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On Oct. 5, 2017, the Iraqi Army, supported by Iran-backed military groups and American-led airstrikes, captured the city of Hawija in northern Iraq, according to BBC and the Guardian. According to an Oct. 5 BBC article, the battle lasted only a few weeks; it was another decisive victory in terms of capturing land and freeing civilians from the Islamic State. This is part of an ongoing trend that the Coalition has seen over the past couple of years of ISIS losing more and more of its major cities across Iraq. ISIS is also rapidly losing ground in Syria; a June 2017 Information Handling Services Conflict Monitor report showed that, since 2015, ISIS had lost about 60 percent of the area it once controlled in Syria and Iraq, according to a Sept. 21 BBC article.
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“Pay with your face,” declared the Sept. 12 release video for the new iPhone X. With that one statement, Apple Inc. has forced me to step away from the cutting edge.
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The Trump Administration’s war on women continues in strong force this week. President Donald Trump is not just content with naming Neil Gorsuch — who, according to a March 20 NPR article, once told law students that employers should be allowed to ask prospective female employees if they are planning on having children — to the U.S. Supreme Court. Our current administration has signed off on two extremist anti-woman health measures this week.
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Following the tragic mass shooting in Las Vegas, on Oct. 2, the National Rifle Association has done the unexpected and called for regulation on the sale of bump stocks and guns in the United States. A bump stock is a device added to a rifle that allows it to mimic a rapid fire weapon. According to an Oct. 5 article in the New York Times, the devices are legal, because they do not give rifles full automatic ability. However, audio clips from the Las Vegas shooting prove just how effective bump stocks are. In Las Vegas, about 90 shots were produced in ten seconds; a fully automatic weapon has a rate of 98 shots in seven seconds. This small distinction is the difference that determines the legality of firearm possession. However, according to an Oct. 8 article from The Hill, NRA executive director Chris Cox recently stated, “We don’t believe bans worked on anything,” yet he stated that the organization was open to regulating things differently.
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On Oct. 1, in Las Vegas, one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history occurred, killing 58 people and injuring 500, according to an Oct. 3 article in the New York Times. In response to subsequent talk of gun control, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) stated, "It's particularly inappropriate to politicize an event like this," according to an Oct. 3 Politico article. Do you agree with McConnell's statement? Why or why not?
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Last spring, Student Events rebranded and became the Campus Activities Board. Since then, CAB has booked some high-profile entertainers for this semester, and this board commends CAB members for their hard work and success in bringing these performers to campus.
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This year, some residents in the Foster Mods have reported experiencing difficulties with cellular coverage, such as an inability to make calls or send texts. Good cell reception is important for students’ ability to not only communicate with each other but also contact friends, family and employers. As such, this board urges the University to explore possible solutions to this problem.
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On Sept. 26, Saudi Arabia announced that it would give women the right to drive, making it the last country in the world to do so. According to a Sept. 26 New York Times article, the change will be implemented in June 2018 and Saudi ambassador, Prince Khalid bin Salman even suggested that women will be able to obtain licenses without permission from a guardian. How do you feel about this decision and do you feel that it is a sign of further change to come?
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The shamelessly underpaying, obesity-encouraging establishment Americans know and love, McDonald’s is known for many things: low prices, quick food and unmatched elegance — or that is what the people behind the Big Mac want us to think at least.
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While some may call President Donald Trump a misogynist, he is anything but that. He has appointed a woman to one of the most powerful positions in the White House: senior advisor to the president. She has authority over many important policy areas, such as Middle East peace, government reform, opioid crisis management and criminal justice reform. She is also the liaison to China, Mexico and the Muslim Community. Her name? Jared Kushner.
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Since my transition into the Student Union presidency this spring, the Union team and I have spent dozens of hours per week on the question of what can be done to make Brandeis University — and the Student Union — better serve the student community.
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Perhaps the day of the termination of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program was a silent day for those who have benefited from Barack Obama’s policy to work and study in the United States and avoid deportation. The silence is attributed to the fear and uncertainty, that old feeling that Dreamers experienced in a pre-DACA era — a time spent mostly in “the shadows,” a time that seems to prevail once again.
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Students, faculty and staff have an email account through the University and, by extension, a Google calendar. For these calendars, the default settings allow anyone with a University email address to view other Brandeis calendars, unless users manually disable public access. This means that many students’ calendars have been publicly visible without their knowledge, and worse, the Justice found that select calendars within Academic Services and Student Financial Services were visible to Brandeis users until yesterday when reporters reached out for comment.
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