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Vol. CLIV, Issue 10
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Whitman Wire

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China: Building for the future

Gary Wang February 4, 2010
Corporations in China seek tomorrow's consumers by building stores today.

Forget Obama—Bust the filibuster

Russ Caditz-Peck February 4, 2010
Obama can only do so much in the face of a filibuster-bent Senate. Americans need to educate themselves and seek to change the undemocratic filibuster system.

Why people need to shut up about the iPad

Blair Hanley Frank February 4, 2010
Tech writers need to stop speculating about the iPad before they have seen it and to stop whining about how the iPad has failed to live up to their messianic expectations.

Letter to the Editor

Student Contributer February 4, 2010

Dear Editors, In a recent editorial [on Jan. 28], your columnist Mr. Potter stated that "like all good conservatives, Americans are fearful of the concentration of power." Now, in past articles, Mr....

Core from transfer student’s perspective: It could be worse

Ami Tian February 4, 2010
Transfer students occupy a sometimes awkward position between first-year and upper-classmen. What benefits and disadvantages are there in forcing them to take Core?
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Obama’s problem of polarization

Lisa Curtis February 4, 2010
Obama's first year plagued by partisanship and polarization.
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Political Cartoon

kellydouglas February 3, 2010

Letter from the Editor: New faces, ideas to propel The Pioneer

Molly Smith January 27, 2010

Dear Readers, As the Whitman community welcomes new faces to campus, in the form of Jan-starts, professors returning from sabbatical, and students, like myself, who are returning from semesters abroad,...

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‘I’m Scott Brown . . . I drive a truck’

Alex Potter January 27, 2010

That illustrious line ended Scott Brown's victory speech, as he became the 41st  Republican in the Senate and likely prevented the proposed health care bill from getting far in its current legislative...

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Everything I ever needed to know I learned from video games

Blair Hanley Frank January 25, 2010

Over winter break, I spent a lot of time playing video games, which led me to think about all the important life lessons I've acquired from my time spent in front of a screen. So, I compiled a list...

Why we failed in Copenhagen

Lisa Curtis January 25, 2010

Dec. 18, 2009, will be remembered as a failure of the international system. Fifteen years of negotiations, 22 years of research with  97 percent of climatologists convinced that humans are causing the...

A frequent conversation (with myself)

William Witwer January 25, 2010

Everyone has a story. Being me, I talk to myself. A lot. This is a (slightly embarrassing) fact. I do it often enough that I suspect that someday, somewhere, someone will catch me at it in earnest and...

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