by Robert Guffey | Feb 3, 2009 | Opinion
Founded by a Harvard University student in a dorm room five years ago this week, Facebook.com, or simply “Facebook,” has become an Internet social networking phenomenon with over 150 million active users worldwide–and it’s still growing. Though...
by Thomas Steagald | Feb 2, 2009 | Opinion
I do not think “Gran Torino” is Clint Eastwood’s best film. It is not even the best of the ones I have seen, and I have not seen all of them. His turn in “The Outlaw Josie Wales” is a favorite of mine, but “Unforgiven” is, I believe, his most profound work—a...
by Sam Davidson | Feb 2, 2009 | Opinion
The Black Swan is the third book I’ve read this year, and it will probably be the meatiest tome I take on for 2009. I picked it up after two friends recommended it, people who live two very different lives. So, I expected a business-type book with universal...
by Charles Foster Johnson | Feb 2, 2009 | Opinion
One of the oddest ironies of contemporary Christianity in America is the inability ”or unwillingness ”of progressive churches to evangelize. These are the churches with the most excellent values of inclusiveness and empowerment. It is axiomatic that openness of heart...
by Britt Towery | Feb 2, 2009 | Opinion
One of the most disturbing wars in history began with British protectorate rule over Palestine. Begun in the 1920s, the “Holy Land” war continues between Arabs and Jews to this day. With such tremendous hatred for one another, will a solution ever be...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Feb 2, 2009 | Opinion
What’s the easiest way for a university to come up with a good written policy on plagiarism?You plagiarize someone else’s statement.Hard to believe, but true.I first saw the story in the online Chronicle of Higher Education last Thursday, but it’s...
