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An Annapolis tradition, grounded
My town, Annapolis, is a special kind of college town. The students at the Naval Academy are distinctive not for their backpacks, ear buds and school T-shirts, but for their crisp summer whites and their somber dress blues. The midshipmen take off...
Tags: Budget Control Act of 2011, White House, U.S. Congress, United States Naval Academy, Ceremonies
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Maryland's McDaniel College closing the 'opportunity gap'
Here's what Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman, said three years ago as the nation's gap between rich and poor widened toward historic levels: "I think it's a very bad development. It's creating two societies. And it's based very much, I think, on...
Tags: Students, Finance, Financial Aid, The New York Times, High Schools
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How to find a job that suits you
It's the time of year when spirited young women and men graduate from the joyous, beer-soaked, afternoon-napping-allowed world of college and enter the soul-crushing, coffee-soaked, afternoon-napping-frowned-upon world of work. I kid, of course —...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Business, Values, Rex Huppke, Colleges and Universities
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Graduates must resist the urge for simplicity
Members of the Class of 2013, I salute you. As everyone keeps telling you, you are graduating at a difficult and even frightening time. I wish it were otherwise — that my generation was bequeathing you a finer world. We aren't. The world into...Tags: Martin Luther King Jr., Abraham Lincoln, Ray Bradbury, Yale University, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Turned tables: waxing nostalgic
One step led to another and another and another and soon I was 10 feet away from my car and only one step away from my high school's doorbell. I rang it. "Can I help you?" "Yeah. It's Kayla," I said. Kayla as in 2008 graduate of Shade-Central City...Tags: Students, Schools, High Schools, Teaching and Learning, Colleges and Universities
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Students need skills to pay the bills
Parents are often told — by magazines, television news shows and Oprah — that they are doing things wrong. Don't give kids regular milk; give them organic or they'll turn into mutant cow people. Don't use plastic cups, they contain BPA, which...Tags: Students, Frosting and Icing, Georgetown University, Employment, Philosophy
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College grad wonders when real life will start
Dear Amy: I am a 24-year-old college graduate living in my parents' basement. I never have a day off because I work seven days a week — weekdays as an unpaid intern and weekends at a minimum wage job. I'm ambitious with a clear head on my...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Rentals
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Ready for round two
Working for a newspaper, I have the opportunity to meet a lot of different people and develop good relationships with interesting and unique groups. On Tuesday I have a chance for redemption with a group that got the best of me two years ago. The...Tags: Basketball, Celebrities, Sports, Radio, Chicago Cubs
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Commencement speakers: the rude, the unfunny and the insightful
Commencement season is the college equivalent of the White House Correspondents' Dinner. Institutions from the Ivy League to the local community college scramble to lure the shiniest star they can to their podiums on graduation day. And the match-ups...
Tags: George Washington, Michael Bloomberg, Alice Cooper, Jenna Bush Hager, Democratic Party
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New leaf
To understand why the hiring of Brian Bannon as Chicago's public library commissioner caused a more-than-ordinary stir, let us quote a learned cultural authority. That authority is not Socrates. It is not Shakespeare. It is not Goethe. Nor is it...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Cancer, John Milton, Chicago Reader, Benjamin Franklin
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Will Penny Pritzker become the next U.S. commerce secretary?
In late 2009, President Barack Obama appeared on "60 Minutes" and said "fat-cat bankers" were smothering his efforts to craft new rules for Wall Street. As soon as the reforms cleared Congress six months later, the president's top advisers launched a...
Tags: Elections, Republican Party, LaSalle Bank, Finance, U.S. Congress
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The end of upward mobility
As Americans we like to think we with live in the land of opportunity where hard work and diligence pay off with a rise up the social and economic ladder to a standard of living that's the envy of the world. It's a myth. It's not that we don't want that,...Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Students, Economic Organization, Family, The New York Times
May 13, 2013
|Column| Baltimore Sun
May 12, 2013
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May 13, 2012
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May 10, 2013
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Apr 24, 2013
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Sep 3, 2012
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Apr 21, 2013
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Apr 4, 2013
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May 28, 2012
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May 8, 2012
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Mar 3, 2013
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Feb 25, 2013
|Column| Petoskey News
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