VIDEO: Chu advises newest RPI grads to 'Do something that matters'

Source: The Troy Record

More Photos Click thumbnails to enlarge Hundreds of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute students wait to receive their diplomas during the college's 206th Commencement ceremony, held at the East Campus Athletic Village Stadium in Troy Saturday morning. (Je ...
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WILL ANYONE STAND UP FOR MARTY McSORLEY? Or, 19 years later, will he be left in the role of a King-sized martyr?

Source: L.A. Daily News

for me, you play the game as hard as you can. It's more disappointing to know you played all year and put as much into it, and then you get singled out. For this? Really? For a Stanley Cup Final?" Defenseman Marty McSorley of the Kings during a ga ...
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Memorial Day tinged with struggle for some veterans

Source: Dallas Morning News

Memorial Day is about remembering the sacrifices and the service. It is a day of snapping flags, bugle calls and somber soldiers in crisp uniforms.For Patrick Wysingle, it’s also a day of remembering — and of coping with the memories.Monday ...
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Source: Elephant Journal

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Golden Gate Bridge: American icon turns 75

Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune

SAN FRANCISCO - It rises from the western edge of the continent like a crown, the apex of an American dream begun 3,000 miles earlier at the Statue of Liberty. When it opened May 27, 1937, the Golden Gate Bridge ...
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Maniac: Cannes Review

Source: Hollywood Reporter

CANNES - There’s nothing cuddly or Frodo-ish about Elijah Wood’s psycho killer in French director Franck Khalfoun’s haute-horreur remake of the low-budget 1980 William Lustig movie that’s become something of a grubby touchstone among genre fans ...
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Marine museum reaches into history of Corps

Source: San Diego Union-Tribune

TRIANGLE, Va. The National Museum of the Marine Corps juts across the sky like the flag raised at Iwo Jima, with its steel spire buttressed like the upraised arms of Marines atop Mount Suribachi. The arch ...
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"Anonymously... Intrinsically..."

Source: Summit Stones and Adventure Musings

"The acid test of a true adventurer, if presented with certain anonymity, is whether each of us would still have made the journey beyond the last blue mountain..." M. Clark Over these many years, and every season for certain, I am asked wh ...
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West Side Market memories: Ex-Clevelanders yearn for a taste of home

Source: Cleveland Plain Dealer

View full sizeJoshua Gunter, The Plain DealerThe market becomes a touchstone for memory for all its shoppers. From afar, former Clevelanders still ache for the market. When I was six or seven, my dad began taking me to the market. He al ...
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