Nearly seven years after Sept. 11, those allegedly responsible for planning the attacks will finally be brought to trial after the U.S. government brought a total of 169 charges against six Guantánamo Bay prisoners this week.
Governor Deval Patrick's initiative to allow in-state tuition for children of illegal immigrants has ruffled more than a few feathers. Patrick's plan would circumvent the state legislature, which shot down a similar proposal three years ago, by going directly to a vote from the state Board of Higher Education.
Don't worry, Jumbos, the Big Brother you probably didn't even know was watching won't be peering over your shoulder for much longer - at least, not as closely as he used to peer.
The governor of New Jersey had to wait to vote because machines weren't working at his polling place. A woman in Chicago was told she wouldn't be able to vote because only one of five election judges was present; her situation was only resolved when Oprah Winfrey heard the tale and stopped by to make sure the woman was able to vote.
Hollywood's portrayal of the U.S. president has always depicted the commander in chief as an impossibly heroic, patriotic warrior. The past eight years have probably made most Americans sigh with longing for the likes of Bill Pullman, Michael Douglas and Harrison Ford to be installed in the Oval Office.
As the presidential election of 2008 draws near, we are standing at an extraordinary moment in American history. In the Democratic primary, the party will make history no matter which candidate represents it in the fall.
Two days ago, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani's once-mighty presidential campaign collapsed in Florida as he received an anemic 15 percent of the vote in his alleged firewall state. Though "America's Mayor" once enjoyed a relatively healthy national lead, his campaign's demise was less a fiery flameout than the sad deflation of a birthday balloon that everyone had forgotten was still floating around.
President Bush used the majority of Monday's State of the Union address to talk about issues in the economy, congressional earmarks and national security.
Last year, the Committee on Student Life (CSL) found Tufts' conservative magazine The Primary Source guilty of harassing students with the publication of a satirical Christmas carol parody, entitled "O Come All Ye Black Folk," and a subsequent piece about Islamic extremism.
In any race for a presidential nomination, a certain amount of mudslinging between candidates is to be expected. What's not to be expected, however, is mudslinging between a candidate and another candidate's spouse.
This week, Tufts organizations in favor of and opposed to abortion rights commemorated the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade by staging demonstrations on both sides of the issue. VOX, Tufts' pro-choice activist group, set up a display of wire coat hangers to represent the women who would have died as a result of unsafe illegal abortions had Roe not been decided in their favor. Jumbos for Life, the pro-life group, presented a display of one thousand pink and blue flags to mourn the lives that never came to pass.
Do you know what you'll be taking this semester? Though classes started less than a week ago, many students already have set schedules for this spring - and some even finalized their courses before winter break.
Instead of getting a jumpstart on their art history reading, most Jumbos will spend their entire three-day weekend celebrating the first week back on the Hill. The Daily suggests that these revelers kick off the festivities by attending the women's basketball game tonight at 7:00 p.m. in Cousens Gymnasium.
For most Jumbos returning to the Hill today, memories of the Dec. 10, 2007 Naked Quad Run have already mercifully faded into the obscurity of the recent past - that is, of course, unless you happen to be a big YouTube.com fan.
By the time classes resume for the spring semester, voting in the 2008 election will have already gotten underway. With the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary in the very near future (Jan. 3 and 8, respectively) the Daily would like to take this last opportunity to offer some parting reflections.
Perhaps it's conditioning. After all, the Tufts interpretation of a "Liberal" education virtually guarantees that at least 50% of your courses will be large lecture classes. But how far does this go towards explaining why so many Tufts students can't seem to talk in class?
A number of colleges and universities are outsourcing their once-school-run e-mail clients to large companies, specifically Google and Microsoft.
At the close of 2007, the world seems like a very frightening place. The threat of global warming is looming ever larger; political and religious extremism has gripped nations from Pakistan to Russia to the Middle East; thousands of U.S. soldiers are going above and beyond the call of duty in a war that seems to have no end. It has been a very scary year.
The Tufts Democrats and the Alliance Linking Leaders in Education and Services (ALLIES) deserve accolades for the symposium that they put on this past weekend. Devoted to discussion about civilian-military relations in the 21st century, the event featured a panel on the contentious issue of private military contractors (PMCs).
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