AN ACT of intolerable cruelty is about to take place. In two weeks, CBS is set to air a shameful, slanderous, smear job of a miniseries that inaccurately portrays one of America's greatest presidents.
WE UNIVERSITY students don't know anything about Charlottesville. This is a fact that struck me when I was voting on my absentee ballot for a county election back home.
IT IS FAIR to say that most Americans during their daily routines have more personally pertinent things to think about other than national security.
IT IS DISHEARTENING to find that plagiarism again found its way to the pages of The Cavalier Daily.
COMMUNISM doesn't quite have the scary undertone to it today that it did during the Cold War. Socialists and communists, like everyone else, have been busy redefining themselves into kinder, gentler, socially acceptable groups.
TODAY, there are roughly 1.3 billion Muslims in the world. Islam is the fastest growing religion worldwide, both in terms of converts and sheer birth rates among the populations and in the countries where it is most prevalent.
Heart is pronounced corazon, not corathson. Empanadas are more filling than tapas. Samba excites more than flamenco.
Liberals like to embrace the idea that their party is emblematicof open-mindedness and acceptance of all viewpoints.
When discussing recent suicide bombings of the Red Cross in Baghdad earlier this week, President George W.
"THE MORE successful we are on the ground, the more these killers will react." So said President George W.
WILL THOSE Maryland Terrapins ever learn? Almost a year ago, during the week leading up to the Terps' visit to Scott Stadium, a careless insult led to the visiting team's demise.
HALLOWEEN is tomorrow. However, Virginia will face a much scarier holiday next Tuesday: election day.
DIRTY rush: the connotation of the word, alone, characterizes a mean, lascivious act conducted by Greek societies aimed at soiling the minds of innocent first years.
THE ABORTION wars are raging anew on the American domestic front. And the latest fuel to flame the fire is the controversy over what is commonly known as partial-birth abortion.
WITH ALL the distasteful racial caricatures making the news recently, the latest controversy over "Ghettopoly" came as scant surprise.
AS HALLOWEEN approaches this week, it is evident that the school year is in full swing. For fourth years, this means that at least some thought has been given to what exactly we plan on doing next year, and for that matter, for the next few years of our lives.
SOON PRESIDENT Bush will sign the partial birth abortion ban into law, which prohibits a partial-birth abortion to be performed unless the life of the mother is in danger.
LAST WEDNESDAY, in an act of hopeless naivety, the foreign ministers of France, Germany and Great Britain reached an agreement with Iran to end an international dispute over the Islamic state's nuclear program.
THERE is something missing from the Good Ol' Song these days. A certain luster, a certain flair, a certain energy -- all symptoms of a stadium replete with fans but conspicuously absent of trumpets and tubas.
MAYBE you've seen it, maybe you haven't, but the new $20 bill is certainly creating a buzz. At first glance the new bill is certainly spiffy, with new blue and peach inks, a color-shifting "20" in the lower-right corner and a blue eagle woven into the background.
