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Beware the watchdog

IT'S ALL Arnold. After weeks and months of campaign feeding frenzies, the likeness of the Austrian-born mega-celebrity has been burned into the retina of the nation's media enterprise.


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Four more years

THE WHITE House is up for grabs. This is what many of the Democratic candidates for the 2004 presidential election will try to convince the people of the United States.


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Protecting their 'Skins

THIS PAST week was a good one for the Redskins. Seriously. Of course, this statement may seem ridiculous to anyone who witnessed Sunday's heartbreaker in Philadelphia, but it's true.


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Investigating the White House

LAST WEEK, Washington erupted in scandal as the Justice Department began investigating accusations that senior White House officials illegally revealed the identity of an undercover CIA officer.


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A peculiar institution

MORE than a century after America abolished what was euphemistically known as "the peculiar institution," our elite colleges and universities have created some peculiar institutions of their own.


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Rushing into a discriminatory society

OVER THE past forty years, America as a whole has made great strides in race relations. Things aren't perfect, but they are certainly remarkably better than the days of Jim Crow and "separate but equal." The country, though, is at a crossroads.


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Breaking down the drug bust

DRUGS are not a problem at the University. Either that or some of Charlottesville's finest should consider a career change. At a press conference last Friday, local authorities announced the indictment of 33 people on charges of drug distribution and sales and the seizure of marijuana, cocaine, opium, ecstasy and psilocybin mushrooms worth $20,000-22,000.


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New advice for the advisors

THERE comes a time in the summer before first year that the prospective economics major logs onto ISIS, clicks on "majors and advisors" and is faced with the harsh reality that he has been paired with a chemistry professor.


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The American reality

DEPICTIONS of America as a fearless defender of democracy and freedom throughout the world pervade our daily political discourse and accounts of our nation's history.


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Individual rights, equal opportunities

It is hard to miss talk about the Individual Rights Coalition around Grounds these days. Despite the fact that the new group has already become the center of controversy, many students remain uniformed about what it is really advocating.


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Leaving the middle class behind

Not so many overstuffed minivans pull up to freshman dorms to begin the school year anymore. A gaze on McCormick Road this August revealed an increasing number of Jaguars, Land Rovers, and luxury cars dropping off their increasingly more affluent first-year Wahoos.

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