Read more class stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/34924/class.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 18:15:20 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/65119/gates-arrest-a-battle-of-egos.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagRacial profiling may have played a role in the arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr., but fellow black scholar Boyce Watkins says there's no reason to feel sorry for Gates. At heart, the scene was likely “a battle of two egos,” Watkins writes in the Grio. “What is abundantly clear...http://www.newser.com/story/65119/gates-arrest-a-battle-of-egos.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 23 Jul 2009 8:58:59 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65006/wedding-military-means-divorcing-manhattan.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWhen her Manhattan colleagues found out Chloe Kamarck was marrying an Army officer, she got a lot of questions: “But why? So he supports the war? Is he a Republican?” This generation is into service—the recession has driven many to the Peace Corps, Teach for America, and the like—...http://www.newser.com/story/65006/wedding-military-means-divorcing-manhattan.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 22 Jul 2009 14:12:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/64355/colleges-hope-to-cash-in-on-naming-rights-for-classes.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWith schools hit hard by the recession, some are considering new ways to pull in cash. One idea: corporate sponsorship for classes, Time reports. City College of San Francisco may sell naming rights to 800 classes that might otherwise disappear. College officials have mixed feelings, with some put off but...http://www.newser.com/story/64355/colleges-hope-to-cash-in-on-naming-rights-for-classes.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 14 Jul 2009 12:49:44 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/61927/ecobarriers-wall-in-rios-poor.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThey’re called “ecobarriers,” but critics say the walls being erected in Rio de Janeiro aren’t there to protect trees. The 10-foot cinderblock walls are supposed to prevent Rio’s favelas, or shantytowns, from expanding into the rainforest, but critics say they’re really a means of segregating the poor people who live...http://www.newser.com/story/61927/ecobarriers-wall-in-rios-poor.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 15 Jun 2009 12:15:04 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/48345/rent-a-womb-devotee-now-preggo-herself.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAlex Kuczynski, the super-rich author of Beauty Junkie , has gotten pregnant, the New York Post reports. The bun pops into the oven at an ironic time—Kucyznski recently drew a hail of jeers for a New York Times Magazine article entitled “Her Body, My Baby,” in which she gloated about...http://www.newser.com/story/48345/rent-a-womb-devotee-now-preggo-herself.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 19 Jan 2009 13:33:41 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/44899/hideously-rich-rent-a-womb.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIn a credit-crunched world, the excesses of the rich no longer seem so cute. But apparently no one mentioned this to ex- New York Times columnist Alex Kuczynski who, after years of writing about billionaires, married one and joined the club. Thomas Frank revisits her recent chronicle of the trials...http://www.newser.com/story/44899/hideously-rich-rent-a-womb.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 10 Dec 2008 11:04:09 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/38680/what-makes-him-different-makes-him-scary.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBarack Obama’s revolutionary candidacy is in trouble, and the very things that make him a breath of fresh air are to blame, James Carroll writes in the Boston Globe . “Race, gender, and class define American identity, but Obama, just by being who he is, directly challenges the core assumptions that...http://www.newser.com/story/38680/what-makes-him-different-makes-him-scary.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 29 Sep 2008 15:40:01 CDT