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Liberty Belle

Pope Benedict XVI arrives in Turkey today, amid a storm of protest that began promptly with the announcement of his visit more than a week ago. The pope's visit is another of his efforts to mend the l...
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Weather

If you’re looking for amazing gadgetry and technological excitement, don’t see the new James Bond flick. This edition of the spy series repeatedly hypes up such new-fangled tools as text m...
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Older Men’s I.V. Cat Calls Are Not in Holiday Spirit

It's peppermint mocha season. The Christmas decorations in stores before Halloween, the weather changing and my mother nagging about Christmas lists mean nothing to me until the peppermint mocha is on...
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An Inconvenient Truth

Isla Vista got hosed again last week
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Friedman Is Not So Worthy of Grand Tribute and Praise

Last week, the Nexus's resident insufferable economics major Colin Marshall ("Ode to Economist: Farewell Friedman," Daily Nexus, Nov. 22) was found reminiscing on the life of the late Milton Friedman.
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Political Mudslinging Skirts Issues and Harms Discourse

Paul Jones ("Dems Prove No Party Is Perfect," Daily Nexus, Nov. 27) is entitled to think that Democrats are as corrupt as Republicans, but his lame attempt at "proving" this as fact makes his column l...
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Time Is Never Wasted Watching T.V.

Face it. Television has become better than film. Up until around the turn of the century, great movies were consistently being pumped out by Hollywood studios. Nowadays, I feel lucky when I see one mo...
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Lazy People Are Severely Disadvantaged in Life

Laziness is a disability. In many ways, it is more debilitating than any mental or physical handicap.
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Dens Prove No Party Is Perfect

Being a Republican at UCSB is a little trying at times. Most of your friends are liberal Democrats. So are most of your professors.
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County Makes Mistake Allowing Rocks At Beach

Despite the fact that the California Coastal Commission narrowly approved (4-3) the illegal 10,00-foot long Goleta Beach seawall to remain in place another two and a half years, the costs to the envir...
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The Reader’s Voice

The article you ran by Henry Sarria ("Hypocritical District Supervisor Should Stay Out of I.V.," Daily Nexus, Nov. 21) failed the geography test.
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Sex With Ex Can Lead to Distress

It was a typical Friday at Study Hall for me - playing Erotic Photo Hunt with my girls, sipping on Strongbow and flirting with Elio and Smitty, except that this time, he was there.
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Stuffed

Between my inexperienced aunts cleaning the turkey with ajax and the Weathermum spraying the computer with WD-40 to make it go faster, home at Thanksgiving time is always an adventure. What can else c...
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