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Julius Caesar strolls into a Boston bar, gives the bartender a hard look and says, "Give me a martinus, straight up, three olives." The bartender is confused and says, "Sir, are you sure it's not a martini that you want?" Caesar looks him dead
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The entertainment industry has become a dominant force in American business. Social media — one of a key and growing segment of the entertainment businesses — includes tech devices, such as cell phones and pads, magazines, print newspapers, movies, games, and pornography. It has emerged because of the digital way we work
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Could 2016 be the Year of the Great Campus Pushback? Could this September be the moment that colleges and universities recover their pride and dignity and go back to being place of learning rather than intellectual "safety zones" for the coddled children of the comfortable? Stay tuned! The
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In 1380, Geoffrey Chaucer stirred the travel bug of Brits with his opening lines of the Canterbury Tales: When in April the sweet showers fall… And bathed every vein in liquor that has power To generate therein and sire the flower… Then folk do long to go on pilgrimage… To
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Isn't it amazing how many inconsistencies are filtered through modern minds? For example, how is it that many college students decry the racist, even capitalist, backgrounds of some of their campus benefactors? Yet they give wide birth to others who held similar racist views in their time. Students
Faith
Let's start with a couple of thought experiments. What do you think is the predominant world view of the average American public high school graduate? That is, how would he or she answer such fundamental life questions as, "What is a human person really?" "What
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For decades, young people have been experimenting with new and freer sexual mores. On college campuses, some might say that sexual freedom is on steroids. The ideas are not new, but on today's campus the drive toward casual sex is dramatically accelerated. Marriage is a "social construct.
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All good things in our uber-democratic county get overexposed, oversold and corrupted. Take the wonderful idea that everyone should own their own home. Lending regs and credit standards are lowered. Everyone piles in the housing market. The bubble forms and the recession follows. Or take the classic gin martini straight