By Frank Rinaldi on August 6, 2009
In the month of September, the federal government passed a bill that called for spending over $700 billion of public money in order to take over failed assets from Wall Street firms. This plan was supposed stop the bleeding and enable the financial markets to start their path to recovery. It is important to note [...]
Posted in National | Tagged economic collapse, economic distress, May 2009, obama, Volume VII Number IV
By Kristina Kelleher on August 1, 2009
President Barack Obama has said that he wants to be a transformational leader. During the primary, Obama said that he wanted to be more like President Reagan than President Clinton because Reagan fundamentally changed government and left an impact on the world. Considering the momentous change that Obama has promised, it is ironic that he [...]
Posted in National | Tagged barack obama, barack obama foreign policy, May 2009, obama foreign policy, Volume VII Number IV
By Susannah Kroeber on August 1, 2009
Creating an appropriate topic for an article in any publication is the most daunting part of writing. Inevitably, it takes some degree of invention especially when your focus is not on news, and even if you are simply trying to report the facts, a good reporter learns to write between the lines. This prelude is [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged allegiances, american culture, confederacy, culture and history, declaration of independence, federalist, May 2009, national identity, Volume VII Number IV
By Kevin Kay on July 9, 2009
Esquire magazine recently called Brown “That Maoist collective in Rhode Island.” Bill O’Reilly lambasted both the institution and the administration as “pinheads” and “liberals.” The Princeton Review ranked us as #18 on their list of “Birkenstock-Wearing, Tree-Hugging, Clove-Smoking Vegetarians.” Yet as I spend more and more time at Brown, the question for me is not [...]
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By Keith Dellagrotta on July 9, 2009
Madam –
On November 13, The Brown Daily Herald published an opinions article written by Sarah Rosenthal ’11, titled “No on Yes on Prop 8.” The piece presented a weak, and very misleading, argument that attempted to characterize the Christian church as following teachings full of contradictions, vice, and hate. In response, I wrote to the [...]
Posted in Letters to the Editor | Tagged May 2009, Volume VII Number IV
By Brian Bishop on July 9, 2009
Lest anyone imagine this a paean to the spring ritual of Brown’s varsity baseball season, we’re speaking here of an intellectual squeeze play. We’ll leave for another day the question of whether our vernal worship in the ‘house that Ruth [Babe not Simmons] built’ is but another of Marx or Sade’s opiates of the masses.
Still, [...]
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By Christina Cozzetto on July 9, 2009
I finally broke down and read Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer, over winter break this year. Curiosity was my entire reason for reading it, but that curiosity came from several different sources. One was how the series as a whole has been touted as the next Harry Potter, and how there seemed to be a significant [...]
Posted in Culture | Tagged book review for twilight, christian book review twilight, May 2009, twilight book review, twilight book reviews, twilight books review, twilight novel review, Volume VII Number IV
By Hari Tyagi on July 9, 2009
Last semester, I went to a dean to petition for two independent studies which I wanted to add to my schedule. One was a Russian Literature class about the influence of the KGB in modern Russia, with Professor Claude Carey. The other independent study was about opening an Indian restaurant in Providence that my two [...]
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By Travis Rowley on July 9, 2009
The Coen Brothers’ 2007 film No Country For Old Men revolves around the tale of several young men engaged in a violent race for a satchel of cash. Tommy Lee Jones plays an aging sheriff investigating the depressing trail of bloodshed, markings that inform the old man that the customs and morals that guided his [...]
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By Joshua Unseth on July 9, 2009
In 2006, Brown’s Department of Public Safety (DPS) was accused of racism after Chipalo Street ’06 MA’07, an African-American masters student, received an abrasion above his eye after being arrested. More recently, DPS has been accused of suppressing sexual assault data. Needless to say, after receiving its lumps DPS’s morale is at an all-time low. [...]
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