Russell Frank
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D-E-I is D-E-D
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Dear National Science Foundation, I am in the midst of preparing an NSF grant application and, as I am sure you can appreciate, I want to make sure that my […]
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Forensic Expert Challenges Key Evidence as Hearing Begins in Subu Vedam’s Pursuit for a New Trial
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About 100 people received a crash course in forensic anthropology in Centre County Court in Bellefonte on Thursday. It was the first installment of a two-day hearing to determine whether […]
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Will Subu Vedam Prevail?
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Updated 12:28 p.m. Feb. 5 with new hearing times. It all comes down to the size of a bullet and a bullet hole, measured in fractions of an inch. Subramanyam […]
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Trump 2.0: Smile Though Your Heart Is Breaking
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Some of my friends don’t like it when I say Donald Trump is ridiculous. A pie in the face is ridiculous, they say. Trump is dangerous. I agree he’s dangerous. […]
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There’s Nothing Funny About a Censored Cartoon
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One of the joys of teaching journalism is that I can count on the news itself to provide made-to-order lesson plans. Take what happened at the Washington Post last week. […]
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Happy Chrismukkah!
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It’s a harmonic convergence: Christmas today/Hanukkah tonight. I have excellent credentials as your columnist-du-jour: I’m Jewish but I’ve twice married women who grew up with visions of sugar plums, not […]
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Psst, Wanna Rent My House Next Weekend?
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If I were smart about money – which I’m not – I’d quickly get me one of those short-term rental permits from the Borough of State College, rent out my […]
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Spencer Bivens: A Thankful Giant Is Back in Town
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Last week was awards week in Major League Baseball. Spencer Bivens didn’t win any of them. His team, the San Francisco Giants, didn’t make the playoffs. Free agent outfielder Juan […]
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Election Post-Mortem – and I Do Mean Mortem
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The morning after the Great Debacle, I lay down in my backyard and gazed at the sky. Inside, on my laptop, was the ephemeral – politics, presidents, punditry. Out here […]
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Ain’t No Cure for the Pre-Election Jitters
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I’m known as a calm guy. Where others overreact to difficulties, I under-react. Where they spin worst-case scenarios, I believe — correctly, usually; naively, at times — that nothing really […]