Time-honored rivalry takes a back seat The Bruin Bear is hibernating. Why else would a 2-ton piece of aluminum foil be hiding underneath a specially tailored tarp? Read more...

Westwood’s colorful collection of indigents tends to shape most students’ view of Los Angeles’ homeless population. It’s easy to think, for instance, that the panhandler on Broxton Avenue is representative of the 80,000-plus people who spend any given night in the streets, parks and shelters of our city. Read more...

AIDS fight should focus on females At the 2005 Provincial People’s Health Summit in South Africa, hundreds of HIV-positive and -negative women described the challenges they face in their sexual relations. Read more...

Republicans and sex. The two rarely seem to belong together, save for recent Congressional scandals. After all, a common conception of Republicans is that they’re a rather prudish group. Read more...

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We need a draft. Britain has said it will withdraw thousands of troops from Iraq by the end of 2007, and Poland has promised to bring all 900 of its soldiers home by the same time. Read more...

Begin with eerie spy-movie music, red lighting and a silhouette creeping along a darkened hallway. Gunshot. No, make that two. Last week, in what felt like Cold War deja vu, newspapers carried stories of dark Russian deeds. Read more...