Tag Archives: Road Not Taken

The Road Less Traveled? Nope

By Robin Bates | Published: July 31, 2012

Perhaps some entrepreneurs need to believe their success is solely due to their own efforts, as Bounderby, Willy Loman, and the speaker of “The Road Not Taken” do.

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Soccer, an Un-American Sport?

By Robin Bates | Published: June 19, 2010

Landon Donovan, man of the match        Sports Saturday Years ago I read (I think in The Washington Post) a humorous article about why Americans are not great soccer enthusiasts.  The article said that Americans have problems with a game where a two-goal lead is practically insurmountable. Robert Frost would have something to say about that. [...]

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Our Most Famous (and Most Misread) Poem

By Robin Bates | Published: August 31, 2009

  Today I walk into my first classes after a year of sabbatical.  After having spent all day Friday meeting with new entering students and hearing about their  momentous decision (as they see it) to attend St. Mary’s, it makes sense for me to write on decision making. In what is arguably America’s most famous poem is about [...]

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