After getting about 2.5 hours of sleep last night, I am absolutely exhausted, and I have an Art History exam tomorrow. (I spent about half the night at a convention center outside of Florence with way too many Americans watching CNN and BBC on big screens and then the other half of the night refreshing [...]
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So after two years of campaigning and all that jazz, Election Day in the United States has finally arrived. And I’m in Italy. Funny how things work. Anyway, how I made it through classes today without suffering a nervous breakdown, I have no idea, but I survived all the same. I hope to do some [...]
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There’s always next time, right?
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I went to my first Italian protest today. Unlike in the US, however, I went as a listener, not as a participant. In August, the Italian government, lead by the far-right president Berlusconi, approved a new law that will cut €1.5 billion (about $2.4 billion) from the Italian Univeristy system over the course of the [...]
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Prematurely lauded as the most important vice presidential debate in the history of the universe, last night’s “disuscussion” between Democriatc VP nominee Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware and Republican VP nominee Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska largely fell flat. As many have pointed out over the last few days, this was Palin’s debate to win [...]
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Yesterday, Republican Presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain decided to suspend his campaign and called for a cancellation (note: not a postponement) of his upcoming debate with Democratic candidate Sen. Barack Obama so that he could return to D.C. and help solve the financial crisis. (READ THE NEWS HERE) OK, I have several issues with this [...]
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In Spring 2006, my final project for my AP Human Geography class had to be a presentation on a global conflict. Those were the official guidelines. The unofficial guidelines were that every topic had to be approved by my teacher and deemed by him to be a true conflict. Of course, everyone did Global Warming. [...]
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In case you aren’t cool enough to be on my mother’s email list, here’s the link to the article published in the campus today. There’s a little blurb about me. The picture is good. The article is…well, it would be great if I was applying for the party PR possession. I have clearly memorized every [...]
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