Summer home, some are not
I don’t think 12 weeks will do anything to change my mind on these accounts, but to some degree, I know that the national autonomy of Ugandans must be respected.
Qat in the middle
Sometimes I miss the eco-reps of freshman year. I miss the “Green Dorm Room” sign that my roommate and I earned by virtue of living in a non-air conditioned room with a broken radiator.
Monsters, cockroaches and dogs, oh my!
A French journalist named Jean Hatzfeld has devoted his life to special correspondence and war reporting.
Couch po-tay-toe, couch po-tah-toe
Whether you twang your “ay”s or opt for the posher “ah,” it all comes down to the same thing: We’re lethargic.
They, the people
About two years ago, Mohammed Bouazizi set himself on fire in Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia, sparking a string of democratic revolutions across the Arab world.
Skirting legality
There’s nothing worse than a sequel. Aside from grossing nearly $150 million, what did “American Pie 2” do for us that “American Pie” didn’t do funnier, sooner and better?
Pillbillies
People kind of expect those darn kids, the ones who trample lawns and tag underpasses and egg cats, to graduate on to more serious transgressions.
A New Year's resolution
2012 has come and gone, and the new year brings a measure of introspection that, if we’re lucky, is bound to last at least a week or two.
The short end of the stick
When I turn in my physics homework, I have to jump. The box is well above an arm’s reach, and when I hold my arm straight up, problem set in hand, the top of my paper just reaches the mouth of the...
Resetting rhetoric
Barack’s acceptance speech did exactly what it had to. It thanked all the right people and reminded us that he is at heart a family man.
