The last word
By Pallavi Guniganti | May 17, 2002GOV. GOODHAIR, aka Rick Perry (R-TX), would have made a good topic for my usually political column.
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GOV. GOODHAIR, aka Rick Perry (R-TX), would have made a good topic for my usually political column.
IN DUBLIN on Jan. 28, Maeve and Brendan were sitting down to breakfast and The Irish Times. "Look at this, Maeve," said Brendan.
BLACK or white. Right or wrong. Honorable or dishonorable. Patriot or traitor. With us or against us. While some leaders try to construe the world in such absolute terms, in reality most of life is more complex.
AS GRADUATION approaches, those fourth-year students who are not drowned in their theses can take a moment to wonder what their diplomas will mean.
DO NOT let them get away with it. "It" is the series of attacks that have taken the lives of dozens of Israeli civilians during the Jewish holiday of Passover.
JESSE Helms has gone and lost his mind. Thank God. The Republican senator from North Carolina and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, known for his opposition to foreign aid, wants to add half a billion dollars to the American contribution to a fund for fighting AIDS in the developing world. Perhaps AIDS activists should have seen it coming.
SEPARATE but equal has achieved its highest point - or, arguably, its lowest point - in higher education.
THE WAR is dead. Long live the war. This appears to be the attitude of the current Bush administration.
UNTIL recently, I have thought of the University as a collection of intelligent, hard-working people - students, faculty and staff - who care about one another and the world at large.
CATHOLICS hate Protestants in Northern Ireland, Muslims hate Hindus in Kashmir, Israelis hate Palestinians in the Middle East.
