It had been weeks since I’d stepped inside my parish church. Apprehensively, I paused in front of the ornate, oversized doors guarding the entrance and reached out to pull open the weighty door and step through the narrow aperture. Believing that attending a mass or religious service would perhaps be too soon since my departure [...]
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For the Love of Words
By Michael FilipponeMonday, May 10th, 2010
The annual London Word Festival recently took London by storm. It began on March 7th of this year and ran until the 1st of April. The London Word Festival is exactly what it sounds like: a citywide celebration of the keystone of language, both spoken and written – the word. The event was founded by [...]
Translated Works
By Michael FilipponeWednesday, March 10th, 2010
On Tuesday January 5th, 2010, Three Percent, the online resource for international literature, announced the 2010 Best Translated Fiction Award longlist. The list, compiled by nine scholar-panelists, comprises 25 of the top-nominated international books that have been translated into English and published in the United States in the past 12 months. It includes authors from [...]
Anne Frank’s Diary Banned From Classrooms
By Michael FilipponeWednesday, February 10th, 2010
The parent of a student at Culpeper County public school made a request to his child’s school administrators to stop assigning and teaching the historical diary of Anne Frank to its students. According to the parent who made the request, the book contained objectionable passages – specifically, sexually explicit material and homosexual themes. Surprisingly, administrators [...]
Thanks for the Outstanding Service, SEPTA
By Emily HomrokTuesday, November 24th, 2009
Ah, the great Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority — a little thing residents of the Philadelphia metropolitan area know ever so fondly as SEPTA. SEPTA operates subways, busses, trolleys, and a regional rail system that travels to the suburbs on the outer reaches of Philadelphia. SEPTA carries students, workers, and even unemployed loafers to and from [...]
Philadelphia is a Sustainability Pioneer
By Kathryn GardnerFriday, October 30th, 2009
As part of the Great Works Symposium, co-hosted by Drexel Green, Drexel Business Services, and the Magnificent Minds lecture series, Philip Freelon, founder of Freelon Group, presented a lecture on sustainability on October 1, 2009. The Freelon Group specializes in architectural designs for science and technology as well as designs for higher education. Recently, it [...]
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