Opinion
A Decade of Searching
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Jan. 12, 2011Wikipedia is celebrating its 10th birthday Saturday, and, fellow students, what would we ever do without it?
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Eye to the Sky: North Korean nuke issue deserves U.S. attention
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Jan. 12, 2011In the fall of 1962, when the United States and the USSR stood inches away from the brink of an international blood-letting, word reached the Kennedy administration that the hard-line Soviet government did not desire to lead the world hand-in-hand into the furnace. In a flex of diplomatic bravado, Secretary of State Dean Rusk boasted: “We’re eyeball to eyeball, and the other fellow just blinked.”
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Slow Going: Haiti recovery takes more than cash
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Jan. 11, 2011A year later, some progress has been made. There’s still a long way to go, however, in rebuilding the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.
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Blam! Pow!
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Jan. 11, 2011Maybe there are superheroes among us.
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Full of Fili-Bluster
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Jan. 10, 2011Picture this scene. It’s an ungodly hot September day and our Florida Gators football team take the field to deliver their traditional, early-season Charles Sumner-style canning of a non-conference powerhouse St. Cecilia’s School of the Blind and Anorexic.
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Sinking Ship: Immigration bill needs a rewrite
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Jan. 10, 2011“I might not even vote for it myself.”
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No blame game: Shooting shouldn’t be made political
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Jan. 9, 2011As a rule of thumb, people don’t have their political affiliations carved on their tombstones. Parties don’t matter in the face of tragedy and grief, but the memories of the deceased and the pain of the survivors do.
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Darts and Laurels
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Jan. 6, 2011Welcome back, everyone. If you’re like us, you turned your brain off during the break and tried to forget about classes and grades. Now, everyone’s got to hit the ground running for the spring semester marathon. We’ve got some catching up to do in the remind-us-why-we-go-to-class-during-drop/add-again edition of... Darts & Laurels.
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Power Shift: Republicans should tread carefully in new role
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Jan. 5, 2011After years of performance that could be best described as wildly inconsistent and at worst can be compared to a Big Ten team in a bowl game, the Democrats relinquished control of the House Wednesday in an episode that spliced together the ceremonious with the awkward.
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Power Shift: Republicans should tread carefully in new role
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Jan. 5, 2011After years of performance that could be best described as wildly inconsistent and at worst can be compared to a Big Ten team in a bowl game, the Democrats relinquished control of the House Wednesday in an episode that spliced together the ceremonious with the awkward.
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Censory overload
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Jan. 5, 2011So much for great American novels being sacred.
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Party time: Scott’s $3 million inauguration is excessive
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Jan. 4, 2011Welcome back, Gators.
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Darts & Laurels
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Dec. 7, 2010This is it, Gators. You’ve all made it through another semester, and many of you have made it through your very first one. It wasn’t that bad.
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Smarty pants
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Dec. 6, 2010We’re, like, the smartest city in Florida, y’all!
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Festival of blights: Hillel vandalism shameful
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Dec. 6, 2010When UF’s Hillel should be focusing on celebrating its winter Festival of Lights, the organization for Jewish college students is, instead, trying to persevere in the face of alleged anti-Semitism.
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Dirty politics
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Dec. 5, 2010In an early showing of dirty, rotten things to come during the next handful of years, Sen.-elect Marco Rubio and Gov.-elect Rick Scott were quick to criticize President Barack Obama for extending the ban on oil drilling in federal waters off Florida’s coast.
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Truth and treason: WikiLeaks bans wrong
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Dec. 5, 2010If only BP could have pulled the same public relations response the federal government is rolling out now.
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Darts and Laurels
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Dec. 2, 2010This is a curious week, Gators. There’s not really a name for it either. It’s the post-Thanksgiving week where most of us grumble like Eeyore all the way to Gainesville, yet it’s not time for winter break. It’s the teaser week in between. It’s the week where professors plague our schedules with one final exam before the final exam. It’s the week where we switch our thermostats from air conditioning to heat in the span of an evening. It’s often called “Hell week.” So, for those of you wallowing in self-pity with your 98-page papers, your double-hand count of exams left and just general longing for the solace of winter break, never fear. The Department of Darts and Laurels is here to present you with your First-Of-Its-Kind-Thankscember edition of Darts & Laurels.
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Where the buffalo roam
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Dec. 1, 2010If a certain proposal being discussed goes into effect, Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park will be preserving a whole lot less.
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Power trip: 28th Amendment would set country back
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Dec. 1, 2010If the Tea Party has its way, Tallahassee, Dover, Salt Lake City and company will reign supreme over Washington, D.C.
