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Most of us know teaching pioneer Anne Sullivan from “The Miracle Worker,” a story based on the autobiography of Helen Keller that has been made into several Broadway plays and movies. The name of the story derives from Mark Twain, who declared Sullivan such; and it’s hard to disagree with Twain’s assessment. In 1887, Sullivan,
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Tennis great Martina Navratilova until recently had long been coronated as a social justice trailblazer. She was one of the first marquee celebrity athletes to come out as gay, and then to advocate lesbian issues in and out of sports. But suddenly the icon seems out of step with her progressive legend status. Navratilova had
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How do you deal with those pesky trolls who seem to be everywhere on social media sites nowadays? Nothing ruins the cool vibe of the social media experience more than their online diatribes, meant to tease and instigate with every key stroke. Kendall Walters defines a troll as “someone who deliberately provokes others online, typically
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It’s not everyday that you get to witness records for any kind of sport being broken, but last year we got to witness a truly amazing feat, as Paralympic archer Matt Stutzman acquired the Furthest accurate distance in Men’s archery title. At a private golf club in McKinney, Texas, Matt, the ‘armless archer,’ loosed an arrow from
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Many people depend upon polls to predict the outcome of elections. What pollsters do appeals to all the prejudices of the post-Enlightenment modern mind: They employ a distinctive technique (thank you Rene Descartes), they focus on empirical evidence (thank you Francis Bacon), and they invoke the mathematical forms of statistics (thank you John Graunt and
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When it comes to selecting a candidate for president, how do you choose? The answer seems like a no-brainer to some: simply choose the person whose ideology most closely aligns with your own. But if a recent article from The Wall Street Journal is any indication, that’s not the way many Americans operate. Instead, they
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