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July 20th, 2003
Lament of a Student Loan Debtor
I'll admit it-I'm a student loan debtor . Big time.
And like most of you I'm not expecting forgiveness anytime soon.
My loan woe
A few years ago I set out to improve myself ...
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June 18th, 2003
My other name is Mr. Flag. It's true?I'm a closet vexillologist . I study flags. I guess you'd say that qualifies me as a geek. Or maybe I'm just a pathological ...
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May 2nd, 2003
Christie Todd Whitman Finds Bush EPA No Place for Moderates
Wind Dummy?
The writing was on the wall for all environmentalists the day Secretary of State Colin Powell called EPA director Christine Todd Whitman President Bush's "wind dummy ." The term refers to the military practice ...
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April 19th, 2003
The April 8 Attacks Demand a Reckoning
No doubt a sad page has been turned as a result of U.S. troop actions that led to the death of three journalists last Wednesday . It's hard not to think that an unspoken and ...
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April 10th, 2003
Philip Morris Companies Became Altria Group - So What?
When a corporation like the Philip Morris Companies changes its name, is it a change in deed or just in word?
As the umbrella company that owns such diverse products as Kool-Aid, Altoids, Oscar Meyer, and ...
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April 8th, 2003
The Ethical Quandary of Embedded Journalists
Do "embedded journalists," that is, those assigned to cover and travel with a particular military unit, make for balanced war coverage?
As a journalist I believe embedding journalists with our troops is higly problematic.
Say the word
To ...
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March 28th, 2003
Is DU a Danger to Our Figthing Men and Women?
No matter how patriotically we adhere to the slogan "Support Our Troops," it is to the US military that the slogan should apply the most.
But, in some cases, the military may be a soldier's biggest ...
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February 28th, 2003
A House Painter and the Importance of Passionate Living
Could it be that "lust" is one of the good seven deadly sins? Possibly the only one that is?
I love the word lust because the word ...
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February 27th, 2003
Don't Look Now, Unemployment Is Good for You
Just when you think you've heard it all comes this nugget: Joblessness may be good for you.
This curious theory comes courtesy of University of North Carolina economist Christopher Ruhm. Ruhm's theory, published by the National ...
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January 4th, 2003
Signs of Hope in Mother Teresa's Long Crisis of Faith
Can there be any example more illuminating about what faith demands than Mother Teresa's recently revealed crisis of faith?
Crisis of faith…and Mother Teresa? Yes, the two go together. She was human ...
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