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September 1, 2026
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Common Ground

By Dan Rothfarb | April 3, 2002

Over the past year or so, I have read with a mixture of frustration and delight a variety of responses to my columns ranging from adulation to hate mail and from highly respectable arguments to pointlessly belligerent and ad hominem rants.

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The Rhetoric of Violence

By Jennifer Carlson | April 2, 2002

As the coming week marks the annual National Week of Student Action, which focuses on the death penalty this year, it is time we evaluate capital punishment and some of the arguments that help keep it in practice. Many arguments for the death penalty attempt to justify the status quo by logical "facts:" the death penalty deters criminals, it costs less for the state, the state does justice by vindicating the victim's family with the execution. While these arguments may on the surface seem sufficient to determine matters of life and death, they are in fact coping mechanisms which not only distort the truth surrounding the effects of the death penalty, but mask the fact that the death penalty is nothing less than state-administered killing. Let me start by enumerating each of these "arguments"-- if misinformation can be deemed an "argument." The death-penalty-as-deterrent argument is dubious at best.

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Lost in Collis

By Abbye Meyer | April 2, 2002

I lost my identity last week. I had thought it was just a stupid Dartmouth College ID card, but then I lost it.

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Childhood Lessons

By Nathaniel Paull | April 1, 2002

When I was younger, my older brother and I used to get into fights. We'd bicker about who got to play with which toys, who could sit in the front seat on car rides and which of us was just generally better.

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A Just Peace

By Jeffrey Murphy | April 1, 2002

This past week witnessed an unprecedented escalation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Three Palestinian suicide bombers killed 39 Israelis in the course of four days.

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Valuing Life

By Mark Yohalem | April 1, 2002

In his March 29 editorial, "The Miracle of Birth," Dan Rothfarb has finally succeeded in crossing the line from the inane to the offensive.

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The Week

By The Dartmouth Editorial Board | March 29, 2002

Detaining Peace Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon shattered any doubts this week that he is willing to adopt a long-term peace plan when he put unfairly harsh conditions on Yasser Arafat's ability to attend an Arab summit meeting.

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The Miracle of Birth

By Dan Rothfarb | March 29, 2002

My birthday is a week from today, but I can already say that 21st birthdays are overrated. In fact, all birthdays are overrated, especially the actual days when each of us came gushing out of his or her respective mother.

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Win Ben Stein's Son

By Ben Stein | March 28, 2002

To the Editor: I loved Ms. Kipp's March 1 article, The Dartmouth, "Ben Stein's Day Off: Renowned Comedian Comes to Novack," about me, but a few small corrections are in order.

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Junk Food

By Heather Tatarski | March 28, 2002

When I was a little girl, I used to imagine how wonderful it would be if chocolate were healthy. And all the disgusting vegetables like Brussels sprouts and spinach were the junk food.

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Best of Both Worlds

By Matt Neily | March 28, 2002

To the Editor: I work here at Dartmouth but live in Enfield where I grew up. The people against the proposed sale of the school land to the College don't understand what they're getting.

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Life A.D.

By Dan Galemba | March 28, 2002

I like Dartmouth. I tend to express my appreciation for the privilege of attending this institution fairly often in my writings, and I am known to get annoyed with those who take for granted the opportunity by complaining about relative trivialities. But before it was all talk.

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Sweep November

By Brian Nick | March 27, 2002

If you haven't been following the interaction between Congress and the President lately, you haven't been missing much.

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Trini-time in Hanover

By Ryan Tan | March 27, 2002

It's three in the afternoon, and I'm "liming" away. There's a midterm tomorrow? No worries, the night is young, and besides I'm tired -- I should go take a nap instead.

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Oscar the Grouch

By Matt Soriano | March 27, 2002

Thanks to the new Personal Video Recorder that came with our family's satellite TV system, I was able to watch this year's four-hour Academy Awards ceremony with a minimum of inconvenience and a maximum of efficiency and entertainment.

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Give the Details

By Thom Walsh | March 6, 2002

I too am troubled by the problems that Janis Hui raises in her commentary on Dick's House health care (The Dartmouth, Feb.

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A Dartmouth Sense of Humor

By Cal Newport | March 6, 2002

I recognize that my columns typically have approximately the social significance of a Hanson album, but as my last contribution to The Dartmouth for this term, I wanted to touch on a more serious topic: "Our Generation's Sense of Humor," [cue the John Williams-style inspirational music]. In the March 1 edition of The Dartmouth, Jessica Leinwand and Kelly Swartz published a column entitled "Students Uncover Elusive Secret to Sense of Humor at Dartmouth." I felt that this article was well-written, even-handed and showed exemplary restraint except maybe for the part where they described humor writers at Dartmouth as "animosity-ridden social rejects -- disgruntled and depressed malcontents lurking in dark dorm hallways and the basement of Collis." As a humor writer on this campus I must admit that I'm somewhat offended.

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I Am Not a Journalist

By Liam Kuhn | March 6, 2002

As I write this, I'm a little over three months away from graduation, and sometimes I feel as though I still haven't learned a damn thing.

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