Archive | Columns
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Column: My sexual bucket list
Sex in public is dicey, dirty and potentially illegal depending on where you are and who can hear you. But people do it anyway because there’s something undeniably attractive about getting it on in a traditionally nonsexual place.
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Column: Back to Africa
In the West, it’s popular to depict Africa as a perpetually demanding charity case. Recently, however, the continent has begun to demonstrate economic progress of the sort Western cynics can’t easily dismiss.
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Column: Romney might gain hispanic support through VP
They have both said the same exact words repeatedly (“I will not be VP”) — sometimes casually, sometimes forcefully. But Marco Rubio and Susana Martinez both realize they would be an ideal counterweight to Romney’s ticket.
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Column: Education by culture
Like many students at Harvard, I spent most of my childhood immersed in books. For most kids, books, movies, television shows, and the stories those mediums tell are more than enjoyable entertainment; they are formative and influential experiences that contribute significantly to children’s develop...
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Column: Trayvon case will spark reflection on race in America
One of the most covered news events of this semester was the killing of the 17-year-old black teenager Trayvon Martin by 28-year-old George Zimmerman.
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Column: The VP short list
As the fierce battles of the presidential primaries fade into history, the attentions of politicos turn to three questions: Who will win the 2012 presidential race? What electoral strategies will be employed? And who will Mitt Romney pick for his running mate?
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Column: What’s in a slogan?
Some of the sages of the 24-hour news cycle, in their infinite wisdom, have declared that the fate of the upcoming presidential election hinges on the fate of the economy. Maybe so.
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Column: #RacistTweets
There once was a time when an editor, an institution, and a financial incentive stood between any would-be pundit and publication.
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Column: Ducking responsibility and leading from behind
The United States has a spending problem. Like an immature teenager with a brand new credit card, it keeps purchasing and purchasing with no regard as to how the purchases will ultimately be paid for.