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The "filibuster": debate on the high seas
[Editor's Note ? In the original posting, Strom Thurmond was identified as a Republican senator when he made his record-setting filibuster in 1957. However, he was a Democrat at the time and didn't switch parties until the 88th Congress in...

Medals of Honor
On Monday April 4, 2005 Sgt. 1st Class Paul R. Smith became the 3,460th recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor. Mr. Smith ?distinguished himself conspicuously by gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the...

Papal reign
The passing of Pope John Paul II has led to an analysis of his place in history. As the third longest-reigning pontiff, he held the office for a little over 26 years. The EWTN / Global Catholic Network offers a...

Public college costs increase
A new report released this month alleges that public colleges, receiving fewer federal dollars for education at a time when they are trying to attract better and brighter students, are making infrastructure investments such as laboratories and new technology, and...

Lifting nations from poverty
Global inequity, by some measures, is diminishing. Yet it is a sobering sort of success, because sometimes it is people who live on less than one dollar per day have decreased, either that their incomes increase to, perhaps, two dollars...

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