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Protesting progress in Iran

"DO WE LISTEN to those that we disagree with, and vigorously challenge them, or do we close our ears completely?" asked David Ellwood of Harvard University when defending his decision to invite former Iranian President Mohammed Khatami to speak.


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Defending Khatami

AS AN IRANIAN refugee, I am probably the last that person would stand up and defend anyone in the Iranian government, past or present.


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Policing ourselves

OFFENSIVE speech is a difficult thing to discuss in America. In most parts of the world -- even Europe -- the right to free speech has significantly less protection than in our own country.


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Lessons on freedom

"DEMOCRACY is a process,not a project." Mohammed Khatami, former president of Iran, spoke these words last Thursday in a speech at the National Cathedral.


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Securing social security

LIKE SO many students, and indeed, like so many Americans, I got a job this summer. I was paid by direct deposit, and every two weeks I watched a significant portion of my salary disappear into the gaping maw of Social Security and income taxes.


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Living in the present

MUCH OF the talk about reform at the United Nations leaves out two key players that are not even part of the Security Council: Germany and Japan.


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A manipulative media

WE KNEW it would only be a matter of time before movies portraying the events of Sept. 11, 2001, were eventually placed on big and little screens alike.


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Critiquing the critique

I am shocked and saddened by the opinions offered Monday by two readers who condemn Stephanie Garrison and her successful appeal of her honor conviction ("Honor's self-enforced silence" and "An appropriate sanction," Sept.


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Finding equilibrium

IF THERE is one term that pops up again and again in college courses, it's equilibrium. From economics to physics, there is always some natural point of stability and balance.


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Comic controversy

THE COMICS page, maybe the most controversial section of The Cavalier Daily last year, has caused another flare-up, giving me plenty to write about as I start my second year as the paper's ombudsman.


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Hosting a tyrant

LAST THURSDAY, former Iranian President Mohammed Khatami to speak at the University. The debate leading up to his speech was hollow.


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Into the wireless generation

YOU ARE sitting in a classroom and happen to glance over to the person to your immediate left. On a laptop, she is chatting with four different people over AIM.


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Money laundering

COLLEGE students are used to getting ripped off. Between housing, parking andtextbooks, it seems like we are always being asked to empty our pockets.


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A unilateral problem

THE BUSH administration has had a rough time in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee with its attempt to reconfirm unilateralist John Bolton as ambassador to the United Nations.

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