Iraq protests unlike Vietnam era
A July 27 USA Today / CNN / Gallup Poll shows that a majority of Americans doubts the United States will win the war in Iraq. A majority also believes the Bush administration deliberately misled the country over Iraq’s weapons capabilities.
It was the first poll to find that 51 percent [...]

A column opposed to the antagonizing of people who would prefer not to take antidepressants for their whole lives.
From the way people talk about it, you’d think the decision to stop taking antidepressants or to refuse to start taking them was like shunning power steering out of mere stubbornness. “It can help so much,” people [...]

I’m tapping out this week’s masterpiece with some difficulty. Sadly my laptop took a beating last Thursday.
Said beating was not the result of having been laid about by a gang of burly thugs, but rather was a consequence of my driving abilities.
I was happily trundling up to the city when I and the traffic in [...]

By now, Roxy is pretty sure that you overachievers are sick of your glitzy summer internships. “Get me back to the Farm, Roxy!” you scream. The only kind of screaming you’ve been doing all August is from all the TPS reports you’ve had to fill out lately. While at work on a Saturday. This is [...]

Game: Nintendogs
System: Nintendo DS
Nintendo has always had a mission that never quite matched up with the rest of the gaming industry. While others focused solely on pumping out hit sequels with recycled gameplay, the big N has always publicly stated that they try to not only give gamers what they want, but they try to [...]

Whenever September rolls around, that only means one thing — school is starting (and you can’t wear white after Labor Day). You can remedy the torture with a bit of good music, as opposed to the radio’s flood of terrible muzak. So while you’re running around getting pens, filler paper and those pesky things known [...]

Greetings, dear entertainment reader — be you casual peruser or discerning connoisseur, welcome to the first (and last and only etc.) summer movie column in which we, The Stanford Weekly, attempt to engage you, the lucky (hapless) reader, in a scintillating to-and-fro about movies which we have and possibly have not seen in the past [...]

“Hustle & Flow” is a good film that pulls too many punches to be a great one. It’s hard to believe that a movie about a pimp in poverty-stricken Memphis with dreams of becoming a rapper ends up so warm and cuddly that my mom would like it, especially considering that said pimp first feels [...]

Five smaller cousins of the Dish, Stanford’s well-known, massive radio antenna in the foothills, may soon cease to exist. The University has plans to destroy the 60-foot radio dishes pending a demolition permit from the Santa Clara County Planning Office.
The office is conducting a review of the dishes’ historical significance and will issue or not [...]

Daniel Coronell, a Colombian journalist who has received numerous death threats, will participate in the Knight Fellowships program at Stanford as a senior research fellow this upcoming year. He will join 20 other fellows from the United States and around the world.
Coronell is known for his investigative work on drug trafficking, political corruption and Colombia’s [...]