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Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

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China: Building for the future

Corporations in China seek tomorrow's consumers by building stores today.

Forget Obama—Bust the filibuster

Obama can only do so much in the face of a filibuster-bent Senate. Americans need to educate themselves and seek to change the undemocratic filibuster ...

Why people need to shut up about the iPad

Tech writers need to stop speculating about the iPad before they have seen it and to stop whining about how the iPad has failed to ...

Core from transfer student’s perspective: It could be worse

Transfer students occupy a sometimes awkward position between first-year and upper-classmen. What benefits and disadvantages are there in forcing them to take Core?

Obama’s problem of polarization

Obama's first year plagued by partisanship and polarization.

Everything I ever needed to know I learned from video games

[caption id="attachment_12403" align="alignright" width="298" caption="Credit: Sloane"][/caption] Over winter break, I spent a lot of time ...

Why we failed in Copenhagen

Dec. 18, 2009, will be remembered as a failure of the international system. Fifteen years of negotiations, 22 years of research ...

A frequent conversation (with myself)

Everyone has a story. Being me, I talk to myself. A lot. This is a (slightly embarrassing) fact. I do it often enough that I suspect ...

U.S. military should step lightly in Haiti

The images pouring from earthquake-devastated Haiti onto the Internet and television are heart wrenching. The nightly news shows New York City firefighters crawling over downed ...

China: Complicated is an understatement

Maybe you haven't heard, but Google has found a new adversary after vanquishing Yahoo and Microsoft: China's Communist Party! Google recently announced (on its official blog ...

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