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Leonard Pitts Jr. | Gays' help unwanted in war on terror
One of the most shocking sights from the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks was not a building crumbling, a crowd fleeing or a woman caked in dust. Rather, it was a headline crawling across the bottom of the screen on an all-news channel. In the face of a coming war against Middle Eastern terrorist groups, it said, the U.S. government was looking to hire Arabic speakers.
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By Leonard Pitts Jr.,
11/24/2002 03:01 AM EST)
Your Letters
On behalf of the Food Bank of the State College Area Inc., I am urging you once again to support our local United Way campaign. As director of a CCUW member agency, I can tell you first-hand how important your contributions are to the member agencies.
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11/24/2002 03:01 AM EST)
Antiwar movement's virtues should be defended
Joseph Filko (Viewpoints, Nov. 3) feels that there is a "peace movement" which is good, and the "antiwar movement" which is bad, disgusting and anti-American. You can be in favor of peace, but the moment you hit the streets to protest Government policies, you are "politicizing the peace movement."
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11/24/2002 03:01 AM EST)
Rendell poised to be a smart-growth missionary
Ever since 1998, when sprawling development was identified as Pennsylvania's No. 1 environmental problem by Gov. Tom Ridge's 21st Century Environment Commission, state government has officially been committed to fighting it.
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By Thomas Hylton,
11/24/2002 03:01 AM EST)
The diversity that's missing on campus
I am a white man, and I represent the best type of diversity at Penn State. Does this sound like a contradiction? Only because we have been trained to think of diversity in a certain way.
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By Brian Blase,
11/24/2002 03:01 AM EST)
The hidden costs of I-99
The quality of daily life for many Americans includes the frustrating, boring and stressful time dominated by life in their cars, with untold hours of driving, sitting in traffic, and finding parking.
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By Laura Silver,
11/24/2002 03:01 AM EST)
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