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  • Today: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

    Last spring, I had the chance to make a quick visit to the Lorraine Motel and the National Civil Rights Museum while I was walking working in Memphis (more on that here).  I was scrolling through pictures from that trip earlier today, and thinking how lucky (I’m wracking my brain for a better word, but my brain isn’t cooperating…) we are to have had people like Dr. King come before…

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  • Today: Ten years later.

    [tweetmeme source=”elizabethev” only_single=false]Ten years ago, I was a sophomore at Boston College, settling into my seat in Devlin 008 for Biology.  My friend Julie (we had gone to high school together) saved me a spot in the right side of the amphitheater-style room.  There were…

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  • Today: Celebrate the New Year

    Happy New Year. While New Year’s Day is traditionally celebrated on January 1st, the anxiety of choosing a really good resolution coupled with a hangover and the biting cold of, well, January, doesn’t exactly thrill me.  But the start of a new school year?  Now…

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