During Buhler’s “reign of terror,” prospective dental students had to check a box on their applications categorizing them as “Caucasian, Jew or Other.”
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MLK’s dream: Be nice and keep marching
Bringing everyone into the fold is the aim of the MLK Celebration, which centers around the cacophonous annual parade this Monday, Jan. 20.
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Opening night of Savannah Rocks!
Loosely chronicled and gleefully chaotic, the collective result evokes a giant party that started in 1957 and is still screaming along full throttle.
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A refugee family’s first Christmas
Often, the season can leave many feeling like strangers in a strange land. For a family I met last week, that feeling is no analogy but reality.
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Covered in color
While its agenda can be political, fanciful or baffling, its first purpose is always to issue the primal call of “I am here! And you are, too!”
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‘Hedwig’: The ultimate rock ‘n’ roll fantasy
A fictional transgender German rock star might sound like an unlikely obsession for a straight (but not narrow!) married lady with a mortgage, but I’m definitely not the only Hedhead.
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Sowing the farmers’ stories
The fact is, true farming is a whole lot harder than us wannabes could ever imagine: The dawn-’til-dusk labor, the hand-me-downs and do-withouts, the sheer fear of being beholden to nature’s whims.
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Here’s to your health (insurance)!
In theory, the Affordable Care Act provides decent care and protects patients from suffocating bills, though so far in practice it seems to be performing about as well as a drunken rhino running the Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon.
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Pimp your ride?
The Absurdivan is a venerated part of our family, like a senile aunt who wears her entire costume jewelry collection to the grocery store because she thinks the cleaning lady will steal it.
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History cut short
He had the uncanny talent of stitching together disparate disciplines to distill the bigger picture, an uncommon trait for a lifelong academic.