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...Crimson is also looking to reverse a recent losing trend against the Quakers, as Penn has come out on top in each of the past two years. In last year’s Ivy League opener, the Quakers triumphed over the Crimson in a 2-0 shutout...
...even racist. A couple of months ago, for example, a legislative aide to Sen. Diane Black (R-Tenn.) emailed out a picture of previous, white presidents followed by a black portrait with only two oversized eyes portraying Obama—supposedly meant to remind of us of a dark past of Sambo and blackface images. The aide later apologized not for sending a racist email, but for “sending [the e-mail] to the wrong list of people.” My advice for Republicans: Learn from Democratic politicians. Even when they were out of power, they...
...this year, according to the Associated Press. Air Force ROTC Captain Joseph P. Adelmann, an instructor in aerospace studies at MIT, said that the increases may be due to the draw of ROTC scholarships and the current state of the job market. “I know in the past few years we’ve seen some increase from what [the numbers] had been previously,” Adelmann said. “Part of that could be due to the economy, could be the job security thing after college, because it’s harder to get jobs...
...discovery, enlightenment, horror, joy, inspiration and fun to the reality of Detroit. And that reality is that Detroit, like all other cities, is human. Beneath the statistics and the headlines, people live there. They struggle with profound change, they fight to raise and educate their families, they mourn the past, and they hope for a brighter future...
...Detroit, once our fourth largest city, now 11th and slipping rapidly, has had no such luck. Its disaster has long been a slow unwinding that seemed to remove it from the rest of the country. Even the death rattle that in the past year emanated from its signature industry brought more attention to the auto executives than to the people of the city, who had for so long been victimized by their dreadful decision-making...