RT @Historiator: “The man who loved alien landscap…

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… but in real life, not every secret held by a p…

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Very true! If this were a TV show with a reporter…

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Death of an adjunct

Attention must be paid. Meanwhile, in the past year, her teaching load had been reduced by the university to one class a semester, which meant she was making well below $10,000 a year. With huge out-of-pocket bills from UPMC Mercy for her cancer treatment, Margaret Mary was left in abject penury. She could no longer…

@CordeliaLogan If he were real, and had been my co…

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14 Machines That Were Brilliant in 1985

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The “Monsters, Inc” company play helped me teach Shakespeare

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Insipidest. Play. Ever. –Pepys, on “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Sort of.

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I told them to put their name on both pages.

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