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Ten Days Before the Mast

"...[T]here is such an infinite number of totally new names of new things to learn, that at first it seemed impossible for me to master them all. If you have [...]
September 15, 2008

To the Swarthmore Campus Community:

To the Swarthmore campus community: As leaders of the Swarthmore College Jewish community, we were saddened by the recent acts of hatred directed toward a Palestinian student on our campus. [...]
September 15, 2008

Cuckoo Clock Neutrality

In the classic film The Third Man, Holly Martins, an American writer of dime novels, goes to postwar Vienna looking for his old friend Harry Lime, who has gotten involved [...]
September 12, 2008

Nautical Terminology: Arrival

It was only the second night here, after a celestial navigation lecture, that we looked up through the hundred-foot-high riggings of the three-masted C.W. Morgan and pointed out the stars. [...]
September 1, 2008

Nestbeschmutzer, Now Out of Austria

When I boarded my plane out of Austria, the newspapers were breathlessly reporting on the just-broken story of Elisabeth Fritzl, an Austrian woman recently freed from the windowless basement where [...]
May 12, 2008
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