Category: Miscellaneous

  • Nothing Up My Sleeve

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    By George Barany George Barany is a Rockefeller alum (1977) currently on the faculty of the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities. John Child has had an interesting career and currently lives in Nepal. For more about this specific puzzle, including a link to the answer, click here. Also, try more Barany and Friends crossword puzzles. Across…

  • Citi-zens United

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    By George Barany, Christopher Adams, John Child, Charles Flaster, and Brent Hartzell George Barany is a Rockefeller alum (1977), currently on the faculty of the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities. Christopher Adams is a graduate student at the University of Iowa, John Child runs a business in Nepal, Charles Flaster is a retired school teacher in…

  • Quotable Quote

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    “How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these. “ (George Washington Carver, 1864 – 1943)

  • Fast Ball

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    By George Barany George Barany is a Rockefeller alum (1977) currently on the faculty of the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities. He still remembers a watershed moment at the interface of American culture and sports that occurred fifty years ago … October 6, 1965 to be exact. For more about this specific puzzle, including a link…

  • Quotable Quote

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     “Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child and one teacher can change the world.” Malala Yousafzai, youngest Nobel Peace Prize awardee

  • RU Ready for Halloween?

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    Dedicated to the memory of Moses Malone By George Barany George Barany is a Rockefeller alum (1977) currently on the faculty at the University of Minnesota—Twin Cities. At a 1974 Halloween party at Rockefeller, he dressed up as Moses Malone, who was born in the same year, and who also “skipped college for the big…

  • Puzzle to Play With

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    By Arlene Romoff and George Barany George Barany is a Rockefeller alum (1977) currently on the faculty of the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities. Arlene Romoff is an advocate and author in the area of hearing loss, based in New Jersey. For more about this specific puzzle, including links to the answer and a “midrash,” visit…

  • Quotable Quote

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    “If I have learned anything in my life, it is that bitterness consumes the vessel that contains it.” – Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, former middleweight boxer From Grothe, Dr. Mardy, Ifferisms: An Antholog y of Aphorisms….” Collins Reference, 2009  

  • Horsefeathers

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    By George Barany, Charles Flaster, and Brent Hartzell Introduction: George Barany is a Rockefeller alum (1977) currently on the faculty at the University of Minnesota—Twin Cities; Charles Flaster is a retired school teacher now living in Atlantic City; Brent Hartzell holds a master’s degree from the University of Minnesota and works in the areas of public policy…

  • Free Summertime Fun

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    By Susan Russo One of my top picks for a great summer spot in Manhattan is Bryant Park at Sixth Avenue between 42nd and 41st Streets (behind the main New York Public Library) www.bryantpark.org/plan-your-visit/calendar.html. On this website you will find pages and pages of events for all ages, abilities and temperaments – ping pong, arts…