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Show Some Teeth

By Brooking Gatewood | November 1, 2001

In my few months here at Dartmouth, I've noticed a strange Dr. Seuss dichotomy in the students. We are at once friendly as the people of Who-Ville, and as unsmiling as the Grinch.

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This is a tale of Dartmouth 'shmen in the big city. It is the tale of what happens when six young people who have acclimated themselves to life in Hanover pack themselves into a two-door coupe and head off to Boston.

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News Summary

By Hemant Joshi | October 31, 2001

The bombing in Afghanistan continued today, with target cities such as Kabul and Kandahar suffering especially fierce air strikes.

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A Poke in the Ribs

By Matt Soriano | October 30, 2001

The past six weeks have been something out of the sort of book you find in an airport departure lounge.

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To Peak at Twelve

By Abbye Meyer | October 30, 2001

I went to Boston on Sunday to buy a pumpkin. Well, that's not entirely true, but I did go to Boston, and I did come back with a pumpkin.

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The Future of the System

By Chris Curran | October 29, 2001

On Oct. 23, Dean Redman wrote a letter to all Coed Fraternity Sorority leaders outlining the future of the Greek system.

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The Need For Hot Tubs

By Nathaniel Paull | October 29, 2001

It is definitely getting cold. It gets cold back in Seattle, too, where I'm from. Not this cold, not near the coast, but if you head up toward the mountains just an hour away ... it gets cold.

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The Wrong Approach

By Wilson Li | October 26, 2001

To the Editor: Like Mr. Galemba ("More Than Words," Oct. 24), I understand and support action against the terrorist organization that is responsible for the attacks in Washington and New York.

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Pick A Side

By Padraic Malinowski | October 26, 2001

To the Editor: Back on Oct. 8, in a column in "The D," while attempting to discredit the protesters who oppose U.S.

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End It Already

By Liam Kuhn | October 26, 2001

I seem to remember not too long ago a whole lot of dirt being kicked up by something called the Student Life Initiative.

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Heroes of Science

By Leslie Spierling, R.N. | October 26, 2001

To the Editor: The article on Dr. Sharpless ("Sharpless: I broke nature's monopoly," Oct. 12) really inspired one who, up until two years ago, viewed chemistry as dull and uninteresting, despite being a nurse for 20 years.

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Toward Teaching

By Aly Rahim | October 25, 2001

Dartmouth has long prided itself on the quality of its undergraduate teaching among its Ivy League peers.

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Pumpkin Orange

By Jourdan Abel | October 25, 2001

I recently found myself up to my elbow in a pumpkin. Scooping out the slimy orange guts from a very large gourd, I was all-but-laughed-at by a sizeable crowd.

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The Face of Dartmouth

By John Schroeder | October 24, 2001

Perhaps it was the smell of alcohol-fumed flames in the air, or maybe I had just smoked a bit too much of my one cigarette-per-year quota, but when I came back to school on Friday evening, Dartmouth struck me as some sort of museum piece.

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More Than Words

By Dan Galemba | October 24, 2001

I'm disappointed with basically every protest of the military involvement in Afghanistan. It's not because I'm a warmonger, although I do believe that military action is necessary in certain circumstances and cannot be categorically opposed.

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Truth Behind Terms

By Andrew Grossman | October 24, 2001

To the Editor: Regarding Dan Rothfarb's "Martial Plan" (Oct. 18), "fascism" probably signifies the Italian Fascists for most, making Bush's remarks perhaps not redundant (German Nazis, Russian Communists, Italian Fascists). Of course, it would be more proper to say that one of these terms is a bit too specific: Nazism.

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Practical Solutions

By Cal Newport | October 23, 2001

After extensive research (consisting of the reading of several Newsweek articles) I think I can now safely consider myself an expert on our war against Terrorism.

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Technophilia

By Anil Antony | October 23, 2001

Have you noticed this new species roaming the country? They look and act just like you or me, for the most part, with one exception -- they seem to have cellular phones surgically grafted to their heads.

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A Closer Look

By Sister Mary Elizabeth | October 22, 2001

To the Editor: In reference to Dr. Thomas Wise's "Transgender Truths" (Letter to the Editor, Oct.

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Politics as Unusual

By Brian Nick | October 22, 2001

Sometimes when people find themselves disagreeing with each other constantly about virtually every detail of every potential solution to every problem they face, a clarifying moment comes along and lays everything out for them.