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April 17, 2026
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Yang: No ID, No Vote, No Rights

By Lorelei Yang | January 9, 2012

In the Iowa primary, Mitt Romney beat Rick Santorum in an outcome that may have seemed, to many observers, like a repeat of Florida's Bush versus Gore standoff in the 2001 presidential race.

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Vox Clamantis: Another View of Recruitment

By John Engelman '68 | January 9, 2012

To the Editor: Regarding your editorial ("Reassessing Recruitment," Jan. 6), here is another way of looking at the admissions of recruited of student-athletes: Since the admissions process is highly subjective at Dartmouth as it is at the other Ivy institutions, Stanford University, Duke University, Northwestern University, etc.

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Lohse: Instruments of Tyranny

By Andrew Lohse | January 8, 2012

Richard Nixon only got it half right when he wrote during the Reagan years: "At present we occupy a treacherous no man's land between peace and war, a time of growing fear that our military might has expanded beyond our capacity to control it and our political differences widened beyond our ability to bridge them." Nixon's words were those of a man who had nothing left to lose American presidents seldom have the wherewithal to speak the truth until they have left office.

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Vandewalle: Responsibility to Protect

By Dirk Vandewalle | January 5, 2012

The civil war in Libya was an important event not only in its own right, but also because it served as a test case for multilateral crisis diplomacy, and for the United Nations sponsored principle of "responsibility to protect," nicknamed R2P.

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Kim: Occupy the Future

By Yoo Jung Kim | January 4, 2012

I hadn't planned on venturing beyond the microcosm of Hanover during my interim stay at Dartmouth, but when a former floormate invited me to tour around Boston in mid-December, I eagerly accepted.

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Murphy: The Grass is Always Greener

By James Murphy | November 29, 2011

A Dartmouth professor recently told a colleague: "Everything I teach my undergrads will be obsolete in 10 years." He attempted to introduce his undergraduate students to the frontiers of research in his own special field and those frontiers are constantly moving.

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Batchelor: Wake Up, N00bs

By Jacob Batchelor | November 29, 2011

The internet is in danger. Actually though.Under the terms of two recently introduced companion bills, the Protect IP Act and the Stop Online Piracy Act, the internet as we know it could come to an end.

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Lohse: Damning Indifference

By Andrew Lohse | November 28, 2011

As Dartmouth's annual term of fraternity hazing finally culminates in hell nights this week, less secret violence is attracting news in the country at large.

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Feiger: Gobbled Up with Gratitude

By Leah Feiger | November 27, 2011

There is a little something about Thanksgiving that makes everything seem so much better. Perhaps it's that everything smells like cinnamon, or maybe it's the bountiful and mouthwatering feasts that make the holiday so anticipated.

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Wheatley: A Little Holiday Magic

By Louis Wheatley | November 27, 2011

About two weeks ago, long before cable news networks started squawking about "holiday trees" and Dirt Cowboy stocked up on eggnog, this holiday season's Christmas tree was planted in middle of the Green.

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Water Wars

By Lorelei Yang | November 21, 2011

Some policy analysts have predicted the outbreak of "water crises" caused by large, water-poor nations like China attacking smaller, water-rich areas like Tibet while seizing resources at a terrible cost to human life.

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Vox Clamantis

By Mary Cromwell | November 21, 2011

To the Editor: At Dartmouth, we often get so wrapped up in our social and academic lives, that we can be blind to the way we interact as a community, and what our actions represent.

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