Eric A. Gordon
LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon
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Fifty years out of college and finally (almost) normal
May 17, 2016Over the weekend of June 2-5 I'll be attending my Yale Class of 1966 50th reunion in New Haven, Conn.
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We asked a Muslim: Women’s rights in Islam
May 12, 2016"Ask a Muslim" is a monthly series, that is free and open to the public, that addresses the public's questions surrounding Islam today.
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“Great Scott” in San Diego: Opera is dead! Long live opera!
May 10, 2016Great Scott is a grand modern send-up of every imaginable operatic cliché and tradition: It's a hoot and a half!
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Verizon strike attracts support in Southern California
May 6, 2016The largest such labor action in the U.S. in many years, the strike by Verizon workers taking on corporate greed is now in its fourth week.
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American-Russian analyst laments the new Cold War
April 29, 2016American-born Justin Lifflander, graduate of Cornell University, arrived in Russia (then the USSR) in 1987 as a driver-mechanic for the U.S. embassy in Moscow.
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“Ramona”: California history at the intersection of Native, Spanish and white
April 28, 2016This outdoor pageant, a broad-based community project, has been playing here for 93 years and counting.
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This week in history: Chernobyl nuclear reactor explodes in USSR
April 26, 2016Thirty years ago, on April 26, 1986, at 1:23 a.m., an explosion occurred at the Chernobyl atomic power station at Pripyat.
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The power of music: Alexander the Great and Handel in wartime
April 20, 2016Handel composed Alexander's Feast in early 1736; it became one of his most popular and most often revived works during his lifetime.
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