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25 to life for jaywalking?

A RECENT decision by the Supreme Court means that there may be a way to rid the University of the person making the bomb threats - send him to California, where the "three strikes" law may be repealed.


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Passover II: Judgment Day

IMAGINE for a moment a splendid little holiday based on the slaughter of innocent children. Before you judge, the holiday does involve a pretty delicious feast.


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No love for hate laws

HATE CRIMES laws are the Marshmallow Peeps of progressive social change. They look nice in the box and taste remarkably syrupy sweet.


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Berry good results?

ON MARCH 24, at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood, California, Halle Berry made history by becoming the first African-American woman to win an Oscar for Best Actress.


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Sins of the Fathers

AS ROMAN Catholics celebrate Easter this weekend, their Church is involved in its biggest controversy in years, with allegations that Church leaders systematically protected priests who were pedophiles.


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Reexamining the question of race

UNFORTUNATELY, in Laura Parcells' attempt to straddle the fence in her March 25 column "No steps forward, two steps back," she fell off and bumped her head on Anthony Dick's "imaginary wall of racism" ("Phantoms of racism," March 20). While many of her points were valid - for instance, we need to "find a new way to approach the problem of racism" - Parcells also lets elements of racism manifest themselves in her column.


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What makes a racist?

WHO IS racist? It seems to be the question of the week. Am I racist? With dozens of students telling me that I am, it would be unfair to not at least consider the possibility.


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Necessary numbers

HONESTLY, no one likes taking the SATs. Sitting in a classroom for hours on a Saturday with a calculator, a couple pencils and 30 other jittery high school juniors isn't anybody's idea of a good time.


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Run-off reform

WHEN THE election results were counted, one person was in the lead. After a second vote, the underdog was named president.


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Scared silly over Middle East

MCINTIRE School of Commerce professor Neil Snyder published a column entitled "Reading off the Scripture" in the March 21 issue of The Declaration, in which he argued frankly for America's unilateral support of Israel in the Middle East.


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Restricting writers

THE MARCH 20 lead editorial, "A declaration of policy," clarified The Cavalier Daily's "policy prohibiting its staffers to write for other news gathering publications on Grounds." The paper came under attack the week before Spring Break in The Declaration's letters to the editor section ("Writer wrong," March 7) when "Trudy Verdad" asked, "As a Cav Daily writer, can I write for the Dec too?" The Managing Board of The Cavalier Daily made the right move in addressing this issue in its proper lead editorial format.

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