THIS PAST week marked another round of frantic basket deliveries, dinner and dessert dates, hotel slumber parties and revelations in front of the Rotunda.
UNLESS you've been living under a rock, you would know that the Supreme Court upheld the use of affirmative action in higher education last summer.
THE COLOR of a person's skin means nothing more than any other physical component of his or her appearance.
COMING back after Spring Break, the CD still was dealing with the aftermath of a Life column by A-J Aronstein published March 2.
SPANISH voters sent a strong message to Madrid last week: They told their leaders they could do without "Mr. Bush's war." No doubt incensed by the horrific train bombing a few days before the elections, Spain's record voter turnout demonstrated what every poll and protest in the country has been saying for over a year: that the Spanish people were overwhelmingly against the U.S.
ASK MOST University students what our student identification numbers are, and we'll rattle them off without a second thought.
AS ONE of Bill O'Reilly's biggest fans, I feel a certain obligation to criticize one of his favorite topics of discussion: gangster rap.
Kristin Brown argued in these pages two weeks ago that seeing Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ," "made me think a lot about the sacrifices of Christ.
MUCH OF our national life following Sept. 11, 2001, focused on "not letting the terrorists win." America conducted its business like America because changing our ways because of al Qaeda would mark an ultimate defeat at the hands of barbarians. Unfortunately, few in the United States seem to understand the terrorists' concept of victory.
MY BRACKET has number 16 seed Alabama State as a virtual lock to beat Duke tonight. After all, the Blue Devils have gone 0-1 in the last four days, while the Hornets are red-hot coming off a victory in their conference championship game Saturday.
THIS WEEK marks the one-year anniversary of the American-led coalition intervention in Iraq. The tragic events across the Atlantic in Spain offer appropriate incentive to pause and take stock of the international political landscape, with special attention to the effects of the Bush administration's policy of unilateral intervention.
WITH MOST of us at the acme of our healthy lives, the price of prescription drugs is hardly anything for young voters to get worked up about.
FOR THOSE who ask, "What liberal media?" when conservatives cry foul, it appears that the "big three" networks authoritatively answered that question with slanted broadcasts favoring John Kerry in the beginning months of an exceptionally lengthy campaign season.
AND PRESIDENT Bush thought he was taking the "positive" campaign route. Bush has recently come under attack for displaying quick images of Sept.
JOSE LUIS Rodriguez Zapatero, Spain's new prime minister-elect, announced yesterday that Spanish troops will be withdrawn from Iraq over the next few months.
I WENT UP to Boston to visit my brother during break last week, mostly to maintain familial ties that seem to atrophy over hundreds of miles and busy schedules.
MARCH 11: Ten simultaneous bombs rip through trains and train stations in Madrid at the height of morning rush hour, killing nearly 200 and wounding 1,200 more.
"HAIR STYLE by Christophe's:Seventy-fivedollars. Designer shirts: Two-hundred fifty dollars. Forty two-foot luxury yacht: one million dollars.
WHILE a variety of probing philosophical inquiries concerning bikinis and mai-tais will be thick in the air this week, one question will no doubt loom above all others: When the hell do we get out of here?
PRIOR TO theusual hype incurred by the onslaught of Spring Break, the annual circus of student government elections always provides a good chuckle for those of us in the expecting-to-graduate camp, if for no other reason than the fact that every year the faces change but the chalking, rhetoric and tactics remain eerily similar.
