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"Mature sound, still the same Goo"

By DAVE WATTS | Apr. 28, 2006

It's been four long years since the release of "Gutterflower," but the Goo Goo Dolls are back and sharing the love with all the fans on "Let Love In."The new album "Let Love In," which has spawned radio hits "Better Days" and "Give A Little Bit," is a relatively calm and soft album compared to their days of heavy guitars, such as the 1995s "A Boy Named Goo."After what seems like forever since The Edge religiously played "Long Way Down," the Goo Goo Dolls have grown up collectively over the past decade and it is apparent on the new record.

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Note from The Editor

By JEREMY G. BURTON | Apr. 28, 2006

In February, a provocative column about abortion ran on our opinion page. If you were to look for it on our Web site today, however, it does not appear in our archives.

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Schedule

Apr. 28, 2006

W. TennisMAC TournamentFriday: at Bowling Green, 2 p.m. Track & FieldGina RelaysFriday: at Penn Relays, 2 p.m.BaseballFriday: at Akron , 3 p.m.Track & FieldSaturday: vs.

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Book List

By KARA BENNETT | Apr. 28, 2006

Current: "The Areas of My Expertise" by John Hodgman (2005)Hodgman audaciously parodies the almanac, but instead of publishing stoic summations and extrapolations, he litters his text with lies.

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Summer movie preview

By DREW WEITZ | Apr. 28, 2006

With all the free time where classes used to be, chances are you'll be going to the movies a lot more often this summer than during the school year.

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A few important messages from an unimportant man

By KENNETH ILGUNAS | Apr. 28, 2006

As a column writer this past year, I'll be the first to admit that I've written on a lot of rather meaningless topics.

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Let them wear lipstick

By GINA ROSEMELLIA | Apr. 26, 2006

In a country where a woman can have her hands cut off for wearing nail polish, opening a beauty school seems unthinkable.

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Sidelines

Apr. 26, 2006

Special KSeniors James Kingsley of the baseball team and Kristen Ortman of the women's tennis team were named this week's UB Male and Female Athletes of the Week.Kingsley, the Bulls' starting first basemen, scored six times while hitting .632 including two doubles, a home run, and six RBI over the past week.

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"Library hours secured, Assembly fights grade policy changes"

By ROBERT PAPE AND CHRISTINE SETLOCK | Apr. 26, 2006

Thanks to resolutions passed unanimously by the Student Association Assembly, students will soon see more blue-light emergency phones, better campus lighting and extended hours at the Undergraduate Library.Protection against the Faculty Senate's changes in grading policy, however, may prove harder to come by, as the power of the Assembly's rebuking resolution is limited.Assembly Chair Hassan Shibly called the blue-light and library resolutions a real victory."There have been break-ins and there have been crimes on campus, and that's something that may be more easily prevented just with the lighting," he said.

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Bulls fall in game one of Big 4 Baseball Classic

By COREY GRIFFIN | Apr. 26, 2006

Good pitching and good defense win games, but the baseball team had neither in the opening game of the Big 4 Baseball Classic at Amherst Audubon Field Tuesday afternoon.Canisius dropped the Bulls by a score of 12-4 in the two teams' first meeting since a bench-clearing brawl ended their last game after only three innings."I thought we came out flat," said Buffalo head coach Bill Breene.

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Checking expectations

By JEREMY G. BURTON | Apr. 26, 2006

Check your hopes, Sabres fans, and don't say them aloud. We can't afford to get ahead of ourselves.

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This Week's Theme: One Fry Short of a Happy Meal

By RACHEL BELLAVIA | Apr. 26, 2006

Finals week gives everyone a good excuse to lose it. So while you may be running into walls with a helmet and a straight jacket, here are some songs that let you do it in style.

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It's tough being a consumer

By RACHEL BELLAVIA | Apr. 26, 2006

I've bought a lot of crap over the years - used furniture that I planned on painting but never did, a crate of potpourri tarts for a potpourri burner that I never bought, a large collection of rubber insects, and many, many storage containers that now only house each other like nesting dolls.Consumerism isn't entirely evil - it creates jobs and a reason to work.

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Softball drops fifth straight

By ROB TUCKER | Apr. 26, 2006

Heading into the weekend, the softball team was caught in the cellar of the Mid-American Conference and hoped to find a way out.

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Scoreboard

Apr. 26, 2006

BaseballTuesday:Canisius12Buffalo4

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Waste of money

By JOYCE WANG | Apr. 26, 2006

The last thing 40-year-old men and women need is a drama-comedy flick to tell them how bad life can be at that age.

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Food for thought

By JEREMY G. BURTON AND ELI GEORGE AND SILAS RADER | Apr. 26, 2006

When it comes to food, college students are cheap, and rightfully so. There's tuition to pay, the cost of car insurance, the monthly rent and the price of books, so the last thing we want to do is spend more than we have to on a slice of pizza.On campus, though, where it can often feel like our wallets are being pinched by the cost of mozzarella sticks, there are few options for the hungry other than dining halls, food courts, and caf?

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Carnival music

By KARA BENNETT | Apr. 26, 2006

If you've ever wondered why horror movies often feature carnivals, it's because there is something intrinsically cryptic about them.

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Black attacks

By BRIAN HIBBARD | Apr. 26, 2006

Lewis Black may not be able to shake his spastic angry finger at you through the speakers, but his characteristic wit and in-your-face attitude on his new CD "The Carnegie Hall Performance" is just like watching a performance of the irate comedian live."Lewis Black: The Carnegie Hall Performance" is a simply titled double-album chock full of all the expected maniacal, political and diabolical ideas from the comedian and playwright who is perhaps most famous for his Back in Black segment on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart."The first track may give listeners the wrong impression, as Black goes on for a while about how Carnegie is an inappropriate venue for a puissant like himself because respectable composers like Leonard Bernstein have performed there.

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Helping kids rise above disorder

By LESLIE CHURCH | Apr. 26, 2006

In one of his family's home videos, 8-year-old Colin Murphy, wearing an orange striped shirt and a big grin, dances around the room singing Bob Dylan's "When I Paint My Masterpiece" while his dad Christopher pretends to play the guitar.Colin knows every word to the song as well as the instrumental middle he hums perfectly.What makes this scene heartbreaking is the fact that since early in his young life, Colin has suffered from autism, a disorder that strikes the brain causing significant developmental problems and difficulty communicating and interacting socially.Still, Colin has the ability to remember the words to hundreds of songs, as well as a plethora of other information, which is a characteristic of his specific disorder, regressive autism.