WHEN THE news broke last month that Saddam Hussein had been captured -- disheveled and disoriented, hiding in a dark hole in the ground -- it was hard to overstate the magnitude of the shockwaves that reverberated around the world.
Multiculturalism is the biggest thing to hit America's campuses since light beer. And, as a watered-down perversion of a once-great collegiate ideal, it follows nicely in its predecessor's footsteps.
IN THIS last season of the ever-popular NBC sitcom "Friends," two of the show's main characters, Chandler and Monica, have decided to adopt a baby.
Even though the dried Christmas trees are lying by the curb, the Valentine's Day cards and chocolates have replaced Christmas ornaments in Hallmark stores and we are all gearing up for a new semester at the University, I would like to revisit the holiday season for just a brief moment.
Will others vote for him? How much money have others given him? Never before have these questions been asked so frequently leading up to a presidential election.Voters should evaluate a candidate based on his/her ability to solve the problems facing Americans, not by speculating how others will vote.
THESE days, it seems that George W. Bush is acting more like JFK than one would expect from a Republican.
THE STATUS quo has long been king of the political hill in Virginia. With the General Assembly convening its annual session as we speak, the more cynical political observer could remark that political reform comes to the Old Dominion only after a prerequisite disaster so large as to shock the public and its legislative body into action.
As we speak, political contortionists are caucusing behind the scenes trying to figure out ways to make President Bush's newfound zeal for space exploration seem like a worthy cause for scrupulous American tax payer dollars in the year to come.
Almost a year ago Michael Moore and Al Franken meant two completely opposite things to me. Moore was a self-righteous, pompous fire-breathing liberal who could make any self-respecting conservative's blood crawl at the mention of his name.
AS THE world stares amazedly at the pictures being beamed from Mars by NASA's Mars robot rover Spirit, President Bush has hinted that he will announce plans for NASA to establish a permanent space base on the Moon and to send astronauts to Mars ("Bush to seek manned flights to Moon, Mars", CNN.com, Jan.
DURING the 33 years since the 26th Amendment lowered the voting age to 18, politicians have largely ignored young voters.
THE TINY island of Key West, Florida, has a lot of chickens. You might say they're pretty cooped up there.
AS EXAMS quickly approach, academics begin to invade the social lives of students throughout the University.
SIX THOUSAND dollars: Roughly, this is the amount of money the four predominantly African-American fraternities at the University spend per semester for rental and security of IFC fraternity houses during social events and functions.
I LIKE numbers. I always have, and probably always will. During car trips as a kid instead of listening to the latest New Kids on the Block or MC Hammer tape I'd glance out the window and keep track of the mile markers as they whizzed by and then look at the speedometer to try and figure out how long until we arrived at our destination.
ALMOST 30 years ago, school children across Boston began boarding buses to travel to schools outside their neighborhoods following U.S.
WHEN I walk around the Corner these days, I sense a change in the commercial landscape. What once was a local, eclectic, unique area of local merchants is slowly transforming to a commercial franchise-driven powerhouse.
I AM an English major. I love it and wouldn't want to be in any other field, and I know that because of all the books I've been forced to read, I'll be much more entertaining at cocktail parties than, say, an engineer.
THROUGH widespread vaccination, we officially eradicated smallpox more than twenty years ago. Alas, we cannot inoculate minds as we inoculate bodies.
ON PAPER, Gen. Wesley Clark should be leading the Democratic pack. His resume is impeccable: Decorated veteran, Rhodes Scholar, NATO Supreme Commander.
