Opinion

Opinion

Pressed for integrity

By Luke Ryan | June 14, 2001

A COUPLE of weeks ago many of the major reputable news sources of this country found themselves in a rather embarrassing game of limbo with much of the American public standing idly by wondering, "How low can they really go?" The lure of a story about President Bush's underage twin daughters attempting to purchase alcohol at a local Austin, Texas restaurant using a fake ID was more than most editors and anchormen could resist.

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First twins reveal underage drinking dilemma

By Laura Sahrama | June 14, 2001

MAKING the same mistake twice is pretty foolish, so making a really stupid mistake twice may be a sign that you're not the brightest crayon in the box.

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Refocusing on death penalty's uneven execution

By Elizabeth Managan | June 14, 2001

MANY of you went out last weekend. I sat in my Houston home mesmerized by the images on my local TV stations, hoping that my house wouldn't flood.

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Jeffords switch proves blessing for Bush

By Brian Cook | June 14, 2001

AFTER Sen. Jim Jeffords (I-VT) defected from the Republican party, politicians, pundits and analysts debated the motives and ramifications of this move.

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Giving McVeigh death gives him liberty

By Megan Moyer | June 14, 2001

A MAN WAS killed in Indiana Monday morning. He wasn't mugged and stabbed. He wasn't run over by a reckless or drunk driver.

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A call to right wrongs

By Nick West | May 19, 2001

THIS IS now the third draft of my "parting shot." These words, after all, are the final ones I will ever have printed in The Cavalier Daily, and thus cannot be taken lightly.

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Four years of no regret

By Mary Beth Walker | May 19, 2001

WHEN I was applying to schools, U.Va. wasn't on my short list by any means. I had no interest in coming here, but my parents really wanted me to apply.

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Punch a higher floor

By Timothy Duboff | May 19, 2001

EVERYONE needs a little lift-off in their lives. We are all blessed to be standing here this Graduation Day.

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Keeping promises after many years

By Steve Argeris | May 19, 2001

THIS IS to keep a promise I made two years ago, while sitting in a tiny Lambeth living room watching Connecticut beat Duke on television, waiting for "One Shining Moment" to come on and trying not to cry. We were friends from first year, guys that lived the floor below me.

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Remembering roots on graduation day

By Nicola White | May 19, 2001

MY DAD loved to tell stories. The one about him joyriding his teacher's motorbike up and down Balrickard Hill when he should have been in class.

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Endless cast of characters create life-long script

By Doug Strassler | May 19, 2001

MY LOVE of movies is well docu-mented, but what most people don't realize about me is that my real delusion finds me as the star of a television show.

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Achieving clarity up on a roof

By Margaret Chipowsky | May 19, 2001

ONE BY one, we climbed out the bathroom window and onto the roof. From three stories up at 4 a.m.

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Words don't cut it

By Tengku Bahar | May 19, 2001

WRITING an article for The Cavalier Daily does seem like a strange thing for me to do. All my years here I've worked as a photographer, where I took pride in presenting information through a visual medium.

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Thanking those who made basement a blast

By Jim Reedy | May 19, 2001

OH GOOD heavens. It really is over, isn't it? I just started to type the second line of my byline - the one that in four years has morphed from "staff writer" through "sports editor" to the oh-so has-been "columnist" - and I realized I don't get a title anymore.

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Finding a place to make the most of four years

By DJ Moore | May 19, 2001

ALTHOUGH this may seem like a faux pas for a graduation issue dedicated to reliving wonderful memories and experiences at the University, I cannot help but look back to my first year in Charlottesville and remember how much I wanted to transfer.

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Parting epiphanies

By James Tsai | May 19, 2001

GRADUATION brings about epiphanies. I'm not sure if it's some rush to the head, as all the blood in your body goes into overdrive, in anxious anticipation of things to come, or something more ethereal.

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Breaking all the rules one last time

By Emily Harding | May 19, 2001

BACK IN the day before his uber-politico status, Tom Bednar was my editor. He taught me the cardinal rule of op-ed writing: Never let "I" or emotions play too big a role in an article.

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Saying goodbye to close friends

By Kimberly Jones | May 19, 2001

F IRST of all, I'd like to thank the graduating staff of The Cavalier Daily for their support in my many hours of need and wish them all well in whatever they end up doing.

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Giving a hand to those who help others

By Luke Ryan | April 27, 2001

AS I SAT on the floor of my room earlier this week, my back supported by an old dusty couch and my mind comfortably on cruise control, I thought about the columns I'd written this year and what they had attempted to accomplish.

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NAFTA not a fair trade

By Laura Parcells | April 27, 2001

ON JAN. 1, 1994, the governments of the United States, Canada and Mexico implemented a new policy known as the North American Trade Agreement in order to regulate trade between the three nations.