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...these logistical questions will never satisfy our insatiable desire to know why. Why would someone do something so terrible? Like Shakespeare’s Iago, the literary embodiment of evil, the Virginia Tech murderer has frustrated our demand for a motive by taking his own life: “Demand me nothing; what you know, you know; from this time forth I will never speak a word.” What we know from yesterday’s massacre is nothing, except the brute, inscrutable fact that evil exists in the world...
...have an electoral college,” Kucinich said in response to a student’s question about whether the U.S. is truly democratic. And mirroring the focus of the campaign season, much of the talk dealt with foreign policy, as audience members pushed Kucinich to defend his demand to cease Congressional funding of the war in Iraq. Zak Tanjeloff ’08, asked Kucinich whether he had a plan for peace in Iraq. “There is money in the pipeline right now to bring the troops in. If we follow the logic of support...
...saying, "Attorney General Gonzales has proven an unsuitable steward of the law and should resign for the good of the country... The President should accept the resignation, and set a standard to which the wise and honest might repair in nominating a successor..." It is the first public demand by a group of conservatives for Gonzales' firing. Signatories to the letter include Bruce Fein, a former senior official in the Reagan Justice Department, who has worked frequently with current Administration and the Republican National Committee to promote Bush's court nominees; David Keene, chairman of the influential American Conservative Union...
...government has twice declined opportunities to formally request that the U.N. remove the plant from its blacklist - a longtime demand of coca growers and a Morales campaign promise, but an idea the U.S. has criticized. This week, Morales is sending in soldiers to help coca growers decrease their cultivation. And despite touting mass coca industrialization, the three tea factories are the only project under way, and even these still await full legal approval...
...contradict this. No student would say, “Mental health services shouldn’t be a higher priority of the administrations,” or even, “Mental health services here couldn’t be better.” But it is hypocritical to demand that the University make student mental health a primary concern when students won’t even do it themselves. While there should be no complacency in advocating for better care and policies on the side of the administration, students must also help themselves by accessing resources already in place...