A Christmas wish for the Mount
Forget CDs, books, or that nice digital camera . . . my one true Christmas wish this year is that whoever is in charge of Christmas decorations at the Mount gets a lesson in how to decorate for the holiday season.
When I returned from Thanksgiving break, I was truly pleased to see the holiday decorations in Patriot Hall.…
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Callings: It's your call
The city of Oaxaca, Mexico is probably typical of many Central American towns. Bustling with trade; very hot climate; cars, buses, scooters filling the air with fumes. On this particular day in May, I accompanied several Mount students who were volunteering to work for an agency that helped street children and their families.…
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Alito judges fairly on interpretaion, not beliefs
It is known to everyone who President Bush's latest Supreme Court nominee is. What baffles everyone is what his views are. Unlike recently appointed Chief Justice John Roberts, Samuel Alito does not push Supreme Court precedent toward his ideological preferences.…
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Attention focused on executions
A number of impending executions are receiving international, national and local attention. It is expected that five death row inmates will be executed during the final days of November bringing to 1000 the number of executions in the United States since the re-instatement of the death penalty.…
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