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US should measure maturity consistently
Trusting 18-year-olds with the responsibility to enlist and vote, but not to drink, shows nation’s misplaced priorities
When about 100 university chancellors and presidents formed and signed the Amethyst Initiative last week, the reaction was predictable.
Good sportsmanship getting hard to find
Offensive ad by the Spanish basketball team lacks humor and cultural awareness
This year’s men’s Spanish Olympic basketball team needs a reminder of how to distinguish between a joke and plain disrespect: If both sides involved aren’t laughing, it’s probably not funny.
Does practice really make perfect?
Emergency exercise at Rieber recreates a campus shooting and helps prepare UCLA for the worst
I’m looking at some pretty nasty head wounds.
Playground politics should be avoided
McCain shows just how out of touch he is by running an ad comparing Obama to celebrities
As the McCain versus Obama battle of the campaign advertisements rages on, it appears that a well-known expression should be tweaked to advise McCain of his strategy: If you can’t say anything legitimately bad, don’t say anything at all.
To see a better world, envision it first
Al Gore’s challenge to produce carbon-free energy in 10 years is achievable if we all act to make our green dreams reality
If you can’t picture yourself driving an electric car in 10 years, then it’s time to start rethinking your vision of energy in this nation.
Summertime, but the livin’ ain’t easy
Each summer I move back home with my parents, and I come to a special sort of realization.
No. 4 pick will always be a ‘W’ for me
Westbrook got my attention with his transformation from alternate to fan favorite to NBA Draft pick
Before I enrolled at UCLA two years ago, Jordan Farmar was my favorite Bruin basketball player.
Changes write new chapters in our lives, but past is prologue
“A story has no beginning or end: Arbitrarily one chooses a moment of experience from which to look ahead,” Graham Greene once wrote.
36-hour days do exist, if you have super powers
If I’ve ever been tested, this was the year.
With words, it wasn’t just puppy love
I remember the day I fell in love. Standing on tiptoe to look at the pages of the Complete Webster’s Dictionary, at 5 years old I knew I was in, and I was in deep.
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