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Opinion

An economic matter

BUSH'S economic policies have finally paid off: The Labor Department announced last week that 308,000 new jobs had been created in March, the largest increase since April 2000. Democrats who like to place all of the blame on Bush's fiscal policies seem to forget several other factors that contributed to the economic downturn during his first few years in office.


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Priority through merit, not credit

AS THE semester comes to a close, our favorite time of the year arrives -- course enrollment. Although technology has significantly improved the ease and organization of enrolling in courses, one fault remains.


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Diversifying the Daily

IN HIS book, "Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America," UCLA linguist John McWhorter suggested that elements of the African-American community are holding the group back from progress.


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Blog away, U.Va.

MAYBE I've been reading "Wired" too much lately, but it seems that everybody and their grandmother has a Web log, or "blog," these days.


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A slam dunk for equality?

LAST WEEK high school senior Candace Parker won the Slam Dunk Championship at the McDonald's High School All-American game, a contest replete with young, talented male athletes.


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Timeliness and vigilance

PUTTING out a paper on a daily basis can be a very stressful task. Besides the basic reporting and photography, staffers also sell and design ads, write headlines and captions, draw graphics and comics and design and lay out all of these pieces on the page.


Opinion

The untold victims of politics

JUST RECENTLY, the U.S. Senate passed the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, which would make it a crime to injure or kill a fetus while committing a federal crime of violence.


Opinion

The look of things going well

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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Try a little tolerance

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

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.

Puzzles
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Latest Podcast

All University students are required to live on Grounds in their first year, but they have many on and off-Grounds housing options going into their second year. Students face immense pressure to decide on housing as soon as possible, and this high demand has strained the capacities of both on and off-Grounds accommodations. Lauren Seeliger and Brandon Kile, two third-year Cavalier Daily News writers, discuss the impact of the student housing frenzy on both University students and the Charlottesville community.