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Column: Ferris Bueller meets Charlotte Simmons
He enters the courtroom every day wearing a sport jacket and khakis, walking in a man-boy gait reminiscent of the pubescent Matthew Broderick. Gone is the bushy hair from his lacrosse days at U. Virginia, replaced by a more calculated short haircut, replete with cowlick.
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Column: Protect your identity while online
According to the Federal Trade Commission, there were over a quarter million identity theft cases reported in 2010. The most common method was email account hacking.
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Column: My coping mechanism for Santorum’s popularity
After Rick Santorum’s victories in a handful of, albeit negligible, primary elections last Wednesday, many state and national tracking polls plot him near and even surpassing Mitt Romney in support.
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Column: A green economy
Environmental rhetoric is riddled with fluffy promises about green jobs, green economies, and green governments. These issues may seem simply nebulous and unimportant concepts. Yet the Massachusetts state government is now poised to lead its constituents towards a true green economy.
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Column: Obama’s 2013 sacrificial lamb
In President Obama’s eyes, America will soon be a land flowing with milk and honey: a land where GDP will increase by 4.4 percent and unemployment will steadily drop to 7.5 percent, and where college graduates aren’t sleeping on parents’ sofas.
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Column: Together we must end dating violence
More than twenty years ago, I read a study of junior high school students in Rhode Island that included one finding I’ve never been able to get out of my head. Students were asked if a man who spent money on a woman during a date was entitled to force her into sexual activity.
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Column: U.S. Labor Department should update its standards to protect unpaid interns
As spring quarter approaches, many students will be scrambling to apply for those coveted intern positions that require them to work all summer – for no paycheck.
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Column: Russians don’t give up in their fight against the government
Russian winters have demolished a few threats to the government’s power throughout history — literally freezing Napoleon’s attempted 1812 invasion in its tracks as half a million troops succumbed to frostbite and hypothermia.
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Column: Apple-nomics
Following Apple’s announcement on Monday that it has begun an independent audit of working conditions at plants in China where the iPhone and iPad are built, the recent outcry over the business practices of the company with the largest market in the world is coming to a head.