Students have potential to add substance


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As college students, we have a tendency to get bored. Really bored. But you can’t blame us — our society today suffers from a hyperactive attention span, which has become problematic to say the least. Just take a look at the present state of popular culture. Audiences fixate on the latest thing in entertainment one […]

Action film blends humor and smarts


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What would you do to get your life back? Would you steal it? The Losers would. For the special operations team codenamed “the Losers,” it was an average mission — survey an arms dealer’s Bolivian compound for an air strike and come back home. When its CIA handler Max (Jason Patric) betrays it, though, the […]

Stranded in Europe at the mercy of ash


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It’s midnight on a Sunday as I write my very last column of the semester from a computer at a hostel in Prague. Only at this time of night can I avoid the dirty looks I’d normally get for commandeering the sole machine with Internet access. On a computer without Microsoft Office, Google Docs has […]