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THE POND GONE BLACK
Go wrap Your head in the snowy rivers Of the Brooks Range. And that's what Nicholas Hughes did. His father...
DANCE OF THE MILLION VEILS, Part One
Bernard d'Espagnat, a French physicist/philosopher, has won this year's one million dollar Templeton Prize, given to thinkers who attempt to...
SCATHING ONLINE SCHOOLMARM
Rule One: Never make your reader laugh when she's not supposed to.SUNY Binghamton got blasted in the New York Times...
Pretty v. Ugly at the University
Bernard Madoff is a classic Mafia-style gangster. He comes from gangsters - his mother was a crook. Investigators are looking...
POEM FOR THE NEW YEAR
The poet W.D. Snodgrass has died. Here's a poem of his written in the spring but just as right for...
The Story of a Year: Norman Maclean, Part 3
With the new year, we tell ourselves the story of a year. The story of last year. The story of...
The Catharctic Half-Light -- Norman Maclean, Part Two
Norman Maclean, an Aristotelian, learned deeply what Aristotle taught: tragic art is cathartic. Toward the end of his life, he...
A BLOGGER RUNS THROUGH IT - Part One
UD has stepped in the same river twice, and reread, after twenty years, Norman Maclean's story, A River Runs Through...