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STAFF EDIT: Corruption in action

The Massachusetts Democratic Party is all about “ideas in action.” These ideas apparently include bribery, sexual harassment and granting multi-million dollar contracts that benefit their friends rather than the state.

STAFF EDIT: Blind ambitions

It was only three years ago that Tufts University President Lawrence Bacow declared need-blind admission, which would admit applicants regardless of their financial status, was the “socially responsible thing to do.”

Weekly Columnists

SONI: On the road again

When Jack Kerouac released On the Road in 1957, he was hailed as the king of a bristling new generation of poets and writers known as the Beats.

SELIBER: Citizen Obama

“Citizen Kane”: greatest film of all time. It’s the biggest cliché in all of moviedom, but to use the old Henry Kissinger adage, it has the added value of being true. You thought you’d go your whole life without meeting someone who actually likes “Citizen Kane”—well, here I am!

RILEY: The culture war

This past weekend, thousands rallied at Boston City Hall and in cities around the nation in support of gay marriage. There was reason for proponents of same-sex marriage to celebrate since Connecticut had just recently begun granting marriage licenses to gay couples.

Guest Perspectives

LETTER: COM freshman responds

In his recent letter to the editor (“Problematic freshmen,” Nov. 20), I feel that Martin Morales is mistaken in his assessment of COM 102. As a freshman in the College of Communication, as well as a prisoner of COM 102, my classmates and I were overjoyed to see an article and editorial addressing the injustice we feel as we suffer through “How to BU.”

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