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Peace Corps: A Life-Changing Experience

Me in the hat, with my back to the camera, playing cards with another Peace Corps volunteer, Rory Karlsen (RIP, Rory), and several Marshallese “likaos” (young men) during a break from Peace Corps...

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Rev. Peter Gomes 1942-2011: A Personal Remembrance

The Reverend Peter J. Gomes, acclaimed preacher, best-selling author, and minister to Harvard University for four decades, passed away on February 28, 2011, due to complications from a prior stroke....

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Loving Las Vegas and the Ghosts of My Father

I don’t gamble much. I don’t drink much. I don’t smoke. I don’t go out clubbing. I don’t go to the shows. And, I definitely don’t partake in the girls who could be direct to my hotel room in 20 minutes...

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Learning to Forgive

Forgiveness is one of those things people struggle with from time to time. Conflicts come in all shapes and sizes, some much more serious than others. This reminds me of the first time I had to truly...

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The Origins of O: Oprah Winfrey’s First National Broadcast

Twenty-five years ago today, a young African American woman in Chicago took to the stage for the taping of the first nationally syndicated episode of her eponymous talk show. The program, which had...

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Bob Dent Dies: The First Legal Voluntary Euthanasia

On September 22, 1996, fifteen years ago today, Australian Bob Dent, terminally ill with prostate cancer, chose to end his own life with the assistance of a physician, Dr. Philip Nitschke. Dent, sick...

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Dancing with Steve Jobs (A Tribute to a Contemporary Giant)

Steve Jobs showing off the new MacBook Air, an ultraportable laptop, during his keynote speech at the 2008 Macworld Conference & Expo. Credit: Tony Avelar—AFP/Getty Images I have been enjoying the...

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Ireland’s Aran Islands: The Richest Place I Know

Once I received an unusual geography lesson from a man living in a very remote place in the world. It was a lesson on the precise location of Ireland. “Ireland,” the man said to me, “is an island off...

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Paul Revere and the Case of the Major General’s Teeth

Paul Revere holding a silver teapot; painting by John Singleton Copley, c. 1768. Credit: © Freelance Photography Guild/Corbis In May 1998, the Department of Defense exhumed the body of the Vietnam War...

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From Servicemen to Segways in 70 Years

Mouse over the image below to see the view from Chicago’s Buckingham Fountain in 1942 and in 2012. Images are courtesy of Ned Mulka. Seventy years ago, the scene around Buckingham Fountain reflected...

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