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The United States Has a Friend in the Middle East

Terror is terror regardless of its target, and terrorist cells existing throughout the world stand for one universal purpose: the murder and destruction of Christians, Jews, Hindus and those who espou...
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Keep Moving and You Won’t Get Hit

It's about this time of the year that everyone looks forward to moving. You've discovered all of the leaks, splinters and hanging live wires that your apartment has to offer and you can still fantasiz...
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The Daves-Rougeaux Show

Since taking over this year as executive director, Don Daves-Rougeaux has brought stability to an organization that desperately needed it. However, with that stability has come a perceived control ove...
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Isla Vista Foot Patrol Deserves Residents’ Praise, Not Derision

I would like to strongly echo Henry Sarria's article (Daily Nexus, "Defending the Foot Patrol," April 30). We are very lucky to have this excellent style of community policing in our small, dense, stu...
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Living Without Vowels: Swallow You Whole

In the wee morning hours of Thursday, April 24, two UC Police Dept. officers happened across 13.17 feet and 85 pounds of Burmese python coiled up, cold and near death in a parking lot on the Devereux ...
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Goods and Services

The weathercavemates and I are in the habit of playing horrible practical jokes on one another. One of the more original ones involves stealing an unsuspecting 'mate's checkbook and writing naughty th...
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Education Comes Second to Celebration for Pride Week

I was flipping through the Daily Nexus on Monday morning, anxious to see what this week, the once-a-year week set aside for queers to be openly embraced by our campus community, had to offer.
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Defense I.V. Amounts to Nothing but Wasted Breath

While I admire Henry Sarria's opinion "Defending the Foot Patrol" (Daily Nexus, April 28,2003), it will go on deaf ears for many reasons. To start with, his intended audience, the Grand Jury, doesn't ...
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Drugstore Cowboy: No Change Comes Easily

Myself, I really don't care about the color of the person who represents me. Or the gender. Or the shoe size. All I want is someone who may be able to get something done.
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Weapons of Mass Destruction

Nexus people bet on weird things, like election outcomes or the number of mosquitos we can kill on a given day in our pest-infested office. Today's lead story is the Los Alamos contract. So naturally,...
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Some Professors Get All the Luck With Research Projects

After spending some time reading, I found it necessary to point out a recent encounter of mine with a certain publication that is frequented by many of our UCSB students.
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Defending the Foot Patrol

Grand juries are a funny thing. On the one hand, you have a group of people gathered together to make a ruling to better some aspect of society based on the findings in their published report.
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Lots of Problems

I have a problem class. Every time my professor gets frustrated, he relieves his misery by assigning extra homework. Every time he grades our homework, he gets frustrated.
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My Gay Brother Is Better Than an Older Sister

I've definitely made out with girls. I was about 13 when my older brother Scott related to me over a car wash that he called his boyfriend "Pookie" on occasion.
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