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...imagine that 90 miles from our shore, freedoms are alienable. In Cuba, the choice to dissent from the government has dire ramifications. Citizens are imprisoned for merely voicing an opinion. Prisoners of conscience are systematically tortured and often executed for not conforming to the constraints of the totalitarian state??just some of many blatant violations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of which Cuba is a signor. Evidence of these abuses can be seen in the prison memoirs of Armando Valladares and countless other accounts by political prisoners. Valladares writes, “Freedom is so natural...
...Earlier this year, reporters at Colorado State??s Rocky Mountain Collegian learned that the university president had been secretly meeting with representatives from a local paper, The Coloradoan, to discuss what school officials have billed as a “partnership” between the two papers. But what they call a partnership is really an acquisition of the non-profit Collegian by Gannett, the for-profit publisher of The Coloradoan. Gannett, best known for USA Today, is America’s largest newspaper publisher and already owns two student newspapers in Florida, though those were for-profit...
...underfunding specific initiatives. Increasing funding and therefore keeping this valuable resource at Harvard will only benefit the University and its students. Along with funding the construction of research facilities, the bill’s tax incentives should prove to be an invaluable catalyst for the continuing growth of the state??s already-booming biotechnology industry. These incentives will encourage those companies currently situated in Massachusetts to expand or further develop and will motivate other companies to start building here. With both of these outcomes, the increase in the sciences in Massachusetts will be able to provide numerous opportunities...
...supporting permanent military presence in Iraq, legislating against a woman’s right to an abortion, allowing government surveillance without a warrant, upholding tough immigration enforcement, shooting down gun control laws, and prohibiting human embryonic stem cell research. Indeed, the main reason Bobby Jindal—the state??s first minority governor since Reconstruction—catapulted to victory was that he was so utterly indistinguishable from the mostly white voting base...
...also holds a realistic view of American education, having criticized No Child Left Behind and asserted that states ought not be forced to comply with it if they believes it interferes with their ability to effectively educate the state??s children...