"You're the kind of woman who will graduate from this college, marry some man and make him miserable." This statement and many others like it were yelled at a young woman in the Alumni Plaza Thursday afternoon. Hearing it, I sprang from my seat on a nearby bench; as a Christian, I was dismayed, not just by the vitriol of the words, but by the fact that they were yelled by one of the UA Mall preachers featured on the Arizona Daily Wildcat's front page last week. [Read article]

I saw a movie recently that ended in a huge explosion. In case you're planning to see it, I won't give away too much about the movie itself, other than that it was intensely boring and long and starred a pudgy George Clooney. But I will say that the final explosion was one of the most disturbing I've ever seen in a movie.

What was so unsettling about it was that the blast was totally silent - it was just an awful, destructive act, carried out noiselessly. The silence afterward magnified the horror of what had happened. [Read article]

Letter writers' claims about Sharon, Lebanon 'ridiculous'

In the mailbag section of Friday's Arizona Daily Wildcat, I noticed two different letters regarding Israel and its prime minister, Ariel Sharon. Both letters spouted unsubstantiated revisionism of Sharon and Israel. In his writing, alumnus Omar Garbareno went so far as to accuse Sharon of being a terrorist himself. A second reply, from self-proclaimed Lebanese student Bethany Slim, claimed firsthand accounts of Israel's "killing, torturing and imprisoning thousands of Lebanese citizens," and said, "I do not know of a single Lebanese citizen who holds any feelings but anger towards Israel." I wonder how many of the 3.8 million Lebanese citizens Slim has interviewed. [Read article]