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I’ve read quite a few out-of-the-way economics websites (and stuff that deals with economics) and everyone seems to think that the economy will enter into an inflationary period that will somehow magically destroy all debts along with the savings. They seem to think that, even if the prices shoot up, wages will also shoot up [...]
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Lindsay Lohan as Marilyn Monroe?
“The Last Sitting”
I remember gazing at the original book in college. I happened to be drunk and my new college roomate had the room decked with pictures of Jackie O, Marilyn Monroe and Bremen Shipping Lines advertisements (!). One of the picture books was the shots of Marilyn Monroe’s last sittings.
So, when I was drunk, [...]
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Sallie Mae’s Success Too Costly For Students?
Yet another problem with Universities Today: The greater dependence of students on Student Loans.
The fact is, while many students are happy to get anything to go into college, the fact that they’ve become dependent on loans is a crime. Most students will graduate and start their adult life in [...]
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Charges Finally Given In Duke Lacrosse Rape Case
I remember my original reaction, how this case in many ways signified how sports has ruined the university today. That was, of course, before the DNA tests showed that whatever sperm was inside her was from none of the Lacrosse players, and the prosecutor saying he’d prosecute someone [...]
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Blue Devils Made Them Do It
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Probably one of the better items I’ve read of what’s been happening to the universities over the past twenty years, at the very least, and probably for much longer.
It starts off with a look at the rape charges aimed at Duke LaCrosse Atheletes and [...]
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Florida Defeats UCLA, 73-57
After a near-miss six years ago against Michigan State, Florida finally reaches the peak of the NCAA basketball world, to give its football championships some other-sports companions.
I just ask one thing: act like you’ve been there before. Leave your campus and neighborhood neat. Let at least ONE *$^%^%* university have enough pride [...]
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George Mason Butchers Michigan State University
At least there won’t be any riots at East Lansing this year.
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But seriously, it’s sad that one can see a silver lining in something as disasterious as a first-round loss to some third-level basketball team playing [...]
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Dreams Deferred — New York Times Article
And for those who don’t like the NYTimes, or think it’s too liberal (trans: not yet to the right of Mr. Arthur Coltrane/Mrs. Ann Coulter) (or are too lazy to look it up), here’s a distillation:
Americans have worried themselves into a tizzy over the lack of sleep they’re getting [...]
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Burn Your Couch, Legally
That’s Right, Spartans. Your football team may be preparing to take its place besides such powerhouses as Indiana, Illinois, Southern Methodist and Vanderbilt; but now there are couches you can burn legally!
The problem: you’ll have to go to West Virginia for them. And we’ll have to persuade Mark Garrett to make some [...]
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While not necessarily the biggest game now, definitely one that has held onto its marquee for a long time. Those of you in your late forties and up probably remember the 1968 game which put Michigan back on the map (by taking a “gift trip to the Rose Bowl” and making it an earned trip); [...]
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