Ten years in the post-Columbine worldNotes from Underground
Columbine didn't bother me at first. I felt awful for the people involved, but I didn't know any of them. My parents had just signed up for cable TV, and we kept it on the news channels for several days after the massacre. The pundits kept telling me that this was a national tragedy and I should be traumatized and afraid.…
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It's FDR! It's JFK! No, it's Obama!
President Barack Obama has self-styled himself a modern Abraham Lincoln, a 21st century FDR, an echo of JFK. He's even linked himself with Jimmy Carter by mentioning "The New Foundation." And, from the outset of Obama's presidential campaign through the first months of his presidency, journalists and other observers have been quick to draw comparisons between him and past presidential giants, as well.…
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Letters to the Editor
Expand printing on campus So there I was, the only person in the ADSB computing lab, a little out-of-the-way lab that I sought out during an off-peak hour with an audacious plan to print my résumé on résumé paper. Simply "out of the question," said a little man in the glass cubicle - OK, there was one other person in the room - "rules are rules.…
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