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M. SwimmingFriday:Miami(Ohio)142Buffalo98W. SwimmingSaturday:Bowling Green181Buffalo119W. BasketballSaturday:Toledo85Buffalo77M.


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Swim teams sink in away meets

Despite strong individual performances, both the men's and women's swimming teams suffered losses that set them back in the Mid-American Conference standings.


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Story time for grownups

From the twisted mind of up-and-coming filmmaker Guillermo del Toro comes the most undeniably original and visually stunning fantasy tale told in years."Pan's Labyrinth" shatters the conventional image of modern film narrative by creating a mesmerizing, violent and at times terrifying fairy tale that was conceived strictly for adult audiences.


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Bulls downed in overtime by Rockets

It took five extra minutes to decide Saturday's contest between Buffalo and the Toledo Rockets. The game included 10 ties, seven lead changes and a 70-70 score at the end of regulation.


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Princeton Review: UB among worst of best

Due to the students that have voiced their negative views over the years in the Princeton Review's online survey of the "top" 361 US colleges, UB ranks high among the Review's least desirable categories.Grading everything from professors to campus aesthetics, each year the Review allows students to air opinions, positive or negative, about the campuses they call home.


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The Spectrum Watchlist

This Week's Theme: Movies that twistClassic: The Usual Suspects ("1995") This film reinvented the twist ending for a new generation.


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Twenty killed on third deadliest day in Iraq

A U.S. Black Hawk helicopter crashed Saturday afternoon northeast of the capital, killing all 13 American soldiers on board, and at least seven soldiers died in other parts of the country, officials said.


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Think before you ink

Anyone walking around campus with their eyes open is likely to see a pair of the now overly-popular Australian Uggs side-stepping a pile of snow somewhere nearby.


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Recipe Box

As the semester gets underway and all of those unread textbooks and assignments begin to pile up on your desk, you're going to wish it was still winter break.


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Correction

In Friday's issue, the column "Are you ready for some foot...ball?" was truncated by a printing error.


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Akron Zips up victory in final minutes.

On the back end of a road trip to the Buckeye state, the men's basketball team fell in a close contest to the Akron Zips Sunday afternoon, 66-59.Head coach Reggie Witherspoon led his team into the unfriendly confines of the James A.


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