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Our Top Stories for the Week of November 14, 2022

It’s been a busy week, from high-profile crimes to democratic wins. Who has time to keep track of it all? That’s why we’ve boiled it all down to our top stories of the week.   International Havoc…

October 2005 Disasters

Oct. 1, El Salvador: Ilamatepec volcano, the highest in El Salvador, erupted, killing 2. Thousand evacuated the area as boiling water poured down the slopes and a column of ash reached 50,000…

The Gap Year

A growing trend among American students by Elizabeth Olson Related Links Bad Advice for New Graduates Cost of Higher Education Distinctive Destinations for…

2014 Pulitzer Prize Winners

Awards ranging from journalism to drama to music Related Links Pulitzer Prizes Joseph Pulitzer Biography Book, Magazine, and…

All About the Stonewall Riots

Rainmaker Photo/MediaPunch/IPXUprising for Gay Rights The Stonewall Riots, or the Stonewall Uprising, marked the beginning of the Gay Rights movement in New York City’s Greenwich village in 1969.…

Brewer's: Bread and Cheese

The barest necessities of life. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894BreakBread-basket A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y…

Brewer's: Breast

To make a clean breast of it. To make a full confession; concealing nothing. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894BreathBreaking a Stick A B C D E F G H I…

Antitrust, Again

Antitrust, Again Microsoft Joins a Long Tradition in Big Business by Tasha Vincent This article was posted in October, 1998. Standard Oil had come to symbolize the ruthless…