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  • Sit back, relax, enjoy the guacamole

    Dec. 11, 2006 at midnight

    As “super seniors” look forward to graduating next week, we’re forced to look back at the last four years and take stock of what happened. Did we choose the right ...
  • Have yourself a merry little solstice

    Nov. 28, 2006 at midnight

    I’m with Bill O’Reilly on this. I’m tired of all this “Happy Holidays,” politically correct mumbo jumbo. Everyone knows December is about one holiday and one holiday only – there’s ...
  • Trust me, I’m a Daily Bruin columnist: Column 2

    Nov. 21, 2006 at midnight

    Last Tuesday night, after refusing to show his BruinCard to university police officers, UCLA student Mostafa Tabatabainejad was viciously stunned with a Taser five times. We barely had to wait ...
  • Trust me, I’m a Daily Bruin columnist: Column 1

    Nov. 21, 2006 at midnight

    Mostafa Tabatabainejad is totally guilty. Some may say it’s premature to make conclusions about the incident last Tuesday, in which Tabatabainejad was stunned with a Taser five times in Powell ...
  • Oral sex: licking Africa’s wounds

    Nov. 14, 2006 at midnight

    Programs such as the Peace Corps have long been popular with the ever abundant undecided graduate looking to see the world and do some good. Such programs promise a chance ...
  • Human rights abuse not just Coke’s problem

    Nov. 7, 2006 at midnight

    Coke and Colombia. The two go together like fashion and France, sex-tourism and southeast Asia, or democracy and Iraq. So I was surprised when I found out the most recent ...
  • Give credit to those who truly deserve it

    Oct. 31, 2006 at midnight

    The first time I heard that UCLA was naming its brand new, world-class hospital after former President Ronald Reagan, I thought it was a joke. Like if someone told you ...
  • Drivers young and old need regulation

    Oct. 24, 2006 at midnight

    I was visiting my grandmother in Buffalo when we found ourselves stopped at a major intersection, her behind the wheel, squinting ahead. “Tell me when the light turns green,” she ...
  • Tolerating intolerance of 'tolerants' is tough

    Oct. 17, 2006 at midnight

    How tolerant can we be of those who are intolerant of us? Last week, I wrote a satire (“A modest proposal for an immodest proposition,” Oct. 10) that received a ...
  • A modest proposal for an immodest proposition

    Oct. 10, 2006 at midnight

    Over a hundred students gathered in Meyerhoff Park last week to express discontent with the University of California admissions policy. Protestors chanted such slogans as, “UC Regents, I see racists,” ...