I wish she'd consult a specialist, but she thinks she knows what's best.
By Cary Tennis Dec 18, 2008
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I seem to have lost some part of myself and wish I could get it back.
By Cary Tennis
December 11, 2008
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A rescue worker's lament while searching the rubble in Sichuan. Plus: Three minutes of no searching, in honor of the dead
By Andrew Leonard
May 23, 2008
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Get a grip. We have passed the great test of a republic to survive the most incompetent leadership ever.
By Garrison Keillor
September 19, 2007
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Jonathan Kozol, author of "Letters to a Young Teacher," talks with Salon about why No Child Left Behind squelches learning and about reading Rilke's sonnets to first graders.
By Matthew Fishbane
August 30, 2007
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One chum is working on a cure for cancer; one has started his own political party. All this overachieving is giving me status anxiety.
By Cary Tennis
December 4, 2008
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We took her in because her home life was unbearable. Now my home life is unbearable.
By Cary Tennis
November 24, 2008
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I don't know what my friends are talking about, and I don't know what my problem is.
By Cary Tennis
October 7, 2008
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I finally got through law school but I'm having a problem with procrastination.
By Cary Tennis
July 21, 2008
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Should I paint, or sculpt, or write? I can't decide.
By Cary Tennis
July 17, 2008
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I hit the wall in my dead-end job, I'm sleeping on a friend's floor, but I have a dream!
By Cary Tennis
July 7, 2008
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How important is education in a relationship, and can we be happy if he is less ambitious than I am?
By Cary Tennis
April 9, 2008
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I know I am different. I know I go for broke. What if my gift is rejected?
By Cary Tennis
November 7, 2007
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A certain 50-ish lothario lured a student into his office and made clumsy advances. Should a complaint be lodged?
By Cary Tennis
May 23, 2007
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Not really getting the message, vandals and school administrators seek to silence the national Day of Silence.
By Carol Lloyd
April 19, 2007
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Seattle after-school program temporarily bans the bumpy plastic building blocks of capitalist meritocracy.
By Lynn Harris
April 2, 2007
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I am humiliated and outraged and don't know what to do.
By Cary Tennis
March 30, 2007
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I'm an older student, and I could take a more prudent course, but...
By Cary Tennis
March 29, 2007
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Advice for creative types everywhere: Grow a thick skin. You're going to need it.
By Cary Tennis
February 6, 2007
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Why do arts graduate schools, in particular, bring out our vulnerabilities?
By Cary Tennis
February 2, 2007
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I got into the hot creative writing MFA program I dreamed of, but now I feel I don't belong.
By Cary Tennis
February 1, 2007
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My friend's father is just one more reason feminism exists -- but can we say that?
By Cary Tennis
January 31, 2007
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The author of a new book about gifted children talks about the big business of "enrichment" and the joys of just being average.
By Sarah Karnasiewicz
August 31, 2006
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We're sticking the next generation with debt and an unjust war. Solution: We must cut healthcare for people with "Bush-Cheney" bumper stickers.
By Garrison Keillor
August 30, 2006
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An Army document proves that Guantánamo interrogators were taught by instructors from a military school that trains U.S. soldiers how to resist torture.
By Mark Benjamin
June 29, 2006
I think my friend's kid is autistic
China's tofu construction
Don't be a morose teenager
Teachers: Be subversive
Intolerance greets national LGBT awareness day
The hothouse effect
America eats its young
Torture teachers
War Room
GigaOM Network
Glenn Greenwald