Studying abroad is like starting a new life. You arrive at a
school far away from your home country, and at first you
don’t know anybody.

Here’s what the history books might say about the U.S. war
on Iraq: About a month after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11,
2001, the Bush administration started to plan for a war against
Iraq under the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein.

What if they held elections and nobody came? Los Angeles will
find out today, as the mayoral runoff election will most likely
only attract about one-fourth of the eligible voters.

Lynndie England grew up in Fort Ashby, W. Va., as the daughter
of a railway worker before joining the U.S. Army and being deployed
to Iraq.

Cable TV producers are running scared these days. At least
that’s what a $250 million ad campaign running since May 1
suggests. The reason? Indecency on their programs.

The weight problems of the people of the United States vanished
overnight last week. At least that’s what a study conducted
by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National
Cancer Institute indicates.

This past Tuesday, white smoke rose over the Sistine Chapel in
Rome. Since that moment, a new pope has presided over the more than
1 billion members of the Catholic Church.

By the end of today, millions of Americans will have filed their
taxes, and most of them will not be paying much more than they have
in the last few years.

You’ve just started to read this column. In about two
seconds you made the decision that this piece of writing might be
worth spending the next five minutes on.

The first pages that fourth-year student Joshua To sees when he
flips open his school binder are lists of customers, stores and
events. Besides working on a double major in design and
communication studies at UCLA, To runs the clothing company
Resonance with three other students.