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April 29, 2016

When I first saw the smoke billowing from the tower I was disappointed. I was in seventh grade, gorging on American history, and had arrived […]

September 8, 2011

I have a hard time letting go of things. A quick look around my room seems to prove as much: the three foot stack of […]

April 28, 2011

‘CANDIDATE. TRANSLATE!” The charge booms out in Latin to a hapless sophomore huddled on the ground. A brazier of burning coals dominates his blurred vision. […]

April 15, 2011

The Department of Education is investigating our university “for its failure to eliminate a hostile sexual environment on campus.” A girl got robbed by three […]

April 1, 2011

This week FOOT will reject over a hundred freshmen. They join good company. If leading a successful outdoors trip is a function of capacity to […]

February 28, 2011

On Friday I wrote a column (“Content over color,” Feb. 18) that was arrogant, insensitive and offensive. I drew straight lines through a nuanced issue, […]

February 21, 2011

On Jan. 23 and Jan. 31 I received e-mails with the following provocative question in 27 point bold underlined Arial font: “What are your feelings […]

February 18, 2011

I will always have an enduring affection for shrews, otters and badgers. Shrews are funky, capable and good-hearted — unless you cross Log-a-log. The sea […]

February 11, 2011

The poetical trappings of the revolution in downtown Cairo are the meat and potatoes of great literature. It evinces Chekhov’s rule: If, in the first […]

February 4, 2011

Two blocks from my Arabic tutor’s apartment in downtown Cairo stands a building the size of a city block. Its ominous black walls make little […]

January 31, 2011