MUCH OF our national life following Sept. 11, 2001, focused on "not letting the terrorists win." America conducted its business like America because changing our ways because of al Qaeda would mark an ultimate defeat at the hands of barbarians. Unfortunately, few in the United States seem to understand the terrorists' concept of victory.
MY BRACKET has number 16 seed Alabama State as a virtual lock to beat Duke tonight. After all, the Blue Devils have gone 0-1 in the last four days, while the Hornets are red-hot coming off a victory in their conference championship game Saturday.
THIS WEEK marks the one-year anniversary of the American-led coalition intervention in Iraq. The tragic events across the Atlantic in Spain offer appropriate incentive to pause and take stock of the international political landscape, with special attention to the effects of the Bush administration's policy of unilateral intervention.
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.
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.
AND PRESIDENT Bush thought he was taking the "positive" campaign route. Bush has recently come under attack for displaying quick images of Sept.
JOSE LUIS Rodriguez Zapatero, Spain's new prime minister-elect, announced yesterday that Spanish troops will be withdrawn from Iraq over the next few months.
I WENT UP to Boston to visit my brother during break last week, mostly to maintain familial ties that seem to atrophy over hundreds of miles and busy schedules.
MARCH 11: Ten simultaneous bombs rip through trains and train stations in Madrid at the height of morning rush hour, killing nearly 200 and wounding 1,200 more.
"HAIR STYLE by Christophe's:Seventy-fivedollars. Designer shirts: Two-hundred fifty dollars. Forty two-foot luxury yacht: one million dollars.
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?
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.
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.
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?
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.
LAST WEEKEND, Haiti saw its embattled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the first elected head of state in th ecountry, resign and fly off into exile in the Central African republic.
"VOTNG is for Old People." This absurd statement is plastered on the front of a t-shirt of a popular clothing line, Urban Outfitters.
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.
LAST WEEK, I saw the Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ." It made me think a lot about the sacrificies of Christ.
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.
