When I think of Al Jazeera, the Arabic television network based in Doha, Qatar, the word ‘truth’ echoes in my mind. We have been at war for four years now and Americans still don’t understand
There’s only one thing worse than being a stranded motorist, and that’s being a stranded airline passenger. While the airlines are still apologizing to everyone who was stranded during St. Patrick’s Day weekend due to
One of the occasions college students look forward to most – aside from Thirsty Thursdays – is the day they can hang their degrees on a wall and say, “Yes, I graduated from college.” And
Matthew Thompkins, a pimp who operated a sophisticated prostitution ring out of several cities, was sentenced last month to 23 years in prison. According to the “Philadelphia Inquirer”, Thompkins agreed to forfeit four homes, eight
Western Europe is the “GO” square on the Monopoly gameboard of traveling the world. There are sights and experiences that Europe has to offer which no other corner of the world can. On the same
I am a flag-waver. I carry a 4-by-6-foot American flag whenever I’m abroad, whenever I’m representing this nation. That faded flag has gone from the wall of my rowhome in Philadelphia to a migrant workers’
I was waiting for an afternoon train at the SEPTA Market East regional rail station Friday, March 16, the day of the last winter storm. The icy weather motivated many people to avoid the roads
Lindsay Lohan introduced the term in the movie “Mean Girls.” Word vomit – a point in a conversation when people say something they didn’t mean to. I wear the crown as the undisputed queen of
When we first saw pictures of Temple in admissions brochures, many of us thought about the combination of big, bad city life and the thrill of college habits. What we saw in those glossy photos
If we believed everything we saw in advertisements, nobody would go bald, our clothes would have no stains and we truly could “set it and forget it.” Television advertisements by their very nature are meant