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Beware of Vog
By Wyatt McKean
|Oct 20, 2010 03:25 PM
Vog circa 1992
Coast to Coast is TDI’s roundup of the latest regional headlines from across the U.S.
New England
The Hartford Courant: ‘11’s Murderer Wanted Death Penalty
The Center of the Universe
The New York Times: Eliot Spitzer Will Fall Back On “Safety Club”
The Washington Post: The Confederate Army: An Equal Opportunity Employer?
The Philadelphia Inquirer: “Shoplifter” Wanted For Improper Use Of Barter
The Baltimore Sun: Maryland Building Post-Apocalyptic Theme Park In Chesapeake
Rustbelt
The Columbus Dispatch: Dems, GOP Duel For Command Of Coveted Demographic
The Dayton Daily News: Flower Pusher Shot In Deal Gone Wrong
The South
The Houston Chronicle: Flawless Texan Penal System Made Mistake
Austin American-Statesman: Spotlight: “The House of Torment” – Bring The Kids!
The Atlanta Journal Constitution: Indicted Student: Computer Technicians Will Find Your Porn
The Southwest
The Arizona Republic: Identical Twin Challenges Automated Traffic Enforcement
Las Vegas Review-Journal: Reid Courting Young Nevadans With Pizza
Flatland
The Chicago Tribune: Luckiest Nerd On Earth To Spend Month At Museum
The Chicago Sun-Times: County Staffer Jailed For Corruption, Files For Unemployement
The Kansas City Star: Video: Chimp Attacks Police Cruiser
“Out There”
The Billings Gazette: Beetle Epidemic May Be On Wane
The Salt Lake Tribune: Birthday Decorations Responsible For Tragic Collision
The Left Coast
The Los Angeles Times: 1968 Playboy Playmate Charged With Attempted Murder
The Seattle Times: Bad Traffic In Seattle? Blame Obama
The Honolulu Advertiser: Nefarious “Vog” Turns Paradise Into Uninhabitable Wasteland
Anchorage Daily News: Polar Bear Battle Heating Up In Federal Court
Come, ye armchair generals, statesmen, and oil barons. The Smoke-Filled Room covers issues of politics, business, and international affairs with all the predictability of a 12-gauge. Speculators, sycophants, aspiring monopolists and other fashionable degenerates are always welcome.
Leave no cigar un-chomped.
Editor:
Wyatt McKean has been a senior editor of The Dartmouth Independent since 2008. He is a Government major and has studied abroad at the London School of Economics. His interests include history, economics, arts and architecture.
Senior Writer:
Kevin Karp is TDI's chief international correspondent, having graduated from Dartmouth last spring. He has worked in the British Parliament and is a graduate student in History at Cambridge University.
Writers:
Charles Buker is a Government major and Spanish minor who has lived in Buenos Aires and studied abroad in Madrid. This summer, he worked in the office of Washington, D.C.'s Chief Financial Officer. He specializes in Spanish and Latin American affairs as well as American politics and constitutional law.
John Chen is a Government and History major who specializes in military studies and East Asian foreign policy.
Timothy Kessler is a Government major working on a senior honors thesis about Identitarian Realism.
John Lee is a columnist for The Malaysian Insider and was co-editor of Where Is Justice?, a book about the brutal politics of the Malaysian government. Recently, Malaysian authorities began forcibly removing his book from stores; he writes about the experience in TDI's fall print issue.
Laura Logan is a junior at the American University in Cairo specializing in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Her many dispatches from Cairo and Jerusalem have included stories of stone-hurling teenagers, fugitive pedophiles, and detainment at the Ben Gurion Airport.
David Mainiero is the Executive Editor of The Dartmouth Independent. He is a History major with a specialty in Iranian affairs.
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Two Ships in the Night, by David Mainiero
Permanent Revival, by Kevin Karp
Ground Shift, by Wyatt McKean
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