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Model faith
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Aug. 30, 2010Bring out the rosaries and communion juice, ladies (and gents), Tebow's back on top.
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Hurrican't: New Orleans recovering five years later
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Aug. 30, 2010Time sure does fly when you're battered by hurricanes, fleeing your home to live in a sports arena, relying on FEMA for pretty much everything and worrying about, well, surviving.
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Florida primary results show media predictions mean little
By Brittany Fox | Aug. 30, 2010A guy walks into a bar. He gets a drink, stands up and says, "All politicians are crooks." A man in the corner replies, "Hey, I resent that." First guy asks, "Why, are you a politician?" Man in the corner says, "No, I'm a crook."
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Ignoring intolerance solves nothing
By Dave Schneider | Aug. 30, 2010The Dove World Outreach Center's hateful plan to burn Qurans on Sept. 11 prompts a lot of responses from people.
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Better Late Than Never: Equality not a partisan issue
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Aug. 29, 2010There are only a few, very rare events in this world that bring the Editorial Board so much joy at once.
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Reader questions qualities of real leaders
By David Gallo | Aug. 29, 2010Bryan Griffin's column concerning Barack Obama is a wonderful example of the dishonest and unproductive state of political debate in this country.
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Fla. voters judge on money, not merit
By Chris Dodson | Aug. 29, 2010There is a crook trying to get inside the governor's mansion.
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Darts & Laurels
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Aug. 26, 2010We hope you survived your first week of syllabus scanning, Sakai navigating and book buying relatively unscathed.
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Failure to pass resolution against burning angers senator
By Neil Gundavda | Aug. 26, 2010In Student Senate Tuesday night, the Student Alliance brought forth a resolution to condemn the Quran burning event by the Dove World Outreach Center scheduled for Sept. 11. The event is already being protested by many outraged students and has been met with vehement opposition from local and national media groups. The fact that the traditionally open and tolerant city of Gainesville will be the site of such an egregious event is a blight on our community and everyone who lives within it.
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Most practical freshman advice yet
Aug. 26, 2010For the past two months, y'all have been subjected to a never-ending parade of "freshman advice" columns where writers muster up all the meaningless humanitarian niceties and spew them on print in their best imitation of Dr. Phil, devoid of anything entertaining or soul-rotting.
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Foot in Mouth: Editor apologizes for unfortunate typo
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Aug. 25, 2010We’re sure you’ve heard about Wednesday’s front-page nightmare of a typo — and if you haven’t, we aren’t going to repeat it.
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Labor secretary: Make labor day a day on, not a day off
By Hilda L. Solis | Aug. 25, 2010For many college students, Labor Day means the end of a summer job or summer fun, the start of a new school year and perhaps the kickoff of
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Obama: a leader who doesn’t lead?
By Bryan Griffin | Aug. 25, 2010A leader, above all else, has a responsibility to those he or she governs.
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Jailbird
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Aug. 25, 2010The Queen Bee is free.
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Freshmen should lose the facial hair
By ANDREW PANTAZI | Aug. 24, 2010The grass is green. The flowers are blooming. And the chin pubes are sprouting.
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Uplifting Upset
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Aug. 24, 2010Happen to catch the Miss Universe Pageant Monday evening? Even know it was on TV? Yeah, we didn't either.
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Bad Eggs: No one is safe from scary foods
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Aug. 24, 2010
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Sour Semantics
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Aug. 23, 2010After an American soldier was killed in Iraq on Sunday following the U.S. miltary's removal of combat units from the country, we, and certainly the rest of the country, are left with a sour taste in our mouths and a yearning for what "removal of combat troops" really means - if anything.
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Stop abusing Facebook statuses
By C.J. Pruner | Aug. 23, 2010Picture in your mind the most wonderful, pristine girl in the world. She cooks, rips your friends when they’re being complete tools, and is down for making any place her personal bedroom. For about 75 percent of you, the image of Vince’s porn-star girlfriend from Entourage pops up. Go with it. For girls, just picture Don Draper covered in flowers and Nicholas Sparks novels.
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Freshman: Try new things, be individual
By ANDREW PANTAZI | Aug. 22, 2010I’ve got some advice for freshmen.
