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| 5 September 2006 |
Free Our Culture: How to Be an Engaged Media Consumer, and Why You Should Care
Steve McLaughlin
Last weekend, I spent the better part of an evening watching YouTube in a friend's living room. Five of us gathered around the television, took turns at the helm of a connected laptop and shared what I expect will become an increasingly common form of communal entertainment. Like cowboys telling tall tales around a roaring fire, we each shared the most exciting and outlandish discoveries we had made out there on the virtually ungoverned electronic frontier.
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First Call Dispatch: Morocco
Uri Bushey
Hearts pumping, backpacks bobbing, we rush at a breakneck pace up the deserted
Fez street. The moonlight barely illuminates the inky-black Rue de Ahmed Hiba, and as we run, dark shapes materialize before us - parked cars, trash cans, stray cats - just in time to avoid collision. The only sound of our flight is that of our New Balance sneakers slapping the centuries-old cobblestone. I glance back - squinting into the darkness to see if we're being followed - and I think to myself: My mother is going to kill me. |
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Editorial: Letter From the Editors
First Call Editors
United We Compete, Divided We Bond
Anna Stetsovskaya
The Killers
Sheri Rosen
All Aboard the Delusion Express: Penn Marketing Materials Mislead Incoming Students
Kate Bracaglia
Snakes on a Roll
Adam Goodman
Fight the Fetus, Not the Fat: Cost/Benefit Analysis of Unwanted Pregnancy Versus Imaginary Weight Gain
Andrew Pederson
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