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Who would Jesus elect?

IN A recent interview given to Beliefnet, a Web site designed to help people explore spirituality in all its forms, Republican presidential hopeful Sen.


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The sin of wanderlust

INTERNATIONAL travel has never been so popular, but in many respects it has never taken so much initiative to experience the distinctiveness of a foreign culture.


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We don't need no Cavaliers

DO WE LOVE the Cavalier? The English royalists who escaped to Virginia during Cromwell's victory in the Civil War, and who were the direct ancestors of one Thomas Jefferson, would seem to be little more than an obscure mascot to us -- even more obscure than a fish that can drink three times its own weight.


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Déjà vu all over again

KARL MARX once said that history repeats itself, first as tragedy and second as farce. He wasn't right about much, but this quip might prove an accurate summary of American foreign policy under the Bush administration, which is moving in the farcical direction of war with Iran even as we remain tragically mired in Iraq. You might wonder who could be so reckless as to contemplate an Iran war with the unfinished Iraq war standing as a bloody monument to American hubris.


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Calendar cop-out

AS YOU are probably well aware, we have next Monday and Tuesday off for Fall Break. Unfortunately, this two-day break came at a price.


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Keep religion out of human rights

ALARM BELLS went off as I froze and read the frightful sign posted on the columns past the amphitheater: "Human Rights in the Bible and Qur'an." Putting aside my preconceived notions on the subject, I attended the discussion hosted by President of the Theological Education Institute Reverend John Rankin and University professor of Religious Studies Abdulaziz Sachedina that night.


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Majoring in diversity

SOME PEOPLE embrace diversity -- others scoff. At the University, some students spend the majority of their time here taking classes on such subjects as gender justice, African-American political theory, and the politics of developing areas.


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Leaders still stuck in the 1960's

IN THE aftermath of the controversyin Jena, Louisiana, civil rights advocates such as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton have been quick to argue that the demonstrations are the start of a new civil rights movement.


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Keep out of our pants

CITIES ACROSS America, including Newark, New Jersey and Atlanta, Georgia, are currently beginning to consider banning baggy pants.


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Let them eat cupcakes

MANY OF you probably are not aware of "the cupcake problem" in this country. Many of you probably assume that cupcakes are merely harmless sugary confections, popular in elementary school classrooms and birthday parties.


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Psychology of a psychologist

How little we know what we most need to know. This is an exceptionally striking fact about the most promising new field to arise in our time, evolutionary psychology, led by Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker and our own Jonathan Haidt, author of "The Happiness Hypothesis." Its emphasis on natural selection serves as a valuable sanity check on the otherwise crushing power of political prejudice in the social sciences (I use the term loosely), especially through its politically incorrect discovery of the evolutionary basis of many sexual inequalities.


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The sound of silence

THE AQUATIC and Fitness Center is great. It's big, spacious, and it has a wide range of exercise options throughout the complex that appeal to the gym's equally wide range of patrons.


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Dictators within our midst

TUCKED away behind the mountains, cut off from the outside world save for a narrow pass and gravel-strewn road, a dictator rules his people with a steely resolve and terrifying power.


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