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A price too steep
Israel paid a pretty penny for the return of soldier Gilad Shalit, but was the asking price simply too high? ...
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My scarring trip to the Bronx Zoo
It was a Saturday morning in the middle of summer ’95, maybe ’96 — I’m not a calendar, fuck you. Either way, I was young and impressionable. My parents made a last-minute...
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A guide to no-sweat registration
Spring 2012 is looming closer and B-Line is filling my inbox with information about registration dates and deadlines. Time to get down to business. Registration for this spring is going to hold...
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A Halloween battle of the sexes
It seems that All Hallows’ Eve isn’t quite the holiday it used to be. Halloween used to be a day when spirits of the undead would once again roam the earth; the...
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Mainstream radio transmits bad waves
I have a complicated relationship with mainstream radio. In recent years, a chunk of my music hasn’t come from radio but from miscellaneous searches on iTunes. For hours, I would get lost...
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Understanding your resident rights: a foolproof plan
Getting written up for an alcohol violation is no joke. There are many obvious reasons to keep your drinking off campus. But let’s face it, there are also huge conveniences to pre-gaming...
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Awakening my food consciousness
In high school I, like many, never had to pay attention to weight. Not because I had some jealousy-mongering fast metabolism, but rather, I never really noticed food. I mean, I knew...
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Symbolic Victories
If the past is any indication, the death of Moammar Gadhafi is not the end, but just the beginning for Libya and its march toward democracy. ...
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Shalit swap stirs hearts
A nation cries out in gratitude and anxiety. In my own dorm room I shed tears in a way that I didn’t know I was capable of. We have prayed for this...
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Persistent Internet issues wear campus
We are now in the third consecutive week of Blackboard being effectively unusable, that is, unless you’re willing to sit at your computer for an hour to open one page. Apparently, there...