Why Wal-Mart? By Stephen Burke It is not difficult to write an article about how terrible Wal-Mart is. The body of research on the subject…
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Deciding the nuclear haves and have-nots By Shaza Elsheshtawy Nuclear weapons are the single most powerful, devastating, and authoritative artillery a country can possess. In a…
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The history of a struggle for national identity
By Gena Mangiaratti
Kurdistan is a country. Kurdistan is a virtual state. Kurdistan is a bad country. Kurdistan is an illegal country.It all depends on whom you ask.
What is Kurdistan?
When Sirwan Dabagh, a Kurd born in southern Kurdistan, tells people where he is from, he does not always mention the word “Kurdistan.”
“I usually say I’m from southern Kurdistan, which of course, politically correct, would be northern Iraq,” Dabagh said. “However, if the person asking doesn’t seem open-minded and generally educated, I prefer not to get in a conflict and, therefore, tell them that I’m a Kurd from Iraq.”
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By Simi Landau Lindisfarne We call it Lindisfarne because we are the only ones who still know what that means. We are like them, the…
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Gun ownership and civil liberties By Gena Mangiaratti As I pointed the gun down range, trying to exact the position of the bright red dot…
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If you have anything to do with the Park School, you’ve noticed the slew of new flat screen TVs that showed up in the hallway…
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Paying the bills in post-Katrina New Orleans By Lyndsey Lyman Sixty-seven-year-old Audrey Armour of the Uptown area of New Orleans knows from…
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By Emily Miles This month, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum continued its yearlong 50th anniversary celebration with a rather unusual exhibit. On Thursday,…
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By Amelia Blevins Before you say anything, Repo Men is not a knock-off of 2008’s Repo! The Genetic Opera. There’s no singing here and no…