Opinion
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Convenience versus Safety: Drug abuse demands stricter laws
By Courtney Carlo 2005 In the land of drive-through windows and one-hour photo, inconvenience is avoided at all cost. When an inconvenience does come along,...
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Is Ronald McDonald to blame for fat America?
By Courtney Carlo 2005 Ronald McDonald and Colonel Sanders are plotting against you. Yes, that’s right. You. They are part of the restaurants’ conspiracy to...
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‘And then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils …’
By Courtney Carlo and Cyrus Moussavi 2005 When walking into Cedar Falls High School, one of the first things one notices (besides the prison fence)...
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Commercialized cloning disappointing, wasteful
By Courtney Carlo 2005 After the death of Nicky the First, his heartbroken owner decided to have him cloned. Hence, Little Nicky was created. Last...
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Increase the Peace: Similarities outweigh differences; Waterloo, CF rivalry pointless
By Collin Braley 2005 Upon moving to the Cedar Valley in the summer of 1999, I started off eighth grade transferring to Hoover Middle School....
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Dishboy victimized by diner politics
By Collin Braley 2005 Hi, everyone. I’m back in my hole again, of course. Still trying to get caught up from the never-ending pile of...
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State Cheerleading Woes: Hopeful staff writer overshadowed by boy cheerleaders
By Collin Braley 2005 Failure is “to miss performing an expected service or function for oneself.” The “expected function” I had set for myself was...
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Point/Counterpoint: Cartoon instigates potentially dangerous staff ‘circus’
By Robert Bartels and Cyrus Moussavi 2005 Cyrus: All of our problems started when Robert opposed a potential Our View about the famous Family Circus...
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Patriot Act II meets opposition
By Margaret Poe 2004 In today’s world, it is dangerous to be a Muslim. In fact, in some cases, our federal government considers it a...
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Same sex marriage ruling a step in right direction
By Margaret Poe 2004 Ahh, a wedding day. Rings are gleaming, rice is flying, flower girls are strewing rose petals right and left. The world...
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Fall Festival arrives for Cedar Valley Arboretum
It’s Fall Festival at Cedar Valley Arboretum. Scarecrows are set up to welcome all the visitors for fall. During these four weeks of Fall Fest, on average, 1,500 people...
