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Over the Thanksgiving holiday, many might have heard about Jdimytai Damour, the employee at a Long Island Wal-Mart who was trampled to death by Black Friday shoppers as they stormed the doors when the Wal-Mart opened that morning. According to police and witnesses, even though Damour had been pushed to the ground - along with some other shoppers, including a pregnant woman - the shoppers continued to pile into the Wal-Mart as if nothing had happened.

Despite substantial economic growth since the crisis of 2001, Argentina has struggled with stagnating GDP growth, inflation, foreign investment difficulties and, now, the current international debt crisis. The country's President, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, is attempting to boost the economy through interventionalist policies that are highly criticized by the international community.

In recent weeks, much has been said about the new Loyola Pledge for Unity and the lecture given by economics professor Walter Block of Loyola University New Orleans. For whatever it's worth, as both a signer of the Pledge for Unity and a student troubled by the response to Block's lecture (albeit for a different set of reasons), I'd like to offer some perspective on the events of the past month.

Thumbs Up Winter Wonderland Did you see? It snowed over the weekend! Snow! It doesn't matter that it was only a light dusting; it was snow! Winter is here to stay: full of snowball fights, tubing and curling up close with someone for "warmth." Snow hysteria will begin, as everyone cheers hoping that the last few days of class may get cancelled due to snow.

The Nov. 18 letter by Professor John Donahue, S.J., regarding Dr. Walter Block was extremely misleading. Yes, Dr. Block was insulting to some when he said the Jesuit order was "hijacked" by Marxists. But he was speaking the truth since, as he explained, "liberation theology," with its roots in Marxian class analysis, has indeed become a large part of the Jesuit scholarly tradition.