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(10/18/01 4:00am)
MANY POLITICIANS are accused of running on only one ideal. In 1996, Steve Forbes ran for the Republican presidential nomination primarily on his flat tax proposal. Four years later, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) did the same by focusing on campaign finance reform. In Virginia's elections this year, there is one candidate who prides himself on only focusing on one issue.
(10/12/01 4:00am)
IN A LETTER sent Monday to the United Nations Security Council, U.S. Ambassador John Negroponte brought up the possibility of expanding the strikes against Afghanistan to other countries. "We may find that our self-defense requires further actions with respect to other organizations and other states," he asserts.
(10/04/01 4:00am)
AMERICA wouldn't be America without someone like David Horowitz to take advantage of a horrible tragedy. He recently took out an ad in 16 college newspapers, The Cavalier Daily among them, urging anti-war protesters to "think twice" and not protest the reaction of our government to recent terrorist attacks.
(09/27/01 4:00am)
POOR RUDY Giuliani. Politically, the Republican mayor of New York City has been done in by a scheme that even he had embraced: term limits. Giuliani's current situation exposes the fallacy of these limits and should make voters think twice about this issue.
(09/17/01 4:00am)
NEW YORK CITY
(09/14/01 4:00am)
AFTER coming out to his parents this summer, one University student was faced with a potentially devastating situation. "My father didn't want me to go back to school," said the second-year student, who asked not to be identified. "He thought that college was one of the reasons that I was gay, and he wanted me to go to therapy five days a week, to hopefully turn me straight."
(08/30/01 4:00am)
THE LIST is long and impressive: Secretary of State Colin Powell, Environmental Protection Agency Director Christie Todd Whitman, Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter, New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, New York Gov. George Pataki, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge, to name just a few. These prominent politicians from all over the country have one thing in common: They are all pro-choice Republicans.
(08/25/01 4:00am)
THERE is nothing more annoying than a driver on a cell phone. I think so, many professional comedians think so, and a majority of registered voters in New York think so. Despite the overwhelming irritation these drivers provide, the law the state of New York passed to ban cell phone use while driving is inconsistent in principle.
(08/02/01 4:00am)
IT LOOKS like the National Organization for Women (NOW) has let their whole staff out on summer vacation. That, or they're hypocrites. Those are the only two possible explanations for their deafening silence in the case of Rep. Gary Condit (D-CA).
(07/26/01 4:00am)
NEW YORK City Mayoral Candidate Michael Bloomberg (R) has joined the ranks of those who want to put religion in public schools. Last week he came out in full support of posting the Ten Commandments in schools, and declared that organized prayer in public schools is "an excellent idea."
(07/23/01 4:00am)
I WAS CUT from the U.Va. Club Water Polo team. To the best of my knowledge, last year was the first time in the history of the University that the Water Polo team made cuts.
(07/19/01 4:00am)
AS THE first anniversary of the crash of Air France Flight AF4560 over Paris approaches, the famous airliner has made its way to the sky once more. On Tuesday, the Concorde made its first flight test since the fleet was grounded last August.
(07/12/01 4:00am)
WARNER Bros. is in big trouble. Apparently, in "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," Harry is shown riding a broomstick the wrong way. In response, the British White Witches - a group headed by high priest Kevin Carlyon, the leading authority on white witchcraft - have cast a spell on the movie last week, dooming it to failure at the box office.
(07/05/01 4:00am)
SINCE December, five U.S. professors traveling in China have been detained. The Chinese have held them on counts ranging from divulging "state secrets" to espionage, giving their families and the United States little information about their whereabouts or the charges they face. Our state department chooses to ignore the problem. In front of a Congressional hearing two weeks ago, Asst. Secretary of State James Kelly warned that, despite the ambiguous circumstances, we could not pressure the Chinese into releasing our professors.
(06/28/01 4:00am)
I HAVE seen the light. After receiving e-mails from members of the ex-gay community regarding my last column, I realized I was wrong to criticize these groups. I choose now to ignore the plethora of psychological evidence that runs counter to everything that ex-gay groups say. I now believe that homosexuality is a disease, one that can be cured through reparative therapy.
(06/21/01 4:00am)
ALL OVER the country, so-called "ex-gay" groups wildly claim that they can turn gay people straight. Through this hoax, religious conservatives have spread lies and misinformation across the country at the expense of gays and their families.
(06/14/01 4:00am)
AFTER Sen. Jim Jeffords (I-VT) defected from the Republican party, politicians, pundits and analysts debated the motives and ramifications of this move. Usually, they could agree on one thing: Pres. George W. Bush was screwed.
(04/26/01 4:00am)
SEN. HILLARY Rodham Clinton (D-NY) has shown herself to be a hypocritical, dishonest and unethical individual. She's abused her power and jumped at every political opportunity that has come her way. She is, in the worst sense of the word, a true politician. Nothing should be so refreshing for this country.
(04/19/01 4:00am)
THE FUN police are at it again. In their never-ending quest to ensure everyone else's misery, conservatives in Pound, Virginia have outlawed dancing in their town. Their justification? "There's bound to be trouble when you mix drinking, country music and dancing," said Danny Stanley, member of the Pound Town Council (http://www.libertarianrock.com/topics/censorship/dancing_win_va.html).
(04/12/01 4:00am)
PRESIDENT George W. Bush, the man who brought you the words "Hispanically" and "misunderestimated," has eliminated the AIDS and race relations offices of the White House, and is getting rid of mandatory testing for salmonella in school lunch meat. Or is he?