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A Merry Christmas

A Merry ChristmasJo was the first to wake in the gray dawn of Christmas morning. No stockings hung at the fireplace, and for a moment she felt as much disappointed as she did long ago, when…

Brewer's: Toboso

Dulcinea del Toboso. Don Quixote's lady. Sancho Panza says she was “a stout-built sturdy wench, who could pitch the bar as well as any young fellow in the parish.” The knight had been in…

Brewer's: Windmills

Don Quixote de la Mancha, riding through the plains of Montiel, approached thirty or forty windmills, which he declared to Sancho Panza “were giants,…

1998 Election Outlook, Part 2

Turnout on the Decline According to the Federal Election Commission, in 1994 only 16.6 percent of eligible voters age 18-20 voted, while 61.3 percent of those age 65 and older cast their…

The Reasons Non-Users Aren’t Online

MajorreasonMinorreasonNot areasonI don’t want it52% 16% 26% I don’t need it521924I’m worried about online pornography, credit card theft and fraud431437 It is too expensive301842I don’t have…

Beth's Secret

Beth's SecretWhen Jo came home that spring, she had been struck with the change in Beth. No one spoke of it or seemed aware of it, for it had come too gradually to startle those who saw her…

Amy Lowell: Number 3 on the Docket

Number 3 on the DocketThe lawyer, are you? Well! I ain't got nothin' to say. Nothin'! I told the perlice I hadn't nothin'. They know'd real well 'twas me. Ther warn't no supposin', Ketchin'…

The Picture of Dorian Gray: Chapter 4

by Oscar Wilde Chapter 3Chapter 5Chapter 4 One afternoon, a month later, Dorian Gray was reclining in a luxurious arm-chair, in the little library of Lord Henry's house in Mayfair. It…

How to Succeed in College

Use help Nobody makes it without a team. I know, I know, you hate help. Help means you're stupid. Help is all those nice adults who think you can't hack it. Help is parents, teachers, and tutors…