Arturo Vargas was born in El Paso, Texas and grew up in the Pico Union neighborhood of Los Angeles. His office — where he is executive director of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials — is still there today. “When we first moved there it was in transition from being largely African American and white to being Mexican, and by the time my family moved out it had become the heart of the Central American community,” Vargas said. Read more about Vargas below.
On December 1, 1835, Hans Christian Andersen published the first volume of his immortal Fairy Tales. The initial reception across Europe was less than enthusiastic, but Andersen’s popularity gained momentum such that fairy tales like “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” “The Princess and the Pea,” and “The Ugly Duckling” became canonized by the end of Andersen’s lifetime. Below, “The Saucy Boy,” one of the fairy tales published in Andersen’s first volume.
New Yorker media columnist Ken Auletta, author of Googled: The End of the World As We Know It
Joel Waldfogel doesn’t talk about Christmas the way most people do. “I was struck by how the resource allocation occurring through gift-giving was sharply at odds with the way we talk about resource allocation in economics,” he said. That’s what set Waldfogel, a professor in the Department of Business and Public Policy at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, to writing….
by Doreen Gildroy
Oh let me be quiet and near.
It’s all I can offer.
I’ve nothing to show—frail,
disrobed.
A world’s brokenheartedness.
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