Evangelists allowed to differ on issues I was extremely offended by Ryan Masaaki Yokota’s submission (“Fundamentalism is an attack on reason,” Jan. 27), which mischaracterizes evangelical Christians. Read more...

Abba Eban, the brilliant statesman and scholar, once opined that the Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. Last week’s election was no exception. Read more...

UCLA has taught me valuable lessons. For instance, sweatshirts are particularly useful for smuggling food out of the dining halls, and most skateboarders will not fall (surprisingly enough) when going down the hill on Charles E. Read more...

In a political game chock-full of empty rhetoric and waste-of-time spectacles, the annual State of the Union address that President Bush will give to the nation in front of a joint session of Congress tonight is the most vapid, inconsequential, meaningless and self-reverent of them all. Read more...

I half expected my conversation with one of the resident assistants of De Neve Plaza to take place inside a dark downtown bar. I would apprehensively walk across a floor of broken peanut shells before spotting a hooded figure wearing sunglasses at the far corner booth. Read more...

Custom textbooks could also be pricey After reading “Custom texts trump pricey new editions” (Jan. 25), I was happy that the issue of high textbook prices was receiving attention. Read more...

It is no surprise that Hamas has such a large amount of support from the Palestinian people. While this organization is routinely dismissed as simply a terrorist cell, the scope of its operations goes beyond the violent counter-struggle to Israeli aggression. Read more...