Last time there was a campus-wide power outage, it lasted for six hours, was Mother Nature’s fault and happened at the start of the weekend. Today, it was two hours, was not Mother Nature’s fault and happened during the hours in which everyone intended to start cramming some work in. At least the dreariness and [...]
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This was the week that Kanye West ruined the VMA’s for Taylor Swift forever and then apologized. I think that sort of set the tone for the rest of the week. JEDI: Birthers rejoice. Obama is in fact not an American citizen. He is a Jedi Master from the asteroidal colony of Polis Massa. FOOD: [...]
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You know that Middlebury has become too stressful when Mother Nature intervenes and forces all of us to take a mandatory study break. No lights, no computers, no music, no internet, no homework. For 6 hours. Enjoy. Sure, I was sad that I wasn’t going to finally put on a dress and heels and go [...]
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Around here, the biggest mystery people are trying to solve is when in the world Spring is not only going to come but stay as well. Seriously, Mother Nature, there is such as thing as too much flirting. Around the world, however, the mysteries get a little bigger. Here are some from this past week, [...]
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Over the weekend, the finance ministers and central bank managers of the G20 (19 of the world’s largest economies plus the European Union) met in London to talk about the current economic crisis. Though pledging to do “whatever necessary,” the ministers refused Obama’s suggestion of a coordinated global stimulus package and instead left all the [...]
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On Friday night, Congress passed its third major piece of legislation under the Obama Administration: The Stimulus Package. Intended to help the country take baby steps towards economic recovery, the bill has been hotly debated in recent weeks as to whether or not it is the right way to get us back on our feet. [...]
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This week, Burlington was named the healthiest city in the US, both because of an emphasis on healthy lifestyles and because of high health benefits offered by businesses in the area. In honor of Burlington’s accomplishment, this Sunday I give you some (or a lot of) other important people and events from the week that [...]
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Here’s a post I do every Sunday morning over at Midd Blog. Consider it my weekly mix-tape, except in written form. With the start of the G20 Economic Summit in D.C. and the end of MTV’s “TRL”, reality finally burst our post election highs this week reminding us just how bad the world economy is [...]
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