<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceType"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceName"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="country-region"><div class="Section1"><p class="introtext" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="title1" style="font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(204, 51, 0); font-weight: bold; "><b><font size="2" color="#cc3300" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; ">The Missing Class</span></font></b></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="introtext" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><font size="1" color="#333333" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; "><br><st1:place w:st="on">Princeton</st1:place><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>sociologist<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong><b><font face="Tahoma"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; ">Katherine Newman</span></font></b></strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>gives voice to 57 million Americans sandwiched between the middle class and the poor. How do the stories of these families–21 million of them are children– demonstrate the need to think about inequality in a new way Through the experiences of nine families, Katherine Newman and Victor Tan Chen trace the unique problems faced by individuals in this large and growing demographic—the "near poor"—who have transformed their lives through hard work and determination.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="introtext" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><b><font size="1" color="#333333" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-weight: bold; "><img width="10" height="8" id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image001.gif@01C830DE.C7432B00">»<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></font></b><span class="photocaption1" style="font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-weight: normal; "><font size="1" color="#999999" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; ">Book signing courtesy of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></font></span><strong><b><font size="1" color="#999999" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); ">Harvard Book Store</span></font></b></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p class="introtext" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><b><font size="1" color="#333333" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-weight: bold; "><img width="10" height="8" id="_x0000_i1026" src="cid:image001.gif@01C830DE.C7432B00">»<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></font></b><span class="photocaption1" style="font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-weight: normal; "><font size="1" color="#999999" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; ">Co-sponsored by</span></font></span><strong><b><font size="1" color="#999999" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Jane Sturtevant</span></font></b></strong><span class="photocaption1" style="font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-weight: normal; "><font size="1" color="#999999" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; "></span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><b><font size="1" color="#333333" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; "><img width="10" height="8" id="_x0000_i1027" src="cid:image001.gif@01C830DE.C7432B00"><span class="introtext1" style="font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: normal; "><font color="#333333" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-weight: bold; ">»<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></font></span></span></font></b><span class="photocaption1" style="font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-weight: normal; "><font size="1" color="#999999" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; "><a href="http://www.cambridgeforum.org/publicity/pr120507.html" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">press release</a></span></font></span><b><font size="2" color="#cc3300" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(204, 51, 0); font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><img border="0" width="10" height="8" id="_x0000_i1028" src="cid:image001.gif@01C830DE.C7432B00"></span></font></b><span class="introtext1" style="font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: normal; "><font size="1" color="#333333" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; ">»<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></font></span><span class="introtext1" style="font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: normal; "><font size="1" color="#333333" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-weight: bold; ">Wednesday, December 5th @ 7:30p<a href="http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=1885" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>book info</a></span></font></span><b><font size="2" color="#cc3300" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(204, 51, 0); font-weight: bold; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p><p class="introtextstyle3style3" align="center" style="text-align: center; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><b><font size="2" color="#cc3300" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(204, 51, 0); font-weight: bold; "><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0670034460/cambridgeforu-20" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><font color="#3366cc"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none; "><img border="0" width="200" height="300" id="_x0000_i1029" src="cid:image002.jpg@01C830DE.C7432B00"></span></font></a><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p><p class="introtextstyle3style3" align="center" style="text-align: center; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><b><font size="2" color="#cc3300" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(204, 51, 0); font-weight: bold; "><img border="0" width="93" height="10" id="_x0000_i1030" src="cid:image003.gif@01C830DE.C7432B00"><img border="0" width="93" height="10" id="_x0000_i1031" src="cid:image003.gif@01C830DE.C7432B00"><img border="0" width="93" height="10" id="_x0000_i1032" src="cid:image003.gif@01C830DE.C7432B00"><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p><p class="bodytext2" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="introtext1" style="font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: normal; "><font size="1" color="#333333" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; ">The Cambridge Forum series:</span></font></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="serieshead1" style="font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(51, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; "><b><font size="1" color="#330000" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 9pt; ">Is This<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>?</span></font></b></span><span class="introtext1" style="font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: normal; "><font size="1" color="#333333" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is made possible in part by:</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><b><font size="2" color="#cc3300" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(204, 51, 0); font-weight: bold; "><img border="0" width="252" height="74" id="_x0000_i1033" src="cid:image004.gif@01C830DE.C7432B00"><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p><p class="introtext" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><font size="1" color="#333333" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; ">A Cambridge Forum series of public discussions that examines<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s most deeply held values. How can our founding ideals of liberty and justice for all help restore respectful civic dialogue in a time of contentious re-examination of constitutional principles.</span></font></p></div></o:smarttagtype></o:smarttagtype></o:smarttagtype></o:smarttagtype></div></span></blockquote></div></body></html>