depth learning, and forward motion steeped nicely in tradition. The University isn’t (or didn’t used to be) as susceptible to the rules ...
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• National Education Experiment Not Working In Chicago

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 140
  Education Sec. Arne Duncan has $3 billion in the Education Dept. budget to close “failing” schools across the country — something Duncan did when he headed the Chicago school system. But the New York Times’ Sam Dillon relays a report from the University of Chicago Consortium on School Research that closing ...
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