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I wish I were an embryo

EMBRYOS have never had it so good. Much to the chagrin of the great majority of the American public, embryos can sleep soundly at night knowing that the Bush administration is vigorously defending them against the ethically challenged stem cell researchers.


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Reading Orwell in Tehran

AS I WRITE, highly civilized human beings across an ocean are trying to kill each other. George Orwell began one of his essays similarly; only then, he was referring to the swarms of Luftwaffe bombers besieging his beloved London.


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Community accountability

THE UNIVERSITY'S honor system is strong. It is staffed by over a hundred enthusiastic students who sacrifice hundreds of man hours every year to ensure its upkeep.


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The cost of education

THIS WEEK most University students have one thing in common: We pay too much for textbooks. Nowadays, students are forced to shell out $300 to $1,000 per semester on top of tuition, school supplies, housing, daily maintenance and the like, an excessive and unfair obstacle on the road to a good education. Books, of course, are a necessity.


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Self-critical strategies

EVENTS in the Middle East this summer demonstrated onceagain, five years after the attacks on our country, just how flawed the West's understanding of the world actually is.


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Hardcore distortion

APPARENTLY, what sinful little things you choose to do in the privacy of your own hotel room aren't just your business anymore.


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Know thine enemy

IN ERROL Morris' documentary, "The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara," the first and perhaps most important lesson was to empathize with your enemy.


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In defense of the Daily Show

C'VILLE Weekly's front page this past week featured a picture of Jon Stewart with the headline "IS THIS MAN KILLING DEMOCRACY?" The article went on to explain that researchers at East Carolina University had studied and documented a phenomenon known as "The Daily Show Effect." Exposure to the show, according to the study, causes college-aged individuals to be more likely to have negative perceptions of candidates and to be cynical about politics in general, thereby possibly decreasing their involvement in politics.


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A new direction for the OAAA

DEAN of African-American Affairs Rick Turner's surprise retirement is an embarrassment to the University, but offers two important opportunities for the Office of African-American Affairs.


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Pay it forward

HERE YOU are, a student at one of the greatest universities in the country, in a town steeped in tradition and Southern charm.


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Salvaging Mid-east peace

ON WEDNESDAY, President Bush vetoed a bill that would have allowed federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, claiming that "murder" is wrong and that the lives of embryos should not be sacrificed for a chance to develop life-saving cures for a number of deadly diseases.


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Stemming good science

THE BUSH Administration may be trigger happy in its foreign policy, but it cravenly shrinks away from scientific progress. On July 19, President George W.


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