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(02/15/01 5:00am)
MUCH AS it pains me to say, it appears that there is a recession in the works. This bothers me - and it should concern my fellow fourth-years as well - for two reasons. First, I am about to enter the work force. And second, recessions are not fun. Most of us have never experienced a "real" recession. That minor slowdown in the early 1990s paled in comparison to its predecessors from the early 1980s and before. We were in grade school at the time, and our country's economic health was not at the forefront of our attention.
(02/01/01 5:00am)
THERE'S a war on, in case you didn't know. We don't get too many reports from the front lines, but it is a war nonetheless. Well, maybe not a war. Let's call it an effort. Our country's anti-drug campaign is far too feeble to call it a war. If it were an NBA team, it would be the L.A. Clippers. We spend billions of dollars every year with little to no overall effect. Our prison population continues to explode due to a constant inflow of nonviolent drug users whose only crime thus far has been their own sickness and/or weakness in the face of temptation. We need to, as Michael Douglas says in Steven Soderbergh's brilliant Traffic, start thinking outside the box.
(11/02/00 5:00am)
ONE WOULD like to think that the electorate in the richest, most developed nation on Earth would move beyond surface appeal. But it appears as though that is not the case. Because we still choose to live in the fantasy world where our leaders' dispositions play a paramount role in the political process. The net effect of this political cult of personalities is that we are cheating ourselves. Big time. Of all the factors that one should consider when choosing a president, or any other candidate - especially at the national level - personality should come in at the bottom or near to it.
(10/12/00 4:00am)
LET'S GET one thing straight: negative campaigning is good. Focus groups might not like it, women voters might not like it. But in a campaign like this, is there any better way to engage voters than by bashing your opponent?
(09/21/00 4:00am)
SOMETIMES we mean what we say. Other times we say things only for the reaction they cause. When the Ralph Nader campaign attempts to portray the two major parties as one and the same, it does not really mean it. Instead, it seeks to provoke less-than-knowledgeable voters into believing this gross exaggeration.
(09/07/00 4:00am)
SOME THINGS in life are worth worrying about. Some things are not. Two words shouted in the middle of a song at a college football game are not.
(02/25/00 5:00am)
ONCE AGAIN, that symbol of South Carolinian ignorance, the Confederate flag, has popped up in the news. It was a focal point during the Republican campaigning for the South Carolina primary earlier this month. A host of pundits and politicians - mostly from the North - lambasted South Carolina's refusal to take the flag down. The NAACP launched a tourism boycott back in January. Still, the flag remains mounted on top of the statehouse, like a middle finger extended to the outside world.
(01/28/00 5:00am)
IT'S GOOD to be back in Charlottesville. I learned a lot during my semester in South America. One of the most important things was simply how not to take things too seriously. It's a skill that many of us need to learn over again. I certainly needed to. But more and more, people, particularly politicians, are increasingly uptight about a great many issues.