A patriot is someone who loves and would fight for his or her country. Does that include Edward Snowden?
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Steve Venwright put out a CD called “The Further Somniloquies of Dion McGregor.” McGregor talks in his sleep like you’ve never heard before.
Essayist Susan Ehrlich is a practicing pediatrian who remembers what it was like treating her father during his final hours.
Thomas Pakenham’s passion for trees has led him all over the world. He tells Anne Strainchamps that trees can be majestic, sacred, and haunting.
Philosopher and novelist Umberto Eco wrote a history of beauty. A few years later, he followed it up with a study of ugliness. Here’s what he found
Senator Russ Feingold is a Democrat from Wisconsin who sits on the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Comedian and writer Tony Hawks conceived the daft idea of hitch-hiking around Ireland with a small refrigerator.
Stephen Thompson is an editor at The Onion newspaper, and editor of “The Onion A.V. Club: The Tenacity of the Cockroach.”
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