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The Czar Nation
Mon Sep 7, 2009 12:00 PM EDT
The Czar. A man with power. The title originally came from the great ruler Julius Caesar. At the time of Caesar the title of Czar had to come from another emperor or Supreme Ecclesiastical leader.
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Texiquette
Fri Jun 12, 2009 11:53 PM EDT
Thanks to the 21st century there have been new developments in conversation. One of these new developments is texting. No one really talks on the phone anymore. What's the point? You could do so much more during a text conversation then you could on the phone.
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Fan the Fire of Gossip
Tue Mar 24, 2009 12:21 AM EDT
In a city of less than 40,000 your gossip isn't secure in the safety deposit box of life. Burlington, VT is not immune to your favorite stories being passed around the water cooler.
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Outsourcing: How to Get Through
Wed Jan 7, 2009 12:59 AM EST
Have you ever needed service on your computer? Maybe you just need to order a new pair of kicks and you can't do it online. Often your call for a service representative is redirected to another country. You might have to talk to someone who can barely speak English.
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The Community Plague
Mon Jan 5, 2009 12:58 AM EST
Three cherries appear on the digital LCD screen. The haggard looking 60-year-old woman has been sitting at that slot machine for the last six hours. Two empty bottles of imported beer sit beside her. She's spent a total of 500 dollars and only won fifty.
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Survival of the Citizens
Mon Mar 10, 2008 12:32 PM EDT
Sally and Jane were the same. They looked alike and grew up ten minutes from each other. They each moved away after high school. Sally and Jane both worked as waitresses. Both had one child and a history of cancer in their family.
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Money See Money Do
Tue Feb 26, 2008 12:45 PM EST
"Hi, my name is Sally and I can help you make up to 5,000 dollars a day!" You've heard them. The inevitable sales pitch that can hand you all of your hopes and dreams if you will only purchase a few hundred dollars in lipstick or herbal remedies.
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Gain Momentum
Mon Feb 25, 2008 2:50 PM EST
Each college student has choices. Mixers, togas, and hangovers, or, experience, leadership, and power. If a future is what you're seeking then the later of the six options might be something to look into at your university.
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Shoot or Be Shot
Fri Feb 22, 2008 1:38 PM EST
Our country is devastated with shooting after shooting. Crazed college students or citizens who think town meeting day is the plague of our state government. So should we should throw in the towel, give up our guns, and all start singing We Didn't 'Aim to Fire'? Yes.
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Don't Burn The Flag
Thu Feb 21, 2008 11:23 PM EST
If you were alive in the sixties then you remember the uncivilized civil rights movement. You remember the Chicago Convention that made journalists fear for their lives, and, you remember Berkeley. If you are my age you don't.
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Piggy Banks
Wed Feb 13, 2008 2:39 PM EST
There are many piggy banks around the world. Banks with little curly pink tales. Banks run by stern men with deep pockets and slickly gelled hair. Those banks most likely have a few cents to their name. America's bank, not so much.
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Super America
Mon Feb 11, 2008 2:09 PM EST
Remember the good ole' days when your family would take trips across the country in the wagon? Well times have changed. Now it's trips through three countries with little or no passport restrictions and some drugs in the trunk.
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Bohemian Club
Fri Feb 8, 2008 12:50 PM EST
They are the leaders of nations. They are the beginners of war and the enforcers of peace. So it would make sense that they all assemble in a single place to enjoy each others company and participate in a mock human sacrifice.
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Romney's Not Losing
Thu Jan 31, 2008 8:21 PM EST
When did the American people give up on Mitt? Mitt has come closer to winning more states than John McCain. So why the conservative media bias? Let's be strong for Mitt Romney.
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A Philanthropic Society
Thu Jan 31, 2008 12:36 PM EST
One day a man decided to donate $30 Million dollars. No big deal. Someone else thought he was being a little cheap so he donated $40 Million. Each probably went about their day and purchased their five dollar mocha Latte.
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Facebook: Terrorists in Training
Tue Jan 29, 2008 11:11 PM EST
The title of their group is "Suicide is da only way out..." and most of them are not more than twenty years old. But this isn't your regular suicide Facebook group.
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And He Created the Heavens and the Computer
Tue Jan 29, 2008 9:42 AM EST
Sitting in front of you right now is a computer. If I am wrong then you must be on some other device that branched off of a computer. What is not likely, your thought on the religious views of your computers maker.
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About Christal Collette
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I am from Burlington, Vermont. and a graduate of Brigham Young University-Idaho with a degree in Communications.
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