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Transatlantic Cruising
For a kid with a fear of the dark, public bathrooms, flying, and dying alone, I embarked intrepidly on a transatlantic cruise that mirrored the intended route of the ill-fated Titanic of 1912 from port at Southampton to New York City. In fact, I crossed the second largest ocean in the world on The Queen…
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Jeff Bezos Launches Us to 1892
A Nass writer meditates on staggering levels of income inequality amidst excesses of wealth.
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Sly and his Family Ride Again
Sly Stone, swooping out of history like a glittery geriatric pterodactyl, gave his first public performance in nineteen years at the sometimes-luscious 48th Grammys, on this past Wednesday. He was a sight, even a specter of soul. One of his hands was wrapped in white gauze as it massaged, most gingerly, a willing keyboard. (Too…
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Self-Love
Often times, during my perambulations about campus, I am accosted and questioned about various topics ranging from neuroscience to Neo-Platonism. I have never begrudged a fellow academe his curiosity, and so I am not surprised that I have accrued a modest reputation for my cross-disciplinary erudition and literary acumen. And so, for this most sensual…
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A Summer of Luddism
“I didn’t even think about my phone at all, didn’t start at a phantom buzz in my pocket or stop what I was doing to look over at the device when I thought I saw its screen light up.”
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East Com Dotcom Represent
For all those who read Obama’s first memoir (Gobama!) where he talks about his heart-wrenching trip to Nairobi, they might already know this. But for those who didn’t, Matatus are basically just vans. But like the average road in Nairobi is less a road than a Mario Kart-esque trial of potholes, spiked road belts placed…
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Let my last words be “good night”
Don’t let it end like this. Tell them I said something. -Pancho Villa, last words Let my last words be “good night” Even if I don’t have time to utter them As a Mercedes truck smushes me Under the moon At the intersection in Times Square. Tell them I said “good night” Even as I…
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Princeton in Russia
“Every Princetonian knows that Nassau Hall cares about ethics—students have to swear on every test and quiz that they did not cheat. Less clear, though, is whether these standards apply to investments by Princeton’s $23 billion endowment.”
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Furbizia: On Loving Italian Soccer
Lionel Messi, the star of FC Barcelona and the man widely considered to be the best soccer player in the world, is stepping up to the penalty spot. He stares down the goalkeeper for a moment, takes a few steps back and then slams his left foot into the ball, sending it predictably perfectly into…