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(04/06/04 4:00am)
IN THE summer of 2001, the Bush administration received dozens of warnings that terrorists were planning a major strike against the United States. A large number of Middle Eastern men were seeking flight training in American schools, while CIA sources suggested that al Qaeda had plans to use hijacked airliners in terror attacks. The National Security Agency intercepted numerous threatening messages, while sources in Afghanistan reported widespread rumors of an impending attack. The president himself was briefed on the al Qaeda threat some 40 times, and officials in numerous federal agencies were also notified. Yet, despite its awareness of the looming threat, the administration took little action to prevent the catastrophe that finally occurred on Sept. 11.
(03/30/04 5:00am)
THE FIRST line in the Bill of Rights states that Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, yet in 1954, Congress inserted the phrase "under God" into the Pledge of Allegiance, in order to distinguish the United States from the atheist nations of the communist bloc.
(03/16/04 5:00am)
"HAIR STYLE by Christophe's:Seventy-fivedollars. Designer shirts: Two-hundred fifty dollars. Forty two-foot luxury yacht: one million dollars. Four lavish mansions and beachfront estate: over thirty-million dollars. Another rich, liberal elitist from Massachusetts who claims he's a man of the people: Priceless."
(03/02/04 5:00am)
WITH HIS reelection campaign underway and his conservative base demanding a blood sacrifice, President George W. Bush sunk to a new low last week, announcing his support for a constitutional amendment that would outlaw gay marriage. Citing a need to clarify the meaning of marriage and protect that hallowed institution from the pernicious rulings of activist judges, Bush declared that the voice of the people must be heard, and that his proposed amendment was their last resort.
(02/26/04 5:00am)
SO, RALPH Nader has crashed the party. In a misguided move that shocked no one, Nader announced last week that he will run for president, once more subjecting the electorate to his rumpled charm, his high-minded lectures and his callous indifference to the fate of America's mainstream liberals. Faced with a close and critical race for the White House, Democrats are understandably dismayed by Nader's decision, but I'm not worried. I trust liberals, and I think they've learned their lesson.
(02/24/04 5:00am)
ON FEB. 28, 1969, Lt. John Kerry led three Navy patrol boats up the Dong Cung River, delivering a group of local fighters to a dangerous region at the southern end of Vietnam's Ca Mau Peninsula. After dropping off his passengers, Kerry continued upriver to protect them from ambush, but his boat soon came under fire from Viet Cong guerillas on the riverbank. Weary of taking potshots from a faceless enemy, Kerry ordered his boat beached at the at the point of attack, where the crew came face to face with a Viet Cong fighter armed with a rocket launcher. After a moment's confusion, Kerry leapt from his boat, chased the startled enemy into the jungle and killed him, sparing future boats a rocket attack and earning himself a Silver Star.
(02/10/04 5:00am)
ON SUNDAY, the Honor Committee considered a proposal to remove the seriousness clause from its constitution, which provides that acts of lying, cheating and stealing must meet a certain standard of severity in order to be considered honor offenses. The proposal, which failed by a vote of 8-12, would have eliminated such considerations of seriousness except in pre-trial motions.
(02/03/04 5:00am)
IF YOU watched Sunday's Super Bowl halftime show, you know what Janet Jackson's right breast looks like. That's because Justin Timberlake tore off the top of her gladiator costume at the conclusion of their duet, exposing her to a television audience of 130 million. And if you happened to tune in before that bit of striptease, you know what the shameless desecration of an American flag looks like. That's because Kid Rock ripped a hole in one and wore it as a poncho during his part of the halftime performance.
(01/28/04 5:00am)
LEGACY preference in college admissions is a longstanding practice that has come under heavy scrutiny of late. And as presidential candidates assail the practice on the campaign trail, major universities eliminate their legacy preference systems and the socially conscious demand fairness above all else, the stage seems set for a rethinking of the University's own admissions policies. But before we sacrifice legacy preferences on the altar of fairness, the University must ask itself if fairness is really the goal of admissions policy and if legacy preferences are really unfair.
(01/21/04 5:00am)
ON MONDAY night, Iowa voters emerged from their town halls, libraries and living rooms to proclaim Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry their choice for the Democratic presidential nomination. The Iowa caucuses are a crucial step on the road to the general election, with winners receiving a big boost in money, press coverage and popular support in the weeks following. But Democratic voters should not be too quick to embrace Kerry as their champion, as their best hope for victory in November may by the candidate who has yet to show his face in Iowa.
(11/25/03 5:00am)
EARLY next winter, Newcomb Hall's informal lounge will be transformed from a drab, empty space into a bustling diversity center where students of all cultural backgrounds can mingle in a mutually inclusive environment. Such is the vision of the student diversity advocates who envisioned the center as far back as 1996. But whatever the final value of their efforts, one outcome of this project can be reasonably forecast: As soon as the informal lounge is renamed "Diversity Center," it will become the most homogenous room on Grounds.
(11/18/03 5:00am)
ROY MOORE got what he wanted.
(11/05/03 5:00am)
THE ONLY thing quieter than downtown Richmond last night was Virginia's Democratic Party headquarters. In an election with little at stake, the Democrats gained two seats in the House of Delegates and lost one seat in the Senate, with the outcome of two races still undetermined at press time.
(10/30/03 5:00am)
"THE MORE successful we are on the ground, the more these killers will react." So said President George W. Bush on Monday, after a series of suicide bombings in Baghdad that left at least 34 dead and more than 200 wounded.
(10/28/03 5:00am)
LAST WEDNESDAY, in an act of hopeless naivety, the foreign ministers of France, Germany and Great Britain reached an agreement with Iran to end an international dispute over the Islamic state's nuclear program. Under the terms of the agreement, Iran will temporarily stop enriching uranium and allow more aggressive inspections of its nuclear facilities in exchange for international recognition of its right to produce nuclear energy for civilian purposes.
(10/21/03 4:00am)
IT WAS a blow softened only by the fact that so many had come before: In the eighth inning of the sixth game of the National League Championship Series, a fan deflected a foul ball from the glove of Chicago Cubs outfielder Moises Alou, denying his team the second out of the inning. What followed was a depressingly familiar chain of events that finally relieved the Cubs of their World Series aspirations -- a walk, a wild pitch and an awful error helped the Florida Marlins to an eight-run inning and an 8-3 victory. On Wednesday, the Marlins won the decisive seventh game, and the Cubs were left, yet again, to wait until next year.
(10/09/03 4:00am)
LAST WEEK, Washington erupted in scandal as the Justice Department began investigating accusations that senior White House officials illegally revealed the identity of an undercover CIA officer. The officer, Valerie Plame, is the wife of former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, an outspoken critic of the administration's war in Iraq. Wilson has accused the White House of intentionally leaking his wife's name in an attempt to punish his wartime dissent.
(10/07/03 4:00am)
DRUGS are not a problem at the University. Either that or some of Charlottesville's finest should consider a career change.
(09/30/03 4:00am)
LAST THURSDAY, in a shameless act of legislative masturbation, Congress voted to create a nationwide do-not-call list, to take effect next week. The wildly popular measure, which will forbid telemarketers to call households on the list, passed by a margin of 95-0 in the Senate and 412-8 in the House. Rep. Billy Tauzin, the Louisiana Republican who sponsored the bill, suggested afterward that the measure be called "The This Time We Really Mean It Act," referring to an earlier court ruling that blocked the implementation of the program.
(09/16/03 4:00am)
FROM ANDOVER to Yale, to the governor's mansion and now the White House, the career of President George W. Bush has proceeded as if according to script. In the opening acts, the youthful Bush seemed a pale reflection of his eminent father, neglecting school and career for a life of drunken indolence. But the prodigal son eventually returned, found God and reformed his reckless ways. Now, Bush has taken his place at the helm of the nation and the head of America's most famous political family.