by Tara Overzat “Years later she considered herself an authority on propaganda, based on her university experience,” wrote Jennifer Burns in her well-researched Ayn Rand biog [...]
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By Tara Overzat I sincerely wish NBC had had more gumption and decided against interviewing Charlie Sheen, seemingly legitimizing ABC and CNN’s Piers Morgan to follow w [...]
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By Tara Overzat Calvin & Hobbes, oh yeah In a few short hours, we’ll be gathered around our friends and families sharing our “New Year’s Resolutions.&# [...]
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By Tara Overzat I moved to South Florida in 1991. Being an eight-year-old I missed any chance of hearing that Rick Sanchez hit and paralyzed a man, Jeffrey Smuzinick, and fl [...]
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by Tara Overzat It is never right to look the other way when something evil happens. Ever. But some professions require the worker to be proactive and to report criminal acts to the police. Teaching is one of these professions. The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA)(Jan. 1996 version), 42 U.S.C. 5101, requires that [...]
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by Tara Overzat After months of ennui at my sales job, I met Jared*. I had signed up for a profile on Match.com, and admittedly did it for a lot of the same reasons people create facebook and MySpace profiles today- to have something on the web that expressed my personality and likes that was [...]
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by Tara Overzat My alarm started blaring at 6:45am. I reluctantly kicked off the fluffy maroon comforter and made my way across the large, sky-lighted living room scarcely furnished with an old futon, worn out television, and braided rug. The black and white tile floor of the little bathroom the four of us shared was [...]
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by Tara Overzat For years, people have met me for the first time, or even the second or third, on one of my “on days.” Though I call them “days” they are actually periods of months, even a year or better, where I come off as charming, smart, accomplished, and pretty. These are often followed [...]
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by Tara Overzat Domestic violence happens every day, but the music community and the public at-large are shocked by the altercation between dating chart-toppers Chris Brown and Rihanna. With Brown and Rihanna being so young, it is very important to focus on how these things can happen. For a 19-year-old boy to be beating up [...]
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by Tara Overzat By now, everyone has seen the grainy picture of Michael Phelps smoking a bong at a party at the University of South Carolina. Recently, police have questioned two people who were at that November party. The South Carolina police are being nothing more than bullies, à la Mike Nifong, the prosecutor in [...]
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by Tara Overzat “When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” – Edmund Burke Today, this quote is often phrased along the lines of “All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.”
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by Tara Overzat After all the hoopla, I saw Slumdog Millionaire Sunday night. For me, it wasn’t an eye-opening, “Oh look at how poor Mumbai is!” moment. Instead, it was a horrible reminder of the poverty and violence I have already witnessed abroad. Some visions on the screen could have been lifted straight from my [...]
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by Tara Overzat Back on 22 January 2009, the NY Times ran an op-ed piece with a by-line of Muammar Qaddafi, the Libyan political leader. The piece advocated a one state solution for the Israel-Palestine conflict, as stated below.
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