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You know, I seriously doubt I have the self-control to save for my retirement. Can everyone's taxes be raised a tiny bit so the government can save my money for me?

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Please pardon the Alligator’s e-dust

Feb. 14, 2008

For the past few years, newspapers have tinkered with their Web sites, trying new ways to get readers information quickly and to get them involved.

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Valentine’s Day could be worse

Feb. 13, 2008

I thought this would be the easiest column I'd ever have to write.

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Approval ratings signal need for change

Feb. 12, 2008

Another week, and another new low for President Bush.

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Grammys reward self-destructive artist

By GERALD LILES | Feb. 11, 2008

They're tryin' to make me go to rehab.

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Weekend in Boston offers life lessons

By VINCENT MASSARO | Feb. 10, 2008

I don't know if I ever told you, but I went to Harvard. It's true.

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Facebook: It’s time for us to break-up

By CARLY HALLAM | Feb. 7, 2008

Dear Facebook,

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Menu labels would help to fight obesity

Feb. 6, 2008

The saying goes, "you are what you eat." Well if that's the case, everyone should be having an identity crisis.

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Vote to protect real marriages

By BENJAMIN BURWELL | Feb. 5, 2008

Shakespeare once wrote, "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet." Truly it is the substance of the rose - not the name given - that makes it the beautiful flower it is. But what if we took the opposite approach? Would calling a dandelion a rose make it smell sweet? Of course not. There is much in a name.

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Reject marriage amendment to stop paranoia

Feb. 5, 2008

On Friday, Florida4Marriage.org submitted the last few thousand signatures required to get a proposed state amendment banning gay marriage on the November ballot.

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Torture overshadows War on Terror

Feb. 5, 2008

U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey still isn't sure if the interrogation practice known as waterboarding - where an individual is strapped down with a rag placed over the nose and mouth while water is poured over the rag to simulate drowning - constitutes torture. That is, unless he were to be subjected to it.

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Manners, etiquette must be reclaimed

By GERALD LILES | Feb. 4, 2008

Imagine that one day you are strolling toward University Avenue, about to grab a bite to eat before your 1:55 class, when it hits you: that first paper is due in an hour.

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Wall project offers powerful meaning

By VINCENT MASSARO | Feb. 3, 2008

Journalism isn't a real major. You're too quiet. I worry that you'll never get married. Women can't be engineers. Is that a weave you have on? Iron my shirt. Pot-smoking hippy. Fags have AIDS.

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Advertisers discriminate against men

By CARLY HALLAM | Jan. 31, 2008

It is only days away.

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Scholarship bill would waste talents

Jan. 30, 2008

I grew up wandering around the neighborhood with a notebook and a pencil in my hand. You couldn't tell the color of my grandma's refrigerator without lifting up a copy of something I wrote. I was writing complete stories before I knew what a division sign looked like.