Sports
Loss is perfect end to regular season
Nov. 29, 2010Some day, you just might thank the ’Noles for that spanking they laid on your Gators last weekend.
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Mad Hatter
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Nov. 29, 2010Soon-to-be Speaker of The House John Boehner will soon add another title to his name: Fashion Police.
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Kyoto No-Go: Shame on U.S. for not signing treaty
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Nov. 29, 2010Beginning Monday, 15,000 world delegates, journalists and others swarmed to the sunny and spicy Cancun, Mexico, to discuss how in the world we should deal with the pending global climate crisis.
Opinion
WikiLeaks release dumps on diplomacy
Nov. 29, 2010WikiLeaks spewed out a bunch of classified American diplomatic documents this week, and it was disheartening to learn that what passes for statecraft these days could easily be mistaken for a worldly version of Us Weekly.
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Meyer set to face toughest years as head coach
By ANTHONY CHIANG | Nov. 28, 2010TALLAHASSEE — You think you’re heartbroken by Florida’s disappointing season? What you are feeling is nothing compared to one person’s attitude right now.
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Hot Mess: China should enforce sanctions to prevent war
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Nov. 28, 2010Sen. John McCain, the top Republican in the Senate Armed Forces Committee, said Sunday it’s time to start chatting about a “regime change” in North Korea.
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Wiki-Whoops
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Nov. 28, 2010Beginning Sunday, the website WikiLeaks, an organization designed to release covert government documents, began to release batches of top-secret papers.
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Joe Miller wasting time with lawsuit
By Chris Dodson | Nov. 28, 2010In the words of the lyrics sung by Kenny Rogers, “You got to know when to hold ‘em, know when to fold ‘em.”
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Alcoholic chronicles descent into madness, road to sobriety
By Jon Silman | Nov. 28, 2010I see them out sometimes, and sometimes in class the next day. Bodies dry, withered and hated. Revelry at late night hours in 40-watt splendor. Sloppy and slippery moral codes bound to the most basic human needs.
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UF should hire professionals, not academic faculty
By ANDREW PANTAZI | Nov. 25, 2010When I was accepted to UF (after being rejected four times), I yelled. That's how excited I was.
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Picks column: Florida State
Nov. 23, 2010Like classes this week, we have decided to keep this edition of the alligatorSports Brand Picks Column short.
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Leafy Green
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Nov. 23, 2010Good news for drivers looking to stick it to the gas-guzzling Man: The Environmental Protection Agency labeled the soon-to-be-released Nissan Leaf as the best midsize vehicle for fuel efficiency and best car for the environment as the Leaf clocks in at about 99 miles per gallon.
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Why I’m thankful for print journalism
By Sean Quinn | Nov. 23, 2010Since I began writing this column at the beginning of the year, I’ve had a few regrets.
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Picture Perfect
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Nov. 23, 2010We airbrush models and magazine centerfolds without much thought. Beauty, we’re told, is only skin-deep, and our models need to represent the image of perfection.
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Four Loko banned; freedom may be next
Nov. 22, 2010Now that whining politicians and journalists have bravely taken a stand against the malt energy phenomenon known as Four Loko, maybe they can now turn their sights to another powerful combination that can be hazardous to those who imbibe it in too-large doses.
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Monday columnists’s assertions about Congressional lame-duck period are not correct
By Kyle Mitchell | Nov. 22, 2010Columnist Chris Dodson makes an inaccurate point about Congressional lame duck sessions in his Monday column.
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Florida’s wins against weak opponents mean nothing
By ANTHONY CHIANG | Nov. 21, 2010This blowout win was exactly what the Gators needed.
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Condomania: Pope’s ruling problematic, ineffective
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Nov. 21, 2010Never fear, Gators. If any of you were musing on your sexual morality and overall human decency and/or worth while contemplating a trip to confessional after your purchase of a box of Trojans, don’t you worry.
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No one will be safer without Four Loko
By Ian Mitchell | Nov. 21, 2010I come from a family where everyone for several generations has graduated college, and most of my immediate family own businesses. What I’ve noticed most since becoming a student at the university is that I have a very uncommon perspective.
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‘Girl with the Headphones’ not only one with immigration woes
By Gaura McLeod | Nov. 21, 2010People shouldn’t be protesting against immigration reform for illegal aliens. They should be protesting against the immigration laws and system as a whole. For a country founded on immigration, America has some of the most complex, unforgiving, expensive and xenophobic immigration laws of any developed country. The entire system is in dire need of major reform.
