Friday, February 8, 2002


Debatable

WTC Flag should not be paraded

The International Olympic Committee announced the decision Wednesday to allow the tattered flag from Ground Zero, which was retrieved from the rubble of the World Trade Center collapse, to be paraded at tonight’s opening ceremony for the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.
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Opinions from around the country

John Walker Lindh left his home, family and teenage innocence behind in America when he went to follow his newfound faith in Islam, and later in al Qaeda. The epitome of the rebellious teen, Walker — actually his parents and his defense team, rather — now is claiming he needs to be put under the custody of his family during his trial. Federal Judge W. Curtis Sewell saw through the fallacies in Walker’s plea to be released when he denied Walker bail Wednesday without even deliberating.
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Liberal arts classes important preparation for future endeavors
By Jenny Specht
Skiff Staff

“What the heck do you do with an English major?”
It’s a question often asked of myself, and, presumably, of the other fifteen or so of us at TCU.
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Enron collapse just part of capitalism
By Chris Dobson
Skiff Staff

So why does it seem like the media is treating the Enron collapse as a business failure when really this is merely a part of the ebb and flow of capitalism?
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Elected deserve pay increase
Ben Fischer is a columnist for the Daily Kent Stater at Kent State University.

Where’d all the good politicians go?
They’re probably in a boardroom somewhere. Or maybe in court, arguing a high-profile case.
Wherever they are, they certainly aren’t running for office. All the good ones were nowhere near the 2000 presidential election — all we could scrounge up were Al Gore and George W. Bush.

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