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Taking Flight
By Reuben Henriques | May 23Socrates said-in a mantra that could easily be Brown's unofficial motto-that the unexamined life was not worth living.
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Henriques '12: What an effective protest movement looks like
By Reuben Henriques | November 28Was there any doubt that it would someday come to this?
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Henriques '12: A university-college, if you can keep it
By Reuben Henriques | November 6It's said that a woman approached Benjamin Franklin at the close of the Constitutional Convention and asked him whether the government he and his compatriots had just founded was to be a monarchy or a republic. "A republic," Franklin replied, "if you can keep it."
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Henriques '12: 99 percent is not enough
By Reuben Henriques | October 26There was an especially surreal moment at the Occupy Providence teach-in earlier this month when local activist Camilo Viveiros led the crowd in a rousing chant, urging them to "beat back the corporate elite." Consider a room full of students railing against the elites while tapping furiously on their ...
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Henriques '12: The not-so-ruthless Simmons legacy
By Reuben Henriques | October 11I admit that after reading a recent column by Simon Liebling '12 ("The Simmons legacy," Sept. 29), I had to wonder if Liebling and I go to different schools. Apparently, Liebling attends a university brimming with wealthy elites that churns out top-notch research while leaving undergraduates floundering ...
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Henriques '12: Evaluating grades
By Reuben Henriques | September 27At some point in your college career, you've encountered them — the person who, upon learning that you go to Brown, quizzically says, "Isn't that the school without any grades or something?" You gently correct them, laughing at their naivete. But while they may be misinformed, they ought to be ...
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Henriques '12: Honor to whom honor is due
By Reuben Henriques | September 11As the summer in Washington, D.C., revealed leaders acting ever more stubborn and childish, thank goodness, at least, that we at Brown know how to be adults. Even at a school where the student body is, admittedly, a bit one-sided in its political leanings, we spend our four years here buffeted by diverse ...
