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At a panel discussion Saturday night, one UC Berkeley student pushed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to answer the question many across the nation have been asking — whether or not she will be running for president in 2016.
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You’re sitting on one of those uncomfortable, but fancy-looking, metal chairs outside of a cafe, the perfect spot for romance and pretension.
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Today, like every other nonweekend day, was awful. When you woke up, every cell in your body begged you to stay home, heat up a plate of Foster Farms dinosaur chicken nuggets, close all the blinds in your apartment and rewatch the second season of Prison Break, but no. You
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There are few things in life more embarrassing than being called out for a grammatical error. Scratch that. There are few things in life more embarrassing than being called out for a grammatical error. By your friend’s parents. When you are 13 and want nothing more than to impress everyone
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This week was a big one for advocates of marriage equality. On Friday, Ohio senator Rob Portman endorsed same-sex marriage, citing his own son’s coming out as the basis for his change of heart. Then on Monday, former Secretary of State and one-time Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton threw her
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It’s taken me a while to process what happened on Sept. 11 in Benghazi, Libya. I first heard about it from a friend in my dorm room just before a 2 p.m. class. I saw the headlines about the violence and the storming of the embassies, about the months-old anti-Islamic
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Please, just cut it with the drama. The political drama, I mean. Cut the smart remarks, the inconsequential press releases, the irrelevant speeches, the waste-my-time-and-yours political “debate” that resembles Jerry Springer more than honest and meaningful discourse. Just quit it with the petty political theater. Last week, a video surfaced
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