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HannahB on December 26th, 2011

Merry Chrstmas! ~R.E.

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HannahB on December 20th, 2011

If you haven’t heard yet: Kim Jong Il, the “Dear Leader” of North Korea, is dead. He died of heart failure on Dec. 17th and was confirmed on Dec. 18th. People’s reaction to his death depend on their perspective of him. Some peop…

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HannahB on August 16th, 2011

Outcasts United (Spiegel & Grau, 2009) by Warren St. John tells, as the book’s subtitle says, of “an American town, a refugee team, and one woman’s quest to make a difference.” As the Washington Post’s book review stat…

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BenB on January 1st, 2011

While you were dreaming of a big box wrapped with a bow on top sitting under a heavily adorned tree, the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) — which was signed between Obama and Russian President Dimitry Medvedev earlier this year — was ratified by the Senate. Now it’s official, we will reduce our [...]

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BenB on December 11th, 2010

What is economics? It’s such a simple yet complicated and multi-faceted question. In order to know what economics is, you must know what an economy is. Thomas Sowell in his book Basic Economics explains, “Perhaps most of us think of an economy as a system for the production and distribution of the goods and services [...]

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