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Securing a scholarship and/or an award can be a tough exercise. It can be an even tougher exercise for those students with physical and/or learning disabilities. Such disabilities or funding barriers should not limit worthy students the chance to fur...
DATE: Mar 09, 2018
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AUTHOR:
Tinée Furbert
Last Sunday, the last day before Lent, Russia marked one of the most unusual holy holidays.
It is known as Forgiveness Sunday. On this day, each person can ask forgiveness from anyone he or she intentionally or accidentally offended or caused harm t...
DATE: Mar 08, 2018
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AUTHOR:
Nina London
The bitcoin and cryptocurrency intervention has brought a new layer of a technological mystic, particularly to the older generation and those of my era who are still grappling with simple things, such as how to answer a smartphone — a task that our f...
DATE: Mar 08, 2018
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AUTHOR:
Khalid Wasi
This past weekend was the Faith and Politics Institute’s annual civil rights pilgrimage to Selma, Birmingham and Montgomery with John Lewis, the Democratic representative of Georgia. Because I went last year, I didn’t think there could possibly be mo...
DATE: Mar 08, 2018
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The following is an op-ed that has been republished courtesy of the author and The Huffington Post
I am a Bermudian, but my love for Bermuda has always been unrequited. Because I am a gay Bermudian. The island of my birth, where I spent the first 18...
DATE: Mar 07, 2018
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In the cold light of day, things do not look much better for Italy’s political establishment. After voters delivered astonishing mandates to two populist parties on Sunday, the biggest losers seemed to be Matteo Renzi and Silvio Berlusconi, the two f...
DATE: Mar 07, 2018
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American parents are forever bombarded with information about how we are doing it wrong. Our helicopter-rescuing, “a trophy for every child because every child is a winner” cosseting ways are going to result in a generation of future adults unable to...
DATE: Mar 07, 2018
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She never saw it coming. There was no boom. No crash. No crunch of metal on metal like in the movies.
It was just Filsan Duale and five children in the minivan — four of her own plus a friend they took go-karting — heading to their home in northern V...
DATE: Mar 06, 2018
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Petula Dvorak
Over the course of the next few weeks, we shall be witness to the biggest charade in the parliamentary calendar — and that is the Budget debate. One week of this charade has happened already and I’m willing to bet that most people had no idea. There ...
DATE: Mar 06, 2018
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“Old pirates, yes they rob I;
Sold I to the merchant ships.”
Those words were so profoundly placed at the very beginning of Bob Marley’s Redemption Song. The song had a message that was obviously deep and personal because he, at the time, knew of hi...
DATE: Mar 05, 2018
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Khalid Wasi