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Burundi: Life After Violence
After the 2013 Blogathon, I decided that I would learn something about each country in Africa and blog about it. I figured I’d be able to do one a week. Well, it’s two years in, and I’m about two-thirds of the way through the continent. Burundi was a hard nation to do. I started by… [Read More]
Sweet Briar stays open, and all about restricted endowments.
It’s now official: Sweet Briar College is staying open. There are other vulnerable small colleges out there, but this one was less vulnerable than most. One of the issues that was addressed in the court order was one of restricted endowments. What are they? Simple: they are money donated to an institution for use for… [Read More]
Card Games Using Incomplete Decks
Back when I ran Chicago on the Cheap, I was on the hunt for things to do with incomplete decks of cards. Sure, you can use them for things like bookmarks, but who needs 49 bookmarks? They are too slippery to build a house of cards. So what? I have finally come across two games… [Read More]
