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Andre Perry Commentary
4:29 pm
Fri November 9, 2012

Ain't Nothin' Goin' On But The Rent

Dr. Andre Perry
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Dr. Perry shares why an agenda on job creation in education should lead Obama’s second term.

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Andre Perry Commentary
5:05 pm
Fri October 19, 2012

To Know Is to Love

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Men, did you know that we hurt people when we chose not to learn? Aldous Huxley said, “We can only love what we know, and we can never know completely what we do not love.”

That Huxley quote always reminds me of the never-ending responsibility to learn about the people I claim to love. Intimacy comes out of the scrutiny of our desires, shames and delights. Therefore, loving is not just learning how to be vulnerable; it’s being vulnerable enough to learn.

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Commentary
11:32 am
Tue October 9, 2012

One Debate, Two Very Different Conversations

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President Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney finish their debate at the University of Denver on Oct. 3.
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Originally published on Tue October 9, 2012 1:13 pm

When you consider how carefully staged and planned the debates are and how long they've been around, it's remarkable how often candidates manage to screw them up. Sometimes they're undone by a simple gaffe or an ill-conceived bit of stagecraft, like Gerald Ford's slip-up about Soviet domination of eastern Europe in 1976, or Al Gore's histrionic sighing in 2000. Sometimes it's just a sign of a candidate having a bad day, like Ronald Reagan's woolly ramblings in the first debate with Walter Mondale in 1984.

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