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...would not acknowledge a need for education prior to ascending to the second highest office in the land. Her smirking, contemptuous dismissal of community service at the Republican Convention; a litany of falsehoods, including the claim to have said "no thanks" to the Ketchikan "bridge to nowhere" and a host of discrepancies in her assertions about the investigation into abuses of power during her tenure as governor; her campaign's unprecedented demand for "deference" from a free press before answering questions - all paint a portrait of a woman who believes she has it all figured out. Scott Kenyon, Vienna, Virginia...
...past few months, the College has played host to pop-rock artist Gavin DeGraw and the hip-hop ensemble Wu-Tang Clan, who were both well-received when they performed during this spring’s Yardfest...
...with the Central Asian nations - the People's Republic's only formal attempt at international alliance-making - is called the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Of course it's simply named for the city where it was inaugurated, but the point for proud locals is that the Chinese government chose to host an important international security summit in Shanghai rather than in the capital...
...raids or through warfare. Of course, even if the Europeans were altering the course of a preexisting, domestic slave trade, this horror remains paramount. Europeans introduced a level of terror and exploitation to the Atlantic slave trade that killed literally millions of Africans. Ghana’s coast was host to European slave “castles,” which were fortresses of despair in which hundreds of people shared prison cells filled with human waste for months at a time. Sexual assault was rampant and physical abuse was the primary method of control. Scores more Africans died...
...have evolved into cable news talking heads. Along with some xenophobic politicians, they have made a living out of bashing Hispanics and Middle Easterners. In April, a Colorado state legislator referred to Mexicans as “illiterate peasants” on the State House floor. Controversial talk-show host Bill O’Reilly has accused supporters of the Kennedy-McCain immigration bill of attempting to “flood the country with foreign nationals.” Representative Peter King, told an interviewer that “there are too many mosques in this country...