Elyas came over with a shot of Harak for me. I noticed he dumps his shot right into his Goldstar beer and I wondered why. “The alcohol here is weak compared to the drinks we have back in Sudan,” he...
LEICESTER, United Kingdom — I was on a train in the London Underground a couple weeks ago when a man bounded into my car just before it left the station.He stood at the front of a cluster of passengers...
President Barack Obama’s visit to Strongsville yesterday gives us the perfect opportunity to talk about a little-talked-about topic: health care.Now we don’t know if you’ve heard anything about the...
As I sat watching the senior dance recital this past weekend, I suddenly had the urge to write about the passion behind the dancers’ moves. I watched the intense emotion they were expressing through...
Every so often, I like to log onto RockyMountainNews.com to view the remnants of what used to be a great Web site. A little over a year ago, the Rocky went out of business, weeks shy of its 150th birthday.Even...
“Government is the servant of the people, and not the master of them. The people, in delegating authority, do not give their public servants the right to decide what is good for the people to know and...
Some Kent State programs are raising the number of credit hours it takes to graduate with a bachelor’s degree.That’s fine — as long as it’s clear to the students entering the program, and the reason...
In an era where we increasingly rely on the various social media, occasionally the phone and especially e-mail to communicate with each other, it seems like the tendency to lie has dramatically increased....
Walmart is causing a stir after cutting the price of a black Barbie doll to almost half the price of the white version.A photo being passed around the Internet shows Ballerina Barbie and Ballerina Theresa...
A few days ago, I was looking through my desk and found something that I haven’t seen in months, something that instantly brought about feelings of anger and regret. Something that reminded me of the...
On Sept. 12, 1960, Democratic presidential nominee John F. Kennedy delivered a speech to Protestant ministers in Houston that is regarded as a turning point not just in that year’s election, but in the...
We’re a country that has an obsession with food.It’s surprising that the country’s motto hasn’t been changed yet. Not because secularists are angry with “In God we Trust,” but more so because...
