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Mateen Transcript: Why are References to ISIS Being Scrubbed?0
- Culture
- June 20, 2016
The Department of Justice today released a transcript of the calls Omar Mateen made during the shooting rampage at an Orlando nightclub a week ago. The transcript is incomplete, however. During a conversation with NBC’s Chuck Todd on Sunday, Attorney General Loretta Lynch said references to Islamic terrorism would be removed. “What we’re not going to do is further proclaim this man’s pledges of
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University Abandons Math Requirement, Embraces Diversity 0
- Culture
- June 20, 2016
I never was very fond of math. In fact – true confession – I did some pretty close research and fancy footwork to try to fulfill my two college math requirements in courses that were more conducive to my *ahem* right-brained tendencies. Like most things in life, I now see the benefit of those detested
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10 Facts on Motherhood and Children in the Middle Ages 0
- Education
- June 20, 2016
Jeffrey L. Singman is a historian who writes about everyday in life in history. Over the weekend, I finally got to cracking his book The Middle Ages: Everyday Life in Medieval Europe. The book offers a great glimpse into life in the Middle Ages from the perspective of people who weren’t kings, popes, bishops, lords
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What U.S. Students Miss by Not Learning Latin 0
- Culture
- June 17, 2016
Although it’s not primetime news in the U.S., a 15 year-old student from Athens, Georgia, recently made international waves when he became the first American to win the Certamen Ovidianum Latin competition in Italy. Josiah Meadows took home $1,000 in cash and other prizes for translating a passage from Ovid and then writing an essay
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‘Just Be You’: Our Culture’s Sad Embrace of Moral Anarchy 3
- Culture
- June 17, 2016
Earlier this week, traveling back home from California and during a layover at Dallas/Fort Worth, I decided to draw some cash from an ATM near my departure gate. The company dispensing the cash was Chase Bank, a subsidiary of the multinational corporation, JP Morgan Chase. On the screen, in an affront to the millions of
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Jo Cox: looking at refugees with a mother’s heart 0
- Culture
- June 17, 2016
The tragic death of British Labour MP Jo Cox yesterday brought to light a powerful speech that she made in April asking the government to accept thousands of child refugees. Mrs Cox, 41 and the mother of two young children, was murdered by a crazed loner wielding a gun and a knife while she was visiting her
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