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From gender-neutral words to textspeak, language often has undergone controversial shifts — and no amount of grumbling can stop it. When USC established El Centro Chicano in 1972 as a resource center for Mexican American students, organizers deliberately chose the...
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Stockton-based REALTOR® Kimberlee Williams couldn’t figure out why her Instagram account, which had over 15,000 followers, wasn’t landing her much in the way of new business. Each of her posts—a mix of updates about her listings and her real estate team as well as...
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Picture a time when love wasn’t free to flourish. Then picture Shirley and Pat. In the offices of the Franchise Tax Board in San Francisco, my cousin Shirley Greenblatt was known for making waves. This was in the ’70s, and her co-worker Anita Pagán remembers...
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When Uggie (the Jack Russell terrier that saved the day in the film The Artist) appeared onstage at the Academy Awards in February, it was, in a sense, a canine coup. Less than two weeks prior, a spokesperson for the film said that Uggie had “not been asked to appear...
