2008 Woodie Awards
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Work to End Greyhound Racing in Massachusetts
Massachusetts is one of 16 states that still allows dog racing. There are two greyhound racing tracks in Massachusetts, not far at all from the law school: Wonderland Greyhound Park is in Revere, MA and Raynham Park is in Taunton. Each one of these tacks requires at least 1,000 dogs to be operational, and the life of a racing greyhound isn't what the owners of the "parks" would have you believe.…
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Toward an Interdisciplinary Understanding of Inequality
Much is made of the growing income inequality in America. The New York Times recently published a series of articles exploring the virtues and problems of a "New Gilded Age." Senator John Edwards' campaign platform, is entitled, "The Plan to Build One America.…
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Reinventing the Self Through Daytime Television
You know those commercials with the tag line, everything stays in Vegas? I have a friend like that; she can change her personality, her appearance, her mannerisms, at least temporarily. I wish I could change myself that easily, put on the right accessories and go out into the world as a new person.…
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Why Does White America Love Barack Obama So?
Debra Dickerson, who graduated from Harvard Law School in 1995, was one of the first, if not the first, to claim that Barack Obama was not black. Her argument, featured in her Salon.com article, hinged on his ancestry. To be black, she opined, one must be a descendant of West Africans brought to America as slaves.…
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