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Campus Life at
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Five American Universities
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Comedy Break
via Sarah Cooper
Why you shouldn’t keep secrets
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Interesting Read
via the American Affairs Journal:
The Economics of Geopolitics
by Christos A. Makridis
published in their Winter 2025 edition
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Music takes on a different purpose by mid-August—who isn’t feeling a little lazy and crooked by now, spiritually overserved and ready for a nap? Crank the boom box; head to the hammock.
~ Amanda Petrusich via The New Yorker
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New York Mayor Ed Koch was annoyed, and he later referred to Donald Trump as “piggy, piggy, piggy.” In return, Trump called him a moron. The Mayor, he said, was “extremely nasty, mean-spirited, and very vicious, an extremely disloyal human being.”
~ Kai Bird and Susan Goldmark via The New Yorker
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One of the pleasing facets of plagiarism is that it doesn’t exist—not in the eyes of the law, that is, and especially not if those eyes are American. There is intellectual-property law, and a law that prohibits the trafficking of counterfeit goods. There are laws against copyright infringement. If plagiarists are sent to prison, however, it will not be because they have filched a slice of poetry, or half a juicy ballad, and passed it off as their own.
~ Anthony Lane via The New Yorker
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Patricia J. Williams was born
on this day in 1951
Patricia J. Williams — the American legal scholar — was born on August 28, 1951 in Boston, Massachusetts.
She is a graduate of both Wellesley College and holds a law degree from Harvard University.
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