Meet The Kids Who Want to Kick The Rebels Out of Darfur
WASHINGTON — There’s disagreement about how often Mark Hanis wore the powder-blue United Nations peacekeeping beret around campus.
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The Worst Book on Female Writers Ever Written (Maybe)
I represent half of Maureen Adams’s likely audience for Shaggy Muses: The Dogs Who Inspired Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edith Wharton…
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After a certain point, and if you’re the creative sort, the only way to engage with a myth, perhaps, is to rewrite it.
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Behind Every Great Fiddler Is a Word You Can’t Say
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — Bob Childs lifts a naked, pale piece of maple wood up to the window. “We’re looking for shapes,” he says.
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The Things People Will Say In Public (Like, Seriously – These Things)
When George Washington was 16, he copied out 110 “Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior” from a list the Jesuits had crafted in the…
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Glamour Hero Stephanie Nyombayire Tries To Help Stop Genocide
First I saw my mom crying,” says Stephanie Nyombayire, recalling the day she learned the details of the genocide taking place in her family’s…
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I’ve had the good fortune of working with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and its fantastic staff on several projects: Justice Renewed: Libera…
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A Painting With Legs
Like the poems Emily Dickinson stored in her attic, or John Steinbeck’s repeatedly rejected early manuscripts, one of America’s best-known paintings was almost lost.American…
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Down and Out in Paris and Boston
Outgoing North Carolina senator John Edwards wasn’t the first person to notice the Second America, which he described in a primary campaign speech as…
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Sister in a Glass House
Tiffany Sedaris yanks a saucepan out of her freezer and plops it on the floor. Eight ice cubes slosh in a couple quarts of…
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