tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-1520146 2008-07-03T17:15:31-04:00 Ivy League students and graduates offer their perspectives on everything from politics to pop culture and everything in between as they weigh in at Ask An IVY Leaguer Blogs. . . TypePad http://feeds.feedburner.com/AskAnIvyleaguerBlogs?format=skin1683571http://www.feedburner.com tag:typepad.com,2003:post-52231758 2008-07-03T17:15:31-04:00 2008-07-03T17:15:42-04:00

The life paths of my parents and their children are all at a curious intersection. While both my parents have retired from their lifelong pursuits as public school educators in the last two years, my brother and I are in the odyssey that is life after college, yet before a...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AskAnIvyleaguerBlogs/~4/326315286" height="1" width="1"/>

Morgan Brown http://askanivyleaguer01.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/07/on-retirement-e.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-51236492 2008-06-12T06:12:47-04:00 2008-06-12T06:12:59-04:00

“Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.” Robert Frost ----------------------------------- I enjoy the above quote and thought of writing about Frost's poetry, but I was just reminded that as President Bush tours Europe his approval ratings in most EU countries...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AskAnIvyleaguerBlogs/~4/310857812" height="1" width="1"/>

Morgan Brown http://askanivyleaguer01.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/06/power-position.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-50926838 2008-06-06T11:42:17-04:00 2008-06-06T11:45:22-04:00

On the evening he wins the Democratic Party's nomination for president, Barack Obama speaks from St. Paul, Minnesota. June 3, 2008<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AskAnIvyleaguerBlogs/~4/306190997" height="1" width="1"/>

Kwame Osseo-Asare http://askanivyleaguer01.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/06/obama-victory-s.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-50926272 2008-06-06T11:30:40-04:00 2008-06-06T11:36:41-04:00

Entitlement, Failure and the Individual: Claire Messud's The Emperor's Children "There isn't revolution in a little clever sarcasm, Danny. It takes a lot more than that." Often, writers' attempts to stuff all of modern America, or the life of a class of people into a single edifice, fail not spectacularly...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AskAnIvyleaguerBlogs/~4/306190998" height="1" width="1"/>

Kwame Osseo-Asare http://askanivyleaguer01.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/06/entitlement-fai.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-50830680 2008-06-04T17:19:00-04:00 2008-06-04T17:19:10-04:00

I’ve always enjoyed positive singular moments of history and relished being alive at such a time. Last night featured one such moment. The first time a black candidate has ever become the presumptive nominee for a major party’s ticket. I relish the positive history of America, the courage of the...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AskAnIvyleaguerBlogs/~4/304994453" height="1" width="1"/>

Morgan Brown http://askanivyleaguer01.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/06/obama-history-a.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-50773200 2008-06-03T14:02:39-04:00 2008-06-03T14:02:51-04:00

In the last several weeks, Senator Kennedy’s brain tumor diagnosis has been grabbing headlines. CNN and other channels covered his medical helicopter ride to the hospital almost exclusively for much of the morning and afternoon of Saturday, May 17. News reporters surrounded the hospital for days until he was finally...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AskAnIvyleaguerBlogs/~4/304200671" height="1" width="1"/>

Sewit Teckie http://askanivyleaguer01.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/06/kennedys-tumor.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-50533590 2008-05-28T18:32:17-04:00 2008-05-28T18:32:27-04:00

The forthcoming book from Scott McClellan, the former press secretary of the Bush White House, has been having blurbs and ideas leaked for months now in anticipation of its Monday release. Even without any more damning suggestions from McClellan, the amount of criticism leveled at his former boss is staggering...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AskAnIvyleaguerBlogs/~4/300263263" height="1" width="1"/>

Morgan Brown http://askanivyleaguer01.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/05/much-ado-about.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-50285000 2008-05-22T19:15:21-04:00 2008-05-22T19:15:33-04:00

Odds and Ends I am struggling valiantly to learn French here, and while my understanding has increased considerably, my own speaking is nothing to remark about, except, I’m told, that I’m by the far the most advanced American they’ve ever had on the club. I take this with a grain...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AskAnIvyleaguerBlogs/~4/296262397" height="1" width="1"/>

Morgan Brown http://askanivyleaguer01.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/05/disasters-today.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-50039056 2008-05-18T10:06:23-04:00 2008-05-18T10:06:39-04:00

Hilarious SNL Obama/Clinton ad spoof:<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AskAnIvyleaguerBlogs/~4/292872344" height="1" width="1"/>

Kwame Osseo-Asare http://askanivyleaguer01.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/05/there-can-only.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-49955566 2008-05-16T08:24:32-04:00 2008-05-16T08:24:42-04:00

Does anyone else see a bit of irony in the condemnation of Barack Obama by President Bush for being willing to meet and talk with leaders who do not share American values while he goes and begs a King in Saudi Arabia to produce more oil. Furthermore, a deal where...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AskAnIvyleaguerBlogs/~4/291659007" height="1" width="1"/>

Morgan Brown http://askanivyleaguer01.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/05/four-nations.html