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This is a discussion board about almost anything. Here you can meet interesting people, hear different opinions, and engage in small talk. The only requirement is that the subject is interesting!

Movie Review: Miracle

As someone who has watched the Winter Olympics for twenty years and has been watching sports in general for perhaps a little bit longer than that, it would have been difficult to have not heard about the United States Olympic Hockey Team from 1980. You know, the one that shockingly beat the...

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Play Review: The Philadelphia Story

At the Walnut street theater in Philadelphia, the oldest contuining runnng theater in the states (since 1809). The play is set in Radnor Township PA in the 1930's, a time when people who lived in RT were basically unaffected by the depression. The people there lived in grand mansions with large...

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Book Review: The Century - Peter Jennings, Todd Brewster

The Century is a large coffee table style book that covers the history of the 20th century. While 600 pages can contain a fairly large amount of text, there are many events that can be deemed important enough to be covered in a history of the 20th century. There are enough events that 600 pages...

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Book Review: This Man's Army - Andrew Exum

Andrew Exum enlisted in the Army thinking that military service would be a good way to pay for his education at the University of Pennsylvania as well as serve his country in peacetime. He thought that he would likely serve in peacekeeping duties in Europe or perhaps Africa, but not actually see...

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Losing motivation and losing sight of my running goal

Answered by a doctor

I have recently been feeling unmotivated. I had some niggling injures last year which slowed me down and was very busy with university and work. I have also been travelling a lot over the past few months and it looks like I will hve to move interstate which is a big change and leaving my coach, I...

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Book Review: The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile

Originally titled "The Globalization of Dissent", "The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile" is a series of four interviews with author Arundhati Roy. The interviews, guided conversations, really, are conducted by radio producer David Barsaman. Roy is perhaps best known as the author of the Booker...

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Book Review: Willie's Bar and Grill - Rob Hirst

When I was made aware that Rob Hirst, drummer/songwriter/singer for Midnight Oil, was going to write a book on the band's tour of North America immediately after 9-11, I thought, "Hope it's just not a lot of political observations." While the focus of the band's agit-prop rock was frontman Peter...

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Book Review: The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

If I said that "The Time Traveler's Wife" was a non-conventional love story with time travel, that description would not come close to accurately describing this novel. It is a non-conventional love story with time travel at its heart, but the novel is so much more than that, and it is also...

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Book review: Notre Dame vs The Klan - Todd Tucker

In the years after World War One, the Ku Klux Klan enjoyed a trememndous surge in membership, to the point where they became a political force. This was true nowhere more than Indiana; in 1924, a Klan member won the Republican nomination for, and subsequently elected to, the governor's chair. With...

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Book review: The Perfect Mile - Neal Bascomb

In the period after the 1952 Olympics, the track and field world was dominated by two questions: Can man break the four-minute mile (some at the time thought the effort would kill athletes)? If so, who would do it? Focus soon shifted on the latter and three college students: Roger Bannister (Great...

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