Most Americans are blessed and cursed with a short memory We live in a material culture that lives in the here and now. We like to focus on our emotions we experience, rather than how we used to feel. Thursday marked the seven-year anniversary of Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
A group of 120 college presidents is pushing to lower the drinking age to 18, in an effort to curb binge drinking on campus. They've got an impressive name, the Amethyst Initiative, named after the ancient Greek words that mean "not intoxicated." These college leaders hope that a lower drinking age will encourage more responsible drinking.
To the Editor: According to the campus wide e-mail from Human Resources on 9/11, no more smoking of 'cigars, cigarettes, pipes, or other lighted smoking devices' is allowed on campus, and any previous rules allowing such activity on campus is now 'null and void.
In the 2004 presidential election, the republicans were successful in painting Democratic nominee John Kerry as a notorious flip-flopper-I know, four years ago…who remembers that? It should come as no surprise the Grand Ol' Party is once again attempting to paint its opponent as a flip-flopper, and perhaps rightly so.
It is none of our business but ... we can't resist. Alabama is getting tough with state workers who are too fat. Beginning in 2010, state employees who are obese and don't work on getting fit will have to pay $25 a month for insurance that is free to other workers.