William Lawrence

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  1. An amusement park built for our times Columnists April 30, 2009

    The solution to our problems has arrived, and it’s MAX XTREME! Welcome to Collapseland, the official amusement park of the economic crisis. Collapseland provides an interactive, fun guide to the still-unfolding meltdown.

  2. Would-be student artists denied workspace Columnists April 16, 2009

    It’s prospie time on campus, which means scores of bored high schoolers and their terrified parents are making the rounds on tours. A highlight of each tour is the new Fouts Center for Visual Arts—its shininess alone is surely a draw even for the most artistically inept student. Unfortunately, many ...

  3. Prove me wrong: please write a rebuttal to this article Columnists April 9, 2009

    You’ll probably disagree with what I write in this article. You may think every point I ever make is BS, and I don’t even deserve this space in print. But I’ll never hear about it because, like most Whitties, you’re pathologically adverse to confrontation. Apparently, exchange of ideas is not for ...

  4. Let us be honeybees Columnists March 5, 2009

    I’m writing from the Powershift ‘09 conference, a congregation of 11,000 students and young people from across the country to address the problem of climate change. It is at once inspiring to witness the passion shared by so many youth and sobering to obtain a clearer perspective of the sheer ...

  5. No surprises in Hillary Clinton’s China stance Columnists February 26, 2009

    Last week, my colleague Jesús Vasquez asked if Hillary Clinton would broach controversial human rights issues on her trip to China. The Secretary of State definitively answered him this week in a significant loss for human rights advocates. When asked in Seoul whether she would seek to influence China’s relations with ...

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