Archive | Opinion
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Column: The reality of student debt
What’s not to love about graduation season? It is filled with senior send-offs, family get-togethers and free food. But for more and more students and families, graduation season also marks the time to begin repaying loans that financed their education.
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Editorial: Mitt Romney’s Russia
For a candidate whose foreign policy expertise was presumably sharpened by his two year mission in Europe, Mitt Romney’s pronunciations on the Russian Federation are especially surprising.
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Column: Funding the fantastic
The stranger edges of science and technology are generally couched in the terms of the impossible, the unlikely, or at the very least the under-funded and thus considerably delayed.
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Column: An IP address does not identify a particular person
There has been a war going on regarding downloading material from the Internet. Who is to blame for what alleged crimes regarding copyrighted material, user privacy and other matters stemming from the sharing of information in the Internet is a conflict not likely soon to be resolved.
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Column: Centralization is not a cure-all
On Tuesday afternoon, former U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown gave a lecture on the global economy in which he argued that the world is becoming ever more interconnected and that many problems will need to be solved through greater international cooperation.
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Editorial: Talk to your elected officials or don’t complain about student debt
It’s one of the hot topics of higher education these days. Number one, of course, is what all these “college kids” are going to do in this awful job market. But number two — student debt — is the one that sits there, stinking and festering.
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Column: An affirmative anachronism
As the U.S. presidential and congressional elections approach, a number of key political races are shaping up across the country. One of the most intriguing competitions pits Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., against Harvard Law School professor Elizabeth Warren.
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Column: The unexpected advocates
On Dec. 6, 2011, at a Human Rights Day convention in Geneva, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stated that “being LGBT does not make you less human. And that is why gay rights are human rights.
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Column: On top and in control
Despite the predictions of a diminished Putin and a shaky Russia in the near future, Putin seems to be fine and to be defying those very predictions.