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LETTER: Berthold guilty of treason
January 14Editor, UNM History Professor Richard Berthold told a freshman class on Sept. 11 that "anyone who can bomb the Pentagon has my vote."
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COLUMN: Veil no longer symbol of fear
Farzenah Milani | January 14CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - "I'm scared. You might be carrying a gun under your veil," murmured one of my students. Why I would carry a gun to my class, I wondered? I was sure she was joking. But she was not. She was serious and frightened, too.
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COLUMN: Time management not out of reach
Shirlee JamesJohnson | January 14This time of year, most people are assessing their priorities and goals.
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LETTER: Berthold's callousness is appalling, deserves protest
January 14Editor, When UNM Professor Richard Berthold enthusiastically approved the slaughter of hundreds of innocent airline passengers to destroy the Pentagon he hates so much, he showed that he has even less humanity than the terrorists who committed this heinous act.
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EDITORIAL: N.M. drivers need lesson
January 7I surely won't be the first or the last to lament the sorry state of New Mexico drivers, but a brief hiatus from arguably the worst aspect of the Land of Enchantment has prompted me to speak up.
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LETTER: Patriot Act injures democracy
January 7Editor, Before the last pendulum swing of power in Afghanistan, the Taliban arrested several foreign aid workers and proposed to try them for anti-Islamic activities in a court that could hardly be considered fair and impartial.
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COLUMN: New Yorkers lean on one another
Sari Krosinsky | January 7Ground zero, Dec. 28. As I approached from the subway stop a few blocks away, the crowd thickened. So did the vendors.
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LETTER: Republicans are misunderstood, believe in the First Amendment
December 10I am writing this letter in response to the many letters that have mentioned the College Republicans, an organization that I proudly serve in as state chairperson. In these letters, the UNM College Republicans were attacked for discouraging free speech on campus unless they agree with their ideals.
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LETTER: Provide for world need, not greed
December 10Critical consciousness - to think globally and act locally - is the incense that burns inside the shelters of hope. We smell this incense when we call upon our government and ourselves to act in a way that respects this earth that can, as Gandhi put it, "provide for everyone's needs, but not everyone's greed.
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LETTER: America, while imperfect, remains the best alternative
December 10How many times in the last several weeks have you heard or read sentences that begin, "If we've learned nothing else since Sept. 11, we've learned ...?"
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EDITORIAL: Unsung Lobo heroes
December 10At the Daily Lobo, we have many of our own unsung heroes - about 100 of them - who put in endless, thankless hours to produce this publication for UNM community. It would be impossible to name them all, but everyone on the advertising, classifieds, accounting, newsroom, copy editing, production, Web and delivery staff deserve all the thanks in the world for their hard work this year.
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COLUMN: In defense of our civil liberties
December 10It might have been nice to be able to speak dispassionately about the state of civil rights after Sept. 11, to theorize about the possible side effects of hastily-passed anti-terrorist acts and the burgeoning police state as if these matters have no direct effect on me, to comment disinterestedly on the over 1,000 immigrants being held indefinitely without trial.
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LETTER: Martinet has oversimplified view of Taliban, Afganistan
December 6I read Maceo Carillo Martinet's Dec. 4 column, and it grabbed my attention when he referred to the Afghan mujaheddin anti-Soviet militias as the precursor of the Taliban.
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LETTER: Unusual circumstances hinder Arafat's control
December 6I'm deeply saddened by the turn of events in Israel in the last several days. I also am deeply concerned by the statements and actions of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. He has repeated for the last three days that Palestinian President Yasser Arafat is to blame for "everything."
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COLUMN: No peace for Christmas this year
December 6It may be too much to ask that there be peace on earth this Christmas. After all, peace is bad for the economy and your paycheck is dependent on the military industrial complex. The United States, the bastion of consumerist Christmas, is the world's leading trader of arms, and without constant war, our holidays would be less spectacular. Your sleigh, so filled with goodies headed toward Israel and Colombia and Taiwan, is using U.S. tax dollars to make arms manufacturers rich.
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COLUMN: Holidays a time for unity, reflection
December 5There's an old Chinese painting that shows three wise men standing around a vat of vinegar. Each man has dipped his finger into the vinegar and tasted it. The first man wears a sour expression. The second is frowning at its bitterness. The third man is smiling.
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LETTER: Protesters need to grow up
December 5Never in my getting-to-be-long life have I seen such a pathetic claim of victimization as expressed in Sari Krosinsky's column from Monday's Daily Lobo. My God, give it to the psychology department as a case study in human pathos.
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COLUMN: Bush defense of women hypocritical
December 4As bombs drop, marines move in, and a company makes headlines by "playing god" in a sterilized lab, our collectivized fear is cushioned in blankets of self-congratulatory speeches. Bush, Colin Powell, and several others have recently commented on our "heroic mission" in Afghanistan as bringing freedom to Afghanistan women.
