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Posted in Books, Kids, pictures with tags ban guns, cover, gun control, gun lobby, gun violence, Macbeth, mass shooting, NRA, Shakespeare, The New Yorker, US politics, Uvalde on June 9, 2022 by xi'anKyiv after dark [#3]
Posted in Books, Kids, pictures, Travel with tags Kyiv, paintings, Russian invasion, Sergiy Maidukov, Solidarity with Ukraine, Stop the War, The New Yorker, Ukraine on May 4, 2022 by xi'anKyiv after dark [#2]
Posted in Books, pictures, Travel with tags Kyiv, paintings, Russian invasion, Sergiy Maidukov, Solidarity with Ukraine, Stop the War, The New Yorker, Ukraine on May 3, 2022 by xi'anKiyv after dark [#1]
Posted in Books, Kids, pictures, Travel with tags Kyiv, paintings, Russian invasion, Sergiy Maidukov, Solidarity with Ukraine, Stop the War, The New Yorker, war crimes on May 2, 2022 by xi'anThe New Yorker [April 4, 2022]
Posted in Books, Kids, pictures, Travel, University life with tags FGLI student, lockdown, pandemics, Penn State University, Philadelphia, Rhodes scholarship, The New Yorker, University of Oxford on April 30, 2022 by xi'anI had not bought a paper issue of The New Yorker from a newstand for ages, possibly decades, so I jumped on the opportunity on my way back from Rutgers! This April 4 issue contained several impressive articles, which I read over the following weeks. (As I discovered during the lockdown, one issue a week is too much material, even during lockdown!) The most moving one is about Mackenzie Fierceton, a brilliant Penn University graduate, who escaped familial abuse to purse sociology studies at Penn, to the point of receiving a most notorious Rhodes scholarship in 2021 to start a PhD in social policy at the University of Oxford. Only for the scholarship to be rescinded by the Rhodes Trust, after action from Penn. While I cannot judge of the facts and arguments based on this sole article (which 12 pages are definitely impressive in their detail and careful depictions of the whole story), the corporate-damage-control attitude of Penn in this affair is appalling. And revealing of a awfully biased perception of abuse and psychological damage being limited to low-income classes. All the best to this student, in the pursuit of her studies and ideals.