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The Not So Rinky Dinky

With a mere 2.7 miles of track, the Dinky is the shortest regularly scheduled passenger route in the USA. The two-car train has 117 seats and carries some 1860 riders a day.

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Ten Rules to Live by in the Trustees Room of Firestone Library

1. Always substitute the uncomfortable wooden chair at your table for one of the more comfortable computer chairs.

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YOLO

One life to live.

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The Martyred Punk Opera

Green Day has released its eighth album, a so-called punk rock opera entitled American Idiot. American Idiot sounds like, and almost certainly is, the soundtrack to a movie that is yet to be filmed.

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Slumming It Highbrow Style

I’ve always been aware of the preconception that people who choose to be artists are, well, not quite normal. However, I got a chance to judge this for myself when I visited artists in their studios in Manhattan and Brooklyn … Read More

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Rub-A-Dub-Dub, Two Men in a Tub: Ruminations on Male Nudity

In which the author travels, bathes, and contemplates.

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Peer Review

__Dan edits Giri’s college app__
Page 1, Page 2, Page 3

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From Canada to Princeton

And how to be, or seem to be, American.

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Robert Fagles

Robert Fagles, the iconic 40-year Princeton professor whose historic translations of Homer and Virgil enjoyed unprecedented commercial and cultural success in the 1990s and 2000s, died on March 26th following a long struggle with cancer.

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Erotomania and Castration Anxiety in USG President M. Margolin

Although I will perhaps be labeled as crude and sensational, I should like to turn the light of psychoanalysis on Mr. M. Margolin, the president of the Undergraduate Student Government.

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Combing through the Dogpile

Alpha Dog, Nick Cassavetes’s new guns-‘n’-posses yarn, is predictably bad. That is to say, it fails where one might expect it to fail: cuts are alternately languid and meth-fueled, the dialogue stilted or overly gangish. In case you’re wondering, Justin … Read More

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Unstable Connection – Full Design on Issuu

This week, the Nass considers the potential of a virtual first year, traces a musical history, and hears from a student artist.

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