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Death Penalty Lets Rapists Off Too Easy
By Alicia Milburn
Corsair Staff Writer

When someone is raped, if they manage to survive, they are left with scars that will never fully heal. If they are lucky, years of therapy might make them feel ready to try and live again.

So how is it that the rapist (if caught) could get the chance to only serve between one and three years, then get to move on? This may over-simplify what really happens to the rapist, however forgive me if I could care less about how hard their pathetic existence becomes due to this prison experience.
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Meet The Candidates

Hillary Clinton By Alex Kemel Corsair Staff Writer Clinton has been a lawyer, a senator from New York since 2000, and the former first lady of President Bill Clinton. She now has her sights set on moving into the Oval Office as commander-in-chief. But is she the right candidate for Democrats? Full Story...	Photo courtesy of HillaryClinton.com
Photo courtesy of JohnMcCain.com	John McCain By Will Theisen Corsair Staff Writer There are a few reasons why, despite my vote for Barack Obama, John McCain will be the next President of the United States. The refreshing thing about the likelihood of a McCain victory is that he will win because of what he is, and not the shortcomings of his opponents. Full Story...
Barack Obama By David Fockens Corsair Contributor Writing about Barack Obama’s candidacy with a focus on the issues is something of an impossible feat, not because the candidate has not taken strong positions on a wide array of issues—he has, and I will discuss them—but because his candidacy is very much about the character and story of the man himself. Full Story...	Photo courtesty of BarackObama.com

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Forced Marriages Are Wrong Regardless Of Religion
Jacky Chouljik
Corsair Staff Writer

We get all hyped and bothered when a teacher consensually sleeps with one of her students like in the Mary Kay Letourneau case (can’t blame her, he looked like he was 30), yet we don’t attribute enough of our focus and outrage towards enormous zealot sects like the Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saints that marry off girls as early as eight years old and proceed to rape, impregnate and abuse them.
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Spending Your Refund
Paul Krzemuski
Corsiar Staff Writer

If you have been reading the news or watching television lately, there is all this talk about a tax refund. Why are we getting these refunds? Has everyone in the country won some sort of mega lottery? No, that’s not it.
The reason for the refunds is that the government is trying to react to the recession the United States is entering.
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