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Whenever I finish saying these words, my newest acquaintance—whoever it is—doesn’t then ask my hometown, concentration, or House. Instead, an eyebrow raises and she asks a different question. It can range from a curious inquiry to a challenge, but I always know what it will be: “What’s your real name...
With just four teams left in the 2010 NCAA men’s basketball tournament, leading into this weekend’s festivities many seniors are preparing for their last shot at glory—but they are not alone. One of the newest and most depressing trends in college basketball has been the “one and done,” which no longer means a team losing their first game of a tournament, but rather a star player leaving college after his freshman season. Although this pattern is recent, the list of players that have already successfully...
...fears of an aging poet. Although Derek Walcott—who turned eighty this past January—is a Nobel Laureate and the author of over twenty published volumes of poetry, the dread of losing his poetic ability permeates “White Egrets,” his newest collection. He writes, “If it is true that my gift has withered, that there’s little left of it, / if this man is right, then there’s nothing left to do / but abandon poetry like a woman because you love it / and would...
Last week—in the newest addition to the ongoing Cape Wind saga—Massachusetts’s top historic preservation official took a public stand against the alternative-energy project, on grounds that two Native American tribes have ties to the land and water in question. While we understand that certain natural spaces hold significance for specific groups of people, climate change poses a pressing and collective threat to the planet as a whole. It is unlikely that anyone would seek to oppose natural beauty or historic-land preservation in theory; however, such concerns must be weighed...
...Created Job To start to understand the process, swing by HomeAway's downtown Austin headquarters. This is where, sometime in the next nine months, a marketing manager will show up for his first day of work at one of the economy's newest jobs...