When one thinks about the tobacco industry, lawsuits and those scary "Truth" ads usually come to mind.
Overshadowed by the increasingly dire situation in Iraq, the conflict in the East African nation of Somalia has quietly provided the United States with perhaps its greatest success in the War on Terror.
THE FLYERS are up. The chalk is down. The writing is on the wall. The Honor Committee has one of the longest "lame duck" periods of any organization on Grounds: nearly a month.
THIS WEEK, the city of New Orleans celebrated Mardi Gras for the second time since being devastated by Hurricane Katrina in August of 2005.
THIS WEEK, students at the University will get the opportunity to make their first substantive vote on sanction reform in five years.
IRAQ IS looking a lot like Vietnam these days and not just because Americans are dying there for a cause the locals don't believe in, sapping our moral standing and military might to the benefit of our enemies in the region and the consternation of our allies around the world.
THE RECENT six-party deal on North Korea was greeted with unnerving criticism from conservatives and a gleeful "I told you so" from liberals.
BRITNEY Spears's haircut, no matter how extravagant, is not newsworthy. News delivers pertinent information about recent events to a large audience so that as a society, people can be more informed about the events that affect them.
DEMOCRATIC Senator Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) reaffirmed his party's complete lack of economic sense last week with a proposal requiring banks to bid for government-backed student loans.
PEOPLE CAN be very unkind. It is common late in grade school or in the middle-school years for youngsters to tease each other using condescending words or phrases tied to physical or mental real or perceived short-comings.
THINGS are not quite right in Neverland. A salmonella outbreak that has been growing since August and now has nearly 300 cases was recently linked to peanut butter, specifically the Peter Pan and Great Value brands made by ConAgra in their Georgia plant (noted by a product code on the lid beginning with "2111.") A salmonella outbreak isn't that strange.
I REMEMBER when I first learned about the Holocaust, I wasn't told that millions of people were murdered -- I was told that millions died in camps, which seemed odd.
KEG STANDS, the pursuit of easy sex and an unending stream of sports and food. Sounds like the ideal weekend to many.
IN 2007, the King of Pop will reclaim his rightful throne. According to several reports, Michael Jackson has been working on a new album, to be released later this year, with red-hot performer "will.i.am" of the Black Eyed Peas.
LAST Summer I rushed home from work to in order to vote in the Democratic primary. It was a little after four o'clock, and I was the 32nd person to vote in the precinct.
HE'S AMERICA'S pretty boy. He was named the "sexiest politician" in the U.S. by People magazine in November 2000.
LATELY, more students have been opting for off-Grounds housing. Even with the exorbitant price tags on newly developed housing along the University periphery, students are eager to pay.
The Recording Industry Association of America, infamous for its lawsuits against free music, wants the University to help spread its message that piracy is theft. Last semester, Cary Sherman, president of the RIAA, asked American universities to crack down on file sharing.
WITHOUT a post-secondary education, American workers can hardly earn enough to support a family. With a college degree, many can look forward to mounds of debt.
IT IS THAT time of the year again. No, not time to get drunk and have fun as the title might suggest, but election time at the University.
