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A while back I set out on an adventure to capture portraits of my classmates. To see what changes in 20 years, and what doesn’t.
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A while back I set out on an adventure to capture portraits of my classmates. To see what changes in 20 years, and what doesn’t.
And what he can teach you too.
They were violent, scared and alone — and I wanted to understand them more than I wanted life, or anything else.
This decision will have impacts for generations to come. Universities must follow suit, the admission process will forever be changed.
Yves reminisces on how differently we saw and continue to see this tale: the corporate attorney, graduate from Cornell Law, with an open door to what appeared to be a vivacious life. Only to wake up one day and realize that the Wild West has been domesticated.
The 2009 Honduran coup d’etat was a symbol of the dangers of testing power. Mexico and other nations may be following the same fate.
Fear, so I have heard, is nothing but the distance between a hunter and its prey; perhaps the distance between a mother and her wretched son.
Yet despite the change in character, my story has followed me to Ithaca. It reminded me of a key fact of my life: you can leave the wetlands, master the English language and run as far as your heels and heart can carry. Yet, the story runs with you.
Putin has made an effort to show that he can infiltrate territory and sit in it comfortably. Officials within Russia are telling us who the next victim is, and we should listen.