Fort Hood Shooter Tied to Radical Cleric

The front page of the Times broke the story of how Major Hasan, the army officer who killed 13 people at Fort Hood last week, was communicating with a radical Yemini cleric since last year. Not only that, but US intelligence agencies knew about it long ago.
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More On Why Health Care Reform Matters

For an exhaustive analysis of the situation that may tell you more than you ever want to know, read my article here.
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At Least You Never Pissed Your Pants During an Exam

For 40 minutes, this college student computed harmonic oscillators and solved thermodynamic equations in his own urine.
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Does That Make Me a Bad Person?

When she revealed her mother had died of brain cancer, I thought, "I can tell that story so much better."
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Does Your Writing Suck This Badly?

I was diagnosed with a terrible disease a couple of weeks ago. But I only recently learned its clinical name discovered the large extent of its infection.
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Why You Should Watch Oldboy

Oldboy is not for the faint of heart. Watch it when you don’t mind being emotionally jarred.
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Read My Article

Check out my article on West Side Independent, a news website devoted to the West Side.
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If You Do Drugs, the Terrorists Win!

10,000 is the number of tons of illegal opium that opium-trafficking guerrillas have secretly stockpiled - enough to satisfy every dope fiend in the world for 2 years. We're no longer in Kansas...
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Chilly Monday Calls for Warm Music

Playing For Change | Song Around The World “One Love” from Concord Music Group on Vimeo.
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Should Young Adults Give a S**T About Health Care?

"Health care? Pass. I'm going to buy me a stereo system."
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Why My English Teacher is So Cool

"Emerson had the balls to ask out Livy. Do you?"
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College Student Stores 22 Bottles of Urine

Imagine your roommate has been secretly storing his piss in bottles. Yeah...
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Columbia SIPA Follies 2009

Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs has a student group called Follies. My understanding is that they produce comedic videos for their annual shindig. I was lucky enough to get involved, or rather enveloped in one, last semester. Minding my own business and trying to get some work done in the architectural catastrophe [...]
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5 Reasons You Should Watch HBO’s John Adams

Learning history is relearning history. I didn’t know… storytelling could be so captivating. (“Captivating” here means four college guys inundated with work up to their eyeballs chose to stay up until 3AM watching the show.) Sam Adams, John’s firebrand cousin, is such a wanker in the beginning. Abigail Adams deserves a lot more credit than history’s giving her. [...]
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Shiny Social Bookmarking Buttons

I'm talking about the shiny social bookmarking buttons at the bottom of the post. If the New York Times has them installed on their website, I can't go wrong, right?
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