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Ariel Werner '09, Ben Mishkin '08, Jenna Silver '10, Adam Axler '08, Nicholas Greene '10, Emily Sorg '10 and Max Chaiken '09: Students are a vital primary voting bloc

In 1972, gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson went on the road with presidential candidate George McGovern. He observed a young electorate that had abandoned their duty to vote, retreating to Haight-Ashbury and replacing responsible citizenship with mind-altering drugs. In "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign ...

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Max Chaiken '09: A glimpse of Israel beyond the conflict

Last week, Israel elected its 17th Knesset (Parliament). I do not write this column, however, to elaborate on why the election results are good or bad. Instead, I would like to illuminate the wider array of domestic issues that concern Israelis and some of the many political issues in Israel that exist ...

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Max Chaiken '09: A challenge to

I've been reading lately. Not just reading my textbooks for class, but reading for the sake of reading. Currently I'm revisiting Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451," a novel that creates a frightening, dystopian world of book-burning and the destruction of knowledge. In it, one of the characters argues, ...

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Max Chaiken '09: Acceptance from family, struggle with God

On Yom Kippur, Jews atone for a year's worth of sins, apologizing both to our fellow men and to God himself. On the afternoon of Yom Kippur, the traditional Torah reading is from the portion of Leviticus that contains all of the ways in which we can sin - including homosexual sex.

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