June 2011
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March 2011
1 post
When 15th Is Better Than 8th: The Math Shows the... →
More on the march to madness
July 2009
7 posts
House Bill Would Make U.S. Sole Student Loan... →
Wonder — is not precisely Knowing
And not precisely Knowing not —...
– Emily Dickinson
June 2009
7 posts
An Activist Movement for Research →
BU Class of 2013 - first orientation session. Zoom... →
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and...
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
Time and again, young people defied the skeptics.
– Davis Plouffe, former Obama advisor
Speaking to young people about the power of the ballot
The idea that you can just choose not to care, choose not to notice, is a very...
– Naomi Klein
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it...
– Thomas Jefferson
May 2009
12 posts
I say that religion isn’t about believing things. It’s ethical...
– Karen Armstrong
I freed them from clouds of automatic verbiage, from...
– from Brenda Ueland’s If You Want to Write
The importance of compassion - the beginning of an... →
Advice Aplenty - Cheers to oh-nine →
Vivir la buena vida →
Love this style.
The music of a well-ordered age is calm and cheerful, and so is its government....
– “The Annals of Lu Buwei,” quoted in Herman Hesse’s “Magister Ludi” and in Ashley Kahn’s “The House that Trane Built”
And, by the way, one of the changes that I would like to see — and...
– President Barack Obama From April 14, 2009, Remarks by the President on the Economy
Cool night at the White House - you invited? →
You have to let it all go, Neo. Fear, doubt, and disbelief. Free your mind.
– Morpheus