Early this year, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan finalized a pivotal agreement on long-contested borders—but that doesn’t mean negotiations are over.

Indeed, now the work begins to settle trade, power generation, and shared water rights to make sure this is truly the end of deadly border violence.

This describes both recent world events and the scenario student participants navigated at the annual International Strategic Crisis Negotiation Exercise (ISCNE), held on campus at the Middlebury Institute over a weekend in March. Continue Reading

Any spectator can appreciate the majesty of Spyglass Hill Golf Course in Pebble Beach. How the course opens, with sweeping coastal views before guiding golfers through the Del Monte Forest could inspire anyone to choose that unspoiled good walk. 

But for the lucky few, Spyglass Hill has so much more to share. Continue Reading

The Fuego 80K at the Sea Otter Classic attracts elite mountain bike racers to a grueling single-track course, winding through a 5,700-foot elevation gain in the Laguna Seca Recreation Area for more than three hours.

Anna Moriah “Mo” Wilson, a Bay Area transplant from the East Coast who traded skis for the single-track in 2019, won the women’s division of the 2022 race – beating an Olympian to take top prize.
But the 2022 Sea Otter Classic would be the last Life Time Grand Prix race in which Wilson would ever compete. Continue Reading