The dream was over before it even began. These Olympic Games proved why professional athletes, namely star-studded NBA players, need to keep their obligations where it really belongs - with their owners and with their contracts. I'm sure they all have pride for their country, and they probably did really want to win a gold medal.
Welcome to MSU. According to a 2000 study by the U.S. Department of Justice titled "The Sexual Victimization of College Women," nearly 5 percent of college women are victims of sexual violence each year.
Education, in its broadest sense, is the most important element in a child's life. Our educational system is the milieu in which our children swim until they find the shores of adulthood.
About 89 million American adults - somewhere between 46 and 51 percent - are essentially illiterate, according to a survey conducted by the National Institute for Literacy.
Recently the Cyprus IndyMedia Collective published a statement regarding the collaboration between the CIA and the Cyprus police to "investigate and intimidate Cyprus IndyMedia and (independent journalist) Petros Evdokas." His crime?
As Google prepares to go public with an initial stock offering of 25 million shares, some long-held concerns about the company's immense power and questionable policies still float in the air.
We are a nation in danger. Not from terrorist cells abroad or domestic, but from ourselves. Our political schisms and petty, partisan bickering - once the background noise to respectably-run campaigns - have coagulated together not unlike the T-1000 from "Terminator 2" to create a political rift in our nation so expansive that Evel Knievel himself dare not attempt to jump it on his motor bike. In a time of knee-jerk partisan retort to potshots that were never thrown, we still fail to realize how perilously close America is to forgetting that we all share the same hope for our country, no matter who its leader is.
Recently the United Nations, the U.S. government and the Iraqi people have been discussing what to do with the Iraqi city of Najaf.
Here's a conundrum - how do you ensure your partner will remain faithful to you? If the answer to that isn't complex enough, consider if this was the follow-up question - how do you convince them to inject him or her with a gene that makes them more faithful? These sorts of outlandish questions - particularly the latter - don't simply come to my mind out of the blue.
In an election that has become less about voting for your particular candidate and more about voting against the other guy, Sean "P.
Death can take even the strongest away from us. Roman poet Publilius Syrus once wrote that it is in death that we are all equal.
Ramble on … • The world's a pretty tense place right now. The terror alert has gone from Roy to G to Biv without much insight into why, how or what the hell each code level really indicates as it fluctuates here and there for no publicly known reason.
August. Finally. The hottest month of the year is also the hottest month of the presidential campaign.
With the Democratic National Convention having just passed, and the Republican version coming up, all eyes are fixed on the country's two political powerhouses and their over-the-top, self-patting-on-the-back get-togethers.
In past columns, I have written about President Bush and his rather bizarre relationship with God. Reports of Bush claiming to receive his instructions directly from the Almighty are distressingly easy to find.
Once again, opponents of Michigan's mandatory helmet law are attempting to establish legislation that would greatly reduce its effectiveness.
Detroit is a modern day story of a city with an unspoken duality in stark contrast. The Pistons (who play in Auburn Hills) are champions of the world, but the city of Detroit is only champion of decay and confusion. In a recent article published in Playboy, Frank Owen provides a graphic perspective into the unseen Detroit.
One begins with an "f." The others begin with "s" and "c." They are the three four-letter words that still get a rise out of the American people.
Same-sex marriage is certainly a critical issue at debate in our nation today. Issues have been raised on both sides of the debate, and it has become clear that empirical, scientific arguments are most important when discussing this dilemma.
Editor's note: The following column contains graphic details of a sexual assault. "Why didn't she go to the police?" It's one of the most commonly asked questions about sexual assault, and on the surface, it makes sense.