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Where the Wild Things Still Are
I haven’t been young in a very long time, at least in the sort of way Max is in Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are. That book, which sits on my bookshelf at home with a tattered cover and a note from the author to my six-year-old self: Dear Zack: I’ll eat you up…
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A Journey to Afghanistan
After completing his A.B. at Princeton in 1970, Michael Barry came back to campus in 2004 to serve as lecturer in the Near Eastern Studies Department. His signature course, NES 307: Afghanistan and the Great Powers 1747-2001, explores social and political dynamics within the country as well as…
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Interview with Sprinter Sebastian Steffen ’13
Freshman Sebastian Steffen is one of the newest and fastest members of the Princeton Varsity Track Team. Hailing from Greifwald, Germany, Sebastian placed fifth in the 200 meters at the German National Championships at the age of 19. He holds personal bests of 10.56 seconds in the 100 meters and 20.86 seconds in the 200…
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Stories That We Believed
My father stands roasting in his black neoprene wetsuit, a surfboard jammed under each arm so that he looks like he might just take off at any moment. In his face I find memories, sewn in amongst the creases and the tufts of gray, there to be dug up and revealed. He looks nothing like…
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Headless and Gone
After her father escaped the October Revolution, and after her parents fled deeper into Poland from the Russian Invasion of 1920, Magdalena Abakanowicz was born. At the age of nine she saw the Third Reich sink its talons into her homeland. At the age of fifteen, she watched the Nazi captors relinquish her country to…
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The Nass 100
1. The Daily Princetonian (so true though) 2. Your claim that there is a little independent coffee shop back home that is way better than Small World and way cheaper, though this is probably the case. 3. Princeton’s new login system which demands of innocent young minds textual and pictorial identification with the university’s egomaniacal…
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The Opportunity of Crisis
On February 29, Princeton commemorated the struggle for Civil Rights with an event titled “The Opportunity of Crisis: Integrating the University of Alabama.”
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White Stuff
What do Asian girls, Barack Obama, divorce, and expensive sandwiches all have in common? No, not a White House scandal waiting to happen. You wish, Hillary supporters. All of the things listed are inexplicably loved by white people and detailed on the self-explanatory blog “Stuff White People Like.”
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The Theo Ellis Story
INTRODUCTION With the unfortunate rise in popularity of such publication as InTouch, Us Weekly, Star and People, many adolescents hope to become celebrities to get their names strewn across these glossy rags.
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Killa Cam’Ron Digs Deep
In the sultry, slow, even-toned raps his fans have come to love, Cam tells the story of his escapades with a fine young piece and how he changed her life by hitting the bottom of her punani. His voice rides cleanly over the lyrics he spits, even when they somehow don’t actually rhyme.
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An Argument for Bigness
‘Reading,’ as describing a certain activity of eye-sliding-over-page, with eye recognizing ink blobs corresponding (by means of whatever neural calculus) either (1) to something like second-order phonemes, and therefore to certain aural centers and therefore to speech-parts of the brain, which ‘articulate’ meaning to other parts, or (2) to something like second-order morphemes, and therefore…
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Gomorra
Abraham “looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace” (Genesis 19:28). Matteo Garrone’s horrifying film Gomorra depicts a sun-bleached Campania engulfed in a conflagration of mafia violence where one could easily mistake the…