Carleton Athletics: Men's Tennis: Knights Rally Past St. Thomas in Semis,...
After a dramatic comeback 5-4 victory over University of St. Thomas during the semifinal round, the Carleton College men’s tennis team did not have enough magic left and saw its season come to an end...
View ArticleCarleton Athletics: Women's Tennis: Knights Repeat as MIAC Playoff Champs,...
The Carleton College women’s tennis team successfully defended its MIAC Playoff title from a year ago by posting a 5-1 victory against Gustavus Adolphus College and a 5-0 triumph over University of St....
View ArticleKurt Kohlstedt '02: Company Capers: Ten Terrible Corporate Superheroes
[ By Steve in Design& Graphics & Branding. ] In today’s dog-eat-dog commercial arena, trusting clueless celebrities or characterless characters to pitch one’s products is a bad business...
View ArticleKevin Draper '10: Your Annotated Smartphone Bathroom Reader for Sunday, May...
Full speed to the second round!Kareem: 20 Things I Wish I’d Known When I Was 30 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar EsquireKareem Abdul-Jabbar is a top 5 all-time NBA player, yet his post-NBA career media game might...
View ArticleCarleton Athletics: Women's Track and Field: Meet of the UnSaintly Serves as...
In the final competition before next weekend’s conference championships, about two-thirds of the Carleton College women’s track and field team participated in the Meet of the UnSaintly, an unscored...
View ArticlePeter Gelman '86: petergelman
I just finished reading THE NIGHT LAND by William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918). The novel’s astonishing vision seems unique to me—and not just unique but boldly so. Unfortunately he confounds the modern...
View ArticleKurt Kohlstedt '02: Different Strokes: Strange Paintbrushes Promote Creativity
[ By WebUrbanist in Art& Drawing & Digital. ] When something evolves to have such a long history as the art of painting, it falls on out-of-the-box thinkers to question the most basic elements...
View ArticleCarleton Athletics: Baseball: Knights Sweep Scots With Pair of One-Run Victories
Juniors Ray Yong and Jeff Dsida each had four-hit days as the Carleton College baseball team posted a pair of one run victories, sweeping Macalester College by tallies of 5-4 and 4-3.
View ArticleCarleton Athletics: Women's Golf: Fours Around: Knights Fourth at Gustie...
Kelsey Moede and Taylor Wells fired seven-over par 79s to finish in a tie for fourth as Carleton wrapped its 2012-13 regular-season schedule at the Gustavus Quadrangular. Grace Gilmore added an 82,...
View ArticleMargaret Taylor: arton165-e4a97
It’s Cinderella in Japan!Seriously, though, one of the fascinating things about reading this book was its blending of West and East. Author Arthur Golden has clearly done his homework here and he does...
View ArticleKen Wedding's CompGov Blog: Review of Iranian politics
Jason Rezalan, writing in The Washington Post, offers a retrospective analysis of Iranian politics and how things have changed since the last presidential election. I suspect his final paragraph(s)...
View ArticleKen Wedding's CompGov Blog: Reviewing for an exam
Nearly 20,000 people will take an Advanced Placement examination for Comparative Government and Politics next week. Some of them read this blog. These links are for them. Russia profile from the BBC...
View ArticleKevin Draper '10: Eve of Destruction.
During high school, I considered myself to be a fan of the San Antonio Spurs while they served as the primary competitor to the Los Angeles Lakers in the Western Conference. I cheered heartily in 2003,...
View ArticleJohn Tischer '71: Three Shades Of Grey
Onemy friend’s mind is affectedby the chemo…memory shotconcentration gone…but I getto see glimpses…whispers…still the way he was.Twoall the excitement in the world…all the changes, all the trends,the...
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