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...write in your book about "social convoys" What are they? As we travel through life, we're surrounded by intimates and consequential strangers who make the journey with us. Some of them go the whole distance, usually our intimates, and others are there for specific periods of time - whether it's because you have a particular job, because you're interested in a particular subject or because you have a crisis in your life such as illness. My feeling is that it's important to look at your life as a cavalcade of people, not just a series of events...
...follows a green scar of borderland between Wedding and Prenzlauer Berg, districts linked in Cold War days only by a crossing at Bornholmerstrasse. This was the first of seven inner-city checkpoints to abandon controls in 1989 after an apparatchik named Günter Schabowski announced the lifting of travel restrictions on G.D.R. citizens. At first officers tried to turn away the many thousands who congregated, pedestrians just wanting a look at the other side, and lines of olive green and turquoise blue Trabant cars. Finally the numbers forced the authorities to open the gates. Niebank's brother was among...
Every fall the professors at Beloit College publish their Mindset List, a dictionary of all the deeply ingrained cultural references that will make no sense to the bright-eyed students of the incoming class. It's a kind of time travel, to remind us how far we've come. This year's freshmen were typically born in 1991. That means, the authors explain, they have never used a card catalog to find a book; salsa has always outsold ketchup; women have always outnumbered men in college. There has always been blue Jell...
...committed himself to being able to excel at both sports.”HATCH BROWN TROPHYWhile the co-ed squad’s more experienced sailors made their way south and found rather mediocre success, the team’s younger and less experienced members did not have to travel far to find similar results.Competing at the Hatch Brown Trophy regatta on the waters of the Charles, the young group of co-ed sailors placed 18th out of a field of 18 teams.The A-division duo of sophomore skipper Brendan Kopp and sophomore crew William White placed 13th overall...
President Obama has pledged to thaw U.S.-Cuba affairs as a way to promote democracy on the island. Though he favors keeping intact the 47-year-old trade embargo against Cuba, he eliminated restrictions on travel to Cuba for Cuban-American families, and his Administration is now in talks with Havana about improving immigration and postal service between the two countries. Erikson says the concert by Juanes, who lives in Miami, was a reminder of the "soft power tool kit" the U.S. should wield more often. "Obama needs to bring more of that kind of cultural diplomacy back into...