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Trading morals for money

My Chilean family was so normal. Take out the sharp fence surrounding their property, switch English for Spanish, leave in the snow-capped Andes nearby and we could have been in Colorado.


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Lefties' power grab in California

The liberals' most recent attempt to undermine the rule of law by creating law comes from none other than the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, an activist, left-wing court that represents the largest judicial district in the country.


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Rebuilding America's image

Like other Americans, my wife and I were traumatized by the events of September 11, 2001. We were in a small village in the south of France, and for several hours we could get no word from or about our younger son, whose office was close by the fallen towers.


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Defeating Dubya

FOURTEEN months away, the 2004 presidential election continues to march toward Americans like an approaching leviathan on the horizon.


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Clear skies ahead

THE VILLAINS on Captain Planet were obviously Republicans. Wanting nothing but to destroy the ecosystem and make money doing it, the sinister characters on that Emmy-worthy cartoon truly embodied the environment-hating ideals of the GOP.


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A path to understanding

LAST SPRING, the idea of diversity education surfaced as one of several possible ways to expose students to differences among people within the University community and society at large.


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Rising from the ruins

THE WINDS have died down. The waters have retreated. And all along the Mid-Atlantic coast, the remnants of Hurricane Isabel are painfully visible.


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A new civil rights revolution

BY NOW, some people are doubtlessly tired of hearing about diversity. But until we reach the day when skin color is no longer an issue, no amount of spilled ink can be too much.


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Broadening diversity horizons

WITH THE appearance of the Individual Rights Coalition on Grounds last Monday, the heretofore-little-known diversity training exercise stepped into the University spotlight and became the controversy du jour of discussions around Grounds.


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A call to arms

LAST WEEK, the last major independent newspaper in Zimbabwe was shut down in the latest move by tyrannical and thuggish president Robert Mugabe ("Zimbabwe Police Close Down Nation's Largest Daily Paper," NYTimes.com, Sept.


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The guns must go

SOCIETIES, like the laws that govern them, necessarily change and evolve over time. In America at least, those changes have tended to be positive ones over the last two hundred years, as the onward march of Western liberal progressivism has abolished slavery and child labor, granted universal suffrage, extended civil rights to all racial groups and set up a welfare system to assist those in need.


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No qualms with WUSA folding

REMEMBER that movie from "A League of Their" Own? Geena Davis and Madonna portray members of a professional women's baseball league fighting to be kept open by their corporate sponsorship, Harvey's Chocolate.


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A losing grade for Virginia

THERE was a time in Virginia when "debt" was more a political taboo than "tax." Today, as schools and other state services wilt under the burden caused by the recent series of heavy budget cuts, the burning anti-tax sentiment of Virginians has tied the hands of legislators.


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It's a thug's life

I NEVER thought I'd see the day when designer "wife-beaters" were in season. But then again, I shouldn't be surprised. The poor man's cloth has now become a fashion statement from street thugs to the suburban preppie set, and with the advent of hip-hop's heralded 50 Cent sporting Calvin Klein's stylized version of what only used to be seen on the backs of drunken spousal abusers on reruns of "COPS," we should all take note.

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