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...would be wrong to write off the Free Staters entirely, though. Those who have moved have been putting on a display of rambunctious, representative democracy. Some prefer civil disobedience and street demonstrations: one was recently arrested at a local IRS office handing out pamphlets that said, "Hitler had a revenue service too." Although the Free State Project doesn't endorse political candidates, some members have been making competitive runs for local office, including some staunch home-schooling advocates who have been elected to local school boards. With one state legislator for every 3,000 or so citizens (the best ratio...
...that the cure for thinking highly of an Ivy school is actually attending one and that’s definitely true. There’s never a shortage. At the same time, there’s also a lot of great stuff going on. Unfortunately, for every kid that writes a brilliant thesis there’s an Aleksey Vayner, and you know which one we’re going to talk about. 4.FM: How do you balance writing IvyGate with the rest of your lives?C: With difficulty. N: It just takes a lot of time. Usually...
Good Charlotte “Get Your Hands Off My Girl” Dir. Marvin Scott Jarrett “Write what you know” is a timeless adage. The members of Good Charlotte don’t know very much, but two of them do run their own clothing line (DCMA), of which they presumably know something. So, it is appropriate that their new single, “Keep Your Hands Off My Girl” contains multiple non-sequiturial references to said brand. QED. But seriously, Good Charlotte love to talk about couture brands, brass knuckles (which...
...stresses Ramaswamy, instead of coming out as pefectly molded applicants.The biggest questions about packaging concern the personal essay. On its website, College Consulting Services offers to assist students by “brainstorming essay topics, selecting essay choices that focus on your interests and strengths, and providing an optional writing workshop to teach you how to write a killer essay.” But all of the companies interviewed for this article insist that they would never write an essay for a student. “We’re not writing the essays for them,” says...
...course, English concentrators are eminently prepared to play a role in society because the discipline teaches them how to write and think. These two invaluable assets make them very appealing to law schools and employers. But I am interested in justifying the study of literature as an end in itself, not just as useful primer for more worldly endeavors. Is it after all a perennially elitist pursuit, the perquisite of an ivory-tower class, an ecstatic act of mental masturbation? And if it is the last, who cares? Am I disturbed by possibly devoting my life to something so solipsistic...