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Displaced Iraqis seek refuge; met with prejudice, poverty

By Veronica Limeberry

In the throes of national pride and the heat-of-war mentality, Americans tend to forget the real crisis and consequence of war for the innocent civilians of a war-torn Iraq - people whose livelihoods are open to fatal injury or attack at any time of day or night.

FMLA provides community, stimulates political thought, social change

By Phaedra Call-Himwich

Advertisments for Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance (FMLA) often cause a look of bewilderment and perhaps even anger on many faces here at ETSU. Some may not understand what feminism is; others may wonder why these so-called feminists need an alliance of leadership.

Is minority voter baiting fair game or political manipulation?

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Sen. Clinton has been criticized for gender-baiting women voters by doing everything from crying to making jokes about ironing, while Sen. Obama has been known to change speech patterns when addressing black audiences and his surrogates have pointed the finger of racism at both Bill and Hillary Clinton.

Will There Be Blood?

Libertarian dreams of film-maker Paul Thomas Anderson

By Matt Brown

***Spoiler Warning*** With "There Will Be Blood," director Paul Thomas Anderson has crafted a social horror film for the ages. The film even comes complete with Anderson's own Dracula, an oil-sucking prospector by the name of Daniel Plainview. Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), in his own words, is an "oil man," an entrepreneur daring to carve out his fortune drilling in turn-of-the-century California.

ETSU students head south to Mississippi for spring break of service, community interaction

By Jared Story and Ash-Lee Henderson

This spring break 12 ETSU students will journey to rural Neshoba County, Miss., to work in solidarity with the African-American community of Longdale. Community members, working with veterans of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement and contemporary activists from across the nation, are venturing to rebuild the Longdale Community Center - destroyed in a mysterious fire in 1982.

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