[Review of] Tu Wei-ming,ed. The Living Tree: The Changing Meaning of Being Chinese Today

This book evolved from the spring, 1991 special issue of “Daedalus, the Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . Tu Wei-ming presents a collection of perspectives of the Chinese identity. These essays stand alone well, some are more relevant and better written than others (as will be addressed in this review), but they collectively fail to provide a coherent unified interpretation. The chapter topics are somewhat related but the continuity among them is weak (which should not be interpreted as a shortcoming of the individual chapter authors)

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From an Unpublished Interview with Lorrie Moore

Lorrie Moore is the author of three novels and five collections of stories. Moore has been recognized for her work with the Irish Times International Fiction Prize and a Lannan Foundation fellowship, as well as the PEN/Malamud Award and the Rea Award for her achievement in the short story. Her most recent novel, A Gate at the Stairs, was shortlisted for the 2010 Orange Prize and the PEN/Faulkner. Her most recent collection, Bark, was shortlisted for the Story Prize, the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, and the Premio Gregor von Rezzori prize. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001 and to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2005. Booth’s Eliza Tudor interviewed Moore when she visited campus in the fall of 2010, just after the release of A Gate at the Stairs

Gerrymandering metrics: How to measure? What's the baseline?

This note outlines three intellectually distinct but not mutually exclusive strategies for measuring partisan gerrymandering: partisan symmetry, efficiency gap, and algorithmic sampling.Comment: Based on remarks presented at the 2062nd stated meeting of the American Academy of Arts and Science

Herbert Scarf: a Distinguished American Economist

Herbert Eli Scarf (born on July 25, 1930 in Philadelphia, PA) is a distinguished American economist and Sterling Professor (Emeritus as of 2010) of Economics at Yale University. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. He served as the president of the Econometric Society in 1983. He received both the Frederick Lanchester Award in 1973 and the John von Neumann Medal in 1983 from the Operations Research Society of America and was elected as a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association in 1991.

Colonial Astronomers in Search of the Longitude of New England

This article deals with aspects of progress made between 1755 and 1785 to identify the longitude of New England and the reasons for the failure of the Harvard-American Academy of Arts and Sciences expedition to Penobscot to see the totality of the solar eclipse of October 27 1780

Afternoon Shower: Jackson Wyoming; Old 22; February Night; Walnuttown, Pennsylvania; Elm Street: Late Afternoon; Hex Highway; Bridge; Gifts

Matthew Daub\u27s watercolor paintings and drawings have been exhibited throughout the U.S. in more than 20 solo exhibitions, and group shows at institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is a Professor of Fine Arts at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

Faculty

James B. White on American higher education; Croley; Logue and Malamud named full professors; Dissecting cases to show the larger picture; Regan named Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Child and family agencies honor Duquette; Activities; Ted St. Antoine: an appreciation; Visiting faculty offer new insights; Faculty publication