by Greg Holmquist University Daily Kansan U-Wire Sound bites are truly American. Only in America could debates take, as their starting point, quotes that are all too often out of context, and downright misleading. One fan of the sound bite that everyone should know is the Fox News Channel.
by Sarah Beetham Daily Targum U-Wire A long time ago, before any of us were born, back when rock and roll was just getting started and our parents were teenagers, a dollar was the standard price for an LP. Now, decades later, that same music - and the new music of today - is packaged and marketed on CDs that are much more expensive by a very small number of powerful corporations.
by Eric Howerton Daily Lobo Columnist George W. Bush is obviously confused as to what the international role of the United States really is. Rather than epitomizing Freud's questionable Thanatos - the death instinct, whose validity Freud seriously doubted after directly experiencing WWI - by demanding wars and impetuous missions that will cause unnecessary deaths, shouldn't Bush, as our questionably elected public spokesman, focus more on controlling our borders and maintaining peaceful relations with our neighbors, encouraging peaceful international relations? He should at least address the economy.
by Richard M. Berthold Daily Lobo Columnist Lost amidst the furor stirred up by my intemperate remark last fall was the fact that I was at the same time charged by a female in my Western Civilization with "creating a hostile classroom environment.
by Aubrey Henretty U-Wire Are you a cool girlfriend? Are you a diva? Are you college material? In a stunning display of hot colors, cool fonts and hard-hitting journalism, the October issue of Seventeen magazine asks its readership all three of these tough questions.
by Rachel Richmond U-Wire If there is one thing I cannot stand in this world, it is crazy parents. I'm not talking about your run-of-the-mill, off-the-wall parents; I'm talking about the crazies. As in, the irresponsible, stupid, selfish and just plain mean parents.
by Ashley Lusk U-Wire The daunting pillar rises high into the cloudless sky, encircled only by flapping flags, a dazzling reminder of the American spirit; down below, masses of humanity interweave their way through one another as they assemble for a common cause.
by Craig A. Butler Daily Lobo Columnist As winter approaches, people all over the world are looking forward to the donations of food from more prosperous nations to keep them alive. Millions of people across the globe depend on these donations to survive the harsh winter months.
by Melissa Branson U-Wire During the summer, a friend of mine organized a protest at Wal-Mart. She was bothered that Wal-Mart refuses to sell or fill prescriptions for the morning-after pill. Their pharmacies don't even carry it. It actually shocked me that such a huge corporation would do something like that, but she assured me that she had researched it and as part of that research, tried at numerous Wal-Mart stores to obtain the medication.
by Johnyne Barraclough Daily Lobo Guest Columnist I am a senior here at UNM and have been taking classes for four years. I never really worried about being assaulted except for when the occasional rape was reported in the local papers. Even then I only thought about it for a couple of weeks and then my mind wandered to the next issue at hand.
by Bill Ferguson Knight Ridder-Tribune The seemingly endless parade of reality-based television shows took an interesting turn this week when executives at the FX network unveiled their plan to adapt the talent search theme used by shows like "American Idol" for the political arena.
Ah, the mudslinging is in full swing. Nothing beats election year - any election year. Perhaps it's the media's predilection toward covering the most contentious races; perhaps it's the candidates stuffing campaign material on people's doors; perhaps it's even the falsely sincere handshaking, baby-kissing political appearances where the candidates all wear fake smiles and somehow seem to say nothing.
by Heather Gabel Daily Lobo Columnist I hope that you have been learning a lot about ASUNM through these columns this semester and feel that you have a better understanding of what your student government does and how it works. Now it is time for you to let us know what you think and see ASUNM in action.
Editor, This short letter is in response to the "Richardson dismayed by low turnout" article on the front page of Friday's Daily Lobo. Last March, my girlfriend and her roommate attended a Democratic convention in support of Bill Richardson and the Democratic Party.
by Leah Caldwell U-Wire Hamid Karzai is such a hunk. There's no doubt about it, this post-Taliban leader has the beauty and the brains to make Afghanistan the country that it could never be under the Taliban. This conclusion, among others, was the product of a 16-paragraph article in The New York Times that reduced the plight of Afghan women to the distressing decision of what color burka to wear.
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