"He instinctively can find the shining greatness of our American culture and does a good job of highlighting it (although he also does have those rare lapses when he writes about hockey, but that is something caused by impurities in the Eastern waters or something)." Erik Keilholtz
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Mark C. N. Sullivan is an editor at a Massachusetts university. He is married and the father of three children. Email
Today my five-year-old daughter starts kindergarten. She's overjoyed: she's got a special new outfit, and she gets to ride the bus, just like her brother. It's a big day; she's been talking about it for weeks, and when she happily woke us this morning it was if it were her birthday.
I wonder how many of the children of Beslan were as excited about their first day of school.
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