Author: Miguel Crespo

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  • The Eleventh Hour

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      Aileen Marshall There is a federal holiday coming up that you may not be familiar with and probably have only heard about through advertisements. November 11 is Veterans Day, and it is almost 100 years old.  The holiday is meant to honor all those who have served in any branch of the armed forces…

  • Word of the Month

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      Dakota Blackman Indigenous adjective |  in·dig·e·nous | \ in-ˈdi-jə-nəs \ Produced, growing, living, or occurring naturally in a particular region or environment. According to Merriam-Webster, the first known use of the word indigenous was in 1646, nearly 150 years after a year embedded in the brains of most schoolchildren in the United States: 1492,…

  • For Your Consideration

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      Ones to Watch, Vol. 2 Edition Jim Keller With the summer film festivals, namely Venice (August 30 – September 9), Telluride (September 1-4), and Toronto (September 7-17) behind us, it’s time for the second of a three-part series, which examines the roles that are likely to feature in the Best Actor race. In recent…

  • Culture Corner

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    Book Review: Compass by Mathias Énard (New Directions, 2015; translated into English, 2017) Bernie Langs There are novels that are categorized as literature and not merely as fiction, and then there are the geniuses of literature and the masterworks of the genre. Reading these masterpieces of literary creation, we enter a process of joyful sublimation…

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      “It is not only by the questions we have answered that progress may be measured, but also by those we are still asking. The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.”   Freda Adler, b. 1934

  • Life on a Roll

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      Pretty Seasonal Colors Elodie Pauwels https://elodiepphoto.wordpress.com “The falling leaves drift by the window, the autumn leaves of red and gold…” Here we go again, fall has arrived, with its bright and warm colors. Who does not love walking around in this season, amazed by the beauty of the trees? Enjoy it!

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  • Natural Selections Salutes Nobel Prize Winner Mike Young!

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        The Nobel Committee has awarded Professor Michael W. Young the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on October 2. Together with Jeffrey C. Hall and Michael Rosbash, professor Young has made an outstanding contribution unravelling now the circadian clock anticipates and adapts our physiology to the different phases of the day. Michael…

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      Dakota Blackman Kakistocracy [kak-uh–stok-ruh-see] Noun, plural kakistocracies Government by the worst persons; a form of government in which the worst persons are in power   Late this past June, journalist and MSNBC correspondent Joy Reid tweeted the following: “Look up the definition of ‘kakistocracy’ today, my fellow Americans. Things will make much more sense.”…