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“In many college classes, laptops depict split screens - notes from a class, and then a range of parallel stimulants: NBA playoff statistics on ESPN.com, a flight home on Expedia, a new flirtation on Facebook.”

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I was extremely close to my father, inseparable. Where we hung out most of the time was the pub.

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President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.

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American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term.

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