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Let's talk about sex ed

Between Jamie Lynn Spears and "Juno," teen pregnancy gets a lot of press these days. The discussion - or really, gossip - that stems from this tends to focus on the future: Will she keep the baby?

OPINION | 03/04/2008

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Slouching toward Whitmania

My grandfather has a neat reformulation of Lord Acton's dictum that "power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." His idea is that power does not corrupt but instead reveals; having power doesn't make you evil as much as having power gives you the ability to do what you want and therefore reveals your true feelings.

OPINION | 03/03/2008

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More of a good thing

The University's recently announced "bridge year" program to provide need-based financial assistance to admitted students who defer for one year to undertake service projects abroad is a bold step that deserves much praise.

OPINION | 03/02/2008

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Glitz and ghosts in the library

A student just sent me a piece that Witold Rybczynski posted on slate.com last Wednesday. The author, a brilliant architecture scholar who teaches at Penn, begins by asking "How do you build a public library in the age of Google?" Then he answers his own question, but not with an old-fashioned article or an op-ed piece.

OPINION | 03/02/2008