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Spend Valentine’s Day Loving Your Sexy Self

Today is Valentine's Day, February four-fucking-teenth and it is the day to finally say no. No to mediocre dates with way too much pressure to be perfect. No to psychotic flipouts when one little thin...
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Here’s Looking at You, Kid.

Happy Valentine's Day, sweetheart. It's true, I didn't get you flowers, candy, cigars, remember to get a dinner reservation or even one single Valentine.
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Isla Vista, How I Love Thee

There is a saying: "You are closer to Heaven when home is near the sea." That has become true for me living here in Isla Vista.
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Select the Best Wines for Valentine’s

To some people, Valentine's Day is about love, romance and passion. To others it is a day where you have to do shit you don't want to do for your significant other.
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UCSB Strike on War Appears Disorganized

On Thursday afternoon, a protest rally is scheduled on campus in response to the war in Iraq.
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Massive Local Strike Gives People Power

Your friends have either told you they're not striking or you've seen skeptical accounts in the Daily Nexus about the efficacy of the strike.
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Healthcare For All Isn’t Exactly Equal

In recent weeks healthcare has become the center of political debate and the likely target for impending reform. The renewed call for universal healthcare represents another manifestation of Americans...
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Weather mortis

I dream of dying a funny death. When everyone lines up to see how rigor mortis has hardened the 'human like dry coral, I hope they laugh. No tears - just smiles at how awkward the whole thing is.
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Worst Buy Puts the Best Deals Online

One of the most exciting parts about being a geek is new hardware and new electronics to play with. Whether it be a new Nintendo DS with the built in Wi-Fi that lets me play Mario Kart with seven othe...
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Biking On Campus Proves to Be Perilous

I was recently in a bike accident, which resulted in my left knee having to be stitched back together. As a brief aside:
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Shoebat’s Autobiographical Speech About Radicals Alone

I must disagree with the letter you printed Friday ("Shoebat Paints Unflattering Portrait of World's Muslims," Daily Nexus, Feb. 9). That letter said that Shoebat had given a "negative, hateful messag...
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Neglected Holocaust History Touched Upon by Shoebat

I want to elaborate on a subject Walid Shoebat touched upon in his talk last Wednesday. Shoebat never made any blanket statements about all Muslims or "compared the Muslim community to Nazis" ("Shoeba...
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New Platitudes, Please

The best way to differentiate between those who critically think and those who read the back of the cereal box for its literary value is to ask the following:
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Menstrual Cycles Deserve Love, Too

In July, I ran with the bulls. Every summer, throngs of thrill-seekers and daring tourists travel to Pamplona, Spain to participate in the celebrated "running of the bulls," or Encierro. The runners k...
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