Gov.-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger will be in Washington, D.C. today to meet with California lawmakers and Republican House and Senate leaders. “I will be known in Washington not as the Terminator but as the Collectinator,” he said, according to The Los Angeles Times, which reports that he actually will probably not receive much federal money at all. Read more...
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October 27, 9:00 pm
Bush’s plan kills preschool program
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October 26, 9:00 pm
Letters to the editor
Accusations of plagiarism not fact Had Sarah Weir (“Dershowitz article should reveal allegation,” Oct. 24), actually attended Professor Alan Dershowitz’s appearance at Royce Hall last Tuesday, she might have felt no need to fault your reporter, Jennifer Murphy (“Alan Dershowitz discusses “˜The Case for Israel,'” News, Oct. Read more...
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October 26, 9:00 pm
Proposed beach smoking ban has no place in L.A.
Alluding to your own columns is cheesy but, honestly, when did California become as strict as Singapore (see my Oct. 2 column “Return of bar-top dancing not worth armed guards in schools)? Read more...
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October 26, 9:00 pm
Affirmative action vital to fair education
With the ongoing controversy over admissions policies in the UC system, it is clear we are far from having adequately addressed the role of race in university admissions. Read more...
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October 22, 9:00 pm
Dershowitz advocates secular, balanced discussion of Israel
Alan Dershowitz, an attorney, writer and Harvard University law professor, sat down with the Daily Bruin on Wednesday to discuss the Middle East. “¢bull;”¢bull;”¢bull; Daily Bruin: What do you think about “anti-Israel” campus groups you have encountered, and how would you respond to them? Read more...
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October 22, 9:00 pm
Nanotechnology research is wave of the future
Semiconductor integrated circuits have been the principal force for economic growth during the past half-century. These circuits have allowed for the creation of many important products such as personal computers, cellular phones, the global positioning system, medical instruments and many others. Read more...
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October 21, 9:00 pm
Leave striking to highly skilled workers
A wise old entrepreneur named Ralph von Albertson once said, “If I need ’em that bad, I’ll pay ’em that good.” Several days now into the Southern California grocery workers’ strike, it is becoming clearer and clearer this fictitious character is a man of his word. Read more...