Carleton News: Donald '76 Appointed to Bank of America's Board of Directors
The Jan. 23 edition of Bloomberg Business Week notes the appointment of Arnold Donald ’76 to the Bank of America Board of Directors. Donald previously served as president and CEO of the Juvenile...
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Faux Facades: Fake Buildings Hide Trains, Power & More
[ By WebUrbanist in Architecture& Public & Institutional. ] When is a building not a building? When it is only a facade, (aka) dummy! You might have passed right by train tunnels,...
View ArticleJohn Tischer '71: The USA Makes Me Nervous
You know how it iswhen you go to a party,a gathering, or are out on a first date, say… or, youwalk into a restaurant inIdaho, and all the patronsturn as one and look at you,and you realize you...
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2-12-2013Town Loop. 30 minutes. 4 miles.Mild (45 degrees) and nice! Easy shakeout run.
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Subterranean Quarry Hotel to Extend 328 Feet Underground
[ By Steph in Boutique & Art Hotels& Global. ] Construction has begun on an incredible 19-story, 5-star hotel that will be located deep within a 100-meter (328-foot) abandoned quarry near the...
View ArticleCarleton Athletics: Baseball: Opening Day Sweep Features No-Hitter and Plenty...
The Carleton College baseball team got the 2013 campaign started off with a doubleheader sweep of Crown College. Playing at the Metrodome, the Knights prevailed by scores of 26-5 and 17-0, with the...
View ArticleJohn Tischer '71: If Only Twain Could See Me Now
I have a new plan, distilled from all the other plans I've hadin my life to the point of diamond simplicity: stay drunk until something happens. Drunks do this all the time, the only difference here...
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Ken Wedding's CompGov Blog: Caging power
While the new Party leader in China can't say "rule of law," he did talk about keeping power within a "cage." Perhaps Chinese dissidents should talk about cages rather than constitutions. Reformers Aim...
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2-13-2013Hoosier Hills. 64 minutes. 9 miles.Chilly (28 degrees) and nice. Leg felt stiff again today but overall felt fine.
View ArticleJohn Tischer '71: In A Moment There Is A Thousand Years
Thousands of years in an hour of music……what would you call that,catch up?Maybe, if the particular brain machinehad the right genesand was nurtured in an agarpast embryo into wisdomculture, which,...
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Printing Prospects: 10 Hi-Tech Printer Prototypes & Concepts
[ By Delana in Conceptual & Futuristic& Technology. ] Printers have become much more complex than simply machines that spit out pieces of paper with ink on them. Designers are envisioning all...
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Benjamin Lenzner: taj ice cream
reading time out mumbai, i came across an article about an area called bhendi bazaar. it was the cover article in fact, about how the neighborhood is due to be completely re-zoned and that the vibe,...
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Micah Koller '12: micahhhhhhh
Wow it’s been a long time since my last post — time is just flying down here in Guyana. I’d written an amusing post last month about some Guyanese cultural quirks, but it was tragically lost before I...
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Kevin Draper '10: An Imperfect New American Gothic.
Editor’s Note: This piece serves as the conclusion to “Race Week”, which focused on the problematic nature of the white Minnesota Timberwolves. I’m only getting around to finishing it up now.***Last...
View ArticleCarleton News: Cowling Arboretum Teams Up with the Cannon River Watershed...
Carleton College will present a special public screening of the acclaimed Emmy Award-winning documentary film, “Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time,” on Tuesday, Feb. 19 at 7 p.m. in...
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Alicia Hutchison Steffann '94: Guest Napper #147: Gravity. It’s the Law
Well, I don’t know about you all, but I think this dude is super excited for Valentine’s Day.Okay, maybe he’s not really conscious, but I do appreciate how lucky he is that his stuffed animal is...
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Möbius Strip: Plans to Build World’s First 3D-Printed House
[ By WebUrbanist in Architecture& Houses & Residential. ] An unlikely and unique collaboration is in the works between an architect, an inventor and a mathematician-plus-artist to produce a...
View ArticleCarleton Athletics: Women's Basketball: Second-Half Rally Runs Out of Time at...
Skylar Tsutsui scored 18 of her game-high 21 points in the second half as the Carleton College women’s basketball team nearly erased a 17-point second-half deficit before absorbing a 62-58 loss at...
View ArticleCarleton Athletics: Men's Basketball: Knights Unable to Close Out Gusties
In a back-and-forth affair that featured eight ties and a dozen lead changes, the Carleton College men’s basketball team came up just short against the visiting squad from Gustavus Adolphus College,...
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