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The Abusive Power of the Patriot Act

By Kapil Kale | October 31, 2003

Early America had the Alien and Sedition Acts. World War Two had the internment of the Japanese. The Red Scare had the arrest of hundreds of suspected communists.

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Fear This Man

By Andrew Hanauer | October 30, 2003

There's a Texan in Washington, D.C., right now whom we should all fear. He has immense power, and is completely convinced of the righteousness of his terrifying ideas.

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Blitz Etiquette

By Kabir Sehgal | October 30, 2003

I'm standing at Thayer waiting to check blitz. This time the usually defunct blitz terminals are working.

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A Political Move

By Elisabeth Smith | October 30, 2003

To the Editor: I was disheartened to read your editorial supporting the ban on "partial-birth" abortion.

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You've never heard of Bob Thompson, and it's a shame. America ought to laud Bob Thompson as a hero: he's a retired entrepreneur who tried to donate almost a quarter billion dollars to improve education in inner-city Detroit.

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Impending Deadline

By Andrew Hanauer | October 29, 2003

To the Editor: I am writing to inform all Dartmouth students of an important upcoming deadline.

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Losing our Traditions

By Joe Cerniglia | October 29, 2003

To the Editor: Licyau Wong's Oct. 24 article "Homecoming's story chronicled" was a nice historical primer, but it had one small but important inaccuracy.

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Where are all the Conservatives?

By Adil Ahmad | October 28, 2003

Original quote: "He [Adil] is a raging racist who just rants and knows nothing of substance." Now adjusted for liberal talk: "He is a conservative who voices his strongly right-leaning, realist opinions in public without fear of retribution." The fellow who made this comment was one of those "nice -- meaning liberal" students who blatantly discriminated against conservatives.

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On Partial-Birth Abortion

By The Dartmouth Editorial Board | October 28, 2003

Congress's passage of a ban on partial-birth abortions last week is a victory to all who oppose the controversial procedure that former Surgeon General C.

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Upgrading Kresge

By Ryan Tan | October 27, 2003

Recently, the Student Assembly called a meeting to discuss the possible expansion of Kresge, in light of the administration's recent shelving of plans to build a new gym to replace the almost 100-year-old Alumni Gym.

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Alternative Medicine

By Ben Krauss | October 27, 2003

Who does Howard Dean think he is? No disrespect to our idyllic neighbor across the river, but his state is small, uneventful and not terribly representative of American demographics.

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Good Fences and Bad Neighbors

By Sam Stein | October 23, 2003

If there is such a thing as a certainty in Arab-Israeli bio-politics it is this: even the most mundane of compromises are subject to failure.

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More on ISTS

By Lewis Duncan | October 23, 2003

To The Editor: This is to amplify information in the recent article by Matthew Kelly ("Report ranks college high for pork spending," The Dartmouth, Oct.

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Business Pointers for DDS

By Daniel Ng | October 23, 2003

DDS excels at being predictable, like the predictable southern fried chicken on Mondays at Food Court, or the predictable deep-fried bits of seafood on Fridays.

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The Prospie Paradox

By Julia Bernstein | October 22, 2003

Thursday the 16th was a momentous day for the class of 2007. It signified the one-month anniversary of move-in day, though, like most other anniversaries, it seems to have been forgotten.

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Shallow Thinking

By Nathaniel Paull | October 22, 2003

I question both the veracity of the motives and the intelligence of any group that purports to campaign for the wellbeing of non-human animals while actively discouraging its members from supporting the National Wildlife Federation, the National Audubon Society, the Nature Conservancy, the Sierra Club, the Wilderness Society and the World Wildlife Fund.

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Don't Count Your Chickens...

By Mike Liroff | October 21, 2003

To the Editor: I read Avni Shah's Oct. 20 article "Yawn, Snore: Yankees' quest for 27 has little intrigue," and I am outraged.

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Disturbing Recapitulation

By Dan Knecht | October 21, 2003

The comments made last week by Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysia's Prime Minister, had striking resemblance to those made in Nuremberg during the '30s.

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College Rule

By Tanisha Keshava | October 20, 2003

Before you come to college, everyone tells you that the next four years will the best four years of your life.

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Wait 'til Next Year

By Ben Taylor | October 20, 2003

Pinch me, please. Someone tell me that this surreal nightmare is just that -- only a nightmare and nothing more.