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The Cooling Effect: Obama and Gaddafi Take on the UN
By Matt Wolfson | Opinion Despite its occasional excitement, the political arena often coasts at a median altitude of boring. How many Americans actually know what a public option is? Or who Max Baucus is? They have lives to live and mouths to feed, plus Angelina Jolie is a lot more interesting than Nancy Pelosi. Add to this the stultifying atmosphere of a UN summit, ...
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Pursuing Romance in that Daring Teenage Way
By Luke Willert | Opinion I remember the cutest girl from my high school. She wasn’t sexy, per se, as much as unquantifiably adorable—the same way the droopy snout and dangling ears of a young basset hound make you want to hug it and wrestle it to the ground before embracing it for two hours without stopping as you talk to it in a high-pitched, ...
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Are We Creating the Next Mujahideen? Or Have We Already?
By Evan Preston | Opinion The Iraqi government is flexing its muscles. Recently, it arrested a significant Sunni leader in Baghdad. This particular leader was a member of the Sunni Awakening, the key to the stabilization of Iraq along with the shift in U.S. military strategy to utilization of a troop surge. On the surface, the government had a good reason to arrest the leader. ...
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Without a Box?
By Markham Shofner | Opinion
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A Crazy Little Thing Called Zircon
By Steve Hochman | Opinion In the midst of countless articles and e-mails about hateful tortillas, racist alma maters, banned students, the financial crisis, and the poor quality of food at Frank, I’d like to add a little color—the beautiful watermelon greens and reds of a mineral called zircon.I’m a senior in the Pomona College Geology Department, and by a series of twists and t...
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The Real Story Behind the Roomdraw Redraw
By Ben Conway and Ben Coppersmith | Opinion
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A Lesson in Beerconomics: The Wealth of Libations
By Nick Hubbard | Opinion Beer is the ultimate liquid asset. All bad puns aside, malt beverages are almost a form of currency on campus. Like prisoners trading cigarettes, Pomona students accrue and settle debts by the can, bottle, and case. Right now, I have roughly the same amount of money owed to me in various forms of alcohol as I have in my bank ...
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From Clooney to Farmhand: A Story of Growth
By Luke Willert | Opinion I burn through time in a number of strange ways, and I do so with the same whole-hearted fortitude that Tecumseh Sherman harnessed in order to burn through the Confederacy. Day after day, for long hours on end, I watch “Gossip Girl,” shop the Internet for real estate, and do certain other things in the privacy of my room that ...
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