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OPINION: Mel Gibson's 'Passion?' It's a 'lethal weapon'

Mel Gibson's "Passion" is getting a bit out of hand. In an article in the New Yorker this week, Gibson's comments about his unfinished movie, "The Passion," and the controversy it has sparked sound more like those of David Korresh than one of Hollywood's favorite leading men.


OPINION: Foreign tongues say a lot about who you are

A message for the first-years who didn't test out of their foreign language requirement: Now that you're in college, the rest of the world couldn't care less about how you were captain of your debate team in high school, scored a 770 on the verbal section of your SATs and how your grandmother's friends say you "speak so well." When it comes to a language other than English, you probably don't know Jacques.


Brandeis may get fishy cash, but it's Legal

West Palm Beach, Fla._ When the newly-dubbed International Business School receives a gift later this month from Legal Sea Foods Chief Executive Roger Berkowitz, it might just be the fishiest wad of cash ever given to the University.


Opinion: Don't like the Iraq war? Blame grandma.

When Robin Cook, Britain's leader of the House of Commons, gave his moving resignation speech to a crammed house of parliament two weeks ago, he unwittingly indicted my home county for bringing the world to the brink of annihilation."What has come to trouble me," Cook said, "is the suspicion that if the hanging chads in Florida had gone the other way and Al Gore had been elected, we would not now be about to commit British troops to Iraq."In other words, many of your grandparents should be blamed for the war in Iraq.


Demand for morning-after-pill grows

Fearing unwanted pregnancy, over 73 percent more of Brandeis' female students have taken the prescription drug commonly referred to as the "morning-after pill" this academic year, according to the University health center.Last year, the health center recorded a total of only 54 students requesting what medical professionals call the "emergency contraception" or EC pill.


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