TCU Daily Skiff

Friday, February 15, 2002

Tarnished
Judges should focus on performance

Once again the Olympic figure skating competition has stolen the spotlight at the Games. The complicated jumps and intricate footwork of the sport are overshadowed by scandal.
Of course controversy is nothing new to figure skating. Remember Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding? This year, however, it is the judges and not the skaters who are drawing the public’s attention.
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Opinions from around the country

It seems the war on terror might have claimed new casualties that strike very close to home.
In a Jan. 27 raid on a village north of Kandahar, Afghanistan, 15 people were killed, 27 were captured and allegations of U.S. soldiers beating residents surfaced.
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U.S. should examine its government
By john Sargent
Skiff Staff

Since when did America become the great defender of democracy, morality and righteousness that our good Christian President George W. Bush so praises us for?
You would think, by the way our government officials speak, that this land in which we live was not stolen from the Native Americans whom the great European pilgrims all but wiped out with violence and disease.
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Americans are poor hosts for the Olympic Winter Games
Erik Cassano is a columnist for The BG News at Bowling Green State University.

Two o’clock at night on NBC. Somewhere in this fabled land, a skeleton sledder is hurtling down an ice chute at 80 mph with his chin two inches above the surface. The mere suggestion that someone might get decapitated in the name of athletic competition makes for good viewing, but what’s on the tube?
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United States hazy on its definitions of war terms
Ethan Mills is a columnist for the Ka Leo O Hawaii at the University of Hawaii.

The U.S. government has had serious problems with definitions during the past few months. This is nothing new, but I will concentrate here on three definitions (mis)used in the last four months: war, prisoner of war and terrorism.
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