Puffer's Pond, Amherst: Toward Wider Water
Maybe it was growing up in a windswept coastal town in Florida. Maybe it was being born an Aquarian. Whatever made me this way, I love water. Not just swimming, which I do in a rather lazy, not particularly athletic way, but being in water, feeling it swirl around and...The World This Week: Boob Jobs
Sonia Sotomayor saved baseball. So we were reminded last week after she was nominated to the Supreme Court. Before the 1995 baseball season began—the year after the players' strike—Judge Sotomayor issued a temporary injunction to get the season...
Summer Solstice: The Longest Day
I am not a religious person, never have been. My lapsed Catholic mom and my atheist dad agreed to have me baptized a Catholic, but I don't remember going to mass except on Christmas Eve. When I was about seven, mom briefly joined an Episcopalian church, where I...Between the Lines: Keillor on Torture
Garrison Keillor claims to be a liberal. He—and we—should know better. Keillor has just joined the already large and ever-growing list of allegedly liberal media figures who either advocate or apologize for torture. In a recent column, the National Public...E-Edition
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