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With unseasonable weather descending upon much of North America, schools getting ready to reconvene, and sports seasons getting exciting, it's a busy time of year for us here in the Ist-A-Verse. Luckily, even with all the things we have to do, we still managed to get together to let you know what we've all been up to. more ›

Whitman College: Jeffrey Sachs, economist and author more ›

Writing on The New Republic Online in November, 2006, James Kirchick snarkily commented, "Of all the subjects for a 90-minute, one-woman show, Rachel Corrie ought to have been at the bottom of the list." Rachel Corrie was an Olympia native and Evergreen State College student who, in March 2003, while working with the International Solidarity Movement, was killed by an Israeli bulldozer destroying Palestinian homes. And frankly, before seeing Seattle Rep's production of My Name is Rachel Corrie, we tended to agree with Kirchick, albeit for completely different reasons. more ›

We were jazzed, and, it appears, overly optimistic, when we heard Seattle U might go D1 in basketball again. more ›

Seattlest went to one of those liberal-arts, don't-know-your-grades, frisbee-throwing, dialetical-discoursing, call-your-professor-by-their-first-name NW colleges. No, not that one, the other one. What do you think we are, some kind of shade-grown coffee-drinking hippie? Kee-rist. more ›

Going into last weekend, the Huskies have shown that they can't beat arrogant fly boys or whiny dirty hippies. After Notre Dame trounced them 36-17 on Saturday, you can now add Catholics to that list. However, they do very well against insane weathermen. more ›

, dammit! And breadth- strewn with more pop-culture references, adventurous music choices, and nerd-chic than any show can contain and expect to be successful- that's our O.C. more ›

China occupies a strange position in our collective Northwest consciousness. Somehow it's managed to avoid being identified as a potential antagonist in Red Dawn II, and the human rights abuses that we were so concerned about back during that Tianamen Square fiasco seem to have all been a misunderstanding or something. We're smarter than that now. The memo identifying China as the World's Largest Untapped Market has been distributed to just about everyone who has ever sold anything and we've seen the error of our ways. (We've also seen a few Western-style PR campaigns.) Any day now a billion middle-class Chinese will be clamouring for coffee, airplanes and software and Seattle has been working overtime to be in a position to provide them. more ›