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A Houston pharmacist returned to India to select a bride from ten women chosen by his parents. He gathered friends to prepare ten questions he would ask of each prospect. One question was, “Why …
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6/13/22
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Ivy Tech Community College is a shining example of Crawfordsville Montgomery County’s commitment to education. Ivy Tech’s presence has grown from a twice-a-week night class in the …
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6/10/22
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In the wake of the leaked draft opinion by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito overturning Roe v. Wade and holding that there is no constitutional right to an abortion, there’s been a tidal wave …
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6/8/22
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I did not go to college because I wanted to.
I went first of all because it was expected of me. I had good grades in high school, and that meant, according to the prevailing custom, you were …
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6/8/22
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WASHINGTON — “Every teacher you know has thought about it. Every teacher you know has a plan for an active shooter. Every teacher you know has weighed their point of fight or flight. …
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6/6/22
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The Wabash chapel tower is a distinctive feature of the college, dear to the heart of many Wabash people. Every student begins and ends his Wabash studies at the Chapel — the Ringing In …
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6/3/22
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On the economy, there’s good news, and there’s bad news.
The good news is a historically low unemployment rate, at 3.6%. While we saw similar unemployment rates immediately before the …
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6/3/22
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Vietnam was the first war brought to our living rooms by television, so I always thought it interesting that the movie about the war moving me most was a made-for-TV film.
“Friendly …
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6/1/22
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INDIANAPOLIS — Merriam-Webster defines “atrocity” as a “a shockingly bad or atrocious act, object, or situation.” In a different era, the word “atrocity” was …
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5/31/22
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“I was expecting to hear stories of isolation, alienation, tokenism, loneliness. I’m really troubled by the number of stories about threats to personal safety and the sense of not being …
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Let you in on a little secret: Non-European, non-white voters are flooding the polls, boosting prospects for the Democratic Party and relegating Republicans to permanent minority status.
That is …
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5/25/22
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Recently, a couple of reporters at The New York Times published an intriguing story about conversations between House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy and other members of his leadership team. It was …
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5/25/22
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On and on it goes.
Another lone wacko, a white 18-year-old, went on a well-planned killing spree in a supermarket in a Black neighborhood of Buffalo.
It was a terrible, tragic, evil, obviously …
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5/23/22
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INDIANAPOLIS — When the Indiana General Assembly reconvenes Tuesday for “Technical Corrections Day” it will almost certainly override Gov. Eric Holcomb’s veto of HEA1041, the …
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5/23/22
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We Americans tend to think our democracy is exceptional, it’s a bulwark, it’s resilient, and perhaps indestructible. But a democracy is an enormous institution based on human …
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5/20/22
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It’s probably sacrilegious for a Hoosier to admit this, but I find auto racing the dullest of spectator sports.
Watching cars go around and around a track endlessly, lap after lap, until a …
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5/18/22
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INDIANAPOLIS — This “trend” bubbled up in the homestretch leading into the May 3 Indiana primary in several media quarters: A slate of “Liberty Defense” candidates was …
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5/16/22
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INDIANAPOLIS — This “trend” bubbled up in the homestretch leading into the May 3 Indiana primary in several media quarters: A slate of “Liberty Defense” candidates was …
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5/16/22
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While sniffing about for story ideas recently, this writer dug up a gem on the Montgomery County website, a listing names of famous natives.
Some of these gems need cleaned, cut and polished. For …
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5/13/22
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All the pro-choice advocates in my circle are in a “mad as hell and won’t take it anymore” mood, nearly apoplectic with rage at the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion suggesting an …
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5/11/22
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