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Divide and Conquer
One of the key throughlines from my time in Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa, was the theme of division. Division was an evil and malicious tool that supported minority white rule both before and during apartheid. Division was seen everywhere – tribal divisions, race-based divisions, urban vs. rural divisions, economic divisions, educational divisions, access
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A Day in the Life of an AVP – the Pinball Edition
What is it like to be a pinball? I think I know – because I often describe my AVP days as “pinballing”. I go from one thing to another to another, back to the first and then over to a fourth thing. I zig and zag and zig again. And sometimes (but not often) I
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Liberty to argue
When I travel, I take pictures – lots of pictures. I take pictures of buildings and signs and lampposts and steeples and arches and flowers and a perfect espresso and quotes carved on cornerstones. And I have my desktop preferences set to rotate through my thousands of travel pictures, one at a time, so that
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Impact
Football in Texas, like politics, is a contact sport. Love it or loathe it, the sport involves the physical impact that one player (a defensive tackle, for instance) can have on another (the running back, for instance). While football is all about physical force and impact, what we do in our work at ACC is