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Margaret Taylor: 2432604817-1
I wanted to tell you about one of the hidden gems of the Twin Cities.Bad September is a band that formed in 2009 and has been doing gigs at events around the Cities ever since. If you live around here,...
View ArticleCarleton Athletics: Men's Tennis: Knights Open 2013 with 2-1 Weekend
Senior Alex Chin returned to the lineup and won three singles matches and a pair of doubles contests as the Carleton College men’s tennis team went 2-1 during the opening weekend of play for the indoor...
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Ken Wedding's CompGov Blog: Poverty in China
If you're looking for a description of poverty in China, this New York Times article and video would be great to hold up next to affluence of cities in the east. Leader’s Visit Lifts a Village, Yet...
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John Tischer '71: Multiplication Of The Arcs*
This mirage is seen lookingat the changing colors on thesunlit mountainside on an afternoon, or, taking yourkids to their first day in school, or, realizing you’ll neveraccomplish anything...
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Kevin Draper '10: Games of the Week: February 4–February 10, 2013.
Were you looking forward to Jacob’s wit this morning, and are disappointed with my name as author? Too bad. To further enrage you, all times are Eastern. Learn to love the bias.Monday: Los Angeles...
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Ken Wedding's Reading Blog: Uncle!
View from Dr. Loomis' temporary homeBird Loomis, who is now enjoying the coming end of summer in Adelaide as a Fullbright Visiting Scholar, asked me awhile back if I'd read Peter Temple'sThe Broken...
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: 7 Abandoned Wonders of Residential Architecture
[ By Steph in Abandoned Places& Architecture. ] Palatial chateaus, ordinary suburban homes, skyscraper residences and vertical slums alike have been abandoned by their human inhabitants and given...
View ArticleCarleton News: David Wiles Performs in "Johnny Baseball"
Associate Professor of Theater David Wiles is a cast member of "Johnny Baseball" at Park Square Theater in St Paul. The new musical looks at life and love through the lens of America’s favorite...
View ArticleKevin Draper '10: Monday Media: Surprising fans everywhere, Macklemore sells...
Despite Diss editor Jacob Greenberg’s objections (“white liberal dude starts rapping about liberal issues and everyone’s in fucking love”), I am was a pretty big fan of the rapper Macklemore. His stuff...
View ArticleCarleton News: Alex Freeman's New Work Premiered
Alex Freeman, Assistant Professor of Music,will have his new composition work, "Aerial Voices (Variations on a Theme of Charles Fussell)," premiered in the new Helsinki Music Center in Helsinki,...
View ArticleDan Schofer '00
2-3-2013Treadmill. 80 minutes. 12 miles.Steady run at 1.0% incline. Down to 6:27 pace. Felt a little tired but not too bad. [Week: 80 miles]
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2-4-2013Treadmill. 55 minutes. 8 miles.Easy run at 1.0% incline. Felt tired but not bad.
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Ken Wedding's CompGov Blog: UK Teaching Tools
If you're not in touch with the Facebook group for Comparative Government and Politics, I have posted a number of links about the UK recently. Thanks to Ken Halla and Rebecca Small for some of the...
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Marvelous Muralist Makes Giant-Sized Street Art Illusions
[ By Steph in Art& Street Art & Graffiti. ] The facades of entire buildings are transformed with the larger-than-life painted silhouettes of Madrid-based street artist Sam3. Known for both the...
View ArticleNat Case '88: Storm Still: Comings and Goings in Ancient Britain
King Lear's Palace.Enter Kent, Gloucester, and Edmund. Kent and Gloucester converse. Edmund stands back.Edmund comes forward.Sound a sennet.Enter one bearing a coronet; then Lear; then the Dukes of...
View ArticleCarleton Athletics: Men's Basketball: Knights Improve Playoff Chances by...
Taylor Hanson scored a career-high 21 points and Scott Theisen added his seventh career double-double as the Carleton College men’s basketball team pulled away from rival St. Olaf College, 77-53.
View ArticleNat Case '88: Corlis Benefideo Award for Imaginative Cartography: call for...
May as well spread the word one more way:I'm part of the committee for a new award by NACIS (the North American Cartographic Information Society): The Corlis Benefideo Award for Imaginative...
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Nat Case '88: False Appearances
With just one hand held up highI can blot you out, out of sight.Peek-a-boo, peek-a-boo, little Earth. - Kate Bush, “Hello Earth”In late December 1968, an astronaut on Apollo 8, Probably William Anders,...
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