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Profiles in cowardice

WITH MOST of us at the acme of our healthy lives, the price of prescription drugs is hardly anything for young voters to get worked up about.


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A media left to its own devices

FOR THOSE who ask, "What liberal media?" when conservatives cry foul, it appears that the "big three" networks authoritatively answered that question with slanted broadcasts favoring John Kerry in the beginning months of an exceptionally lengthy campaign season.


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Fighting the good fight

JOSE LUIS Rodriguez Zapatero, Spain's new prime minister-elect, announced yesterday that Spanish troops will be withdrawn from Iraq over the next few months.


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Tomfoolery in Student Council

WHILE a variety of probing philosophical inquiries concerning bikinis and mai-tais will be thick in the air this week, one question will no doubt loom above all others: When the hell do we get out of here?


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What can they do for Student Council; self-governance?

PRIOR TO theusual hype incurred by the onslaught of Spring Break, the annual circus of student government elections always provides a good chuckle for those of us in the expecting-to-graduate camp, if for no other reason than the fact that every year the faces change but the chalking, rhetoric and tactics remain eerily similar.


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Preserving Honor

LAST NIGHT, the University community chose a very qualified group of students -- David Hobbs, Meghan Sullivan and Sara Page -- to serve on the Honor Committee, and while other elected candidates may get more face time and name recognition, no body of representatives has a more difficult duty to discharge over the next year.


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Who's running... who cares?

TOMORROW, when The Cavalier Daily prints the results of this week's University elections, many who read it will ask the same question they've asked each semester for the past several years: Why is voter turnout for Student Council elections so low?


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Driving off with our money

FOR THOSE of us who have the privilege of driving up and down Route 29 between Charlottesville and Washington every time we wish to go home, the sight is very familiar: a police cruiser with blue flashing lights located right behind a car with a "U.Va." bumper sticker and an angry student inside.


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Secularist in Seattle

LAST WEEK the Supreme Court overruled the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. For any other case, this would hardly come as a surprise.


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The distorted lens of the Kaleidoscope

LAST THURSDAY, students and administrators proudly unveiled the long-awaited "diversity center" which replaced the informal lounge in Newcomb Hall and christened it"Kaleidoscope: Center for Cultural Fluency." Officials and boosters announced hopes that the "new and different" space will provoke new and different discussion of culture and race that will lead to greater understanding and unity.


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Partisanship over protectionism

LAST FRIDAY, Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., reversed ground on his opposition to efforts to extend the deadline of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, or "9/11 Commission" as it's also known, and will now allow the commission to continue its work through July 26.


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Ahead of Lighting of the Lawn, Riley McNeill and Chelsea Huffman, co-chairs of the Lighting of the Lawn Committee and fourth-year College students, and Peter Mildrew, the president of the Hullabahoos and third-year Commerce student, discuss the festive tradition which brings the community together year after year. From planning the event to preparing performances, McNeil, Huffman and Mildrew elucidate how the light show has historically helped the community heal in the midst of hardship.