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Palestinians should choose more moderate government
By Jason Attermann | Jan. 13, 2009So begins another chapter of the Middle East conflict.
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Is there life for detainees after Gitmo?
By NAUDIA JAWAD | Jan. 13, 2009As the dawn of the Age of Obama approaches, the president-elect is moving to distance himself from the former president as quickly and easily as possible. What better way to spend his first day in office than by closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay, which for so long has been a symbol of the ongoing war on terror?
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Israel ousting Hamas helps Palestinians
By David Drescher | Jan. 13, 2009Peter Nazzal missed a fundamental point in his Tuesday letter to the editor titled "Palestinian supporters not ignorant, should speak up," by failing to acknowledge that by ousting Hamas from power in Gaza, Israel is helping the Palestinian people.
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BCS gear shouldn’t cost us limbs we can’t spare
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Jan. 12, 2009When you're a Gator, you can almost always bet on Christmas coming twice a year.
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BCS system breeds doubt
By Ali Khan | Jan. 12, 2009The BCS is a flawed system that has ruined the mystique of the bowls that existed before 1998.
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Jack Sparrow missing in Somali seas
Jan. 12, 2009While Somali gunboats and high-seas kidnappings have once again moved the most visible pirates back out into the open ocean, the piracy of copyrighted information remains one of the main grassroots responses to the flows of data products deemed legitimate by the controlling global corporate structure.
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Bye–bye Georgie
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Jan. 12, 2009The Editorial Board knows we aren't perfect - look around hard enough and you're bound to come across some minute error somewhere within our pages. But, unlike the outgoing president, when we admit our faults we would like to think we own up to them. Eight long years and you're halfway there, George.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Palestinian supporters not ignorant, should speak up
By Peter Nazzal | Jan. 12, 2009After reading a recent editorial on how Gainesville residents are ignorant about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, I noticed that the the ignorance was directed toward those that support Palestinians.
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Online proposals no substitution for face–to–face romance
By Michelle Hipps | Jan. 12, 2009LuckyD0g21: So what are your plans for this weekend?
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BCS conferences need realignment
By Tyler Antar | Jan. 11, 2009It has recently come to my attention that there are some in the media who do not believe Florida should be crowned the BCS National Champion.
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Obama needs to extend global reach
By Anish Mitra | Jan. 11, 2009What do you call 2,000 Americans at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean? A good start.
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Offices so empty you could hear a mouse fart
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Jan. 11, 2009The Gators took home the championship, Superman will return to Gainesville and the Alligator Editorial Board rocked "I heart Bernie" T-shirts at work Sunday night.
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Gators earned BCS title
By Bob Brown | Jan. 11, 2009As a University of Georgia graduate and devoted Bulldog fan, you may find it hard to believe that I was actually rooting for Florida to win the BCS football national championship.
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Gainesville lacks informed intellectuals
By Yoav Mor | Jan. 11, 2009Driving down University Avenue about a week ago, I saw three typical Gainesville hippies waving a banner comparing Gaza to the Warsaw ghetto of Nazi-occupied Poland.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Defense no excuse for attacks
By Jonathan Bull | Jan. 8, 2009Apparently, Spenser Solis doesn't value every human life with his attempt to justify the collective, disproportional punishment of Gaza as part of Israel's defense when Israel, along with the United States, is one of the few countries to still maintain with a straight face that blatantly offensive attacks are indeed defensive.
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Geico ads: So easy a caveman could do it
By SANDY NADER | Jan. 8, 2009How would you like it if all the money you could have saved on your car insurance was a bundle of cash that constantly watched you with an ever-so-slight smile, your own personal green bundle of buyer's regret?
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Partial coverage breeds U.S. apathy
By NAUDIA JAWAD | Jan. 8, 2009As the battle between Israeli and Hamas fighters in Gaza stretches into its second week, not enough Americans are speaking up against the outrageous destruction of innocent lives.
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Darts & Laurels
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Jan. 8, 2009It's that time of year again. Quickly becoming as commonplace as luminaries like Homecoming and spring break in Cancun, it's the unofficial kickoff to the spring semester - UF finding itself in the BCS National Championship Game.
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Skin–tight shirts fail to make men into campus tough guys
By ADAM WYNN | Jan. 7, 2009You've got to love fads. The concept is solid gold.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Israel attacks not in self–defense
By Haitham Shriteh | Jan. 7, 2009In reading yesterday's article regarding the UF student reaction to the conflict in Gaza, I felt that Naomi Fireman's comments were extremely insensitive to the plight that the Palestinian people now face.
