Tag: reality
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How Laken Riley’s death sent “a reality shock” through the college town of Athens, Georgia
Just two blocks from the University of Georgia campus, in a downtown courtroom in Athens, Georgia, Jose Ibarra is on trial for the murder of 22-year-old Laken Riley, a former UGA student who transferred to the nursing program at Augusta University’s Athens campus. In late February, Riley was attacked during her morning jog on a…
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At stake on Election Day: The reality of the presidency
Presidential campaigns can get abstract, petty and diversionary. But the reality of the presidency hits the instant a president takes the oath. In 2009, as President Barack Obama gave his first inaugural address, he carried a secret in his jacket pocket. A terrorist threat loomed over the ceremony; if the attack took place, he was…