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Fall 2008

Hope Your Medical Emergency Can Wait

President-elect Barack Obama has said he favors a single-payer health care system such as the one Canada has now. But…

Measure Q and the Lending Crisis in Education

The city of Los Angeles passed a $7 billion bond measure to refurbish public schools on Election Day. “Measure Q,”…

CEO Pay: Money Well Spent

CEOs, some declare, make too much money. The basic premise of this claim is that the ‘excessive’ pay is undeserved–-that…

The Latest Diplomatic Tactic: Make-Believe

North Korea has a long history of being a malevolent nation. The communist dictatorship was first placed on the State…

Give Peace a Chance?

The New York Times recently released a video about a group of Jewish and Arab teenagers in Jerusalem who have…

Bailout Crack

In a knee-jerk reaction to panic and fear over the current financial crisis, the government issued a $700 billion dollar…

Could I Get a Hand?

I looked up at the bicycle box, a little perturbed. It sat high above my head on a shelf that…

What Laissez-Faire?

In response to the economic crisis now spilling over into the European markets, French President Nicolas Sarkozy called for an…

Kohl Mobile: LOL

Did you know that the price of text messaging has increased by an astonishing 100 percent over the last three…

American Apathy Towards “the New Normal”

Seven years ago, after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and President Bush's subsequent declaration of war on…