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Google's monopoly on Internet convenience making life easier

On special occasions, you can log onto www.google.com and find the Web site's banner with an array of festive decorations, depending on the holiday or commemorative date. Instead, Google's webmasters should rethink this scheme and portray their Web site in a more accurate light — the two Os should be eyes. Google has become the Big Brother of the world — and you don't hear me complaining.

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Mich. needs more higher ed funding

Two coinciding figures were recently released, and both leave Michigan students and employees-to-be in even more of a bind than they were already in.

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Change in Bush's rhetoric means little

In another effort to save the sinking ship that is the GOP, President Bush spent Wednesday giving a speech and a press conference about the Iraq war — making a startling claim that what has happened in Iraq "rests with me." He's not exactly taking responsibility, but with only a week and a half left before midterm elections, that's probably all the "responsibility" the president is going to give us. The purpose of the press conference-slash-save-the-GOP gaggle was for the president to discuss Iraq, though almost everything he says about the conflict is contrary to what reports coming out of the country say.

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City Center II will improve downtown

If all goes according to plan, the big, ugly, empty ex-bank building on the corner of Abbott Road and Grand River Avenue will soon be history. In its place, the City Center II project may be installed.

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Stop listening to DTN; rentals available all year

A plane to catch in three days, a DTN lease ending in 48 hours and nowhere to live for fall '06.

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Bice: Stop trying to talk people out of religion

In the opening of John Bice's column, "Religious beliefs don't justify outlawing stem cell research" (SN 10/24), he once again asserts that religious thinking isn't founded on rationality or evidence.

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Article neglects adoption as alternative to abortion

There are many viewpoints other than pro-life or pro-choice in regard to abortion. The State News fails to realize this and never discusses it, as Tara Thoel's "Students discuss opposing abortion views" (SN 10/19) demonstrates. In her article, Thoel discusses how both pro-life and pro-choice organizations held events during Young Women's Week of Action for U.S.

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Casualties of war mourned, not those killed by abortion

There's nothing quite like being an American. The satisfaction alone that comes with watching football on Monday night or our favorite team in the World Series is only enhanced by being members of the first modern and longest-running democracy.

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Make sure security deposit is returned to you properly

I would like to warn students who are looking for a place to live next year. I moved out of The Village at Chandler Crossings this past August.

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Bush's power shouldn't go unchecked

President Bush's newest vocabulary words are habeas corpus. He probably can't pronounce it, he definitely can't spell it and he might not even know what it means, but one thing is clear — he's gotten rid of it. Last week Bush signed what resembles an unconstitutional bill "in memory of the victims of September the 11th." The bill creates new rules for prosecuting and interrogating terrorism suspects, and he tagged it as "a way to deliver justice to the terrorists we have captured." As if using the victims of the Sept.

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State's economic woes make DeVos best pick

In the race for governor, once all the spin, attacks and counterattacks are cut through, there is one inescapable reality: Michigan's economy is in serious trouble. We are consistently ranked last in the nation in unemployment.

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ASMSU bill won't halt cheating

ASMSU is teaming up with the University Committee on Academic Policy, or UCAP, to tackle academic dishonesty.

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Obama exciting choice for 2008 presidential election

My love affair with the handsome, intelligent Barack Obama began in 2004, while living in Chicago, when he won an Illinois Senate seat — with 70 percent of the vote, no less.

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DeVos' company uses questionable techniques

If anyone would really like to see the jobs that Dick DeVos' company is creating, the only thing they would need to do is go to the Team of Destiny seminars at Breslin Center Oct.

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Rep. Rogers working to fund alternative fuels

Every day, Mike Rogers is fighting to protect our local jobs by making sure we keep our hard-earned pensions, keeping taxes low and cracking down on countries, such as China, that are stealing American jobs.

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Paying for press hurts democracy

With "news" sources like the right-wing slanted Fox News, it can be hard enough to decipher fact from fiction.

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No reason for editorial board to support Granholm

I'm tired of The State News' constant editorial page rhetoric on the governor's race.

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Religious beliefs don't justify outlawing stem cell research

A letter by Jason Smolinski, "It is our duty to speak up for defenseless embryos," (SN 8/4), deserves a belated response.

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Fans aren't disappointing, only football program

News flash to Shay E. Tullar, who wrote "Spartans fan reaction to game disappointing," (SN 10/17) — the only thing that is disappointing this fall is our football program.

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Victim of Katrina still suffers from devastation

This letter is in response to "MSU earns recognition for local service, Katrina relief," (SN 10/19). A quote from the article read, "When we got there, one thing we realized was that they just wanted someone to listen to their stories and they didn't want to be forgotten." As a Mississippi Gulf Coast native who lost everything in the storm, I was instantly intrigued by the headline, but it was this quote that put me on the verge of a breakdown in the middle of class.