SATURDAY, the University hosted the Wake Forest Demon Deacons and a crowd of more than 60,000 for a football game that came complete with pre-game pyrotechnics, two marching band performances and, yet again, late game heroics by the Cavaliers.
"IF WE'RE an arrogant nation, they will resent us. If we're a humble nation, but strong, they will welcome us." - George W.
WE'VE ALL read the e-mails. "Student robbed on 14th Street...Be alert, trust your instincts, walk in groups and keep to lighted pathways." "Student assaulted on Wertland...Be alert, trust your instincts, walk in groups and keep to lighted pathways." The reports in this newspaper aren't much different.
AL GORE can't stop winning. Less than a year after accepting an Oscar for his film about the imminent threat of global warming, the former vice president picked up a Nobel Peace Prize last week for his efforts to raise public awareness of the same issue.
KARL MARX once said that history repeats itself, first as tragedy and second as farce. He wasn't right about much, but this quip might prove an accurate summary of American foreign policy under the Bush administration, which is moving in the farcical direction of war with Iran even as we remain tragically mired in Iraq. You might wonder who could be so reckless as to contemplate an Iran war with the unfinished Iraq war standing as a bloody monument to American hubris.
IN 1796, George Washington announced that he would retire upon completion of his second term as president, declining to seek a third term that he likely would have won.
WHEN THE air turns cool and the leaves turn colors, University sports fans gear up for that timeless rite of autumn: the annual debate over whether to fire the football coach.
WRITING for The Cavalier Daily can be a lonely enterprise. If you're reading this column, it's probably because you found the paper on a classroom floor and turned to the Opinion page after discovering that the previous reader had already completed the Sudoku.
FOR LIBERALS such as myself, it is both immensely gratifying and deeply saddening when a gay-bashing Republican is revealed by some tawdry conduct to be a homosexual himself.
THERE ARE few sights sadder than that of a powerful person incapable of admitting a mistake. The Bush administration has treated us to that sorry spectacle many times over the past six years, but the Senate testimony of Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez last week was perhaps the worst case yet. Gonzalez, who has been under fire for his role in the recent firings of eight United States Attorneys, was called before the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday to explain exactly what that role was.
