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Morales, Meet Barry Bonds
by Ron Bishop
"This, then, is the tragedy of Barry Bonds. We feel nothing, but argue incessantly about nearly everything. We deliberate about the process, but miss the significance – of everything. We enthusiastically consume the mediated hero, but rarely check credentials. We should be angered, livid, incensed, outraged, pissed off, but we aren't. I barely am."
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Essays & Articles
2/25/2008
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The Curse of Justice
by Robert Anthony Watts
"Clarence Thomas has lived most of his life under the spell of a curse."
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Essays & Articles
12/28/2007
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A Review of Gunnar's Daughter
by Charlotte Lenox
"Critics have said that Vigdis’ response to the rape—her withdrawal from the people around her, her change in personality, and the inability to forgive—is one of the most realistic depictions of such a trauma in all literature. Such a claim is, in my opinion, not far off."
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Essays & Articles
5/25/2007
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Then There was Brussels
by Ali Cahill
Then there was the freedom. It was oddly liberating being in a city where, of the three languages that are spoken, I only spoke one: English (I can’t speak French or Flemish).
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Essays & Articles
4/19/2007
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Sacco & Vanzetti Illuminated
by Albert DiBartolomeo
Every Italian goes through a Sacco and Vanzetti period. Ok, maybe not every Italian—first, you have to learn about the men, and many people don’t, even though their case created an international sensation.
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Essays & Articles
3/5/2007
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History of a Marriage
by Stacy E. Ake
"...for Joey, the American dream is the wife and kids he left behind in Indiana. It is the consistent and, perhaps, mundane world of the daily grind. It is, as Nietzsche might observe, a 'long obedience in the same direction.' Mostly, however, it is love."
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Essays & Articles
1/23/2007
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It's All in My Head
by Rachel Messina
"Slowly, as the professor begins to peel back the meninges of an intact brain … a wave of heat creeps up my body. At the same time, a cold sweat washes down. When black clouds start to permeate my vision, I know I’m in trouble."
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Essays & Articles
12/4/2006
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Stranger Than Fiction: A Response
by Kevin Hoffman
"Somehow I think we’ve all convinced ourselves at one time or another to kill off a character, idea, or concept that, deep down, we really know should live on and be shared with the world."
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Essays & Articles
11/20/2006
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Mediagate
by Stacey E. Ake
"Of course, we are cautioned that we shouldn’t get our social and political opinions from media celebrities. But if we don’t get them from media celebrities like Ted Koppel and Jon Stewart and Tom Brokaw and Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh, from whom should we get them?"
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Essays & Articles
11/10/2006
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These Species of Loneliness
by Charlotte Lenox
"Life in the Last Frontier is so different and so unknown compared to the rest of the States that to leave Alaska was to enter into true isolation, where innocent but ignorant questions are asked, and a true understanding is never reached."
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Essays & Articles
10/31/2006
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Reflections on Academic Ethics
by M.G. Piety
"When I was a little girl I was, like so many little girls, horse crazy. I didn’t have a horse, so outside of the two weeks I spent at camp every summer, I had almost no practical experience with horses. I read every book on horses and horseback riding I could get from our small local library though. I read them not once, but over and over again. I read them until I had virtually memorized them."
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Essays & Articles
2006
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