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Dan Schofer '00
8-27-2012Athletic Fields / Bud Road. 30 minutes / 42 minutes. 4 miles / 6 miles.AM: Warm-up and cool-down with the team. Mild, wet, and very foggy. PM: Warm and sunny. Relaxed run at 7:00 pace. Felt OK.
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Rachel Teagle: Wedlock and Load
Two of my good-looking friends got married this weekend and it was wonderful. See? View allGet your own I know, adorable, right? And here are the rehearsal pictures. Wedlock and Load: The RehearsalAs...
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Real Large LEGO: Concrete Bridge Turned to Colorful Brick
Weathered concrete sides suddenly give way to crisp, clean, multi-colored LEGO blocks stretched across thin air, looking more like something from Minecraft (or Photoshop) than reality. Rest assured,...
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Cheryl Klein: A Ramble List: the Dinner Table Debate, Religion, Bigotry, and...
As they agreed last spring, Brian Brown of the National Organization for Marriage and Dan Savage of the Savage Love column et al. met recently at Mr. Savage's home to debate same-sex marriage. I was...
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Arjendu Pattanayak: meblen
As I mentioned earlier, I participated in a mini-MOOC about MOOCs a couple of weeks ago. I left for vacation before the week ended and never had a chance to reflect on my experience. I’ll admit I had...
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Kevin Draper '10: Bad Poetry about Unsigned Free Agents.
When the Brazilian Bomber Went Silent.When the Brazilian Bomber went silentThere was no mourningIt was a logical conclusion to a career thatWhile stylistically poignantFailed to leave permanent...
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Dan Schofer '00
8-28-2012Ink Road. 54 minutes. 8 miles.Mild (66 degrees), sunny, and nice! Early morning group run. Out in 28:19, back in 26:05. Last 4 miles: 6:33, 6:41, 6:24, 6:27. Felt good.
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Ken Wedding's CompGov Blog: Five-month transition
There was some discussion in the Sharing Comparative group about the long time between the presidential election in Mexico and the assumption of office by the winner. The editors at The Economist were...
View ArticleCarleton Athletics: Simone Childs-Walker '12 a Top Honoree for NCAA Woman of...
Carleton College distance runner Simone Childs-Walker ’12 has been named one of the top 30 honorees for the NCAA Woman of the Year award. Selected from a group of nearly 430 nominees, the top 30 women...
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John Tischer '71: Plumber
Last job refuge of scoundrels… people put up with things that they wouldn’t tolerate from other service professions; the smells, the crude behavior, the ass crack… That was a big attraction, for me....
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Perspective-Shifting Geometric Street Art by Aakash Nihalani
Neon geometric shapes hurtle through buildings and appear to float in midair in tape art installations by Brooklyn-based artist Aakash Nihalani. The artist spent the summer in residency at the Willem...
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John Tischer '71: Love
If it gets through to you, really, it’s overwhelming because it is so vast, so true that everything else melts in front of it. All of the complications mean less than nothing when faced with love,...
View ArticleCarleton News: Carleton to Offer Mass CPR/AED Training to 693 Students
Next week, Carleton College will welcome 531 members of the Class of 2016. Each year, New Student Week at the College includes a variety of activities designed to familiarize incoming freshmen with the...
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Erik Brooks: Harts Pass No. 114
Melanie is relaxed and I was on vacation. A great trip to another mountainous and wild place, but its always great to get home!
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Cheryl Klein: How to Get a Job in Publishing, 2012 Edition
Today was the twelfth anniversary of my first day at Arthur A. Levine Books / Scholastic (as yesterday was the twelfth anniversary of my arrival in New York City), and as such, it seems like a good day...
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Kevin Draper '10: Wildish Speculation & Outlandish Guesses: We Talk Dynasties.
As the interminably long offseason drags on, The Diss decided to take up the topic of Dynasties.In the last 20 years we have only had 8 teams win championships (Pistons, Bulls, Rockets, Spurs, Lakers,...
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Dan Schofer '00
8-29-2012Short Adams Loop. 64 minutes. 8 miles.Extra slow and easy run with the women's team.
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Ken Wedding's CompGov Blog: Quaint Quangos
Back in ancient times, when I first began teaching comparative politics, quangos were a big deal. Margaret Thatcher was out to eliminate them as a way to reduce the cost of government. (Plus, the word...
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