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Zero tolerance, zero sense

A13-YEAR-OLD student in Orange County, Fla., was suspended for 10 days and could be banned from school because he tossed a rubber band onto his teacher's desk after the teacher demanded he hand it over.


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Courting Consensus

EVEN AS Chief Justice William Rehnquist is dying from terminal cancer, Senate Democrats are vowing to block President Bush's judicial nominees.


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Terri's commandment

IT IS a little-known fact that when God delivered the Ten Commandments to Moses, a little asterisk appeared next to the fifth one, declaring that thou shalt not kill, "except when your wife has brain damage and you need a way to marry your long-term girlfriend without giving up your claim to hundreds of thousands of dollars." At least that's how Florida's Supreme Court interprets it in the Terri Schiavo case.


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The sad shape of elections

ONE WEEK and hundreds of gallons of piña colada removed from the 2005 Spring elections here at the University, it is easier to look back at our annual spectacle of student self-governance in action and wonder if this is really why we are here. Late February and early March bore witness to a familiar sight on Grounds: reams of bright flyers, gaudy chalked sidewalks, impassioned pleas on the pages of student publications -- a microcosm of the American electoral process.


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Voting on merit, not money

SIX HUNDRED and ninety-one dollars can buy a lot of things. A spot check at www.froogle.com reveals that a pair of new K2 Apache skis, a Jamis Dakar full-suspension mountain bike or a 14-karat yellow gold chain in round weave pattern can all be boght for that amount of money.


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An illiberal left

IT ISN'T often that a group of college professors is soundly and thoroughly embarrassed by a collection of mere students in an intellectual arena.


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Make jokes, not war

THE COMICS page seems like one of The Cavalier Daily's more popular sections, but I must confess I generally don't pay much attention to it. That's by no means an indictment of the quality of the comics.


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Targeting a global threat

THE NUCLEAR capacity of aggressive rogue states can no longer be tolerated by a sensible global polity, as such a continuation represents the largest and most real threat to peace and security the world has ever known.


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Misguided education reform

THE END of February brings a series of tests mandated by "No Child Left Behind," coincidentally falling at the conclusion of a 10-month study of the controversial federal program released last week.


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Honest evaluation

STUDENT Council passed resolutions last week asking the administration to tweak the course evaluation system and commending the University community for increased participation in it.


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Necessary testing for defense

LAST WEEK the USS Lake Erie, a cruiser equipped with the advanced Aegis radar system, successfully tracked and intercepted a ballistic missile over the Pacific Ocean in the latest test of U.S.


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