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April 11, 2026
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View From the Farm

By Jason Spellmire | January 9, 2009

Having grown up on a farm raising grain, beef cattle and chickens, I'm concerned by the uninformed vitriol that threatens real discourse on agricultural practices.

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Death Wall

By Kevin Niparko | January 8, 2009

When it comes to death, humans have a tendency to act irrationally. Egyptian kings erected extravagant pyramids to usher their dead into the afterlife.

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Credit Crisis

By Zachary Gottlieb | January 8, 2009

Apparently, you can't fight City Hall. According to the New York State Department of Labor, some historical problem with "slavery" has encouraged legislators to ban any unpaid internship that doesn't compensate with college credit.

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Fourth and Long

By Christian Kiely | January 7, 2009

When the Detroit Lions went 0-16 this year, they made history. Yet when the Dartmouth Big Green football team went winless for the first time since 1883, no one blinked.

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Stop the Whoppers

By Sam Buntz | January 7, 2009

Although I'm certain I have found many other commercials more viscerally irritating, I cannot recall a series of ads so obnoxious and insulting to the conscience as Burger King's recent "Whopper Virgins" ad campaign.

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A Global Perspective

By Tom Mandel | January 6, 2009

While I was on a Birthright trip to Israel this past December, a six-month ceasefire agreement between the Israelis and the Palestinians ended, and violence ensued.

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Educational Stimulus

By Brian Solomon | January 6, 2009

The death of former Senator Claiborne Pell on New Year's Day after a 15-year fight with Parkinson's disease symbolized the sad, slow decay of the federal college aid grant program that bears his name, as well as the increased value of education and human capital in the United States. Created in 1965, Pell Grants are awarded to college students who come from families making less than $45,000 per year.

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A Helping Hand

By Jacob Batchelor | January 5, 2009

Two a.m. a few nights ago found me watching "Planet Earth" and trying to figure out what I want to do with the rest of my life.

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Test Everything

By Peter Blair | January 5, 2009

Over winter break I saw a commercial about polar bears. You know the kind I'm talking about. The commercial opens with some picture of a polar bear floating away on a block of ice, and then cuts to some authority figure -- usually a C-list actor whom you know you've seen somewhere -- telling you in a very serious voice about the grave threat that climate change poses for the polar bear population. Deeply moved by this commercial, I decided to look up some facts about polar bears. According to Danish academic Bjorn Lomborg, 11 out of the 13 polar bear populations in Canada are stable or increasing in number, and more polar bears are killed every year by hunting (49) than by climate change (15). Two years ago, in a case concerning literature about global warming, a British High Court judge ruled that there is not any evidence for the notion of the drowning polar bear.

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To Snitch Honorably

By Zachary Gottlieb | December 3, 2008

After you read this article, I'm going online to report the Honor Education Committee for plagiarism; I'm pretty sure they stole their inspiration from the PATRIOT Act.

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Obama Online

By Claire Murray | December 2, 2008

As one might expect from the candidate whose campaign produced scores of videos and sent more text messages than my 15-year-old sister, President-elect Barack Obama depends on his BlackBerry for basically everything.

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The Blackest Friday

By Brian Solomon | December 2, 2008

I finally understand how people in other countries can hate the United States. The answer lies not in our liberty or our power, but in our cartoonish excesses, our absurd obsessions -- and the tragic death of one 34-year-old early last Friday morning. At 4:55 a.m.

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Show Me The Money!

By Isaiah Berg | December 1, 2008

Sometimes, poverty is kind of a romantic opportunity. Once you get over the taste of rice and beans, ramen and repression, you realize that losing wealth forces you to disregard some of the distractions of opulence and cling not to guns or religion (Hi Barack!), but instead to your core values and priorities. Recent market troubles are forcing Dartmouth to come to this realization.

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The Polka-Dot Umbrella Plan

By Alice Zhao | December 1, 2008

When I was younger, I dreamt of becoming a polka-dot umbrella. While my peers fixated on occupations in banking, archeology, and other fields, I aspired to "protect people from the rain" professionally.

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The Suit And The Apron

By Chris Talamo | November 25, 2008

Between the Equal Rights Amendment and Hillary Clinton, feminism underwent a transformation. Before this change, feminism was a nice, well-adjusted movement with honorable aims and reasonable practices, something both men and women could support. Somewhere along the line, though, a large group of feminists became exposed to a heavy dosage of gamma radiation (maybe at a protest against nuclear weapons), and a new, monstrous form of feminism was born.

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Cause For Caution

By Nathan Bruschi | November 24, 2008

We waited with the rest of the world, glued to a muted television in one of Barcelona's English pubs, growing hoarse from yelling at Wolf Blitzer.

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