Cornell Chronicle

Kramnick says:

“Not only are non-Christians ignored by this cross, but religious Christians should oppose the secularization of the cross in the Supreme Court case, as it holds this monument not to be a religious memorial but a secular testimony to the death of the soldiers named on it. 

“Many religious figures have similarly opposed the federal court’s ruling that citing God in the Pledge of Allegiance is a secular ceremonial reference. God is God and a cross is a cross. Both reflect religious conviction. To rule otherwise is to demean religion in an effort to find the unconstitutional constitutional.”

Kim says:

"By comparing the professional careers and personal lives of actors from 1930 to 2005, there was no evidence of a professional curse: both male and female actors had longer and more successful careers after being nominated for or winning the Oscar compared to those never nominated.

"We did find evidence of a personal curse: only for male actors, their divorce rate increased following both nominations and wins. For female actors, their divorce rate only increased when they were married to male actors and the female wins or gets nominated. In other words, the female becomes higher status compared to the male partner. 

"This suggests that male actors are more susceptible to the negative consequences of Oscar nominations/wins, perhaps because males tend to be more affected by work-related events and deviations from traditional gender roles.

"Given the changes in gender roles recently, perhaps the Hollywood myth of the Oscar curse will be different for the more recent cohort of Oscar nominees and winners."

Fitzpatrick says:

“Millions of Americans do not have convenient access to affordable, full-time, high-quality child care. That has important consequences for both parents and children, and for society more broadly. Without access to reliable affordable childcare, parents, in particular mothers, will have difficulty working. In fact, research has shown that many women see their careers ‘stall out’ once they have children in ways that men’s careers do not. This is driven in part by the difficulty of juggling the demands of both work and child-rearing. 

“Research has also shown that children, particularly those from low-income and those from rural areas, benefit a lot from the universal availability of high-quality child care experiences. Also, research from Canada has shown that universal child care policies can have unintended negative effects on child development when the program’s initial rollout does not pay close attention to the quality of care being provided. Therefore, it will be important for policymakers to ensure that any new program provides children with truly high-quality care.”