Published Monday, March 17, 2008
THE TRIBUNE'S VIEW
School budget cuts
By HENRY J. WATERS III, Publisher, Columbia Daily Tribune
Faced with the most serious threat of voter rebuff in years, Columbia Public Schools officers are engaged in a commendable but unusual budget-cutting exercise.
TRIB TALK
Germany has paid its debt, in full, to Israel
By CHARLEY REESE
Recently, 25 German professors issued a manifesto that said, in effect, that Germany had paid its debt for the Holocaust "in full" and that Germany should stop giving preferential treatment to Israel and adopt a more balanced foreign policy in regard to the Arab states of the Middle East.
Society pays a high price for officials’ hypocritical indiscretions
By LEONARD PITTS JR.
I admit I’m curious.
What, exactly, is included in $5,500-an-hour sex? Does the woman sweat Dom
Perignon? Are you massaged with an oil distilled from the tears of virgins? Do you get a complementary big screen?
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