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Struggle

from: [email protected] (David Kaiser)

One of the most important readings about the Vietnam War that I have ever encountered is a chapter by the late Douglas Pike, a real authority on the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese, about dau tranh, or struggle, the...

05/19/2012 - 6:37pm

Rails to Trails

from: Robbi

The Rails to Trails bike and walking trail of Chestertown is paved and open! This is VERY exciting news. For a small town in the middle of nowhere, this is big. It would be like Mayor Bloomberg announcing that New York had...

05/19/2012 - 8:46am

The Root Beer and Sarsaparilla Taste Test

from: j soma

If there's one thing Homemade Root Beer, Soda & Pop and Fix the Pumps neglected to tell me in their deep dark secret-revealing takes on root beer and soda, it's that sarsaparilla is totally a thing in Asia. I'...

05/18/2012 - 4:37pm

Is there anything Barack Obama doesn’t politicize?

from: GPfiltered

As I was reviewing the transcript of President Obama’s interview with ABC News’s Robin Roberts, I caught this aspect of the Democrat’s attempt to justify his switch on state recognition of same-sex...

05/18/2012 - 3:30pm

Watcher of Weasels — Weekly Winners (mid-May edition)

from: GPfiltered

Council Winners *First place with 3 1/3 votes! The Noisy Room– The Fascist Boogie Fever Second place *t* with 2 1/3 votes – Joshuapundit The New Egypt’s Politics: Who Can Demonize Jews And Israel The Most?? Second place *t...

05/18/2012 - 3:14pm

How to Teach Relativity to Your Bay Area Dog

from: Uncertain Principles

So, you find yourself living in the San Francisco Bay area, and you maybe have a dog who would like to know something about relativity, or you maybe want to someday have a dog who will want to know something about...

05/18/2012 - 2:46pm

Row Row Row Your Boat

from: Robbi

It’s been windy here on the Chester River. I’ve noticed, because for the last two weeks I’ve been trying to get back out on the water and do some rowing, and every morning I’ve been thwarted by the...

05/18/2012 - 2:25pm

Chan Lowe: The Facebook IPO

from: by Chan Lowe

This morning, Mark Zuckerberg woke up knowing that by the time he went to bed, he’d be $20 billion richer. More power to him. I wonder how that translates into 19 th century dollars—and how it compares to the...

05/18/2012 - 1:56pm

The Rabbi And

from: [email protected] (Velveteen Rabbi)

Ready for a Shabbat picnic. Sometimes it's a little bit challenging to be the rabbi and. The rabbi and mommy. The rabbi and sometimes solo-parent. The rabbi and hostess. And and and. I'm hosting two of my dear ALEPH...

05/18/2012 - 1:30pm

Links for 2012-05-18

from: Uncertain Principles

The poor and their time are soon parted § Unqualified Offerings Why do I bring this up? I bring it up because I read this article about how the poor get trapped in a system that rains shit down on them. No, I'm not here...

05/18/2012 - 1:22pm

Krauthammer on the Obama gay marriage straddle

from: GPfiltered

“Notwithstanding a comically fawning press” writes Charles Krauthammer this morning about the president’s sudden switch on gay marriage, “Obama knows he has boxed himself in.” In his op-ed, the...

05/18/2012 - 12:08pm

stuck somewhere in between: fashion 6 weeks out

from: [email protected] (sarah (SHU))

during pregnancy, i fantasized about wearing normal clothes again postpartum. however, i didn't count on one thing that probably should have been obvious:many of my clothes don't really fit.i realize this shouldn't...

05/18/2012 - 12:00pm

The Facebook IPO: What it looked like inside the company’s headquarters

from: Dylan Tweney

Facebook began trading on the public markets for the first time today, and at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., excitement levels were high. Read more about Facebook’s IPO

05/18/2012 - 11:24am

iTuba

from: Matthew

A couple of midnights ago, Robbi woke up with a great idea. What she saw in her head was not only going to be an amazing drawing, but it had the potential to change the world. She grabbed her iPad, picked up her stylus, and...

05/18/2012 - 6:20am

This week's portion: a Shabbat for the earth

from: [email protected] (Velveteen Rabbi)

Here's the d'var Torah I'll offer tomorrow morning at my shul; if you're joining us for Shabbat morning services (which I'll be co-leading with two dear rabbinic school friends, Rhonda Shapiro-Rieser and David Curiel) you...

05/18/2012 - 6:00am

Let me be gentle with you.

from: [email protected] (Ranta)

Let me be gentle with you.

05/18/2012 - 2:35am

Romney right to repudiate campaigning on Obama’s relationship with Rev. Wright

from: GPfiltered

On Facebook, a number of my conservative friends have expressed disappointment that Mitt Romney has repudiated the idea of campaigning on “Barack Obama’s 20-year association with Jeremiah Wright“. I think the...

05/18/2012 - 2:18am

The increasingly likable Mitt Romney

from: GPfiltered

Lately, I’ve been wondering if friends on Obama/DNC mailing lists receive regular missives, telling them what a horrible, no good and very bad man this Mitt Romney is. An acquaintance was incredulous that an...

05/18/2012 - 1:57am

Legacy media may be increasingly anti-Israeli, but American people strongly support Jewish State

from: GPfiltered

After summarizing a nearly forty-year-old Life magazine account of Israel “on the occasion of its 25th birthday in May 1973″, Michael Oren, Israel’s ambassador to the United States, asked Monday in the...

05/18/2012 - 1:43am

nevamind!

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nevamind!

05/18/2012 - 1:16am

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The Fallen

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Work Study Students Exhibit Enthusiasm Poolside

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SENIOR ON THE QUAD: What are you leaving behind after graduation?

SENIOR ON THE QUAD: What are you leaving behind after graduation?

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Establishing our roles

To the Editor:
It’s not “strictly academic” when a major College donor writes a cautionary letter to The Williams Record. The actions to which Herbert Allen refers (“Minding our...

A response to hyperactivism

Whatever can be said about an event that receives generous funding, commands the attention of national news media and unleashes a tidal wave of public and private conversations that dominate the...

Valuing club sports

“You don’t understand, you never played sports” was a phrase that followed me throughout high school. We came to the College for the academics and the opportunities available on an intellectual...

Brilliant cast brings humor and energy to lackluster play

Cap & Bells staged its final show of the year this weekend with “a comedy about depression,” titled Tigers Be Still.
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SpeakFree recital blends music with impassioned spoken word

Students packed Dodd Living Room on Friday for an evening of spoken word poetry presented by SpeakFree.
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BRTA to pilot bus service expansion

The Local Schools Study Group, under the purview of Experiential Education, is working with the Berkshire Regional Transit Authority (BRTA) to develop a pilot program for expanded bus service...

Student Against Silence remarks on progress, outlines goals for fall sem.

As the year ends, the Students Against Silence (SAS) Committee is wrapping up projects for the current semester and planning ahead for the next. The seven sub-committees are working to address...

MinCo votes on revised constitution, sets changes for fall

On May 1, the Minority Coalition (MinCo) finalized its constitution, passing two of the 19 amendments proposed in earlier meetings. The amendment process began at the MinCo meeting on April 17,...