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Fish conducted an interesting in-class assignment in a freshman rhetoric course in which speeches by Bush and Kerry were analyzed. Bush won out on style; or rather he won on… more ›
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“How do you intend to resolve problems by allowing half-nude women to mingle and party with men who dress like women?” Eshrat Shaegh, one of the women elected to Iran’s… more ›
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Despite always having a fondness for the scars that traverse my own skin, it wasn’t until I met Chris in Japan that I learned I had (for lack of a… more ›
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Déjà Vu: If It All Seems Familiar, There May Be a Reason NY Times, September 14, 2004 New & interesting research being done on the experience of déjà vu, some… more ›
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Before heading into my humanities classroom this afternoon, a student stopped me to ask about the first writing assignment. I had stipulated that they could choose any text to write… more ›
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Yesterday–the anniversary of the beginning of Nazi Germany’s blitz over London–I sent the saddest, most pathetic email of my life to that great city on the Thames. Oh, London, we… more ›
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I think I shall go into cryptology–not necessarily breaking codes so much as creating new, indecipherable ones. It would be more useful than soap star (estrella de la telenovela) .… more ›
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You are a big, fat, stupid, lazy, ugly, retarded fuck. You have shit for brains. You look and act like a moron, and your stink attracts flies. You will never… more ›
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The Olympic games have been eating away my oxygen these past few nights like Sylvia’s tulips. I often get annoyed with the announcers mythologizing the American athletes; and I’ve adopted… more ›
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…doesn’t mean you belong. Okay, here’s the skinny: I’m not moving to London this fall. Yes, I concede that I may be passing up the opportunity of a lifetime, but… more ›