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Because everyone else is doing it

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It happened again. It came and it went. As expected, “the most wonderful time of the year” left untold millions of dollars in credit card debt and thousands of pounds in guilty, sugared pleasures. It left trees, stripped of elaborate decor, at our curbsides awaiting pickup. It left Snooki having to change her plans for New Years Eve when New Yorkers firmly refused her request to ride the ball down in Times Square.


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Best of the Kvetching Board 2010

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So Marvin, if you’re not doing anything for the next month or so, want to be on our flag football team? To the girls at Weaver Street Market: Is that a co-op number under your arms? Oh no, that’s just armpit hair. A lot of it.


Erskine Bowles

Tar Heel of the Year: Erskine Bowles

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In 24 days, Erskine Bowles will be effectively unemployed. After five years of service as president of the UNC system, Bowles will officially step down and his replacement, Thomas Ross, will take over the helm. He has large shoes to fill.


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Each year, a chance to reflect

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The Year in Review issue is perennially one of our paper’s most important. I’m not saying that because I get paid to work here. I say it because it’s a chance to actually look at the big picture of what happened around us these past 365 days.


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A cappella groups find it difficult to fund service

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TO THE EDITOR: Ironic. That is how I would describe the article “UNC a cappella groups rely on money for CDs, concerts” (Dec. 1). The piece focused on the substantial amounts of money that it costs to do a cappella effectively. I know this all too well to be true. I have been the treasurer of Cadence, one of the unmentioned a cappella groups, for four years.





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I can't fake this feeling anymore

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It is well-accepted that women can and do fake orgasms. Meg Ryan did her part in establishing this fact for all of posterity with her delighted delicatessen delivery in 1989’s “When Harry Met Sally.” But what about the guys? When it comes to orgasm, are men also lying while laying?



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Private problems: More than money at stake in shifting funding model

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Gov. Bev Perdue said recently that public universities should seek more private funding to offset the impending huge cuts to state appropriations. On its face, her plan makes sense. The state is going to have to make substantial cuts in order to balance this year’s budget. One way UNC could deal with those cuts is to seek funding from other sources like private donors.




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Save a life this holiday season: give some blood

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TO THE EDITOR: This year celebrate the holidays by giving the gift of life to someone in need in our area. University and community residents are all invited to the 12th annual Holiday Carolina Blood Drive, from 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Dec. 14 in Woollen Gym off South Road. The drive goal is 400 units.


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De La Rosa violated the campaign rules in letter

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TO THE EDITOR: In submitting his letter “Ingram’s Board of Elections complaint is legitimate,” De La Rosa committed the very violation of which he has accused Mr. Lee. The very Title VI bill which De La Rosa cites defines campaign staff as “any person who assists the activities of campaigning.” Campaigning is then defined as “any act … that has the effect of promoting the interests of a campaign.” In decrying Lee, one of Ingram’s potential opponents, De La Rosa is advancing the interests of Ingram’s campaign.



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Try a fantasy league of politics

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On Friday, the president’s 18-member, bipartisan deficit commission failed to get the 14 votes it required to send its plan to Congress, though it still had majority support with 11 votes. The panel has been an interesting case study of compromise.



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Census data points to better, denser town down the road

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Recently distributed census data up to 2008 validates what anyone could have seen in recent years: Our community is growing. And yet, as natural as the growth feels, it always raises questions about whether or not it is good for the community. Chapel Hill is on a trajectory to be a much denser, more populated place.