Twenty-four Northwestern academics joined over 2,000 signatories in committing to boycott Columbia University after the mass arrests of student protesters on its campus. The boycott comes after more than 100 Columbia students were arrested Thursday during a “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” organized...
When Anne Lamott was 37 and was trying on clothes with her best friend, Lamott asked the friend if her dress made her hips look too big. “Annie, you don’t have that kind of time,” Lamott’s friend said. The friend, who had breast cancer at the time, passed away six weeks later. Lamott said those words changed her life forever and taught her to stop resisting love. Lamott, whose latest book “Somehow: Thoughts on Love” was released earlier this month, spoke at Loyola Academy’s McGrath Family Performing Arts Center in Wilmette Tuesday evening. The conversation was organized by the nonprofit Family Action Network and facilitated by Heidi Stevens, the director of external...
