“Stick that in your pipe and smoke it, Northwestern!!”
The title of this post was my lovely wife’s reaction upon reading that the University of Chicago is one of the Seven Wonders of Chicago — at least, according to readers of the Chicago Tribune The other six are the Lakefront, Wrigley Field, the “L”, the Sears Tower, the Water Tower, and the Museum of ...
The title of this post was my lovely wife's reaction upon reading that the University of Chicago is one of the Seven Wonders of Chicago -- at least, according to readers of the Chicago Tribune The other six are the Lakefront, Wrigley Field, the "L", the Sears Tower, the Water Tower, and the Museum of Science and Industry. I explained to my wife that Northwestern is, technically, in Evanston. She continues to insist that they smoke it.
The title of this post was my lovely wife’s reaction upon reading that the University of Chicago is one of the Seven Wonders of Chicago — at least, according to readers of the Chicago Tribune The other six are the Lakefront, Wrigley Field, the “L”, the Sears Tower, the Water Tower, and the Museum of Science and Industry. I explained to my wife that Northwestern is, technically, in Evanston. She continues to insist that they smoke it.
Daniel W. Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and co-host of the Space the Nation podcast. Twitter: @dandrezner
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