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Left Coast: News without numbers
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Left Coast: Judging juries
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The framers of the Constitution considered jury trials the last bulwark of a free people.
Left Coast: Next steps for equal access to education
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Last week, Stanford announced that it would no longer charge tuition to students with family incomes below $100,000 a year, taking a major step toward equal access to education.
Left Coast: On the possibility of death
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Left Coast: Obama's honesty lesson
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Left Coast: We will make your children sick
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Left Coast: The problem with buying healthcare
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Left Coast: Prop 93 exposes need for deeper reform
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Left Coast: The triathlon primary
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Left Coast: Why Republicans can’t unite around a candidate
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Left Coast: Biofuels policy: California leads, candidates fail
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Left Coast: Pakistan: The case for radical foreign policy
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Left Coast: The Barack Obama pre-post-modern
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Left Coast: An effective response to SoCal wildfires
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I drove down to Los Angeles Monday night with my girlfriend to report on the wild fires that have been raging this week in Southern California.
Left Coast: Constitutional reform in California: the citizens’ assembly proposal
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Left Coast: Rumsfeld and other Hoover Institution kooks
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Donald Rumsfeld is our new neighbor. Among his pals at the Hoover Institution, he is far-and-away the one with the most blood on his hands, but he’s certainly not the only kook hanging around the ever-so-phallic tower on our campus.
Left Coast: Fixing and not fixing the Electoral College
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Facebook privacy
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Loans bill would hurt students
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Congress is one vote away from approving a budget that would deal a devastating blow to those of us who weren’t lucky enough to be born into families that can afford $40,000 a year for tuition.
Beating Arnold
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Six months ago, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger seemed unbeatable. Thanks to sky-high approval ratings, international celebrity status and a pliant media, no amount of criticism seemed to stick to him.
Three questions to ask ASSU candidates
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For those of us who didn't remember that Stanford has a student government, this week is the annual reminder. Every year, the ASSU pauses whatever it is it does to renew a pledge of "accountability, transparency, and communication" or some permutation.
What kind of conservative are you?
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If you’re a campus conservative, you’re all the rage these days. Egged on by your grown-up backers, the media is going gaga over your resurgence.
Remembering Dr. MLK, Jr. — more than just a Civil Rights activist
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Next Monday, a broad spectrum of Americans will honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. — broader than that which ever honored him while he was alive.
Congress should investigate elections
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By KAI STINCHCOMBE
I think Bush won Ohio in this year’s 2004 election. I would even say I’m pretty sure. But given our country’s current electoral system, it’s impossible for anyone to say he’s positive.
Remembering genocide, ignoring genocide
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The U.S. and several allies are pushing for a special Holocaust memorial session of the U.N. on Jan. 24, three days before the 60th anniversary of Auschwitz’s liberation by Soviet troops in 1945.
Post office glitches cause voting problems
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One wishes every incoming Stanford freshman had the same public spirit my friend Kai Lukoff does: “When they can’t get me my ginger snap cookies from home, yeah, that sucks.
University free speech restriction are illegal
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Stanford is illegally restricting my constitutional rights. Yesterday, they prevented me from engaging in a peaceful assembly on campus to exercise my freedom of speech.
Hoover: How to deal
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In 1932, the U.S. economy was shrinking at 10 percent per year and one in four workers had lost their jobs. The Republican candidate, Herbert Hoover, seemed unwilling to recognize the disaster or change his policies.
Balanced but not fair
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Find below five stories regarding campus politics, and the lessons that we should draw from them:
1) Toward the end of last year, Omar Shakir, the extraordinarily competent ASSU advocacy chair, called together the leaders of several campus groups interested in registering students to vote.
Has our campus bubble grown or burst?
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On the fourth anniversary of a protest brutally suppressed by the British government, John Hancock declared that Americans “dread nothing but slavery.
Kai offers his thoughts on the Republican Party’s convention in New York
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Enjoy these next two months: You won’t see the “compassionate” side of the Republican Party for another four years. We have heard a lot from the pro-choice, gay-tolerant, pro-gun safety, anti-deficit wing of the Republican Party on TV these last few days.
California’s state government: Taxation without representation
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Our local assembly member Joe Simitian tells a story about trying to line up legislative votes to put a constitutional amendment on the ballot that would reduce the threshold for local governments’ school parcel tax propositions from 66 percent of the popular vote to 55 percent.
Nader, Kerry, McCain and the Democratic Convention; Kai answers all your questions
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Dear Kai:
Rhetoric aside, it’s clear that — like in 2000 — Nader will take more votes from Kerry than Bush, and so could be once again be one of many factors causing Bush to be elected.
Three cheers for unilateral moves in the Middle East: Toward peace, without trust
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Imminent peace between Israel and Palestine?
A three-step program for cheese-eating surrender monkeys
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The leaders of France, Germany, Russia and a number of smaller countries — dubbed “Old Europe” by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld — criticized George W.
Workplace Policies report marks a long-awaited step forward
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With little fanfare, the Presidential Advisory Committee on Workplace Policies recently released its long-awaited final report at its Web site, http://workplacepolicies.
A new elections code: a recommendation for the ASSU
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The recent ASSU election was, frankly, nauseating. Campaigning was so intense as to be counterproductive: Amid contests over who had more, bigger and better flyers up in White Plaza, people lost sight of the real issues.
RIAA lawsuits help terrorists
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It’s a cliche these days: The Bush drug czar says smoking pot helps terrorists; John Ashcroft says Senate oversight of the Justice Department helps terrorists and Arianna Huffington says driving SUVs helps terrorists.
Hoover: No cause for protest
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By KAI STINCHCOMBE
One thing I admire about the folks over at the Hoover Institution — the right-leaning think-tank associated with the beautifully Freudian tower that defines the Stanford skyline — is that they sure know how to piss off liberals.