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Shooting for the Olympics
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Shooting for the Olympics

Before senior Ian Dupre takes a shot, he touches the barrel of his Perazzi shotgun to a pad and wiggles his feet. When he’s ready, he puts the gun to his shoulder and leans in. “Pull.” Within a seventh of a second, he aims and shoots at a target hurdling at 70 miles an hour....

Graduate dinner celebrates Washington’s statesmanship
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Graduate dinner celebrates Washington’s statesmanship

Hillsdale College’s Van Andel Graduate School of Statesmanship held its first President’s Day Dinner on Saturday. The dinner, attended by more than 50 faculty members, students, and guests, was meant to engage intellectual conversation about the ideas and principles studied at Hillsdale, Graduate Student Society President Peter Cross said. The evening focused on George Washington,...

Reginald Lewis: America’s first Black Billionaire
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Reginald Lewis: America’s first Black Billionaire

I like reading biographies how I like eating cantaloupe; cracking open the outer exterior of an individual, and then scooping out the juicy truths of his or her life. While reading the success stories of Warren Buffet, Mark Zuckerberg, Madam CJ Walker, and Beyoncé I, of course, pictured my own biography in the near future....

The Death of Roe
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The Death of Roe

Forty-four years later abortion is still legal, but the woman who helped make it so has died. Norma McCorvey, better known as Roe, died Feb. 18, at the age of 69. Ms. McCorvey is known for the role she played in the landmark case Roe v. Wade, which instituted federal protections for abortions across the...