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(04/24/12 12:15am)
Our daily, scheduled lives are strung together by a series of contracts between friends, strangers and ourselves — contracts that we seem hesitant to honor. Whether it’s our turn to take out the trash or pay for a round at the bar, we dodge these agreements as often as possible.
(04/17/12 12:15am)
Since last summer, calls to mobilize the 99 percent have been heard from Wall Street to the Vatican, amassing one of the greatest peaceful global demonstrations in history.
(04/10/12 12:15am)
What good have you done today?
(03/27/12 12:19am)
The limits of what constitutes a racist act are too liberally defined today. With a heightened sensitivity to racial inequality, we’ve become overzealous when classifying things as racist.
(03/20/12 12:19am)
I often hear conversations between two people seemingly so consumed by their own lives that they fail to be concerned with anything beyond themselves. And, all too often, I’m one of them.
(02/21/12 12:15am)
With the onslaught of cellphone tapping, domestically flying drones and Internet browsers that remember every website we've ever visited, it's fair to say that our liberties are being undermined. And though this claim has been heralded since the dawn of civilization, we are currently in a position to effectively confront the transgressions of lawmakers.
(02/14/12 12:15am)
A few weeks ago, a mobile exhibition called "America's Farmers" visited UF and parked on the North Lawn. With a mission to celebrate American family farmers, the exhibition offered a pamphlet, a short tour and a video of the lives of these rural Americans.
(02/07/12 12:15am)
When I tell people I don't watch the Super Bowl, you'd think I told them I don't attend Easter Mass.
(02/07/12 12:15am)
Seventy-four Egyptians were killed during a soccer match in Cairo on Feb. 1. The beaten and trampled victims suffered stab wounds, suffocation and severe head trauma. The immediate cause of the brawl is uncertain, but it was likely motivated by team rivalry.
(01/31/12 12:15am)
On Dec. 25, GOP nominee Newt Gingrich unveiled his plan for reversing America's spiral into irrelevancy. "By the end of my second term," he said, among an unsettling flood of laughter and cheers, "we will have the first permanent base on the moon, and it will be American."
(01/31/12 12:15am)
We readily scorn humanitarian crises in hindsight, but we have a selfish habit of ignoring those that persist in the present. Like the ostrich that buries its head, we feign that all is well even if we don't see it.
(01/24/12 12:15am)
Despite former President John F. Kennedy's adage, the sole justification for laws is to benefit and protect the citizens they govern. Each person, valuable within himself, is what our government was created to uphold. Any appeal to the benefit of "the Nation," "the Economy" or "Society" forsakes its aim by failing to support the value of the very individual on which the laws were founded.
(01/23/12 11:15pm)
The debate over embodiment — the interdependence between our physical and mental selves — is not young, but it is particularly relevant today. With the realization that, "I think, therefore I am," Rene Descartes fueled a long tradition that effectively dissociated the mind from the body, the soul from the corpse and spurned our physicality as base and impure.
(01/17/12 12:15am)
It seems characteristic of man, today more than ever, to move further away from his natural self with each notch of progress added to his belt. All things considered, we lead undeniably different lives from our ancestors, those born from sub-Saharan plains and those who built civilization. Our current rate of progress is unparalleled and exponential. And though industry and technology have proven beneficial, providing alleyways of opportunity and countless resources for personal and cultural growth, their rate of progress is outpacing our ability to evolve alongside it.
(01/10/12 12:15am)
Years ago I thought I was smart because I could name most of the state capitals, I knew the difference between a peach and a nectarine, and I could discern a Pink Floyd sample from that of Led Zeppelin. Granted, none of these really indicated my intellect. But I thought my knowledge would increase exponentially until the day my hair grayed, at which time my clarity would dampen as my experiences compounded.