The Commons: a sanctuary for the introvert, the socialite, the band geek, the academic, the bake-seller. Its wood is eaten away by moisture and age and use, its ceiling arched in the
Lewiston, Maine’s second-largest city, was not the type of place where bad things happened. Home to four colleges, it was a calm, community-driven oasis, not a place where people feared for their
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Today Fieldston students were drowned, not in schoolwork, but in a torrential downpour leading to flooding all over. Hearing the students’ hopes, the administration announced an early dismissal. All around the school,
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This summer, I volunteered as a teacher’s assistant at a preschool for children aged 2 to 4. For five weeks, my mornings began with circle time and singing, followed by arts and
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For the first time in the history of Putin-led Russia, a significant and even threatening display of dissent has come about. Russia was, for just a day, on the brink of an
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Last week, the Fieldston community joined together at the Ethical Culture Society for its first complete, in-person Founder’s Day in three years. The energy in the building was evident even before the
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