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Striking for Civil "Writes"

By Suzanne Lehrer | November 29, 2007

One of the earliest maternal wardrobe memories I have as a child is an old, faded, magenta shirt my mom had that read, "Behind every successful man is an exhausted woman." Outdated, presumptuous and slightly chauvinistic?

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Life, Really?

By Denise Hotta-Moung | November 28, 2007

In a recent episode of The Office, Dwight Schrute begins playing a computer game called Second Life as a way to escape the pain he suffers from a recent breakup.

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Class Activism

By Claire Murray | November 28, 2007

This weekend marks the end of the 40 days of Grassroot Soccer blitzes. These e-mails (and those Mailer-Daemons!), while numerous, were, it seems, incredibly effective in mobilizing campus-wide support for the event.

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Changes in Latitudes...

By Chris Talamo | November 26, 2007

Those 1490s ... talk about a great decade. The Moors surrendered after the long Reconquista, the Swiss won their independence and the Portuguese set out to establish an empire.

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Grass-rootin' for Policy Change

By Lucas Richardson | November 26, 2007

"In Zambia, sex is not a negotiation," Gesh Banda, a Grassroot Soccer program assistant, and a 23-year-old native of Lusaka, Zambia, told me the other day during a conversation about Zambian culture.

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An Identity in Flux at Dartmouth

By Nina Maja Bergmar | November 25, 2007

Coming to Dartmouth as an international student, I experienced a huge culture shock. Surrounded by Americans, I suddenly had to adapt to an environment more similar to the scores of American high school movies I watched throughout my youth.

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Ranting, Raving and Rationalizing

By Caleb Ballou | November 20, 2007

Last weekend, my father visited me on one of his meandering journeys up to Dartmouth. These became an instant tradition a few years ago, when he realized that he could use the somewhat legitimate-sounding excuse of "visiting his son at college" to take a few days off, drink some wine and enjoy some good, old-fashioned quiet.

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Speak Free or Die Hard

By Nathan Bruschi | November 19, 2007

Last Saturday, Spain's King Juan Carlos made headlines at the Ibero-American summit for asking Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, "Why don't you shut up?" The heated and slightly comical exchange occurred after Chavez called former Spanish Prime Minister Azner a "fascist," an especially sensitive accusation considering that Juan Carlos's immediate predecessor was the fascist dictator Francisco Franco.

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Betting on the Wrong Horses

By Max Bryer | November 16, 2007

If you've been paying any attention to the news for the past few weeks, you're probably aware that Pakistan is steadily but surely sending itself straight to hell in a handbasket.

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The Netblitz-kreig is unacceptable!

By Marc Sikkes | November 15, 2007

To the Editor: John Gaythorpe may wish to see Netblitz go away, but as someone who has had the misfortune of having to use Webblitz and Webmail for the past two days, I certainly do not ("Netblitz conks out, resurrection unlikely," Nov.

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Emphasizing the Positive

By Raymond Rodriguez | November 15, 2007

For the first time since matriculation, I am an outsider to the College. I am currently off campus for two terms due to the D-Plan, and can only see Dartmouth through a very constricted lens.

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Cougar Comeback

By Suzanne Lehrer | November 15, 2007

The revolution of the older woman has arrived. It seems that finally, in 2007, Hollywood has come to realize that middle-aged women are no longer just your second-grade teacher or the soccer moms on the sidelines or the ladies who play bridge and talk about menopause on Sunday nights.

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Remembering Ben Lolies

By Justin Zalkin | November 15, 2007

It seems to have passed nearly unnoticed around Hanover that several weeks ago Ben Lolies '09 died in a motorcycle accident ("Junior dies in motorcycle accident," Oct.

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ExtraCurricular.

By Donald Pease | November 13, 2007

Editor's Note: Professor Peases\' column is the fifth installment of ExtraCurricular, an occasional series of commentary by Dartmouth professors.

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Soulja Boy and Stereotypes

By Claire Murray | November 13, 2007

Did you know that the lyrics to "Crank Dat Soulja Boy" are too crude to print in this column, because it will look bad when future employers and future boyfriends Google my name?

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