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Dec 04 2013
Opinion
Getting to the top by starting at the bottom
I vividly remember as a teenager obtaining my first job with a regular paycheck as a high school biology-laboratory assistant.
Washington TimesDec 31 2020
Opinion
Victim-Blaming During a Pandemic Doesn't Make People Safer
I don't remember what grade I was in—maybe late 10th or early 11th?—but I can recall with photorealistic clarity the time my Dad came into my bedroom (a rare enough occurrence) to listen to me bitch and moan about having persistent enough acne that I was desperate to try a frightfully powerful skin-sucking drug called Accutane.
"Well," he said, shaking his head with a sympathetic but
ReasonOct 06 2018
News
Friend of Dr. Ford Felt Pressure to Revisit Statement
A friend of Christine Blasey Ford told FBI investigators that she felt pressured by Dr. Ford’s allies to revisit her initial statement that she knew nothing about an alleged sexual assault by a teenage Brett Kavanaugh, which she later updated to say that she believed but couldn’t corroborate Dr. Ford’s account, according to people familiar with the matter.
Wall Street Journal (News)Aug 27 2020
Analysis
The Conservative Defense of Kyle Rittenhouse Is Dangerous Nonsense
On Tuesday night, 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse allegedly shot three people in Kenosha, Wisconsin, with an AR-15-style rifle, killing two. Videos of the event tell us an incomplete story of what, exactly, happened that night. But they appear to clearly show this much: Rittenhouse traveled to the protests in illegal possession of an assault weapon to act as a vigilante. He placed himself at the
SlateNov 09 2017
News
Mitch McConnell Says Roy Moore Should Exit Senate Race ‘if These Allegations Are True’
Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, said on Thursday that if Roy S. Moore made sexual overtures to four women when they were teenagers, as they allege, the Republican Party nominee for a Senate seat in Alabama should step aside ahead of a Dec. 12 special election.
New York Times (News)Jan 13 2020
News
Memo by Secret Memo, the University of Texas Kept Segregation Alive Into the 1960s
Sixty-six years ago, Marion Ford, an ambitious Houston teenager who had been set to become one of the first African American undergraduates at the University of Texas, received a terse letter returning his $20 deposit to room in an all-Black dormitory because his admission had been rescinded.
The transgression committed by Marion Ford, a saxophonist, writer, academic standout, star
Mother JonesNov 29 2013
News
Young, Bored and Looking for a Deal
For many the bargain shopping began on Thanksgiving as families and teenagers carved out time for shopping around their holiday turkey.
New York Times (News)Mar 15 2021
Opinion
What the woke revolution is — and isn't
The Great Awokening is gathering speed.
Hardly a week — and sometimes barely a day or an hour — goes by without a fresh incident of "cancel culture" or another "woke" scandal breaking in the news.
Whether you think the trend a good thing, a bad thing, or a trivial thing, you know exactly what I mean. To list just a few of the stories from recent weeks: Longtime New York Times
The Week - OpinionMay 24 2017
News
Manchester attack: three questions to consider
In what has become an all-too-familiar occurrence, an apparent terrorist attack has once again struck the European public, this time at a concert by American singer Ariana Grande in Manchester, England, attended by thousands of pre-teen and teenaged girls.
Christian Science Monitor