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Imagine needing to study, but feeling too cramped in your room, too oppressed in the library, and too distracted in the eerie quiet of an empty classroom. Then you realize the perfect place to study: A.J.’s Café. You arrive, order some food, plop your books onto a table, and prepare to get everything done. Then...

N o one ever reads on Reading Day. Instead, they end up eating cookies and sledding. And the people who do try to study, like me, hate themselves for not having fun. I always end up locked in Kendall Hall staring at a wall, torturing myself about “Othello.” A devil appears on my shoulder, beckoning...

O nce every four days. That’s how often the Obama administration attacks a target with a drone. Pilots in the United States control the unmanned aerial vehicles launched in Afghanistan. The federal government is expanding its use of drones to the U.S. for purported surveillance purposes. Recent polls show that the majority of Americans support...

Give a speech. It should be a short response to the preceding 75-minute address, which you watched in real-time, knowing almost nothing about its contents beforehand. The entire nation will watch, or at least those who haven’t switched back to college basketball. Don’t mess it up, or it could wreck your career. That was first-term...

A nurse couldn’t ascertain what caused the scratches on the patient’s hip — the adults restraining him from cutting himself with a shard of glass, or the shard itself. On another day, a young woman attacked one of her peers for “flipping her off” and “calling her a b****.” When a staff member intervened, she...