Perspectives

By JJ Bowman Associate Editor Two things in the news this week deserve discussion. Barbra Streisand, the star of “Yentl” with a face for radio, has again forced herself upon these pages. First we used the Graphic on multiple occasions to concede the depressing point that Streisand did not single-handedly dim the theme tower. As much as so many of us wish, she did not act … [Read more...] about Barbra, Reagan and the horror of toy guns

Ebadi wins Nobel Prize in milestone for human rights. By Rudabeh Shahbazi Assistant Perspectives Editor Amid escalating tensions with the West, Iran is in the news again, but not for its weapons or terrorists. Iran is in the news because a female human rights lawyer has won the Nobel Peace Prize. Behind the violent Middle East conflicts that saturate television screens, … [Read more...] about Peaceful perseverance

By Kyle Jorrey Sports Editor In the final days of 1990, almost four months after Saddam Hussein’s troops had marched into Kuwait, Osama bin Laden arranged a sit-down with the Al-Sauds, the ruling family of Saudi Arabia. In that meeting, Bin Laden asked the family not to accept U.S. military aid; instead, he offered to provide the Saudis with a force of Islamic fighters to … [Read more...] about At long last, U.S. presence in Saudi Arabia disappears

More than 800,000 acres, 3,500 buildings and 22 lives later, the California fires have at long last quelled to a contained simmer. As the world continues to look on, firefighters work around the clock in select locations around Los Angeles and San Diego, salvaging any remaining property untouched by the fires’ wrath. With the recent rainfall and lower temperatures, the … [Read more...] about Time to help fire victims

By Kent Eckhardt Contributing Writer “So where are these weapons?” I don’t know. But when these critics say “they never existed,” I expect answers on how all these claims ever existed. So what about that massive four-foot high stack of CIA documents (submitted to Congress last June as validation) detailing all the CIA’s probing of Saddam’s weapons, those British dossiers, … [Read more...] about Clear evidence of weapons reveals war was the answer