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...Percentage of adults who admit to stealing candy from their kids' Halloween bags...
...pamphlet in my top desk drawer, promising myself that I would look at it later. I may have then left to read, write an article at The Crimson, or play Wiffleball with my roommates. I’m not sure, but I never did return to it. I will admit, however, that sometimes nostalgia still jerks me around. I cannot help but have a healthy respect for pre-meds, and—old photographs in mind—I occasionally wonder if I really have been ignoring my grade school enthusiasm for science. My parents still reminisce about it over...
...hate to admit it, but my dad was right. During my teenage years he warned of the three evils of college life: drugs, drinking, and, worst of all, staying up late. Though I initially ridiculed the comparison, I now acknowledge that his emphasis couldn’t have been better placed.I’ve never had a problem with the first evil, and I’ll have to plead the Fifth on the second, but late bedtimes have been the bane of my existence since freshmen year. And certainly this humble, yet irritable and reactionary columnist...
...finally tracked down Donald Kraybill, a professor in the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College. Kraybill, to my chagrin, told me there is in fact a lot of stuff going on with the Amish. Far more, I had to admit, than is going on with me. Amish churches, he said, will spend the next year wrestling over whether to allow members to own cell phones. This seemed odd to me, since Amish beliefs forbid members to drive a car, go to school past eighth grade or have phones in their homes. But someone found a loophole...
When it comes to issues such as war, genocide or religious conflict, few parties want to admit wrongdoing, and few are in agreement. That makes writing history textbooks free of biases, and fair to all sides of the showdown, a daunting task. But in the U.S. as well as around the world, some authors are attempting to take it on. Here are some examples of their efforts...