The long awaited day finally had arrived. Cameramen and press lined the streets, ready to capture the perfect moment. Around a million anxious spectators stood, eyes scouring the scene, ready to witness history. International viewers changed their channels to rest on Washington. Everyone twiddled their thumbs, waiting. For what, you may ask. Barack Obama’s first…

  We’ve just begun a new year, a year with potential for great things, a year full of promise–without the fear of “the world ending–as predicted by the Mayan calendar.” In 2013, however, we also have more powerful technology than ever before, just as previous years’ have had, yet we may have lost control of…

President Obama began his second term on Monday, January 21, 2013, but this time, the message has changed dramatically. No longer do “hope” and “change” dominate the headlines. The optimism of 2008 is gone. We are in tight gridlock, having just endured the least productive Congress in our nation’s history. More battles loom just beyond…

Monday January 14th  marked the airing of The Carrie Diaries, also known as the CW’s attempt to replace Gossip Girl. Similarly based on a best-selling book about teenagers in New York City, The Carrie Diaries, a prequel to Sex and the City, follows 16-year-old Carrie Bradshaw (played by Anna Sophia Robb) as she deals with…

Midterms are just around the corner, but I am finding myself in a rather lax state. A couple years ago, I might have poured tirelessly over U.S. History notes extensively. What’s worse is I never would have bothered to carve out some good ol’ “me” time in between studying, and after a couple of hours…

The Taliban has employed its most savage tactic in these past weeks to deter female students from going to school with acid attacks that disfigure, blind, and even kill its victims. Highly corrosive chemicals burn away at the skin and leave tissue damaged. This acid dissolves the skin, and depending on the concentration, can dissolve…

It’s Tuesday morning, and you realize you are in charge of advisory snack. You start to panic, but then remember you can go to Dunkin’ Donuts to get the usual two-dozen pack of donuts. Soon, the automatic response to being in charge of snack is to bring donuts, so every Tuesday from that point forward is deemed…

Boiling out of the Caribbean and devastating the Eastern Seaboard, Hurricane Sandy has been one of the most powerful storms ever to hit New England. New York City has been one of the hardest-hit areas. The subway system was flooded, a large portion of Lower Manhattan was underwater, and trading on Wall Street was closed…

This is a world where we toss around big numbers lightly: trillion dollar deficits, multi-billion dollar companies, billion-dollar tax cuts. It’s difficult to fathom exactly how enormous those numbers are. I’ll try to describe those numbers another way. If you made $1 every second, you’d accumulate a million greenbacks in about 12 days. A billion…

I have heard many students say, “Oh, they are probably faking it,” or “They just want to get out of work.” Most athletes believe concussions are not serious injuries, and not an important enough reason to miss a game. In fact, 50% of high school athletes with concussions do not report them. But ignoring a…