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Sept. 1, 2016 At the NewBostonPost, September means heading "back to campus." As Boston bustles with the arrival of approximately 250,000 students attending the more than 50 colleges and universities, our attention is turned to stories about our institutions of higher learning and life on campus.
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"There's many a king on a gilded throne But there's only one king on an ice-cream cone. So we crown him today with friendly acclaim, All over the country we'll blazen his name. With hot dogs barking in approbation, He's the
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Move-in day for freshmen at Tufts University was this past weekend and upperclassmen arrive this week. I remember how excited I was moving into Tufts. I went on to earn a double major in economics and political science, and then went on for a master's degree in economics
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Donald Trump tells reporters, "We're going to have people sue you like you never got sued before." Hillary Clinton doesn't like her opponents funding documentaries that criticize her, so she demands Congress overturn the Supreme Court decision that allows it.
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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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Mother Teresa, the most recent Catholic saint, is, indeed, a saint for all. Catholic, or not, people around the world know Mother Teresa of Kolkata as a woman who gave her life to tending to the abandoned and desperate. The Missionaries of Charity, an order founded in 1950 by the
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In an election year, when Americans are in the grip of policy debates and heated discussions as to first principles, the question as to whether society is a contract requires particular attention. This is because our views on social contract theory not only shape our political predilections, but also because
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One of the shortest-lived political parties in Massachusetts history pushed through a state constitutional amendment whose after-effects still bedevil us today. More than a century and one-half ago, the so-called Know Nothing party passed an amendment to prohibit any state funding for non-public schools, specifically targeting the burgeoning Irish-Catholic population
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