As the final troops withdraw from the meticulously planned campaign that left at least 1300 Palestinians dead and thousands more wounded, both the Palestinian and Israeli governments have the opportunity to finally acknowledge that either they must approach peace with nonviolence, or that they aren’t really interested in peace.
Last week, an airliner departing from New York City struck a flock of geese and was forced to land in the Hudson River. All the passengers survived. Though told adequately in just two sentences, this story became the focal point of international attention for days after it broke.
Too nice is too much for some. For many, it is just plain annoying. An era of behaving nicely seems to be upon us, but I wonder why simple acts of kindness get so many people worked up.
After the longest presidential campaign in our country’s history, President-elect Barack Obama will be sworn in today as the 44th President of the United States.
Since Israel invaded Gaza three weeks ago there have been many strong opinions in the news and on the street.
The term “music pirating” makes me think of some guy with an eye patch, a parrot and a wooden leg surfing the seven electronic seas and pillaging poor music artists of their hard-earned and well-deserved money.
It’s a security fence. Or maybe it’s a separation barrier. It could even be an apartheid wall. Whatever it is, it’s lying along the West Bank and Israel border.
The 2009 North American International Auto Show began this week in Detroit, where the Big Three automakers will look to improve their image.
On Jan. 5, while most Americans traveled to work for the first official business day of 2009, some General Motors Corp. employees spent what should have been their first day back to work at home as part of the mandatory vacation time decided by the company.
President-elect Barack Obama vowed to close Guantanamo Bay, but some major newspapers and politicians say the situation is a lot more complicated.
So here we are approaching the end of another semester at MSU. As I walk around campus, I can feel the stress and anxiety building. I can hear the tension in my friends’ voices and see the worry on their faces. Finals week certainly is important.
It’s been less than a year since the end of the last major entertainment strike, but once again Hollywood is rampaging right for the edge of the cliff, ready to do its best “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” impression. Or “Thelma & Louise,” to be politically correct. This time, it’s the actors — not the writers — who have begun threatening a strike.
It is undeniable that Michigan is a place of great natural beauty, and seemingly endless landscapes are something that most residents treasure.
It seems like an eon ago that President-elect Barack Obama, that mighty vanquisher of the “same old Washington,” was merely an upstart junior senator, taking on the Clinton political juggernaut. The choice back then was clear — a vote for Obama was a vote for the future, whereas support for Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., was a vote for the past.
I read Alex Freitag’s column Student groups overstress race (SN 11/20) with great interest, as a lot of the bullet points remind me exactly how much work needs to be done with bridging the gap in race relations on this supposedly diverse campus.
When I came to college about three years ago, I was extremely different than I am now. Anyone will tell you college is a time when you’re supposed to find yourself, slowly transforming into the individual you want to be and having the courage to stand up for the things you hold close to your heart.
As my mother, my third-grade teacher and the Plain White T’s all used to say, “Hate is a strong word.” And I agree. But I would propose that love is an even stronger word, abused and misunderstood even more by our society. In the past several weeks, a lot of ink has been spilled over California’s Proposition 8, a proposed constitutional amendment that will define marriage as strictly between a man and a woman.
There are several student groups focused on ethnicity that are eligible to receive student tax dollars. Anybody can join these groups. They include such organizations as the Black Student Alliance, or BSA, and the Asian Pacific American Student Organization. Some of these groups wield incredible power with these tax dollars.
When was the last time you flipped a switch to turn the headlights on in your car? Chances are, if you drive a car made in the 21st century, you might not remember the last time. That’s because newer cars have automatic sensors that detect the amount of light outside and turn the headlights on when the sensors deem it appropriate.
For the past week or so as I’ve walked to class or work, one question has dominated my thoughts: What will Michigan look like if the Big Three’s bailout doesn’t happen — an event that increasingly seems more and more likely.