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COPS: The Winter Carnival Edition

By Caleb Powers | February 3, 2006

One of my favorite TV shows is "COPS." As the inspiration for a decade's worth of reality TV moronic garbage, I suppose that deep down I hate it with all of my heart and blame it for the undoing of America.

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Uncle Joe Mubarak

By Daniel Belkin | February 2, 2006

"If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons," admitted British Prime Minister Winston Churchill during World War II, exemplifying the sometimes necessary triumph of realism over idealism in foreign policy.

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What Makes the Headlines

By Habiba Musah | February 2, 2006

It recently dawned on me that in terms of world affairs in the realm outside Dartmouth, I somehow end up getting my news a day or so after everyone else.

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Warmer Weather In Hanover -- Not Global Warming

By Dan Linsalata | February 1, 2006

To the Editor: In her op-ed yesterday ("The World is Getting Warmer," Jan. 31) about global warming, Tina Praprotnik '09 points to the unseasonably warm Hanover temperatures as irrefutable evidence of global warming. While in the balance of his article, she thoughtfully regurgitates the same tired arguments that point to global warming, her introduction, quite frankly, wrecks her credibility. It is very difficult to claim that Hanover is consistently warming when those of us who are not experiencing our first winter here will fondly remember that, for the last several years, a warm day in January would be one in which the mercury topped minus 10 by 3 p.m., and hopefully we would be into the teens by Carnival. In this instance, one warm season is an anomaly, hardly the concrete foundations of an argument such as Ms. Praprotnik's.

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Missing the Boat

By Meg Thering | February 1, 2006

Dear The Editor: As a recent Dartmouth graduate, I found President Wright's remarks in his speech condescending and an insult to the intelligence of Dartmouth alumni.

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Manufactured Truth, Manufactured Scandal

By Ivy Pruss | February 1, 2006

To the Editor: Since Oprah's tearful meltdown, it has become trendy to hate (and sue) James Frey, author of the bestselling memoir, "A Million Little Pieces." Let me propose a very unpopular opinion: he is not, as most would like to peg him, a liar.

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Electoral Retributions

By Morgan Cohen | January 31, 2006

On Wednesday, Palestinians voted almost two to one to put Hamas in charge of running their government, a move that is forcing Israel and its Western allies to reexamine their approach to dealing with the "Palestinian Question." Ironically, the majority of Palestinians were excluded from the vote.

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Demise of Education at Dartmouth

By Robert Butts | January 30, 2006

I hoped it would never come to this. I fear I may be turning into a broken record. I wish it didn't have to be this way, but so long as Dartmouth keeps coming up with new ways to amaze (read: shock, horrify and dismay) me, the College will keep forcing my hand. At least I will try to come up with some new words to express my surprise and frustration, but the message is pretty much the same.

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Tolerance is a Virtue

By David Glovsky | January 30, 2006

Tolerance is a virtue. Unfortunately, it is a virtue I have come to see far less of recently. Conservatives accuse liberals of a lack of tolerance when it comes to the religious right, the South and most conservatives on the whole.

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A Tribalist Tone

By Professor A. Kevin Reinhart | January 27, 2006

To the Editor: I am disappointed to the see The Dartmouth giving more than half a page to a columnist who week after week gives vent to his "strong personal emotions" -- bigotry and hatred, toward Palestinians, Muslims and Arabs ("Loving the Bomb: How Palestinian Society Glorifies Extremism," Jan.

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On the Wrong Boat

By Fred Meyer | January 27, 2006

To the Editor: The unstated implication of Ilya Feoktistov '06's most recent op-ed ("Loving the Bomb: How Palestinian Society Glorifies Extremism," Jan.

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