September 2005 Issue


Back Page: Letter To Katrina

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Dear Katrina,

We must eschew eloquence for accuracy: you were a miserable, predictable cur. For all of the prescience that our meager meteorological efforts bore, Norman Mailer bested us back in ‘59. Here was his forecast: “America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.”

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June 2005 Issue


The Greatest Anti-Poverty Initiative The World Has Ever Known

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I had the great fortune, one might call it, of encountering the latest anti-trade group collecting signatures at Thayer. This particularly unlucky brood was protesting CAFTA, the Central American Free Trade Agreement with the United States. They seemed convinced that free trade with the U.S. would lead to progressively greater poverty for the Central American masses. I told one of the group’s girls that they were misguided, that perhaps they should read a short tract on basic economics. She eloquently responded, “Do you value money more than human life?”

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April 2005 Issue


Race In The Academy

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Race is still a bitter issue in American politics. Candidates pander alternatively and expediently among the various racial groups, seeking victory at the margins. Entire races are then relegated to mere lobbying groups, denizens of a crass political machine.

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February 2005 Issue


Peace through Democracy

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In years past, the US had a national security policy dictated by the immediate demands of the Cold War. Supporting anti-communist dictatorships was official foreign policy and the US intervened overtly or covertly in nations throughout Latin America, Africa, and Asia.

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January 2005 Issue


Tsunami Tsience

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One is obliged to chortle smugly when otherwise educated, respected environmental leaders begin to spew a barrage of incorrect basic scientific knowledge in response to a major event. The tsunami that devastated South Asia and East Africa prompted many leading environmentalists, scientists, and academicians to issue warnings of inevitable global demise due to the environmentally harmful actions of mankind. Not only are these warnings outrageous, they are detrimental to any sustainable poverty reduction in the undeveloped countries of the world...

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November 2004 Issue


Elections and Iraq

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This election, I encourage our readers to read, learn, and vote. I am heartened by such efforts on campus as Vote Clamantis in Deserto (www.voteclamantis.com), a student-effort initiated by Kaelin Goulet '07, which provides information on voter registration for all 50 states and organizes...

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October 2004 Issue


Inaugural Issue

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It gives me tremendous pleasure to inaugurate The Dartmouth Beacon. As our mission states, we intend to create a forum at Dartmouth for new, innovative ideas to better the standard of life of fellow students and global citizens - from an unabashedly conservative perspective...

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