Every day on my way to and from school, I treat myself to the distinct pleasure of strolling through Lafayette Square and past the front gates of the White House. Picking my way through crowds of people clad in Bermuda shorts and fanny packs reminds me not only of where I am, but how I got there…

We debauch upon a newer, mightier world where the only thing unlikely
to change too quickly is the inflational price of hotdogs and bottled
water. Obesity flows like oil, black gold seeping through cracks in
the cobblestones.

Ralph Waldo Emerson is usually credited as being the father of American literary and philosophical thought, laying the foundation for what Dewey and James would later call pragmatism, though it is worth noting that this discourse was in use as early as the signing of the American Constitution.  Pragmatism is generally characterized by an optimistic faith in the potential of the individual, whose perceptions and thoughts give him the power to shape the surrounding world at his whim.  Embraced by luminaries such as Whitman and Thoreau, it was carried …

I am writing this in response to Josh Baker’s column from last week’s Targum (found here) in order to correct some misunderstandings present in the article.  The article was concerned with new legislation proposed by Senator (not really) Al Franken that seeks to limit the bargaining power of corporations under government contracts.  Mr. Franken wants to make it illegal for corporations under government contracts to include arbitration clauses in their employee’s contracts.  This outcry resulted from KBR’s (Haliburton subsidiary) poor handling of the aftermath of the rape of one of …

“I am what you might call a matchmaker,” Levy Izhak Rosenbaum told an undercover FBI informant in mid July, referring to his involvement in the first case of alleged criminal human organ trafficking in United States legal history.  Mr.  Rosenbaum’s dubious services were uncovered in tandem with a corruption investigation against several New Jersey mayors and Rabbis who currently stand accused of facilitating an international money laundering scheme.

Deadheads—as devout fans of the legendary American jam band The Grateful Dead are colloquially called—often find it difficult to describe their fascination with all things Jerry, Phil, Weir, and Hunter,

I have a problem with recent events involving an increase in North Korean political craziness. I can’t tell the real Kim Jong Il apart from the puppet fabricated to represent him in Team America: World Police. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, go rent the film immediately.

By Mike Stuzynski and Alex Giannattasio
A couple weeks ago we ran an article about some of the less attractive activities women (girls) can engage in. We received a lot of feed back on that article, so you know we had to do the guys the same courtesy. Here’s some of our least appreciated caricatures and stereotypes that give men a bad name. Don’t let anyone tell you we’re not equal opportunity haters–this is America.

William Adair contends in “The Sun Also Rises: The Source of A Farewell to Arms,” that both of Hemingway’s great novel’s share a common thread in terms of their structure.  According to Adair

This article originally appeared in The Daily Targum last Friday.  It is reprinted here with minimal edits made by the author.
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