By Joshua Unseth on October 24, 2008
Last year, a number of Brown’s eating establishments invited students to put their original art on the walls. Since then, the walls have slowly become smattered with the good, the bad, the ugly, and the sometimes funny art of Brown University students. Despite the seemingly innocuous nature of wall art, however, here is where we [...]
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By Hari Tyagi on October 24, 2008
I have wanted to go to medical school and law school since I was 16 years old. I was so passionate about saving lives that I wanted to be a doctor. I had a knack for science, so I had already won half the battle. Yet, I was also so passionate about [...]
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By Penny King on October 24, 2008
Doubleday, 256 pp. Twenty-three dollars and ninety-five cents
Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam have a strategy to attract working-class Americans to the Republican Party: become Democrats. These two young conservatives and editors of the Atlantic write that the American Dream is increasingly out of reach for the working classes. Since the resurgence of [...]
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By The Brown Spectator on October 24, 2008
Anish K. Mitra ‘10
Apparently, “[Senator] McCain doesn’t belong in any chair unless he’s paralyzed.” Ludacris, the southern rapper responsible for the aforementioned quote, has supported Sen. Barack Obama in many colorful ways; his latest rap freestyle is the most interesting one. Not only does McCain get a majority of the verbal lashing, but even Sen. [...]
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By Phileda Tennant on October 24, 2008
Tired athletes, ravenous snackers and generally everyone who missed the 7:30 Ratty/V-Dub deadline descended as usual upon Josiah’s on the evening of Friday, September 25th. Walking through the doors they were first greeted by displays of balloons, and as they wondered what was going on while they waited innocently in line for their hamburgers, they [...]
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By Anish Mitra on October 24, 2008
Honestly, when I heard a few weeks ago that our beloved Congress was planning on issuing $700 billion to relieve our financial woes, I was really stoked. I figured if even one percent of that package was allocated towards my interests (Senators Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer have represented them flawlessly), I could coast through [...]
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By The Brown Spectator on October 24, 2008
Way back when McCain was ahead in the polls — all of one month ago — an 11-year old Colorado boy was suspended from his public school for refusing to take off a shirt on which he had written, ‘Obama is a terrorist’s best friend’. This story keeps getting better and better. Apparently, the boy [...]
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By Sean Quigley on October 24, 2008
Flummoxed. That seems to be the most appropriate word to describe my mental state when, this past summer, I first learned of the word, “Cougar”. A quick search on Urban Dictionary could define this rather nasty term – nasty in the sense not only of its inherent derisiveness, but also of the type of behavior [...]
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By Susannah Kroeber on October 24, 2008
Three months ago, an exhibit on Soviet political posters and cartoons might have (to the detriment of all) come to Brown and left without much ado or notice. As a Slavic Studies concentrator and political cartoon enthusiast, I thank Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev for returning international attention to where it belongs: the former Soviet [...]
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