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Posts published in “Past Opinion Columns”

Bonjour Paris

I finally got to visit a city which I have been dreaming about visiting since I started high school: Paris! I imagined that I wouldn’t remember anything that I learned in my four years of studying French in high school.

Women’s Equality Must Be Upheld

By: Jonathan Itskovitch

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Caption: Hillary Clinton reacts after a woman threw a shoe at her. Source: NBC

There’s no doubt, it has been a bad couple of weeks for women’s equality issues.

Did Sherlock Holmes believe in God?

I’ve become, belatedly, a Sherlock Holmes groupie. I dig the BBC series Sherlock, starring the suddenly ubiquitous Benedict Cumberbatch, as well as its American counterpart Elementary (I prefer the latter, in part because of Lucy Liu, the best Watson ever).

Cultural Differences

In my Italian class, one of the focuses that my professor has is showing her students the richest parts of Italian culture.

Heartbleed: The biggest TLS vulnerability since 2006

"Catastrophic" does not begin to describe this event. The problem is so bad that attackers have been reading and dumping plaintext passwords for individuals' Yahoo! Mail accounts. Yes, personal email accounts are having their passwords leaked. And it does not stop there. Hundreds of sites are vulnerable (and are still vulnerable as of the writing of this article). The best way to describe this vulnerability is as a complete break of Internet security.

Why “WrestleMania” matters

Since I began writing “The Stute Smackdown,” my focus has fluctuated from standalone editorials about various aspects of the professional wrestling industry to summary and analysis of WWE programming.

It’s Time To Legalize Gay Marriage in the U.S.

By: Jonathan Itskovitch

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Caption: The rainbow flag is the most prominent symbol of LGBT pride. Source: HRC

It is apparent that the time has come to legalize gay marriage throughout the entire nation.