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Benjamin Carlson


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Fairness at any price

Much of the debate in these pages about the injustice of denying transfer students financial aid has overlooked the most obvious solution to Brown's avowed paucity of funding, and for good reason. This solution, if we truly want to give our transfer students fair and equal consideration, would require ...

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Recapturing morality

Maybe there was a section I missed. Perhaps I read the ballot too perfunctorily, misunderstanding some arcane referendum. Whatever the reason, it has become heartbreakingly clear that unbeknownst to me and millions of other voters, the vote I cast on Election Day was not actually to determine the president, ...

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Crowding out the poor

I may be remiss, but I do not think I am alone in saying that the cost of a Brown education and all its trappings is a bitter pill to swallow in exchange for these four years.

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Shades of Greene

If Graham Greene had lived to celebrate his 100th birthday last week, he would have seen a world suffering from the same overabundance of moral simplicity as the one he condemned 50 years earlier. "Innocence," he warned in his 1955 novel "The Quiet American," "is a kind of insanity" that may be used ...

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Organic food is here to stay

As a writer, I dislike changing my angle or tack once I've decided on a story. If I have to switch positions, then I also have to discard a stockpile of precious quips, glittering phrases, and lapidary formulations that I, as a writer, have come to love more than I will ever love my children. The positive ...

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