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Stopwalks: They're there for a reason

I had the misfortune to be driving today when I experienced a common college part of life: jaywalking. I have no problem with jaywalkers, heck I do it myself all the time. But the person I saw doing it today has to take the cake. I was trying to turn right onto Jordan from Third, but a young lady started to jaywalk. Light turns yellow and I console myself and say, "Hey, I'll just right on red it."


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Hitchens = warmonger

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It was disheartening to see the IU School of Journalism lionize Christopher Hitchens, who practices the ultimate form of "newspeak" by domesticating the iconoclasm of George Orwell into sycophancy for President Bush's "War on Terror."



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Bloomington federal money should go to poor

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In response to Paige Ingram's report on the misallocation of federal dollars to Bloomington ("Low-Income students bring city big bucks," Sept. 28) and Kristi Oloffson's article on the Shalom Center homeless shelter ("Local homeless shelter still has no place to go," Sept. 29):

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Brian Stewart's empty 'truth'

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Opinion columnist Brian Stewart wrote on October 2 ("Postmodernism vs. principle") that "objective truth" is what the world needs now, more than anything. How easy taking that position becomes when this "truth" is on your own side. Not to mention when it is, by definition, infallible.




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IDS shouldn't waste time on Phi Psi story

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It's a sad day when such a petty issue as having a hot tub in the chapter of a fraternity sparks the attention of the editor in chief for the Indiana Daily Student. In my opinion and many others', it was a complete waste of space and time for the IDS to publish such a meaningless article.



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Ruckus a bum deal

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Regarding "IUSA brings music downloading service" by Julie Mahomed (Oct. 3):


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Deathbed of spinach

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Aside from unicorns and moist towelettes, the show "Cold Case" is my favorite thing in the world. Every episode is fantastic, so "chillingly" erotic it's like a Popsicle in my pants.


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Scary white men

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Terror alert! Why haven't the Department of Homeland Security and George W. Bush raised our terror alert level to RED over the new menace to our American way of life: the gun-wielding, white men who are shooting up our public schools?


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Myths of war

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IX-EN-PROVENCE, France -- When the times challenge our values and perspectives as much as they have the last five years, it's hard to believe anything. We are too close to the events at hand, deprived of an ability to stand back and observe from a distance, to build educated opinions in full.


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Bloomington: Hella poor!

ast Thursday, we reported that Bloomington is the second-most impoverished small city in the country according to the American Community Service census -- a status that gets us hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal funding. Some might claim this money should go to needier communities, but we say "Not so fast!" True, the zero-income status of much of Bloomington's population is irrelevant because so many of us are students supported by our parents. But that doesn't mean we aren't worthy of funding!



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Federal probe intensifies over e-mails

WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department ordered House officials to "preserve all records" related to disgraced Rep. Mark Foley's electronic correspondence with teenagers, intensifying an investigation into a scandal rocking Republicans five weeks before midterm elections.


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Rice pledges better conditions in West Bank

RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday the United States is "very concerned" about the plight of the Palestinians and pledged to improve living conditions in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.


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Iraqi police brigade linked to death squads

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraqi authorities have taken a brigade of up to 700 policemen out of service and put members under investigation for "possible complicity" with death squads following a mass kidnapping earlier this week, the U.S. military said Wednesday.