It’s hard to decide what’s worse: the fact that Blagojevich was trying to sell the Senate seat, the number of “f-bombs” dropped by Blagojevich in the official file against him, or the fact that, at the moment, he’s refusing to step down from his position. It will be very interesting to see whether or not...
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Totally awesome or extremely creepy?
This story appeared on Drudge earlier today, and I really can’t decide whether this female robot companion is a ground-breaking accomplishment of a brilliant mind or the work of a very disturbed individual. The really odd bit is that this guy actually created her with the intention of making a female companion for himself. My...
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Who reads the Huffington Post?
I often find myself asking, who reads the HP trash? I think that question is pretty suitably answered if you read the responses to an article about the upcoming Obama metro cards in D.C. (My favorite is by ‘ debrouillard’)
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A Fine Link for Conservatives
While perusing the Interwebs today, I came upon a nice website called Conservapedia. This site, a right-wing counterpart to the enormously popular Wikipedia and run in the same fashion, comes equipped with such things as the profiles of famous conservatives, a forum for debate on any topic, and a news feed...
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Market Crisis Panel.
This panel, put together by the Cornell International Affairs Review, took place more than two months ago, but there was a lot of well-presented and unbiased information that’s still relevant to understanding the dynamics of this financial crisis. Here is the full length article about the panel discussion, which featured Professor Andolina from the Johnson...
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Obama speechwriter in trouble.
This is just another reminder that college students’ facebook pages will be scrutinized by potential employers. The photo itself, which features Obama’s director of speechwriting groping the chest of a Hillary Clinton cardboard cutout, is rather comical, but it raises serious points of concern. With the proliferation of global networking platforms, more and more of...
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Sig Pi Returns to Campus, the Review gets the story first
Probably the most contentious issue in the Greek community this year.
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Check out “The Logic of Life” By Tim Harford.
This work belongs to the growing genre of popular economics books. If you enjoyed Freakonomics, then you’ll love this book. It is all encompassing: funny, entertaining, witty, intriguing, and informative, and sure to please anyone from the casual layman to the student/professor of economics. Unlike a lot of Freakonomics type books,...
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Cornell Subpoena News Story
The Review has a a full article about this in the upcoming issue, but this is rather intriguing. Cornell Daily Sun Story: Published November 20, 2008. New York Times Story: Published November 16, 2008. It’s odd that our campus newspaper is four days behind on national news story that pertain specifically to Cornell University.