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Mothering at Mid-Career: End of an Era

Last Wednesday, Nick and I went to our last tae kwon do class. Or at least the last for a...

What do the Egyptian Student Elections Mean?: The Backdrop and Campaign (Part 1)

The situation of Egyptian universities reflects the immense challenges and conflicts the country faces in the transformation since Mubarak was...

Journal 9

“If you don’t know any better, then what you got is the best there is.”--Frenchy, on how my son loved...

Ask the Administrator: A Budding Young Economist...

A longtime correspondent writes My oldest, 16, mentioned the other day that he's thinking about going to community college before...

Risks of the Road Less Traveled

I suspect all our American readers know this passage from Robert Frost’s poem, “The Road Not Taken:” “Two roads diverged...

Roads Taken and Not Taken

A good friend from grad school came to visit this weekend. He is the chair of his department, and has...

Slow News Day

On November 9, 1965, my doctor appointment in mid town Manhattan lasted longer than I expected and I needed to...

Happiness

Last week, Ben's band had their first paying gig in Manhattan. It was a pretty big deal -- an attractive...