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Yesterday's Sudoku and crossword answers
September 14Sudoku and crossword answers for 9-13.
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Dr. Pegs Prescription
Dr. Peggy Spencer | September 14Last week, I had the great good fortune to attend a meditation retreat in the high country of northern New Mexico. Over the course of three days, I sat for many hours on a cushion, silently bringing my attention back to my breath over and over again, or walked slowly upon the earth, soles alert to every pebble on the path.
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Voter registration makes your personal info public
September 14Editor, With election season upon us and our campus once again swarming with campaign volunteers, it seems important to remind students that, if they value their privacy at all, it is vitally important that they do not register to vote.
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Yesterday's Sudoku and crossword answers
September 13Sudoku and crossword answers for 9-12.
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‘Educators can’t survive on prestige alone’
Will Thomson | September 13On Monday, 26,000 Chicago school teachers went on strike. This is the first time in more than 25 years that there has been a strike over schools in Chicago.
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Dems offer hope while GOP seeks only revenge
September 13Editor, Many will be disappointed with last Friday’s job report of 96,000 new jobs created. I suspect 96,000 Americans will be rather pleased.
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Ladder of opportunity bases American dream
September 13Editor, Both presidential candidate Mitt Romney and I have been fortunate in life. I was born into a family that had income near the poverty line, but it was during a time when I was able to earn enough money working evenings, weekends and summers to pay for my college tuition and graduate from college, and even go to graduate school.
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Chick-fil-A uses its profits to fund oppression, hate
September 13Editor, On behalf of the UNM Social Justice League, we’d like to address the contradictory nature of the University’s relationship with Chick-fil-A in the Student Union Building.
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Good security doesn’t break rules for bigwigs
September 13Editor, The security at the Lobo Village should be commended. The security that is in place obviously works. Regent Fortner should be glad his daughter can rely on such strong security.
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Yesterday's Sudoku and crossword answers
September 12Sudoku and crossword answers for 9-11.
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US nuclear arsenal menaces world, foreign and domestic
September 12Editor, The U.S. nuclear bombs designed for decades at Sandia and Los Alamos laboratories terrorize many whole nations. U.S. nuclear bombs threaten to incinerate many times more moms, dads and children than Hitler and the Nazis killed in gas ovens, concentration camps and World War II.
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Conventions now nothing more than coronations
September 12Editor, The Republican and Democratic National Conventions: Why do we pay for them, again? The national conventions of the major parties during the last few weeks did nothing but further prove the degradation of our nation’s republican and democratic ideals.
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UNM has its own Arita porcelain program
September 12Editor, The extensive article by Antonio Sanchez in the Aug. 30 Daily Lobo about Jim Srubek’s Arita porcelain studio did not mention that there is a thriving Arita porcelain program at UNM
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Tuition revenue should cover little necessities
September 12Editor, You’d think that with the recent tuition cost increase, the University could afford to fix the broken locks on bathroom stall doors. Some of them have been broken since last year and who knows how long before that? It’s the little things that matter the most.
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Today’s GOP shames its past, resembles Taliban
September 11Editor, The Republican Party in the days of Eisenhower, Goldwater, Nixon and even Reagan was a normal political party with its own set of standards that were moderate in most cases.
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Candidate to help battle NM genetic brain illness
September 11Editor, Cerebral cavernous malformation is a disease that occurs when abnormal, raspberry-shaped blood vessels develop in the brain and spinal cord. It afflicts more Hispanics than any other ethnic group in New Mexico.
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We must keep searching, pondering puzzle of life
September 11Editor, We human beings have become very adept at finding many pieces of the puzzle of what has unfolded since our universe came into being, but we are still not able to determine how all those individual pieces fit together to form the entire picture.
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Republican forum invites students to attend, learn
September 10Editor, UNM Conservative Republicans Club is hosting the forum “Local Candidates, National Issues” on Wednesday from 6 to 7:30 p.m.
