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A Serving Soldier, on Cory Remsburg
Cory Remsburg, from 9Line.I won't drag this out indefinitely. (On the other hand, think about it: You may be saying to yourself, OK, enough already, let this topic go, it's getting tedious. Meanwhile,...
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Hunger Games? Tommy Atkins? Apocalypse Now? What's the Right Allusion for...
Wikimedia CommonsTwo nights ago, President Obama ended his State of the Union address with a prolonged tribute to Army Sergeant Cory Remsburg, gravely injured in Afghanistan on his tenth deployment....
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Dreaming Big in South Carolina: A Public Boarding School for the Arts
Impromptu music practice session in a glassed-in walkway at the Governor's SchoolBy Deborah Fallows “One half dream; one half plan.” That’s how one student described his life at the Governor’s School...
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Now This Is Team Spirit
I am taking no sides in The Big Game this weekend. I don't care.* But I have to admire the combination of team spirit, precision flight planning, and disregard for practicality shown by the group at...
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As We Switch From Superbowl to Sochi ...
For several days I am holed up finishing an "American Futures" article for the next issue of the magazine. Later this week, more web dispatches will be coming about The Upstate of South Carolina. In...
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In Honor of the Olympics, Let's Talk Filibuster
Stop me if you've heard this one before: A large majority of the U.S. Senate votes in favor of a measure -- in this case, Senators representing nearly 70% of the U.S. population*. A minority threatens...
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2 Reasons to Have Watched the Pre-Opening Night Sochi Broadcast
I never think I'll end up watching these oddball winter events, and yet... The payoff last night: 1) Jun Miyake. If you watched, you know that American figure skating champion Jeremy Abbott had a rough...
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So, Where Do You Live? What Do You Do?
By Deborah Fallows When we were in Greenville SC recently, I was surprised to learn that a very common follow-up to the greeting of “How do you do?” or “Nice to meet you,” is the question “Where do you...
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Before You Watch the New House of Cards, Do Yourself a Favor and See the...
I'll watch anything Kevin Spacey is in, so I'll be among the early downloaders of the second installment of House of Cards, which will be out via Netflix touchingly on Valentine's Day. But now I've...
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Snow Day Update on Original House of Cards
As I mentioned yesterday, you really do want to see Ian Richardson's rendering of Francis Urquhart, in the vintage-1990 original BBC version of House of Cards, before Kevin Spacey shows us what he has...
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George Wilson
George WilsonI was sorry to learn today that George C. Wilson, a longtime and highly respected reporter on defense matters, had died at age 86. I knew him slightly, mainly during the years he worked at...
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American Futures Update, Nanook Edition
Happy Valentine's Day! Reinvention and resilience across the nationRead more Our rediscover-America caravan was set to be back in the Carolinas and Georgia this past week. But they are still snowbound,...
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As House of Cards Resumes
Kevin Spacey in the season-opening episode, via Netflix.I've seen only Episode One of Season Two of the U.S. version. So no spoilers from me about that first hour, and I'll try to avoid them from...
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The Surprising Geography of Everyday Talk
People moving in and out of Austin, source here.On her own new section of this site -- they grow up so fast! -- Deb Fallows has a very interesting post with reader reaction on the topic she raised last...
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Happening Right Now: Gliding Attempt Across the Mountains, Nevada to South...
This morning a glider plane was launched from Minden, Nevada -- in the Sierra Nevada east of Lake Tahoe, very close to the California state line -- in an attempt to fly all the way during daylight...
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The Parks and Recreation Theory of America's Future
I have an article about Greenville, South Carolina, and some other cities, just being wrapped up for the April issue of the magazine. Whenever the snow and wintry storms stop rolling through the...
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3 Different Topics, 3 Works Worth Reading
Roger Angell, via PBS1) You don't often read things in the periodical press and think, people will still want to read this many, many years from now. But I had that feeling when reading Roger Angell's...
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John Tierney on the Power of Mapping
As I mentioned in introducing my wife Deb's very popular post on "What We Mean When We Say Hello," she and I, along with John Tierney, are all doing reports for our American Futures project, and they...
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The Vanishing US News Archives
You won't find these rankings onlineJim Romenesko reported yesterday that US News, which has had a mainly online existence since 2010, had decided to get rid of its online archives prior to 2007. Since...
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Today's Fun With Maps: Where the People Are, and the Trees
As John Tierney mentioned recently, and as Google's Michael Jones explained in an Atlantic interview last year ago, maps are both the most rapidly evolving and often the most useful ways to make sense...
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