The 2006 Winter Olympics concluded this past Sunday in Turin with all the typical glitz and fanfare of a closing ceremony that had been in the works for years.
Usually I use this space pithily to opine about politics or some arcane aspect of life here at Dartmouth, but today, I would like to opine about something far more important that happened over the past weekend.
Since my last column two weeks ago, President Bush nominated Judge Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court to replace the retiring Sandra Day O'Connor, touching off heated debate and apocalyptic political rhetoric from coast to coast.
As I am a proud, native Floridian, there is one thing that has irritated me to the point of exasperation recently, and I will use this column to address it.
I am not, by any stretch of the imagination, technologically gifted. I have no idea how to speak into a Sidekick, for instance.
Despite all the discussion of President Bush's culpability in the wake of Katrina, most Dartmouth students have yet to blame deposed FEMA Director Michael Brown, Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco or New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin for any of the storm's aftermath.
Anyone who watches television or movies can tell you that the one member of the American citizenry who remains a safe punchline (or punching bag, to be more accurate) is the American man.
The retirement of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor from the Supreme Court has presented President Bush with a situation so contentious as to make John Bolton seem as non-controversial as Ned Flanders -- mustache, glasses and all. Why?
One of the many themes upon which John Kerry has been harping during his campaign is the sputtering American economy.