Maybe it's the slush and slate-gray skies, or the unscrubbed, dour faces of my overworked classmates, or the prospect of

As I write these words, the first snowfall of the Cambridge winter has dusted the red brick and frozen earth

With every day that drags by in the chad-infested swampland of South Florida, home to pundits, protestors and ballot-counting functionaries,

While the final recount is completed, the hanging chads tabulated, the overseas ballots enumerated and the lawsuits filed, resolved and

America is still a youthful nation at heart, a fact reflected in the welter of youth-worship that invariably accompanies the

Everyone, I'm sure, has their favorite Baldwin brother. Some people prefer Stephen, won over by his goofy smile and his

America has always carried on a peculiar and somewhat messy love affair with Puritanism. True, the original group of sober,