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Failings of discussion sections

Mandatory graded discussion sections must go. Although there are many wonderful, caring and intelligent TAs out there, the discussion section serves only as an unnecessary bridge to the small and focused classes of high school.


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A tax to end traffic woes

The Washington, D.C., Metropolitan area has the third worst traffic of any area in the United States, according to the Texas Transportation Institutes 2002 study.


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A black president?

Bill Clinton is black. Well, not really. However, just last month, on Oct. 19, former president Bill Clinton was inducted into the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame.


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Poor choices in Chechnya

"The Chechens knew there was no escape for them, and to avoid any temptation to run, they had strapped themselves together, knee to knee, and had their guns ready, and were singing their death song." So wrote Tolstoy in his 1863 novel, The Cossacks, wherein a young Russian officer travels to the Caucasus to take part in his country's long, fruitless effort to subdue Chechnya. Last week, Russia's Chechen conflict flared again in similar fashion.


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An economically unworkable idea

ACCORDING TO LAG, the Labor Action Group and Living Wage Campaign at the University of Virginia, the "simple principle" of living wage activists is to make sure no one who is employed full time at the University is in poverty.


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The SEC's odd pick

You wouldn't trust a general who'd never seen war to lead an army into battle, or a defensive end to quarterback your football team.


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Sentenced to a life of stardom

It's not hard to find pictures of hardened criminals and wanted men on TV these days. Turn on any news channel and in any given minute mug shots of Osama bin Laden, the alleged snipers and various other felons will flash by repeatedly.


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People over the person

MAYBE you heard. In 1970, a group of University students led by James Roebuck, the first African-American Student Council president, held a protest on the Lawn.

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