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Opinion

Group formed to save affordable housing before it is too late

Published December 5, 2003

I read Lelan Bosch's opinion piece in Wednesday's Daily and could only think of how news concerning affordable student housing is getting worse. The inspections sweep being conducted by the city of Minneapolis...

Drilling in Alaska pales to Ecuadoran situation

Published December 5, 2003

Year after year, the debate over drilling oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge rages in Congress. As a rallying point for environmentalists, the ferocity of the exchange seems almost disproportionate...

Pathetic Wal-Mart DVD player debacle illustrates greed

Published December 5, 2003

OThis staff editorial originally appeared in The Pitt News at the University of Pittsburgh. n Black Friday, shoppers in Florida set a new low for disgusting consumerist behavior. Wal-Mart was offering...

Hasty solutions to fear are dangerous

Published December 5, 2003

After days of searching for Dru Sjodin, there is now a face - and a face is all that is needed to put fear in the public mind and push policies that couldn't otherwise succeed. The face placed in newspapers...

Soccer euphoria is like no other sport

Published December 4, 2003

You're likely to understand this sentence: "The St. Louis Rams beat the Minnesota Vikings 48-17 at home in a battle of division leaders on Sunday." This sentence, maybe not so much: "Arsenal and Fulham...

Tonight’s dance party is the newest on-campus craze

Published December 4, 2003

If you listen carefully every Thursday at 10:55 p.m., you might be able to hear us. We're in the east lounge of Comstock Hall, on the first floor, dancing fervently to loud club music. From outside the...

The USA Patriot Act: They told you so

Published December 4, 2003

Shortly after Sept. 11, 2001, Congress passed the USA Patriot Act. Among other things, the act gave the Justice Department unprecedented discretion to eavesdrop on people's lives without judicial approval....

Many reasons to legalize marijuana

Published December 4, 2003

With supporters arguing for humanity, petitions are circling Minneapolis calling for a medical marijuana referendum. To be honest, medicinal marijuana is largely just a ploy to eventually legalize marijuana....

Real-life terrorism is scarier than Hollywood fiction

Published December 4, 2003

The 1998 movie "The Siege" depicts three terrorist bombings in New York. What is amazing is how many of the events the movie depicts have been played out within the last two years and how quickly events...

The frustrating trade agreements of the Americas

Published December 3, 2003

Poor Robert Zoellick. After almost a decade of hard work on the Free Trade Area of the Americas negotiations, the U.S. trade representative had no choice two weeks ago but to spin what was obviously an...

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