February 2010
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Stalking the Eagle by Liz Shandor
The bald eagle is an easily recognizable and spectacular bird. It was chosen as the emblem of the United States of America because of its great strength and majestic look. The eagle represents freedom. Living as he does on the tops of lofty mountains and among the solitary of Nature, he has unlimited freedom as he sweeps into the valleys below or upward into the boundless spaces beyond. The bald...
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Web-Only: The Danger that Lies in Creating Life...
Absolute power corrupts absolutely. In Michael Bay’s 2005 film, The Island, Dr. Merrick discovers the secret to creating life and uses it to build a powerful life insurance corporation in which he creates clones of his clients as a way of allowing them to cheat death. But when one clone realizes that the world in which he is living is not real, he stages a daring escape and ultimately causes the...
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A Holiday Story via Email by Anonymous
We have numerous parties to celebrate the birth of Jesus in my family: the pre-Christmas Eve party (my house), the Christmas Eve party, and the Christmas day lunch and dinner. Each party takes place at a different family member’s house. The pre-Christmas party went pretty smoothly, all things considered. There were just a few hiccups. Like when my grandmother called my mom a dishwasher. I got...
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Web-Only: Poetry by Sarah Gumbel
Within the Bloom of Your Cheeks Winter is like a brushstroke of white, against powder canvas, seeming clean yet unclean. Truth, a finger dancing down, your throat, poised, waiting to breathe in my tongue, dry, catching flame. Washed, dyed red and grey, like Tartan, inlaid into your bone’s curvature wanting more, needing warmth. Eyes sink into black casings like shells, cast off from shots, burst...
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Track Six by Emily Broderick
The booklet in the CD case declares that it might be you playing the bass on the sixth track of your brother’s self-titled album, recorded probably in Hotel Grand Number 51, South Corridor Street, Reacher’s Park, East Georgia, in a room with a view. I’m half sure they’re right, but half positive they aren’t, because no one’s seen you in seven years, and...
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February 2010 Editor's Note by Mary DiAngelo
How can we feasibly handle all of the excitement that February has thrown our way? We have Birthday Ball (to celebrate the birth of our humble college’s honorable namesake), Valentine’s Day, and an impromptu snow break all in one month! It is difficult to conceive that we have yet to face the brunt of this semester, or that this semester also contains that distant concept called spring. It seems...
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Endgame: The Choice to Graduate a Semester Early...
I technically ended my stint at Washington College in a committed learning process called being a undergraduate on December 16, 2009. That night I went to the Bird with my best friend and played pool for a few hours. Some random old men hit on us, and we alerted our male friends that they’d better get their asses to the bar before we were further accosted. Male friends showed up, which made us...
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February 2010 Editor's Note by Mary DiAngelo
How can we feasibly handle all of the excitement that February has thrown our way? We have Birthday Ball (to celebrate the birth of our humble college’s honorable namesake), Valentine’s Day, and an impromptu snow break all in one month! It is difficult to conceive that we have yet to face the brunt of this semester, or that this semester also contains that distant concept called spring. It seems...
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Watching Haiti by Allison Fischbach
Somehow I missed it. Almost the entire thing. I was busy, as you can imagine, running up and down my Facebook page and the streets of Baltimore. Spending precious hours mooching neighborhood cafe WiFi and waiting for something to do. This is why it was two days before I heard about the earthquake in Haiti. We have a tendency to joke that our lives as college students extract us from the larger...
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There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly: A...
At some unspecified time in the past, an elderly woman happened to ingest an insect of the order Diptera, likely a Musca domestica. The circumstances behind this decision are unknown, but I caution the listener that death is always a possibility. The same elderly woman proceeded to ingest an arachnid of the order Aranae, specific species unknown. It exhibited a variety of spasmodic motions, as...
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Original & Web-Only: City of Gold, continued by...
“Remind me why we’re doing this?” I asked yet again, staring out the car window at the wasteland of sand and shriveled bushes through which we’d been driving for the past two hours. Carla rolled her eyes and gave me an exasperated little grin. I knew I shouldn’t be wheedling her like this, because she was going out of her way to escape a tangled web of wedding preparations so she could spend some...
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The Short-Term Benefits of Denial: A...
Before I start this whole bit, I want to make one thing clear: I am most likely, in spite of the fact that I still remember to bathe occasionally, one of the laziest human beings alive. On that note, I wish to warn the reader that this “mini-manifesto” is essentially the only thing I’ve managed to accomplish today—unless making macaroni and cheese counts as an achievement. In other words, I’m not...
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Review for Modern Family by Amanda Whitaker
One thing every normal American yearns for in life is the chance to have that one television show that seems to have been tailor-made for your taste. That one block of TV you wait for every week with vast persistence and patience can only be rewarded with the show itself. That one spark of light gloriously gleams from your television set after a long, hectic week. It is your show, and is something...
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Baltimore City, Ellicott City, Homeward bound by...
A beltway is called a beltway because it is like a belt that surrounds the city, holding in what doesn’t want to be let out or, on the other hand, making sure that things don’t fall apart. This might seem like obvious information to some, but it hadn’t been to her, and she was genuinely surprised when he had told her that. She drove down the beltway, the night sky dark and cloudy above her,...
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I want to fall in love with you by Alexandra...
You know… the more I get to know you, the more I like you. I like your personality; and I think you’re very intelligent. And funny, too. We have such good rapport! And if you want to, I would really like to make you dinner sometime. Soon.
