Baseball: an irrational love
In my last column, I believe I said something about getting married “when hell freezes over.” I’m going to have to amend that statement, because as anyone who saw the 500-point font headline on the New York Daily News last Thursday knows, hell did freeze over. The Boston Red Sox beat the Yankees for the pennant. [more]
If ‘all the world’s a stage...’
Things are going quite well here in London as the inevitable rain sets in. As you read this, we Grinnellians will be wrapping up our fall break using London as the gateway to a myriad of European escapes – Prague, Rome, Amsterdam, Paris…. I myself will have been in Dublin to research my ancestors because I’m a geek like that.
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Feelin’ the Electoral College blues
The time is ripe to break from the stated purpose of this column and write about domestic affairs. The election is a topic that the near entirety of the S&B readership can appreciate, and, more importantly, the election has so absorbed my attention that I’m now barely more qualified to write about international affairs than, well, you.
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S&B Guide to the 2004 Elections
“This is the most important election of your life.” On Feb. 9, 2003 Howard Dean kicked off election season by preaching this message to a packed South Lounge audience. Over the past year and a half, the campus has been hit with a barrage of candidates and speakers working to drive this message home.
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Random Rants
Students speak out about what’s on their minds in 142 words, and you’re invited! If you have a random rant, email it to us. After all, complaining in a public forum is always more fun than doing it alone.
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Correction
In the Oct. 8, 2004 issue of the S&B, quotation marks were inadvertantly removed from professor Katya Gibel Azoulay’s guest column “Race, gender intersect.” The quotations were intended to be attributed to Kimberle Crenshaw and Derrick Bell.
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