See the article in its original context from March 1, 1989 Section Page Buy Reprints View on timesmachine TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. New York, on the evidence of ''New York Stories,'' is a place of magical coincidences, a place where the most daring dreams of wealth, ambition and psychic well-being can come true. It's a place shaped by success, which can take many forms. It is, for instance, the kind of place where Woody Allen, Francis Coppola and Martin Scorsese might join forces to make a film together, simply … [Read more...] about Review/Film; New York as Magic, Money and Mom
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State Workers Struggle To Make Ends Meet Throughout CA: UC Berkeley Labor Center
0 Schools "California cannot recover economically or socially if workers do not earn enough to be self-sufficient and support a family." Bea Karnes , Patch Staff Posted Reply Press release from UC Berkeley News: BERKELEY, CA— A report released this week by the UC Berkeley Labor Center finds that many workers essential to keeping the state running and providing crucial services are struggling to make ends meet. Ensuring a living wage to government workers is critical to helping the state recover from the economic and social impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, the Labor Center finds that the state does not provide living wages to a significant portion of its workforce. This has resulted in many of the State of California’s working families facing enormous challenges including food insecurity and an untenable rent burden. An analysis of wages for state workers represented by SEIU 1000–the largest public sector union in … [Read more...] about State Workers Struggle To Make Ends Meet Throughout CA: UC Berkeley Labor Center
Oakland PD Warns Residents Of Burglars Disguised As Delivery Drivers
1 Crime & Safety Police are reporting burglars dressed as delivery drivers ring doorbells to determine if residences are empty before breaking and entering. Bay City News , News Partner Posted Reply OAKLAND, CA — The Oakland Police Department is reporting an uptick in residential burglaries where the suspects involved are disguising themselves as Amazon workers. Police said there have been several cases reported where the suspected burglars, dressed in Amazon delivery driver vests, approach a residence and ring the doorbell to determine if the residence is occupied or not. The suspects then force entry into the home, take several items and leave in a vehicle. Police are investigating these burglaries, and anyone with information about them is asked to call (510) 238-3951. Copyright © 2023 Bay City News, Inc. All rights reserved. Republication, rebroadcast or redistribution without the express written consent of Bay … [Read more...] about Oakland PD Warns Residents Of Burglars Disguised As Delivery Drivers
A MOMENT OF TERRIFYING PROMISE
See the article in its original context from May 22, 1988 Section Page Buy Reprints View on timesmachine TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. RECONSTRUCTION America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877. By Eric Foner. Illustrated. 690 pp. New York: Harper & Row. $29.95. Reconstruction is both a period in American history - conventionally the decade or so after the Civil War when the emancipated slaves were seeking a new place in the political economy - and a word describing an effort at an egalitarian restructuring of the … [Read more...] about A MOMENT OF TERRIFYING PROMISE
Teaching Women About Themselves
See the article in its original context from March 24, 1991 Section Page Buy Reprints View on timesmachine TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. A WOMAN MAKING HISTORY Mary Ritter Beard Through Her Letters. Edited by Nancy F. Cott. Illustrated. 378 pp. New Haven: Yale University Press. $35. Nancy F. Cott, the editor of this striking collection of letters, is well known for selecting book titles that can be read in more than one way. In her first monograph, "The Bonds of Womanhood" (1977), "bonds" meant both "ties" and … [Read more...] about Teaching Women About Themselves
The Republic of Letters
See the article in its original context from March 17, 2002 Section Page Buy Reprints View on timesmachine TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. A IS FOR AMERICAN Letters and Other Characters in the Newly United States. By Jill Lepore. Illustrated. 241 pp. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. $25. JILL LEPORE is a historian of early America who specializes in what might be called the political psychology of nationhood. Behind her work lies the idea that making a nation out of 13 colonies was accomplished not just through documents and declarations but in less tangible ways as well: minds and hearts had to be wooed away from old political attachments, doubts about the viability of the new order had to be overcome, and some kind of unifying common culture had to be invented practically out of whole cloth. In her gripping 1998 book, ''The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity,'' Lepore argued … [Read more...] about The Republic of Letters