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Brooks: Focus on Policy, Not Politics

By David Brooks | June 21, 2012

As the summer progresses, the presidential election season will pick up steam. Battleground states will see ever more attack advertisements, and the American public can look forward to further swipes back and forth between the candidates, increased media scrutiny, the veepstakes and, of course, more debates.

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Batchelor: Making the Most of Time

By Jacob Batchelor | May 29, 2012

A friend of a friend, a girl I never really knew, died in a car accident this past weekend, just days after graduating from Yale University. No one ever really knows what to say when a tragedy happens because there is nothing to say, not really.

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Joung: Leveling the Playing Field

By Nick Joung | May 28, 2012

When I was in elementary school, I was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Since then, I have been given extra time on every test from pop quizzes to the ACT and the SAT until this year, when I stopped asking for it.

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Colaneri: Be Yourself

By Natalie Colaneri | May 28, 2012

In a few days, I will be graduating with the rest of the Class of 2012. When I look back on the last four years, I feel privileged to have gotten to know many students here who are not only incredibly intelligent, but also kind and empathetic to the needs of others.

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Pedde: The Danger of Statistics

By Jonathan Pedde | May 23, 2012

In our day and age, empirical evidence from scientific study is held in high regard. Perhaps as a result, supposedly "scientific" data are often used in political debates to show how one political position is "better" than another.

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Zehner: The Dartmouth Brand

By Nicholas Zehner | May 22, 2012

It's no longer possible to escape from the reality of a shrinking world. As bonds between the United States and the rest of the world become tighter, so too must the bonds between the rest of the world and Dartmouth.

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Yang: We're Not All Tiger Cubs

By Lorelei Yang | May 21, 2012

Last Monday, I attended City University of New York professor Cindi Katz's lecture, "Superman, Tiger Mother: Aspiration Management and the Child as Waste." Katz claimed that the "Asian mode of parenting" described in Amy Chua's "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother" is producing a society of strivers, in which the middle-class Asian family compels students to experience constant pressure to succeed in order to stay competitive.

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Vox Clamantis

To the Editor: In the year leading up to the recent Dartmouth Dance Theater Ensemble production of "Undue Influence," Dartmouth became an even more dangerous environment for women. According to the most recent Clery Act report, campus sexual assaults more than doubled in 2010 over the previous year.

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Vox Clamantis

We applaud the email that College President Jim Yong Kim sent on May 11 to the Dartmouth Community notifying us of two "bias incidents" and reiterating the College's condemnation of such acts ("Kim notifies campus of harassment incidents," May 14). We would, however, like to call attention to a May 14 blog post on Dartmouth Gender Sexuality XYZ. The post raises several important issues in response to Kim's letter with which we strongly agree.

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Miller: A Long Road to Democracy

By Zack Miller | May 20, 2012

Many experts have suggested that democracy is an inevitable byproduct of revolution and that in the wake of the Arab Spring, new Middle Eastern democracies will rise from the ashes of dead dictatorships to reflect the egalitarian views of the people.

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Schwartz: Not So Science Fiction

By Benjamin Schwartz | May 17, 2012

Author Ray Bradbury, famous for his dystopian visions of America's future, once called science fiction "the art of the possible." With the powerful effects of phenomena like Kurzweil's law of accelerating returns which states that information technology increases exponentially in power while simultaneously decreasing in size and cost showing up more and more obviously in our daily lives, it often feels as though the possible and the inevitable are converging. Think of Stanley Kubrick's blockbuster classic "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968) co-written by esteemed sci-fi author Arthur Clarke.

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Pedde: Centralization Is Not a Cure-All

By Jonathan Pedde | May 16, 2012

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 ("Brown discusses global economy," May 16). While Brown's argument is certainly true with regards to some pressing issues, further centralization of political power isn't a wise idea in general. The first part of Brown's argument is most certainly correct: "We are all part of an interdependent economy.

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