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Pentecostal church service proves adaptive to community
By ALLIE CONTI | Mar. 17, 2009They catch you as soon as you come in.
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Funding education remains top concern for Fla. legislators
By STEVE OELRICH | Mar. 16, 2009As many of you know, the legislature recently met in a special session to make significant cuts to the state's budget for the current fiscal year. This special session was called as a direct result of the economic downturn our nation, our state and our individual communities have all been experiencing. This downturn led to subsequent cuts to many programs, and it will definitely shape the policies we implement, as well as the final budget we pass during the upcoming regular session.
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Consumers jump the gun on firearms
Mar. 16, 2009In response to these depressing days of fiscal failure and the realization of the tenuous grip most people have on their homes and their jobs, Americans of every stripe seem to be clinging to their guns and blogs.
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Proverb spreads Irish cheer
By Erin Costello | Mar. 16, 2009May the Irish hills caress you. May her lakes and rivers bless you. May the luck of the Irish enfold you. May the blessings of Saint Patrick behold you.
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Column over–glorifies Stewart
By William Gower | Mar. 16, 2009Matthew Christ's column on Monday over-glorified Jon Stewart as our nation's court jester who leads a mob in finding the fallacies in claims made by financial news networks in today's economic crisis and in ordinary news networks heading into the Iraq War. I think a criticism of Stewart is warranted today.
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Paper in Peril
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Mar. 16, 2009Today marks another sad day in journalism history - the closing of Seattle's oldest newspaper, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
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Obama takes hard line against AIG spending
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Mar. 16, 2009Kudos to President Barack Obama for standing up to AIG's outlandish intentions of paying out over $100 million worth of bonuses to top executives.
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Spring Break doesn’t have to end today.
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Mar. 15, 2009Welcome back for the home stretch of the spring semester - a mere five weeks remain until the endless possibilities of summer embrace you with open arms.
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Stewart puts Cramer in rightful place
Mar. 15, 2009Online news outlets apparently yanked their thesauruses out from beneath their beds last Thursday, labeling Jon Stewart's interview of CNBC's "Mad Money" host Jim Cramer with headlines such as "Stewart Eviscerates Cramer, CNBC," and "Jon Stewart Thrashes Jim Cramer."
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Comedy Central guilty of boasting bad acts
By ERIC CHIANESE | Mar. 15, 2009There have been a ton of hard-hitting items in the news lately: President Barack Obama has pushed forward stem-cell research, the chairman of the Republican National Committee announced that he's pro-choice and Jon Stewart nearly made Jim Cramer wet his pants. That's all well and good, but I want to talk about something that's really been on my mind. Sunday, Comedy Central roasted Daniel Lawrence Whitney - better known as Larry the Cable Guy - and I shed a tear for comedy.
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UF e–mail fails to deliver
By Ahmed Jorge | Mar. 15, 2009I do not understand how UF has an extraordinary main Web site, but our e-mail service is nothing short of rubbish.
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Darts & Laurels
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Mar. 5, 2009Get out the polka-dot bikinis and bottles of grain alcohol - The Department of Darts & Laurels officially declares Spring Break 2009 open for business.
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Columnist stands by satire
By Joshua Nederveld | Mar. 5, 2009For those of you who don't know me, or for those of you who I have offended, I apologize if you took the meaning of my column to be anything but satire. As an effective satire only mirrors reality, I stand by what I have written for a few reasons.
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Capitol Hill spending isn’t the answer
Mar. 5, 2009It is no secret to anyone (except maybe Florida State economics students) that the economy is in its worst state in years.
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Support Daily Emerald staff
By BRYAN THOMAS | Mar. 5, 2009On Wednesday morning, the entire editorial staff of the Daily Emerald - the student-produced newspaper at the University of Oregon - went on strike in protest of the attempts of its board of directors to install a publisher with unprecedented control over the newsroom.
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Middle ground is needed in dueling gym column debate
By KELLY KORMAN | Mar. 4, 2009I am not about to resort to the name-calling that Spanky from the Little Rascals, or a certain journalism-and-German junior at UF for that matter, would employ as his first response to a female threatening his self-proclaimed territory.
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Partisanship proves grand ol’ loyalty
By JONATHAN LOTT | Mar. 4, 2009Bipartisanship is a dream; a glorious fantasy thought up by politicians who wanted to turn the public against their opponents. In all practicality, it doesn't exist.
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Students should slow down during spring break
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Mar. 4, 2009Perhaps the understatement of the year would be to say that we live in a time of economic uncertainty.
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Body image issues transcend "Barbie"
By NAUDIA JAWAD | Mar. 3, 2009Before Carrie Bradshaw, there was Barbara Millicent Roberts. She turns 50 years old this week, and she's never looked better.
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Online news sources add to cultural illiteracy
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Mar. 3, 2009No news isn't necessarily good news.
