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Bowled over by Patriots' performance

THE SUPER Bowl champion Patriots and their incredible season are a dream come true for long-suffering Boston fans such as myself, but also a needed shot in the arm for spectator sports.


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Term crossover causes confusion

SOMETIMES, traditions cause strange things to happen. Last week's issues of The Cavalier Daily provided an example of that, and some explanation is necessary. Monday's issue featured an article describing the staff elections accompanied by a photograph of the new Managing Board.


Opinion

More Yay Than Boo

IT'S NO surprise that ... oops, let me try again. It's no secret ... well, as my MB knows, it's no secret that after a year of edit writing, all my opinions start to sound the same.


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Simmer Down

I 'M STILL getting over the shock of seeing my name in print for the first time. Whereas most of my colleagues have written dozens of articles in their days, I have instead resigned myself to doing much of the behind-the scenes work, the work that few think or about, but which must get done for the paper to be completed each and every night. Working on a newspaper has been anything but a new experience for me.


Opinion

The Last Bastion

IT TAKES a special kind of place to drive me as crazy as the University has. The same goes for The Cavalier Daily. For the last few years, it's been part of my job to hunt down the worst aspects of the University.


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Put forth positive form of patriotism

THE UNIVERSITY community embarrassed itself two weeks ago. At the Wake Forest basketball game, in a horrid show of supposed patriotism, a fan screamed obscenities at an opposing player who had emigrated from Eastern Europe, and chanted "U-S-A" while he was taking his free-throws.

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