Opinion
Work-Study's Capitalistic Ways
By Ben Taylor | February 1, 2007It's easy to dismiss the creed of Bret Vallacher '10 against the College's supposed "classism" ("Work-Study Woes," Jan.
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Sept. 11, Iraq war, Pope's death create national news
By Ben Taylor | June 12, 2005This year's graduating seniors have lived through terrorism, unrest at home and overseas, a war that resulted in a toppled dictator and an American occupation and a tense presidential campaign. 2001: The year opened with the terror and tragedy accompanying the terrorist attacks of September 11.
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Ramesh, with 4.0 GPA, will speak as valedictorian
By Ben Taylor | June 12, 2005Following a calculation of final grades, Sandeep Ramesh '05 from West Bloomfield, Mich., was named valedictorian for the class of 2005.
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A Mixed Message on Iraq
By Ben Taylor | March 30, 2004The Bush Administration committed a major blunder Sunday in the ongoing attempt to stabilize Iraq when American soldiers shut down production and padlocked the gates of Al Hawsa, a radical Shi'ite weekly newspaper in Baghdad. The move came in response the paper's rabidly anti-American stance and distortion of the truth regarding the American-led occupation.
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The Good Doctor's Legacy
By Ben Taylor | February 19, 2004It turns out Wisconsin was Howard Dean's last stand after all. Following his distant and disappointing finish in the Badger State Tuesday, Dean ended his run for the presidency, marking the end of a campaign that perhaps will go down as the most meteoric rise and catastrophic collapse in American political history. It may have been the media overplaying the "I Have a Scream" speech.
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Ask Me Monday Morning
By Ben Taylor | October 24, 2003I was speaking with a '93 the other day, and he asked me if I was excited for Homecoming weekend. I didn't really know what to say.
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Wait 'til Next Year
By Ben Taylor | October 20, 2003Pinch me, please. Someone tell me that this surreal nightmare is just that -- only a nightmare and nothing more.
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A Cure for What's Failed Us
By Ben Taylor | October 1, 2003It isn't often that I agree with Republicans. Since 2000 at least, as the Republican Party has shifted more and more toward the far right, the opinions of prominent Republicans usually just make me wince and look anxiously forward to 2004, when the chance to change the guard will arrive. That election, in 2004, will carry more significance than any in recent history. The ideological extremism of President Bush, his puppet-master Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, John Ashcroft and Donald Rumsfeld has brought this nation to the brink of an abyss. Under Bush's leadership, we have unjustly invaded a foreign nation with no apparent plan for its reconstruction.