With a new rule banning all desserts in one elementary school, kids cannot have their cake and eat it too.

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When I sat down at my computer, I was going to write a column on why I think Baylor should require mandatory service from every Baylor student.

Eight years ago on a night in March, they interrupted our regularly-scheduled programs for a breaking news bulletin. We sat before our televisions and watched rockets arc into the skies over Baghdad. Many of us had doubts about the stated and implied causes of the war that began that night: the need to secure Saddam Hussein’s stockpile of WMD and to retaliate for his part in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.