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Charles R. Drummond iv

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Leaving Fifteen

When Americans travel abroad, indispensable items include passports, luggage, and loud and abrasive manners. “Ugly Americans” also take with them

Talking Like an Economist

For several years economists have longed for a “Goldilocks” economy, an economy that is neither too hot nor too cold

A White (Lie) Christmas

On the outside, Christmas cards are so innocent. What could be more cloyingly sweet than a depiction of a calm

Movie for Make Laugh

The current Iraq War, the rise of Islamic fundamentalism, the larger conflict between the West and the Muslim world—these things

The Ugly Housing Bubble

By now almost everyone has heard of the housing bubble. For years real estate has been “frothy” in the U.S.,

Unfunny Girl

In the movie “Yentl,” Barbra Streisand plays a young woman who wants nothing more than to study the Jewish scriptures

Watch Out, Angelina

Last week, news outlets around the world announced that Madonna was reinventing herself, yet again. Although she has not abandoned

Primetime Segregation

Imagine a television show so beyond the pale of good taste that Pat Buchanan, the Bob Jones University Faculty of

No News is Good News (Sort of)

Whatever you want to say about George W. Bush, he certainly has the whole “vision thing” that his father so

Girl Interrupted

Charlotte Smith published a volume of poems entitled “Elegiac Sonnets” in the year 1784. While Smith did not get a

Boston's 'Holiday Tree' Sparks Controversy

Last week the city of Boston officially renamed the giant spruce tree in Boston Common a “holiday tree” instead of

George WWW.Bush’s Internet

On Nov. 18, the United Nations (UN) World Summit on the Information Society (with the obligatory acronym “WSIS”) ended. Nothing

Hundreds March for Living Wage

A Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) rally drew hundreds to Holyoke Center on Friday to support a $20 living wage

Celsius 488

Harvard students get upset about a lot of things. Granted, getting a “living wage” for our janitorial staff is extremely

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