Punch a higher floor
By Timothy Duboff | May 19, 2001EVERYONE needs a little lift-off in their lives. We are all blessed to be standing here this Graduation Day.
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EVERYONE needs a little lift-off in their lives. We are all blessed to be standing here this Graduation Day.
I T'S ALWAYS amusing that people refer to the college experience as the start of "the real world." Because - and thank goodness for this - it is about as far from the real world as one could get without controlled substances.
WELL, WE can all breathe a sigh of relief for now. At least until the president has to make the final decision to sell arms to Taiwan, we can relax.
SOMEHOW we knew it would come down to this. He played the moderate card for a while, so long as it was politically convenient.
YOUR FINAL few weeks here at the University can lead to a lot of reflection. You begin to think about how the University has changed you and how you in turn would like to see changes in the University.
LET'S FACE it, we are a divided country. As the last elections proved beyond a shadow of a doubt, we are not yet "One Nation Under God," but instead two fairly distinct cultures with two ways of looking at the world.
GUV'NUH Jim, you should know a lot better. All this pain for the sake of a tax cut we don't need.
I AM TIRED of hearing about it. You are tired of hearing about it. We all are tired of hearing about it.
SOMETIMES we say the right things for the wrong reasons. And sometimes we say the wrong things for the right reasons.
HI, I'M JOHNNY Knoxville and this is Extreme Irresponsibility. It happens far too often in our society that parents will seek to shift the blame for their own incompetence from themselves to the media, or even more obnoxiously, to "society." You and I know how absurd this is, but it makes for an interesting story, so most news outlets will continue to publish this plea no matter how ridiculous it gets. By now, most of us are familiar with the planned lawsuit on behalf of Jason Lind, a Connecticut 13-year-old who set himself ablaze while mimicking a television stunt.
