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		Portraits of John Quincy Adams and His Wife Adams, John Quincy Oliver, Andrew

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Marina Warner’s Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights has won the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award in the Criticism category.
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In the New York Times, Gavin Wright, author of Sharing the Prize: The Economics of the Civil Rights Revolution in the American South, weighed in on the changes in corporate public support of civil rights issues—once desegregation, now gay marriage.

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February 27: Honoring the Work of Patricia Williams: This Friday, Columbia Law School’s Center for Gender and Sexuality Law will host a day-long symposium honoring the work of Patricia Williams, the school’s James L. Dohr Professor of Law. Each year the symposium honors a senior scholar who has made outstanding contributions to the field of gender and sexuality law, and Williams now joins past honorees Martha Nussbaum, Judith Butler, and Justice…