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Big Ten: It's anyone's win

When conference previews come out in the preseason, experts and sports analysts try to figure out which team will rise above the rest to finish with the best record and be named conference champion.  

DLS hosts transgender activist

With a touch of light-hearted humor, trans liberation author and activist Leslie Feinberg spoke to a crowd of hundreds as part of the Distinguished Lecture Series Tuesday night at the Wisconsin Union Theater. 

Eugenides portrays a hermaphrodite

If males write prose in a linear-masculine style and females tend to adopt a circular narrative, is this a result of testosterone or gender upbringing? In the nature versus nurture battle, Jeffrey Eugenides' newest, \Middlesex,"" eventually rests in the nature camp. But if the prose oscillates between linear and circular it is because Eugenides creates a narrator who defies nature and nurture, a narrator who is both man and woman. 

For humans, stupid is as stupid does

Yet another weekend of behaving badly leaves me here, wondering why it is that I do the stupid things that I do. 

United Nations criticizes Israeli aggression

The Washington Post  

'Barbershop' quartet: laughs, love, drama and hair

Going into \Barbershop,"" I promised my roommate Liz that I'd say whether it was funnier than Sunday, when she pointed out while watching ""Dateline"" that Jack LaLanne has two belly buttons. Sorry, Liz, but Ice Cube and company have one-upped you. But ""Barbershop"" doesn't just outdo a freaky torso because of its humor. It also provides an interesting and well-crafted story that mixes it up more than any other movie of recent memory. 

UW preps for life without Lee

There is no question losing one of the best players in college football will hurt the psyche of any team. But with or without Lee Evans, the fate of the 2002 Wisconsin Badgers football team does not rest on the shoulders of an offense that returns seven starters excluding Evans. It relies on a defense that gave up just less than 29 points per game last season and a special teams unit that missed seven field goals and was downright lousy on kickoff coverage.  

Steinbeck echoes in several voices

White-gloved weird man observes odd people

\I wore white gloves. I lived with my mother and father. I was not a child. I was thirty-seven years old.""  

Texas youth playing like veterans

Freshmen are not supposed to act like this. 

Zimbabwe election defies democracy

LONDON'No one was particularly surprised when Robert Mugabe, the incumbent candidate and leader of Zimbabwe for 22 years, was declared victor in the troubled presidential election last week. In fact, after a campaign marked by intimidation, smearing and outright fraud, the only question on most minds was why Mugabe bothered holding an election at all. 

A clean sweep of medals for men's halfpipe

PARK CITY, Utah'A new definition of what is cool about the Winter Olympics was created on a snow-covered Utah mountain slope Monday by a trio of America youngsters who swept the gold, silver and bronze medals in the men's halfpipe competition Monday.  

True form of patriotism appropriate

My wardrobe boasts tapered-leg jeans, olive-green sweatpants and a Members Only coat that gushes goose-down feathers. And yet, to my peers and friends, nothing puts me more out of fashion than this declaration: I am a patriot.  

Neil Halstead focuses on his

Cardinal Arts picks the best of 2001

Rock 'n' roll is certainly aging. If you're an undergrad, there's a fair chance that it's older than your parents. On the surface, the releases of 2001 don't show the artistic maturity you'd expect this aging to bring. However, once you start digging through stacks of releases, you'll get beyond that glossy outer shell of regurgitated pop and bear witness to a thriving world of shrewd underground music. 

Accusations against UW sweatshop practices inaccurate

Once again an \opinion"" is expressed, citing alleged comments and decisions attributed to persons who have never been contacted by the columnist. In this case, Sarah Turner's column lacks accuracy regarding the sweatshop issue and how it's being handled now on campus (""UW's sweatshop stance defies university's goals,"" Nov. 28). 

UW's sweatshop stance defies university's goals

A summary of the goals of UW-Madison is found on the cover of The Daily Cardinal: \The great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found."" Through searching for the truth, the university serves the larger Wisconsin public, but this university has not been honest about its relationship with the sweatshop industry.  

National town meetings would foster understanding

Like most Americans, I believe we need to pursue strategies to bring terrorists to justice and, even more importantly, to prevent any future terrorist acts like that of Sept. 11. But the Bush administration and major corporate media outlets seem to equate prevention with military action. This is dangerous idealism, but the ideal in this instance isn't peace, but rather the history-defying principle that violence ends violence.  

Letters to the Editor

This insipid piece ('Distance shields pacifists from undeniable truth,' Thursday, Oct. 4) demonstrates once again the complete lack of awareness or knowledge of the peace movement on campus and around the world. I too hail from New York City. Just last year I moved here after residing in Manhattan and Brooklyn for the last six years. Believe me, I was desperately worried about my friends and former neighbors. Like Mr. Kleefeld, I am one of the lucky ones untouched directly by this tragedy.