Randy Brachman

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Boycott Bear’s Den

I haven’t bought anything from Lower Bear’s Den, also known as Bear’s Bakery (a truly abysmal name) & Grill (even worse), for more than a week. I don’t plan on […]

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What I did during my summer vacation

First, I’d like to welcome all returning students back to our illustrious campus and extend a hand in much the same gesture to the newest members of our community. I […]

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‘I’m sorry’

Not a day has gone by in recent memory in which I have not heard the words “I’m sorry” from a total stranger. Sometimes these apologies are legitimate. Sometimes I am jostled or severely inconvenienced or any number of things for which social decorum would demand an apology. More often, though, these strangers are just apologizing for existing. Today I was walking out of Bear’s Den behind a girl I did not know.

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‘Digsby’

I was watching the Super Bowl with friends, and the conversation meandered its way to lifehacker.com and a recent link from said Web site. This link contained a program for […]

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The curious case of ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’

I met a friend of mine at the airport while we were both going home for winter break. It was not planned; we just happened to be on the same […]

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Home is where the heart is

I like many others went home this past weekend for Thanksgiving break. I saw people I hadn’t seen in three months and generally spent a lot of time doing what […]

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‘Tis the season

A few weeks ago, my roommate turned the radio on before he went to sleep. Some-times he puts on his iPod, so this was not very surprising. I woke up to […]

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Wash. U. gone W.I.L.D.

So we all know what happened last weekend, right? W.I.L.D., that’s what. Talib Kweli, some other people. Great times, right? Well, I wouldn’t know. Let me tell you why.

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How the cookie crumbles

As everyone is no doubt aware, Bon Appétit has been selling sugar cookies for the past week or so on campus.

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Is it too early for Wash. U. to disappoint?

Hello everyone. My name is Randy Brachman. I am a freshman from Plainview, New York. Plainview is an upper middle class town on Long Island. It is predominantly white and […]

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