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Column: Apology unaccepted
Early last week, U.S. troops at Bagram Airbase near Kabul literally sparked controversy when they burned several copies of the Qur’an along with garbage. Protests immediately erupted across the country of Afghanistan. Demonstrators gathered outside of Bagram Airbase, chanting “Death to America!
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Column: ‘Plastic’ a key tool for building good credit
As students go off to college, many receive their first credit card and are faced with the challenge of learning how to manage their own money. If anything is to be said about this, responsibility is a must, especially if it comes in the form of a little plastic card.
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Column: Personhood amendment completely nonsensical
The “Nevada Personhood Amendment” could appear on the Nevada state ballot in November 2014 as an “initiated constitutional amendment.” This amendment would seek to give ‘personhood’ to those still in the womb at the earliest stage of life — conception.
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Column: Prison-Industrial Complex connection to immigration
There is obviously a problem with the existence of an ineffective private (or public) prison industry, but what should raise even more eyebrows is the involvement private prison corporations have in illegal immigration.
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Column: Qatar, a new intellectual hub
It would be impossible to replicate Qatar's Education City project, a massive campus that houses educational facilities from elementary schools to branches of research universities, anywhere else in the world.
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Column: Politically-based decisions should not influence research
As a commuter to campus, my last few visits to the pump have been painful. There are already estimates out showing gas is probably going to hit around $5 a gallon this summer, according to a CNBC article. President Barack Obama gave a speech on energy production Thursday at U.
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Column: What’s in a skill?
Before coming to Harvard, I spent a summer at a biochemical company in Monheim, Germany, working alongside other interns in an insecticide laboratory. Impressed by my colleagues’ knowledge, I assumed they were biochemistry students at university exploring a potential employer.
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Column: Prison-Industrial Complex and the immorality of for-profit prisons
Today, the prison industry has become a means for profit and because of this, it has compromised human rights and is ineffective in its application — contrary to the purpose of the United States' criminal justice system.
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Column: Increases in capital gains tax can decrease income inequality
Newt Gingrich promises to eliminate the capital gains tax so more money can flow into the market. This sounds like a good plan in theory, but after some careful thought it may not really be so great. On a personal level, most people probably hate taxes.