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Fall in love with “Almost, Maine” Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / April 19, 2012 April 19, 2012 On a cold, clear, moonless night in the middle of winter, all is not quite what it seems in the remote, mythical town of Almost, Maine. As the northern lights hover in the star-filled sky above, Almost’s residents find themselves falling in and out of love in unexpected and often hilarious ways. Knees are bruised. Hearts are broken. But the bruises heal, and the hearts mend–almost – in this delightful

Fall in love with “Almost, Maine” Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / April 19, 2012 April 19, 2012 On a cold, clear, moonless night in the middle of winter, all is not quite what it seems in the remote, mythical town of Almost, Maine. As the northern lights hover in the star-filled sky above, Almost’s residents find themselves falling in and out of love in unexpected and often hilarious ways. Knees are bruised. Hearts are broken. But the bruises heal, and the hearts mend–almost – in this delightful

October 5, 2012 In Edwin Black’s book “IBM and the Holocaust” he examines IBM’s complicit work in creating a database for the Third Reich’s final solution. ‘IBM and the Holocaust’ By Barbara Clements University Communications Edwin Black remembers walking into the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum with his parents in Washington D.C. when something caught his eye by the door. “One of the first things you saw was an IBM punch card system,” he recalled. “No one knew what it was for. IBM and the

had a sense of the color of my skin was when I was 9,” Finney said. “I was walking home from school with my little afro, highly unimpressive, and a cop stopped me and wanted to know where I was going. He said, ‘Do you work there?’ and I said, ‘No. I live there.’” Later, Finney said, she realized most people of color who lived—and worked—on land, like her parents, were invisible. “They never call themselves environmentalists,” she said. “So when we’re talking about sustainability, what is it we’re

September 11, 2014 PLU’s Marks Constitution Day With Free Speech (and More) Keynote Speaker U.S. Rep. Denny Heck Headlines Sept. 23 Conversation About Democracy By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU Marketing & Communication Pacific Lutheran University will mark Constitution Day on Sept. 23 with a keynote address by U.S. Rep. Denny Heck titled The Constitution is 227 Years Old … How is it Doing? But first, to prepare you—and to mark the official Constitution Day—Lutes will hand out copies of America’s

for H.M. King Olav V of Norway and even composed a little piece for him that my mom sent off to the palace. We got a nice thank-you note from His Majesty. I had the great pleasure of performing for his son, H.M. Harald V just a couple of years ago when he was here in Tacoma, this time with my wonderful music colleagues in this great city! Talk about coming full circle! Any recommendations for young artists hoping to pursue a career in music? Whatever your chosen instrument, learn it thoroughly and

view of this, but I have no idea how one could adapt their writing style to an age group as diverse as young adults. It would kind of be like asking, “What kind of styles and approaches in books do adults like?” Teenagers aren’t a monolith; they come from all sorts of backgrounds, with all sorts of needs when it comes to story. There are many subgenres in YA, for this reason; some kids like romance YA, some speculative fiction or horror. And some kids want to see a kind of realism that matches

one of the children chosen to come here,” he said. David Akuien ’10 admires a painting series in Mortvedt Library on world conflict. The painting is by Nick Butler. Life at PLU wasn’t automatically easy for Akuien. He felt different. He was different. He’d sit in a class and hear the problems his fellow students would talk about and realize how disconnected they were from the horrors of his past. “I didn’t identify with anybody,” he said, “That was the thing that frightened me.” But through the