As I took the bus home from class the other day, I read an Al Jazeera story about the introduction of goal-line technology in the 2014 Wold Cup in Brazil. I must have looked rather pensive, because the guy sitting next to me asked me what I was reading. He and I spent the rest… Read More Brazil
On Monday, Pope Benedict XVI surprised the Roman Catholic community, and the rest of the world, by announcing he would resign the papacy on Feb. 28. In doing so, he becomes the first pope to resign since Gregory XII in 1415, and the first pope to willingly resign since Celestine V in 1294. Regardless of why Benedict… Read More Vatican City
Looking to Egypt, the past 10 days have been especially tumultuous. Some of this was expected. Jan. 25 marked the two-year anniversary of the beginning of the Egyptian Revolution and was a day on which demonstrations had been planned long in advance. The next day, a judge in Port Said sentenced 21 to death in… Read More Egypt
Corinne Kennedy 