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People who make us feel inadequate: Lauren Bush ’06
Sunday, 26 April 2009
by Brian No
Lauren Bush ’06, Dubya’s niece and model, has done a lot since graduating with an anthropology major three years ago. Last summer, she launched the FEED 100 Campaign, which sells stylish burlap bags to put food in the mouths of hungry Rwandan children. For instance, if you purchase a $30 bag, you will provide 100
- Published in Alumni
Take Ivy: A Trip Down Nostalgia Lane
Saturday, 25 April 2009
by Brian No
A Japanese photographer traveled to Ivy League schools in the late 1960s to document the American Trad/Ivy League Preppy style of the era. Copies of the book are very hard to come by (a copy was just sold on eBay for $1500), and photos from the book have been circulating the blogosphere like crazy in
- Published in History
Researcher: Obama’s policies should create security, not money
Wednesday, 18 March 2009
by Samantha Pergadia
A new study devised by Talya Miron-Shatz, a Ph.D associate researcher in the Wilson School, found that financial security affects happiness more than actual money for the modern American woman. “Even if you are making a hundred grand a year, if you are constantly worried that you are going to get fired, that you are
- Published in Goings On, Princeton in the News
Who’s reading the Prince? Um, apparently hardcore professional gamblers
Friday, 06 March 2009
by Spencer Gaffney
It’s a cold Friday night in the dead of winter, and none of the major basketball conferences have games. What’s an addictive professional gambler to do? Well, according to this New York Times article, the answer can be found in a small cult of gamblers who bet on Ivy League basketball games religiously every Friday
- Published in Princeton in the News
OM NOM NOM: The Little Chef
Tuesday, 03 March 2009
by Angela Wu
Last week, a friend sent us this review of one of Princeton’s many bakeries, The Little Chef, with the note, “??? How have you not been here?” How, indeed. This week, we’ve visited Pouchon and his macarons et croissants four times. Though Serious Eats’ review leans toward the long side, and is chock full of
- Published in Musings, Princeton in the News
George, for the win
Monday, 23 February 2009
by Will Saborio
Right-leaning Princeton professor Robert P. George recently launched a new blog, moralaccountability.com, or “the most elaborate pursuit of ‘I told you so’ since ‘An Inconvenient Truth.'” According to an interview with the Catholic News Agency (expecting anything less?), George’s blog responds to pro-life constituencies that voted for Obama under the assumption that Barry’s economic policies
- Published in Goings On, Politics, Princeton in the News
Slate.com: “Harvard, Yale, or Princeton?”
Sunday, 22 February 2009
by Brian No
On the occasion of tonight’s Oscars, here’s a December piece from Slate.com that looks at “how F. Scott Fitzgerald decided where to send his characters to college.” The impetus for the article stems from the omission of Harvard references in the Best Picture nominated The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which is based off of
- Published in Princeton in the News