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Roadkill

Betty

We just wonder why it took her so long.

Jury Foreman in the trial of Betty Broderick

Blue Eyes : Brown Eyes

I found it! A complete copy of Jane Elliot's experiment in discrimination with a third grade class in Iowa circa 1968. A Class Divided.

Performance Anxiety

Conducting, one might well think, is fundamentally a sado-mascochistic ritual involving either virile young male turks whipping orchestras into frenzies with tapering batons of birch and maple, or sage old men waving their penis substitutes in front of a bunch of instrument-playing stiffs in irksome collars, before jetting to the other side of the world to do exactly the same thing in another cultural capital.

The Guardian, Where are all the women conductors? June 2, 2005