Jessica Shor
Jessica Shor
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DeLauro Table honors Wooster Square family
Mayor John DeStefano, Jr. presided over a ceremony unveiling a monument in Wooster Square to honor the DeLauro family’s service to the community Sunday afternoon.
Professor, Filmmaker, Inventeur d’histoires
Oh, là là, c’est Pierre Capretz! This weekend marks the 25th anniversary of “French in Action,” the series of language textbooks and videos created by Capretz. T
New investment group emphasizes education
A club founded earlier this semester believes that investing can be freed from its greedy image.
‘Black Holes:’ def for kids, still cool
Contrary to Wednesday’s headline “Black holes suck in visitors,” black holes don’t suck — at least, not according to a “misconception alert” posted on the wall at the Yale Peabody Museum’s “Black Holes: Space Warps and Time Twists” exhibit.
Project asks: What would you say to the world’s seven billionth baby?
The Seven Billionth Person Project, which asks contributors how they would welcome the seven billionth baby, who will be born in the next 1000 days, went up Thursday at the Parachute Factory on Peck Street.
Shor: Revisiting new media
A Shor Thing
I am the first to admit that I’m not one for online journalism. Call me old fashioned, but there is something about information from a venerable media outlet whose primary medium is not web-based that makes it seem more legitimate. As a writer, I choose to publish primarily in print. As a reader — when I read online — I stubbornly stick to the sites that belong to major media outlets like The New York Times, BBC and National Public Radio. After all, anybody can start a blog or Web site, and such sites often tend more toward gossip and speculation than in-depth coverage.
Shor: The statistics we neglect
A Shor Thing
As Adam Hirst ’10 noted yesterday, for three weeks each spring, March Madness becomes an obsession — we fill out brackets and then anxiously watch to see how our favorite teams fare. Yet the standings on ESPN ignore statistics that are ultimately more important for the players and universities we cheer for. A number of teams competing in the NCAA tournament have alarmingly low graduation rates, even when adjusted to exclude players who leave school to play professionally.
Shor: A test of true Americans
A Shor Thing
To hear some politicians speak, it seems as though our country is no longer divided into just red or blue. In debates over health care reform, the economy, the war in Afghanistan and many other issues, the citizens of this country fall into one of two camps: American and un-American.
Shor: Finding a free moment
A Shor Thing
As James Cersonsky pointed out in his column, “Saintly values” (Feb. 5), the Super Bowl is more than a game. As an integral part of American culture, sports have the power to unite people over a common, if somewhat inconsequential, goal. Yet as I witnessed on Sunday night, sports not only bring people together, but also teach us a lesson in how to sit back and, for once, relax.
Shor: For country, not God
A Shor Thing
Trijicon, a Michigan-based weapons maker, has found a new way to include God in the lives of a number of Americans. Thanks to Trijicon, if Islam is considered to be the religion of the sword, then Christianity is now the religion of the gun.
