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October 2008
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
An interesting post over at TigerHawk, which mirrors rather closely most of the e-mails in my own inbox….
I trust you have been busy thinking away at my puzzle of the prisoners and the lamp? Have you come to a solution? Mine is below. First, a recap. One hundred prisoners yearn for freedom….
The New York Times reports on the status of Latin in primary and secondary schools. The short version is, it’s not dead yet. I was fortunate enough to take three years of Latin in high…
I have to say I rather like the supermarket self-checkout registers that are popping up all over the place these days. I’ve also seen them, in a couple cities, at CVS and I would imagine…
It is widely acknowledged that at some point in recent history Saturday Night Live, a once popular and wildly hilarious comedy sketch show, completely ceased being amusing. However, after a week of financial woes on…
Like the other two “debates,” this one was awfully depressing, redeemed principally by the fact that it did not preempt “The Office.” Tom Brokaw, who pronounces his own Christian name as “Chom,” was not saved…
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October 18, 2009
When Love Beckoned in 52nd Street
We were at San Francisco’s BIX last evening, enjoying prosecco, cheese, and a bit of music. A full year of inhabitation in Northern California has unraveled to me no decent venue for proper lounging, but… -
October 9, 2009
D Afraid of a Little Competish
So our colleague and Dartblog writer Joe Asch informed me that the D has rejected our cunning advertising campaign. Uh-oh. The Dartmouth is widely known as a breeding ground for instant New York Times successes,… -
September 4, 2009
How Regents Should Reign
As Dartmouth alumni proceed through the legal hoops necessary to defuse a Board-packing plan—which put in unhappy desuetude an historic 1891 Agreement between alumni and the College guaranteeing a half-democratically-elected Board of Trustees—it strikes one… -
August 29, 2009
Election Reform Study Committee
If you are an alum of the College on the Hill, you may have received a number of e-mails of late beseeching your input for a new arm of the College’s Alumni Control Apparatus called… -
August 23, 2009
Fare Thee Well, Tom Crady
And now Dean Tom Crady has precipitously announced his departure from the College after only 20 months on the job. How to read this? By way of background, prior to coming to Dartmouth, Crady had… -
May 31, 2009
Kangaroo Court, Indeed
In an interview with The Dartmouth, alumni-elected trustee T.J. Rodgers ‘70 explained his reasons for declining to participate in future evaluations of trustees up for “re-election,” namely the “kangaroo court” nature of such discussion in…