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...great thing about being a college student is that it basically gives you a four year pass to make a few, shall we say, interesting choices. And most of your fellow classmates have taken advantage of this freedom. Not to belittle your plight, but it is pretty run-of-the-mill...
...start at a high school finish? The answers led Greene and subsequent researchers around the country to place the national graduation rate at anywhere from 64% to 71%. It's a rate that most researchers say has remained fairly static since the 1970s, despite increased attention on the plight of public schools and a vigorous educational-reform movement...
...players to miss a course over a professor’s objections. These issues, while imprortant in the world of college sports, are unrelated to the case at hand. Rape and sexual assault are clearly very large problems in America, and we do not mean to trivialize the plight of the woman in question. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, a woman is raped every two minutes in the U.S.. This is a startling statistic, adding up to over 209,880 victims of rape, attempted rape or sexual assault in 2004, according to the 2004 National Crime Victimization...
Imagine if Jesus were alive today. How might he react to the plight of an impoverished Mexican worker living just miles from America whose wife and two children are beginning to display signs of malnourishment because the worker’s wages are so paltry? If only the worker could make it across the border, he could earn twice as much money. He realizes the risks, as entering America without documentation is illegal and dangerous. But to this father, immigration restrictions pale in comparison to the survival of his offspring. So he crosses the border, hoping to send home wages...
...unknown group, released a tape of Carroll and made their first demand that female Iraqi prisoners be released or they would kill their captive by Jan. 20. On Jan. 26, the U.S. military released five women, but said it was a planned release and was unrelated to Carroll's plight. Four days later, another wrenching tape of Carroll appeared, in which she was weeping and wearing the Islamic headdress called a hijab. She called for the release of women prisoners...