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• Among royalty

  - 2008-07-29

  IN THE 1960s, famed community organizer Saul Alinksy, Arthur M. Brazier and the Woodlawn Organization took on the University of Chicago, the mayor's office, some church groups and even this magazine as they strove to improve life for people in the Woodlawn community near Hyde Park. This summer, the...

  Tags: church, Games, Leadership, TVs, University of Chicago

• Christian Lahman of Ingleside for the past four years.(Obituaries)(Obituary)

  - 2008-03-09

  Christian Lahman of Ingleside for the past four years Services for Christian Lahman, 40, formerly of Arlington Heights, will be conducted at 10 a.m. Tuesday, at K.K. Hamsher Funeral Home, 12 N. Pistakee Lake Road (one block west of Route 12, 1/2 block north of Grand Ave.),...

  Tags: Games, NETWORKING, University of Chicago

• Relating Religion: Essays in the Study of Religion.(Book Review)

  - 2005-06-01

  RELATING RELIGION: ESSAYS IN THE STUDY OF RELIGION. BY JONATHAN Z. SMITH. University of Chicago Press. 424 pp. $24. Jonathan Z. Smith is one of the two or three most widely read and discussed living theorists of religion. He has been publishing in that ...

  Tags: essay, Games, University of Chicago

• Chicago 1967-68: how I turned from a person with good intentions into a true radical. An excerpt from my memoirs, a work in slow progress.(THE PERSONAL DIMENSION)(Excerpt)

  - 2005-03-01

  I was 19 years old in September, 1967, when my new husband and I got into his funky old Volvo fastback, the one that looked like a late-forties Ford, hooked it up to a U-Haul trailer, drove from Toronto to Chicago and set up housekeeping. We rented...

  Tags: apartment, athlete, Chicago, Games, Park, Toronto, University of Chicago

• Confidence Games: Money and Markets in a World Without Redemption.(Briefly Noted)(Book Review)

  - 2005-01-01

  By MARK C. TAYLOR. University of Chicago Press. 394pp. $32.50. The author strings together a multitude of mini-essays on topics mainly economic while incriminating human follies from a postmodernist perspective. His most particular passion is against evangelicals and the nefarious influence of conservative Christians...

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• The Production of Popular Music as a Confidence Game: The Case of the Chicago Blues

  BNET - 2004-10-13

  This article argues that the production of live music shares many formal properties with that of confidence games. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in some of Chicago's most popular blues clubs, the article examines these three components of live music production qua confidence game. It also briefly discusses how one...

  Tags: Production, University Of Chicago, Chicago, Music, Games, Personal Technology

• Dynamics of Pricing in Durable Good Markets: Application to 32-bit Console Video-Games

  BNET - 2004-09-01

  This paper investigates pricing policies by firms in markets for durable goods that have declining valuations over time. The empirical context for the analysis is the US market for 32-bit console videogames. The empirical regularity in the data is that prices of video-games start high at about the same level,...

  Tags: 32-bit, Console, University Of Chicago, Video Game, Pricing Strategy, Pricing, Games, Marketing Research, Marketing, Personal Technology

• Bacin, Robin F. Building the South Side: Urban Space and Civic Culture in Chicago, 1890-1919.(Book Review)

  - 2004-06-22

  Bacin, Robin F. Building the South Side: Urban Space and Civic Culture in Chicago, 1890-1919 Chicago: University of Chicago Press 434 pp., $35.00, ISBN 0-226-03393-7 Publication Date: February 2004 What do the World's Columbian Exposition, the Back of the Yards, Jackson Park, the University...

  Tags: Chicago, Games, Leadership, South, University of Chicago

• Early goal gets Thunder to final.(Sports)

  - 2003-11-15

  Byline: Neil Shalin Daily Herald Correspondent For Wheaton College it's a winning formula - score early and count on your superior depth to take you the rest of the way. That's exactly how the host Thunder won its regional semifinal battle against...

  Tags: Games, University of Chicago, Washington

• Benedictine falls short Poor shooting is Eagles' downfall in 67-54 loss to Univ. of Chicago.(Sports)

  - 2002-01-16

  Byline: Gary Larsen Daily Herald Correspondent As much as anything, the breakdown of Benedictine's 67-54 loss to the University of Chicago on Tuesday can be traced to poor shooting. After all, the Eagles only managed to stick 23 of their 68 shots ...

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