Loading ...This past week CC asked our readers whether or not racism was still an issue in the country. You all were pretty mixed in your responses—a third of you said that it was a major issue, another third said that we’d made progress but still need to work on it, and another third said that […]
Author Archives: Suzie - George Washington
I have a BA in European Studies from the Elliott School of International Affairs. My area of interest is in Comparative Politics, specifically Democratization. Currently I am working on a comparative analysis of extremist movements within democratizing countries.
In addition to the geekness, I have a strange fascination with ducks, an obsession with multicolored pens, and can’t bear to eat lobsters [they mate for life 
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German Man Tears Hitler’s Head Off (and More!)
July 7, 2008 - 8:12 am
And Now the News with Kandy Korrespondent!The Group of Eight (G8) summit is taking place this week on the Japanese island of Hokkaido. The meeting originally was to center around the issue of climate, but was changed due to surging food and oil prices.
The intensity of the global situation has turned this island paradise into […]
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Comments (0) Ruslana Korshunova’s Death: Suicide or Secret Russian Mob Conspiracy?
July 5, 2008 - 5:00 pm
At 2:30 pm on June 28th, 20 year old Kazakh model, Ruslana Korshunova, fell from the balcony of her Manhattan 9th floor apartment to her death. Police ruled that her death was an apparent suicide after finding no signs of a struggle in her apartment. Case closed.But the media is refusing to be satisfied, and […]
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Comments (1) Firefox 3 Release Breaks World Record (and More!)
July 3, 2008 - 9:25 am
It’s time for a quick dose of news with Kandy Korrespondent!
On Wednesday the Colombian military successfully rescued 15 hostages from the FARC rebels. Most notable among the hostages was Ingrid Betancourt, a French-Colombian Senator and presidential candidate, who was kidnapped in 2002. Her family alongside the French government has been working tirelessly to secure her […]
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Comments (0) The “Sworn Virgins” of Albania, or, Learning to Have Fun as a Woman
June 30, 2008 - 10:30 am
Casually surfing the web this past week, I came across a recent New York Times article with the headline “Albanian Custom Fades: Woman as Family Man”. No offense to the Times, but it should have been called “The Impressive Story of the Sworn Virgins of Albania”. Albania is a mountainous agrarian country where […]
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Comments (3) Supreme Court Rules in Favor of DC Thugs (and More)
June 27, 2008 - 1:00 pm
DC Chief of Police, Mayor, and City Official React to Supreme Court’s Decision on Thursday
On Thursday the US Supreme Court struck down the D.C ban on handgun ownership as unconstitutional. It’s decision overruled 200+ years worth of lower court decisions that suggested that the intent of the amendment strictly concerned gun ownership in […]
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Comments (4) Re-Charge Your Phone With the Power of Dance — Seriously (and More)
June 25, 2008 - 2:00 pm
And Now the News with Kandy Korrespondent
On Wednesday, the US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in favor of ending the death penalty for the crime of child rape. This is the second such ruling this year. Last September an unofficial national moratorium on the death penalty went into effect when the court agreed to hear […]
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Comments (0) Hate Your Life? Buy Ian Ushers’ on Ebay (and More!)
June 23, 2008 - 11:30 am
On Sunday, presidential opposition candidate Morgan Tsvangirai quit the race ending all hopes of a Mugabe-free Zimbabwe in the near future. Tsvangirai said that with the rising violence, he could not in good conscience ask his supporters to turn out to vote knowing that they might very well be going to their death. Sound […]
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Comments (0) Guantanamo, Water-boarding, Secret Prisons…Who Are You and What Have You Done to My America?
June 20, 2008 - 11:30 am
I don’t know if it’s just me, but it really seems like a day doesn’t go by without seeing some story about torture in Guantanamo Bay or a new revelation into CIA secret prisons. At first I was stunned, then I was disgusted. Now I’m just plain mad.
Mad that hundreds of men and women are […]
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Comments (12) Over 2,386 Marriage Licences Granted in CA as Same-Sex Marriage is Legalized (and more!)
June 18, 2008 - 12:00 pm
It’s time for the news with Kandy Korrespondent!
On Monday, California performed its first round of legally recognized same-sex marriages. Among the first love-birds to say the magic words, were Robin Tyler and Diane Olson, the original plaintiffs in the 2004 lawsuit challenging the gay marriage ban as unconstitutional. In San Fransisco, pioneering gay activists Phyllis […]
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