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Hopelessly hopeful

Eddy Curry has a lawsuit to focus on, Danilo Gallinari has chronic back problems to cope with and the New York Knicks organization has Stan Van Gundy's harsh words about Patrick Ewing to react to.?


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UB's Top 10 Wastes Of Your Time

Second to baseball, I'm convinced that our national pastime must be giving advice. As Americans, we all love telling others what to do; whether we're showing the Iraqis how to form a democracy or our younger siblings how to make water-balloons, our natural tendency is to assume a position of expertise.


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"Senior Year, A Sobering Reality"

It's a sobering thought, realizing that you're a senior. Perhaps "sober" isn't the right word - after all, everyone's over 21, so we're finally allowed to drink ourselves silly without posing as siblings or altering our driver's licenses.


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Congress shall make no law . . .

After being here for nearly a semester, everything on campus is starting to become familiar - cave-like brick buildings, $3 sandwiches, the cameras that make me avoid the Student Union, and the general reluctance of students to be opinionated.


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The Night of Broken Glass

Let us not forget the story of Kristallnacht: The Night of Broken Glass. On Nov. 7, 1938, a 17-year-old Jew named Herschel Grynszpan assassinated Nazi Foreign Service officer Ernst von Raith in Paris.


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The Option is Mine

Ever since the issue surfaced during the 1996 elections, I've pondered over whether prayer should be permitted in public school.


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