I am tired of reading the same inaccuracies in opinion columns, most recently in Jim Lala's "Libertarians might not win, but they still have good goals". The first is that Congress is handing Iraq $87 billion.
"Good meatballs" is not the kind of comment one normally would expect to hear in the offices of International Studies and Programs.But the ISP annual Holiday Open House held Wednesday transformed three floors of the International Center from quiet corridors into hallways bustling with festive people, colorful decorations and unique food - lots and lots of food.
"I want the truth!" "You can't handle the truth!" In "A Few Good Men," Tom Cruise's character knows the importance of truth, and searches for it.
This is in response to Katie Lander's letter, "Creationism has been disproved". In it she contends that creationism has no place in scientific debate because it's "been disproved by modern science." That's a bald-faced lie.
"The Cat in the Hat" The only way they could have desecrated the memory of Dr. Seuss any more was to say he loved to eat children.
1. "In The Zone," Britney Spears, Jive (Last week: Not on charts)2. "Beg For Mercy," G-Unit, G-Unit/Shady (3)3. "Blink-182," Blink-182, Geffen (not on charts)4. "The Black Album," Jay-Z, Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam (1)5. "Let It Be... Naked," The Beatles, Apple (not on charts)6. "Closer," Josh Groban, 143/Reprise (4)7. "Tupac: Resurrection," Soundtrack, Amaru (2)8. "Now 14," Various Artists, Columbia/Universal/EMI/Zomba (6)9. "Shock'n Y'all," Toby Keith, Dreamworks (Nashville) (5)10. "Speakerboxxx/The Love Below," OutKast, Arista (11)Source: Billboard
As of today, there are only a few weeks remaining until our families come together and presents are placed on everyone's lap.
When Tom Dutch arrived in Pearl Harbor, there was no memorial, no tourists and no souvenir shop.
Susan Swanson will serve four and a half to 15 years in prison for the hit-and-run death of a 40-year-old man on Grand River Avenue in Okemos last year, a judge announced Wednesday.Swanson, 42, was sentenced by Ingham County Circuit Court Judge Thomas Brown on Wednesday, nearly two months after a jury found her guilty of drunken driving and leaving the scene of an accident causing death, said Joyce Draganchuk, an assistant county prosecutor.On July 31, 2002, Swanson's Cadillac struck Alejandro Salinas as he walked along Grand River Avenue to his brother's home.
Because of the state budget crisis, funding for universities has decreased significantly. Universities are increasingly relying on private donations from alumni to provide additional funding.
1. "Elf,"Total gross: $129 million2. "Brother Bear,"Total gross: $77.7 million3. "Dr. Seuss' The Cat In The Hat,"Total gross: $75.8 million4. "Master and Commander," Total gross: $66.6 million5. "Love Actually,"Total gross: $43.4 million6. "Gothika,"Total gross: $41.3 million 7. "The Haunted Mansion," Total gross: $34 million8. "Bad Santa,"Total gross: $16.8 million9. "The Missing,"Total gross: $15.2 million10. "Timeline,"Total gross: $12.4 millionSource: Nielsen EDI
Have you seen the reality series "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy?" I have, and it's great.
Just hope that MSU President M. Peter McPherson doesn't start sitting down with University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman and Gov.
When psychology junior Pete Mowry first picked up a guitar more than eight years ago, he never imagined where the music would lead him.
The food: Matzo ball soup and potato latkes Total: $5.06 from Meijer in Okemos - $2.67 for the soup mix and $2.39 for the potato pancake mix. Serves: 4-6 people, so break out the fine china, light the menorah and have yourself a rockin' Hanukkah bash. What the heck is this stuff anyway? Latkes are potato pancakes commonly eaten during Hanukkah, which begins this year on Dec.
As students finish up their final exams, sell back their books and prepare for the long winter break, chances are a few of them will take part in another semester-ending ritual - drinking.According to a study conducted by the Olin Health Department, the Department of Communication and the Institute for Public Policy & Social Research in 2002, more than 24 percent of students will drink an average 6.2 drinks in celebration of the end of the semester.The study is part of a three-year, $300,000 research project funded by a grant from the Social Norm Research Center to identify whether celebratory drinking is truly a phenomenon on college campuses.Celebration drinking is drinking that involves occasions where there is a climate encouraging students to drink, to drink in excess.
Students Protecting And Representing Education, or SPARE, will hold a rally to maintain state funding for higher education at 9:30 a.m.
Graduate Employees Union officials said they fear a loss of jobs and the quality education because university officials could soon cut 40 teaching assistant positions. With a $920 million deficit in the state and the university removing $60 million from its budget, Assistant Provost Bob Banks said the future of about 1,200 TAs is uncertain.
According to Nicholas Kristof, an opinion columnist for The New York Times, "Americans are three times as likely to believe in the virgin birth of Jesus (83 percent) as in evolution (28 percent)." Somehow, Americans find a claim with no evidence more compelling than a scientific theory with a vast mountain of supporting data gathered from varied disciplines.
Industrialized nations would be smart to dust off their spectacles and realize the problem of global warming is looming much closer than it might seem. The United States and Russia, two of the world's biggest producers of greenhouse gas emissions, have rejected the accord aimed at putting an end to global warming.