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Friday, October 12, 2001
Editorial

A Free Press
Self-censorship surrenders rights

The major American news networks broadcasted Sunday, Oct. 8 an unedited taped message from Osama bin Laden, the suspected leader of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
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Apathy not always to blame for disinterest
Commentary by Morgan Landry

If there is a word that is abused and misused at TCU, it is the word “apathy.” Oxford’s English Dictionary defines apathy as “indifference to what is calculated to move the feelings, or to excite interest or action.”
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Examining government necessary at all times, whether peace or war
Commentary by Amalea Smirniotopoulo

We should take peace as seriously as we take war, funding included
The World Trade Center has fallen. The United States is bombing Afghanistan. In Washington, John Ashcroft is pushing for a new Anti-Terrorism Act, giving government agents more freedom in the search for terrorists at the cost of our civil liberties. The economy is down. Bush’s approval ratings are up.
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Life, politics continue to go on
sA sarcastic rendering of recent events unnoticed in aftermath of attacks
Commentary by Tim Dragga

With all that has been going on, we have become distracted from a lot of other things that have been happening. Consider this a short, sarcastic recap of what has gone unnoticed recently.
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Business of writing involves more than publication
Commentary by Jack Bullion

Have you ever been in a bookstore during a book signing? Seen the long lines of people, waiting to have their own personal autographed copies of a book, and maybe hoping for a little helpful advice from somebody who has actually profited from scribbling sentence after sentence on a blank piece of paper?
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