Ken Wedding's CompGov Blog: The game of political corruption in Russia
Fighting corruption in Russia involves more than transparency, ethics, and honesty. It's also a way to fight the opposition. In Russia, Opening Inquiries and Settling ScoresWhen the Russian authorities...
View ArticleKen Wedding's CompGov Blog: Leader and party split in Mexico
If you keep fighting what looks like a personal battle, you may lose supporters. Mexico's Lopez Obrador leaves coalition to form new movementThe defeated candidate in Mexico's presidential election,...
View ArticleDan Schofer '00
9-10-2012Gillette Loop + Country Lisbon. 66 minutes. >9 miles.Mild and nice. Felt a little sluggish. Slow and easy run plus a few strides.
View ArticleBenjamin Lenzner: play ground
a toronto public school in the west end.late autumn or mid winter. a couple years back.love and health to all...
View ArticleKevin Draper '10: The Top Moments in NBA Player Cameos on Children's...
Last week, while discussing Metta World Peace's recent appearance on "Yo Gabba Gabba", I casually suggested that I should compile the top five NBA player cameos on children's television over the years....
View ArticleKurt Kohlstedt '02: Rural Ruins: 20 Eerie Images of Abandonments
[ By Steph in Abandoned Places & Architecture. ] In the last century, the human population has become increasingly urban, concentrating in city centers and suburbs. As younger generations leave...
View ArticleAlicia Hutchison Steffann '94: Guest Napper #119 – Pooped by Pageantry
When I see how this little guy collapsed so near to this cabinet of pageant beauties, I wonder if these dolled-up runway creatures are not modern-day sirens…forcing us all to crash upon the rocks like...
View ArticleJohn Tischer '71: Internet
Our ripples have ripples…. our nipples have zippers… it’s all over the internet… everything is. Even I, a fellow traveler, puts up enough stuff in a blog and, out of 7 BILLION people, a few will hit on...
View ArticleJohn Tischer '71: I Knew The Truth Then
We all did undiminished in a moment that lasted two years, maybe three, there was an opening which still exists, now, if you have the memory if you have the seed if you have the gene the antenna to...
View ArticleCarleton Athletics: Men's Golf: Knights Battle Wind, Short Games at Augsburg...
The Knights faced howling winds and struggled around the greens at Majestic Oaks Golf Course. Aaron Buckley led the Knights over the weekend with a two-day score of 162. The Knights finished with a...
View ArticleCarleton News: New Exhibit in Perlman Teaching Museum Highlights Faculty...
Carleton College’s Perlman Teaching Museum opens the 2012-13 academic year with an exhibit highlighting new works by six studio art faculty members. Ibid. (Referencing Carleton Collections) will be on...
View ArticleDan Schofer '00
9-10-2012Athletic Fields. 30 minutes. 4 miles.Easy shakeout run. Felt OK.
View ArticleKurt Kohlstedt '02: A’ Design Award Deadline: Call for Entries in 80 Categories
[ By WebUrbanist in Design & Graphics & Branding. ] Design awards are about more than a mere prize or praise – they can and should be a platform for greater exposure to potential partners,...
View ArticleErin McKittrick '01: Oil Walking
Behold, the non-oil hat! This is a guest post from Andrew, one of our GTT collaborators, who walked from Lake Iliamna to the Revelation Mountains this summer Somewhere between the north shore of Lake...
View ArticleKevin Draper '10: "What's a Lockout" and the Rapping datrillstak5
When your basketball team truly sucks yet you still watch every game, you end up having a lot of discussions only tangentially related to what is happening on the court. Thus, I spent a solid amount of...
View ArticleKen Wedding's CompGov Blog: Teaching about the state
It's not always easy to get everyone up to speed on the basic concepts. Here's a good article from the New York Times about Mali in which reporter Adam Nossiter uses the concept of state in a proper...
View ArticleDan Schofer '00
9-11-2012Hoosier Hills. 61 minutes. 9 miles.Mild, sunny, and breezy. Relaxed run. Good steady pace (26:00) for last 4 miles. Felt pretty good.
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