Monday, September 25, 2006
Last saturday, I finally succumbed to the ultimate California attraction: the farmer’s market on Grand and Lake in Oakland. You know the deal. Support the local growers and buy the imperfectly formed, organic vegetables and fruits. Nice food and good music. What more could one ask for? According to reports, I didn’t even notice friends, [...]
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Sweat pours over his pink, granite face. That severe, austere, commanding, carved face, which houses a shy, quiet and reticent persona. He resembles a monk, not the greatest football player since Diego Maradona.
He runs like a bull in the midfield and charges occasionally when the ball is in sight. But with the ball at his [...]
In Chicago, the first of every month is a special day. No, not because it’s pay day. Powells book store, the finest second hand book store I have ever been in, offers twenty percent discount. So off we go, on the first of every month, to enact the ‘first’ ritual. Even on January 1st, when [...]
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If you thought writing and defending a dissertation was hard, there are more difficult rituals associated with this process. First, to get your dissertation committee to read your dissertation. Approval is easy, since you could argue, reason with your committee but getting it read isn’t. You have no agency in this matter. But in the [...]
Just watched the final episode of the West Wing. In contrast to the pilot episode, this was a let down and had no great lines. Remember the Lincolnisque lines with which Bartlett characterizes those Cuban refugees who braved a storm and came to America:
With the clothes on their back, they came through a storm. Those [...]
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Seth Mayer, a vegetarian philosophy concentrator at the University of Chicago, has a funny piece in last week’s Chicago Maroon on trying to survive on free food for a week. He did inspire me to share my own thoughts on free lunch.
Make no mistake. Free food has great value in every student’s life. This isn’t [...]
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