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		<title>60th anniversary</title>
		<link>http://starlighterx.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/60th-anniversary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 04:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last summer if it hadn&#8217;t been for work, I would have volunteered at the 2008 Olympic Games.  While watching the opening ceremony on TV, I was awe struck at the drummers, fireworks, and dancers, pure meticulous preparation for the glory of a country and a people. At the same time, I couldn&#8217;t help but think [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=starlighterx.wordpress.com&blog=2423257&post=314&subd=starlighterx&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Say hey</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:02:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RXH</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“I’ve been a lot of places around the way. I’ve seen a lot of joy and I’ve seen a lot of pain…I say hey I’ll be gone today, but I’ll be back all around the way. It seems like everywhere I go, the more I see the less I know.”

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		<title>Stay hungry. Stay foolish.</title>
		<link>http://starlighterx.wordpress.com/2009/06/04/stay-hungry-stay-foolish/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 05:32:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RXH</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The evening before first day of freshman year is supposed to be memorable at Penn. At an event aptly named Convocation, it is the first and only time an entire class is gathered as one before graduation. It’s usually a time when administrators sing arias to the entering class “as the best class the University [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=starlighterx.wordpress.com&blog=2423257&post=274&subd=starlighterx&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Life&#8230;please define</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 06:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RXH</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve recently made a couple trips to Philly for friends&#8217; weddings. We have been blessed with glorious weather, amazing friendships, meals, conversations, etc. Out of my conversations, one question to which I have yet to find an adequate answer is &#8220;How&#8217;s life?&#8221;
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		<title>Bird moonwalking</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 16:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RXH</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have got to share this. It&#8217;s too hilarious:

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		<title>Lost&#8230;again</title>
		<link>http://starlighterx.wordpress.com/2009/02/23/lostagain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 05:48:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RXH</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://starlighterx.wordpress.com/?p=261</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Time again and again I forget the purpose of this blog. I wanted this to be neither a public journal nor a compilation of links to websites. Oh I have ideas&#8230; I&#8217;ve recently initiated quite a few blog posts, but they are all still in draft form, on topics ranging from urban education, the family [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=starlighterx.wordpress.com&blog=2423257&post=261&subd=starlighterx&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lost in translation?</title>
		<link>http://starlighterx.wordpress.com/2009/02/11/lost-in-translation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:22:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RXH</dc:creator>
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&#8212; Spring break, junior year of college, a town in the highlands of Guatemala

Med student (MS) is reading Jeffrey Sachs’ The End of Poverty.
Me: Oooh I’ve been meaning to read that book. What do you think of it so far?
MS: It’s okay. Some parts are kind of boring. I would probably understand it better if [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=starlighterx.wordpress.com&blog=2423257&post=253&subd=starlighterx&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A little lie is never a good thing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RXH</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
&#8212; Fall of sophomore year, high school, a suburb outside Albany, NY

New town. New kid. A month into a new school.

Migrating from inner city high school in Chicago to a suburban school in upstate NY was not like dancing a New Trier HS-inspired-“Mean Girls” salsa. Still, there were some slight shocks to my system. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=starlighterx.wordpress.com&blog=2423257&post=243&subd=starlighterx&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Inverted triangle</title>
		<link>http://starlighterx.wordpress.com/2009/01/28/inverted-triangle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 05:58:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RXH</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you know the inverted triangle rule?

It is one of the first lessons journalists learn as writers. One usually reports with a lead followed by details in order of significance. This is designed so when editors need to cut a story short, the last paragraph contains the least amount of relevant material.
I fear I&#8217;ve failed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=starlighterx.wordpress.com&blog=2423257&post=221&subd=starlighterx&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Perception</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:53:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RXH</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the spring of 2006, I had planned a trip to East Timor for that summer. Through a series of (un)fortunate events, I was saved from a civil war conflict and joined an amazing group of people for a project in Philly.
Looking back on that spring, a friend was fundamental to my acceptance of sadness [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=starlighterx.wordpress.com&blog=2423257&post=208&subd=starlighterx&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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