Opinion

Opinion

Wellness with adjustment

By Steph Shaw | July 25, 2005

WE ALL heard the story and followed the media frenzy surrounding the so-called "Runaway Bride." Whether you think that Jennifer Wilbanks is a spoiled southern belle looking for attention or not, one fact, which was not revealed until her interview with Katie Couric, remains: Her decision to do the "running" was between a bus ticket and a bottle of pills, indicative of serious underlying emotional distress.

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Remembering to Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

By Todd Rosenbaum | July 21, 2005

DO YOU REMEMBER your three Rs? Reduce, Reuse and Recycle: The cornerstone of every elementary school child's environmental science education.

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Another front in the war on terror

By AJ Kornblith | July 21, 2005

ASK MOST people what they think of hate crimes, and they will say that such acts are obviously bad.

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Bringing back merit

By Herb Ladley | July 21, 2005

Last week, the University of California announced that it would stop awarding scholarships for National Merit Scholars.

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Humanizing war

By Cari Lynn Hennessey | July 21, 2005

ON SUNDAY, the New York Times printed full color photographs of people who died in the London suicide bombings, held up by devastated family members and friends.

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Reining in the Court

By Noah Peters | July 14, 2005

AS THE partisan infighting over increasingly powerful federal judicial appointments reaches a fever pitch, the Supreme Court in the past few months has taken a welcome respite from its recent history of enlarging its own power to veto the decisions of popularly elected officials, Gonzalez v.

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A strong economy, not dependency

By Allan Cruickshanks | July 14, 2005

EVERY YEAR leaders from eight of the world's leading industrial nations meet to discuss pressing global issues and attempt to reach viable solutions.

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What we want, when we want it

By Todd Rosenbaum | July 14, 2005

TWENTY-FOUR hours a day, seven days a week. Two weeks of vacation per year. Consumption-obsessed workaholics.

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Partners in petroleum

By Adam Keith | July 14, 2005

OVER THE past few weeks, demagogic political figures have threatened America's economic future by parroting tired lines about energy independence and the threat of a rising China. The source of these cries stems from the attempted purchase of the American oil firm, Unocal, by the Chinese state-run petroleum corporation, China National Offshore Oil Company.

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Ammunition without representation

By Sophia Brumby | July 14, 2005

DESPITE Washington D.C.'s ongoing battle with violent crime, several Republicans in Congress are spearheading a plan to reverse the city's handgun restrictions.

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White noise

By Sina Kian | July 7, 2005

EVERY day, 30,000 or so children die across the world from easily preventable poverty. According to the National Victim Center, approximately 1,871 rapes occur everyday in the United States alone.

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The first great cowgirl

By Katie Cristol | July 7, 2005

"I NEVER wanted to make widgets like everyone else. I wanted to do something that mattered," Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor told a group of high school students a couple years ago.

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Welcome to the Lost Liberty Hotel

By Whitney Blake | July 7, 2005

THE NATION'S capital is still reeling from Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's retirement announcement.

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Stop bickering, start working

By Sam Leven | June 30, 2005

AS THE summer has gotten underway, the American political landscape is, as has become normal of late, red hot.

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Telling us how they really feel

By Eric Wang | June 30, 2005

FROM White House advisor Karl Rove's attack on liberals last week to Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean's slur against Republicans earlier this month, the punditocracy has been busy bemoaning the purported incivility of politics.

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Eminently insane

By Herb Ladley | June 30, 2005

IMAGINE that your whole life you've aspired to live on the waterfront. You work hard, save money, and after many years you can finally afford to move into a small house you've always wanted.

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Equality in admissions

By Cari Lynn Hennessey | June 30, 2005

THE UNIVERSITY'S Jeffersonian image took a hit this month when The New York Times reported that only eight percent of students come from families in the bottom half of the national income distribution.

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Would you buy a used car from Bush?

By AJ Kornblith | June 30, 2005

DURING both of his presi-dential campaigns, George W. Bush successfully played the part of a simplistic straight shooter.

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'Non'-committal

By Adam Keith | June 23, 2005

THE INK of the headlines declaring that French voters had rejected the European Union constitution was not yet dry before the chattering classes of the world began their recriminations.

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Crying genocide

By Herb Ladley | June 23, 2005

AFTER THE 2004 election, many political analysts blamed the failure of the Democrats on the lack of a single clear, consistent message.