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  • This University President Can’t Take a Joke

    This University President Can’t Take a Joke0

    A university president recently addressed his campus community about an incident that had shaken his Wisconsin school. “The last few days have been painful ones for many members of our community, as they have also been for me,” wrote Lawrence University’s Mark Burstein. “The event and its aftermath have left many students wondering whether the University cares

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  • This Unique Form of Education is Putting Normal District Schools to Shame

    This Unique Form of Education is Putting Normal District Schools to Shame0

    • August 18, 2015

    We’ve reached the dog days of summer, and it’s time for many people to head back to school. Increasingly, though, many children are not heading back to the normal district school to which they are assigned. Instead, many parents are choosing to send their children to language immersion schools where almost all of the instruction

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  • This Thanksgiving, Let’s Set a Place for Gladness

    This Thanksgiving, Let’s Set a Place for Gladness3

    About 18 months ago, I was reading for review Rachel Hollis’s self-help book Didn’t See That Coming: Putting Life Back Together When Your World Falls Apart. At one point, Hollis is talking to her friend Greg and apologizes for sounding “a bit like Pollyanna.” Greg asks if she’s read Pollyanna. When Hollis says no, Greg

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  • This Teen Earned Enough to Pay for College by Selling Newspapers

    This Teen Earned Enough to Pay for College by Selling Newspapers0

    Most children these days expect their parents to pay for their college—either through savings or through co-signing on loans. But not Kevuntez King of Memphis, Tennessee, who was raised by his single mother. As People Magazine reports: “Every Sunday for the past four years, Kevuntez King woke up at 3:45am to stand on a Memphis,

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  • This T.S. Eliot Poem Describes Modern Males Perfectly

    This T.S. Eliot Poem Describes Modern Males Perfectly1

    In his famous poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” T.S. Eliot proved prophetic, predicting the new kind of man and the new kind of courtship that would dominate the modern world. If people want to understand the insecurities, the indecision, and the wince-inducing incompetence of single men today, they will find it all

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  • This Single Mom Was Told to Raise $10k for a Heart Transplant and People Are Outraged. They Shouldn’t Be

    This Single Mom Was Told to Raise $10k for a Heart Transplant and People Are Outraged. They Shouldn’t Be0

    During the course of my workday I came across the sad story of Hedda Martin, a single mom who was recently informed by a Michigan health clinic that she was not a candidate for a heart transplant “due to needing [a] more secure financial plan for immunosuppressive medication coverage.” The hospital group, Specter Health Richard

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