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...that time of decade again. On Jan. 25, U.S. census workers began knocking on doors in Noorvik, Alaska, the first stop in an epic attempt to count everyone in America. Article 1, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution calls for an "actual Enumeration" of the population every 10 years in order to determine how many Representatives each state gets in the House. The survey has also collected data on occupations, education and housing, among other subjects. The first Census, in 1790, was mainly a head count of free, white, draft-eligible men. Later queries were sometimes absurdly specific...
OSAMA BIN LADEN, purportedly speaking on a recently released audio tape, praising Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab for his attempt to blow up a Detroit-bound aircraft on Christmas Day. The tape also threatened future attacks against...
...last-second three-point attempt from co-captain Jeremy Lin had fallen, the crowd’s faith may just have been rewarded...
Although it is certainly true that barriers against gay Americans no longer exist in many aspects of contemporary society, an attempt to change the military’s stance on differing sexual orientation is a particularly significant step. While the military—which integrated blacks in World War II long before federal law ever did—seems recently to have forgotten the progressive elements of its history, the geographic diversity represented in the armed forces will make the eventual repeal of DADT an especially effective move. There are few organizations that simulate a more accurate picture of this...
Weintraub knotted the score at eleven, this time getting the ball past a triple block. On the following possession, Weintraub blocked a Baruch spike attempt and when the ball landed on the Bearcats side, the Crimson took the lead—and the momentum...