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Vol XXXV No. 72

Friday, January 18, 2002

  Commentaries

Atlas analyzed
Christine Niles
As I See It ...

What do you do when you can't find a single existing religion you agree with? Why, you create your own. After having encountered Ayn Rand fans on college campuses and online chatrooms (they always show up sooner or later), I thought ... [more]
Quote of the Day
George Orwell
author

"When one says that a writer is fashionable one practically always means that he is admired by people under 30." George Orwell author ... [more]
Society, not TV ads, creates `cool' drinking image
Charles Crawford
The Daily Aztec

Alcohol is cool. There are no two ways about it. No matter how hard the average authority figure protests, it's cool. Alcohol is up there with leather miniskirts, riding motorcycles and cutting class. There is something sexy about the socialite's hip ... [more]
Corporate news endangers objectivity
Will Ulrich
Daily Pennsylvanian

Mickey Mouse is creepy. Walter Issacson is a boob. And General Electric makes too many war machines to be in the television news business. I am able to freely express these brash opinions through the First Amendment and the newsprint paid ... [more]


Inside Column
What a basketball game should be
By Laura Rompf
Associate News Editor

My favorite Christmas present was not earrings. Nor clothes. Nor perfume. It was a ticket. To a basketball game. On December 29, 2001, I was one of lucky 22,000-plus fans who saw the University of Kentucky play Louisville in Rupp Arena. ... [more]


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