Opinion

Opinion

The look of things going well

By Michael Slaven | April 2, 2004

LAST TUESDAY, former President George H. W. Bush broadsided his son's critics. Speaking at an oil industry group's annual meeting, Bush called denial of progress in Iraq "deeply offensive and contemptible." "There is something ignorant," he said, "in the way they dismiss the overthrow of a brutal dictator and the sowing of seeds of basic human freedom in that troubled part of the world." Bush called the past year of Iraqi history a "miracle." Several hours later, Iraqi militants killed four American civilians.

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Opinion

A Brown perspective

By Tim Wallace and Shane Liesegang | April 2, 2004

ON MARCH 30, The Cavalier Daily ran an opinion column, "A College Upon a Hill," claiming that Brown College at Monroe Hill is a wasted resource due to its insularity and eccentricity.

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Opinion

A proactive approach to terrorism

By Whitney Blake | March 31, 2004

AFTER the first few days of public testimony in the ongoing 9/11 Commission, the verdict is in: President Bush did not have prior knowledge of the Sept.

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Opinion

Try a little tolerance

By Eric Wang | March 31, 2004

LAST WEEK, Michael Newdow, an amateur lawyer arguing to banish the Pledge of Allegiance from public schools, brought the audience to applause in his first case before the Supreme Court.

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Giving a raw deal to Israel

By Michael Behr | March 31, 2004

LIFE SUCKS as a terrorist. Terrorists somehow get pleasure from killing hundreds of innocent people and then once you die, people around the world mourn your death.

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Opinion

Right fight, wrong man

By Alec Solotorovsky | March 30, 2004

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. It's difficult to see how the addition of a deity to America's traditional oath of loyalty is anything other than an establishment of religion, but such was the matter before the Supreme Court on Wednesday, as Dr. Michael Newdow argued that the recitation of the pledge in public schools is unconstitutional so long as it contains the reference to God.

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Opinion

Clearing the anti-tax roadblock

By Elliot Haspel | March 30, 2004

THIS PAST Wednesday, hundreds of concerned Virginians piled into the Albemarle County Office Building expecting to find a panel of state legislators waiting to tell them why no budget had been passed yet.

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Opinion

'A College Upon a Hill'

By Nick Chapin | March 30, 2004

At a university struggling to maintain its status as a top academic establishment while simultaneously coping with the demands that besiege a public institution, there is no issue more pressing than the organization of housing and student support structures.

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Opinion

Clarke's cashing in on terrorism

By Jim Prosser | March 30, 2004

OVER THIS last week, former White House counter-terrorism aide Richard Clarke has led a sort of all-out media blitz, going on "60 Minutes" to promote his new book, "Against All Enemies" (which, coincidentally, was published by a subsidiary of Viacom, which owns CBS), testifying before the 9-11 Commission and talking tough on Sunday morning political talk shows. This is a great strategy to sell lots of books and reward one's self for years of public service, but very poor for prompting an honest, impartial look into how the Clinton and Bush administrations have dealt with terrorism.

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Opinion

The settling of Israel's responsiblity

By Blair Reeves | March 29, 2004

THE PRO-ISRAEL crowd was anxious last month when Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon announced that he plans to remove 17 small settlements in the Gaza Strip, effectively ending the Israeli occupation of that area.

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Opinion

An unheralded victory over terror

By Dan Bagley | March 29, 2004

THE LEADER of a vicious terrorist organization was killed, and the world didn't even stop to say "thank you." Last week's killing of HAMAS founder Sheik Ahmed Yassin represented a important step in the global war on terrorism, but the world-wide reaction has been mixed at best.

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Opinion

CD community concerns

By Emily Kane | March 29, 2004

LAST TUESDAY, The Cavalier Daily held a community concerns meeting during its own production hours at 7 p.m.

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The self-fulfilling prophets

By Anthony Dick | March 29, 2004

HATE CRIMES have been all the rage on college campuses lately. At the University of New Brunswick earlier this month, a Pakistani student reported being attacked on two separate occasions because of his race.

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Opinion

Benefits for the University

By Michael Slaven | March 26, 2004

IN ELECTIONS three weeks ago, the student body supported the extension of spousal benefits to the domestic partners of homosexual faculty and staff by a three-to-one ratio.

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Opinion

Civil unionized?

By Sina Kian | March 26, 2004

SINCE the creation of the term "civil union" by Vermont's legislative branch in 2000, there has been a discussion on whether a civil union is the right answer to the ongoing fight for the legalization of homosexual marriage.

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Opinion

Limiting AP credit for prerequisites

By Todd Rosenbaum | March 26, 2004

LIKE MANY of you, I entered the University last year eager to jump into upper-level classes and strut my stuff.

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Opinion

Blair and Abdullah's dangerous precedent

By Kazz Alexander Pinkard | March 25, 2004

JAMES Baldwin is probably turning over in his grave. In the town of Macon, Georgia this time, the tale of the little black writer that couldn't was told again as reporter Khalil Abdullah was fired for plagiarism from the Macon Telegraph -- the second such incident that has happened within recent months.

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Opinion

Dubya's free spending ways

By Chris Kiser | March 25, 2004

NOT A dime of George W. Bush's planned $170 million in campaign expenditures this year is going to earn him my support.

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Liberal and proud

By Patrick Harvey | March 25, 2004

Along with accusations from late-night talk shows that John Kerry feasts on the living, the Bush attack machine has begun more substantive attacks on the Democratic candidate.

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Opinion

XM killed the radio star

By Michael Behr | March 24, 2004

THE XM Satellite radio recently announced its intentions to include local programming on their stations, as reported in The Washington Post.