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Desperate skin displays

I was walking from the Student Union to Knox this Halloween when I saw her coming. She was walking quickly, with long strides.


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Supreme division

On Halloween, Bush frightened liberals of all persuasions.The White House picked the highly conservative federal appellate judge Samuel Alito Jr.


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Finals loss doesn't dull Novaceanu's strong finish

Led by the hot racket of sophomore Andreea Novaceanu, the UB women's tennis team played some of the best Division I competition in the country last weekend at a three-day tournament in Dartmouth.Novaceanu came into the tournament as the number-two seed in the flight A brackets and did not disappoint.


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Underground is hip-hop too

Now I won't claim to be an expert in the hip-hop world either, but the "Hip-hop anonymous" (Oct. 31) article doesn't quiet touch on the full spectrum of the hip-hop world.


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Schedule

VolleyballThursday: vs. Akron, 7 p.m.


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SA takes steps to curb van misuse

Despite continuing student skepticism over how the Student Association uses its fleet of vans, SA officials say they have kept misuse to a minimum.While the occasional student will still see the vans rolling both on and off campus past midnight and wonder what SA is doing at 1 a.m., the office logbooks show nothing out of the ordinary.According to Mark Sorel, SA's administrative director, SA did have problems several years back with abuse of the vans, which were paid for with student funds.


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Studio helps top disability through dance

Tucked away in a barren lot off of Union Road in Cheektowaga is Moving Miracles, a dance studio where, like other studios, adults and children go to have fun, learn to dance and express themselves freely.What sets this studio apart is these dance students had never been able to express themselves before.Moving Miracles uses dance and movement to help students with mental, emotional and physical disabilities overcome their limitations to express themselves, a process the studio says helps them in all aspects of their lives."There is something majestic about the power of dance, it allows for people to express themselves without using words," said Sheila Dollas, founder and president of Moving Miracles.Dollas' dance career was curtailed after sustaining injury to her back in a college dance class many years ago.


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Sidelines

Starting the season earlyAnticipation is high for men's basketball team's season opener on Nov. 18, but that Friday won't be the first time this year's Bulls face competition.


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Activists fight against failure

In Mr. Balter's letter to the editor ("Activist victories were reversed," Oct. 31) he asked, "Why protest when eventually the hard fought victories will be overturned?"The answer is not only in the question, it is the question.


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Soldiers' families living on edge

When the death toll of American soldiers killed in Iraq reached 2,000 this week, for the families of soldiers still in the Middle East it was more than just a statistic, more than a story that ends when the TV is turned off.For many of the families of the 160,000-plus troops serving in Iraq, dealing with a parent, sibling or friend overseas makes the listening to news from the war a daily ordeal."It was very tough on my family.


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My Turn

We've all seen them. They're everywhere, after all. Driving down the 190, watching television, sitting at a traffic light downtown, even seeing a movie - wherever you are, it's impossible to escape the flood of "feel-good" advertising now inundating major media outlets from the caring folks at the Foundation for a Better Life.Theirs ads are the ones that display pictures of celebrities and everyday citizens who supposedly illustrate certain admirable values listed next to the pictures such as "Persistence" and "Determination," followed by the exhortation to "pass it on."Pass it on.


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'Miss Saigon' brings Broadway to Buffalo

Tissues in hand, hundreds wept and cheered for "Miss Saigon" in the Main Stage Theater at the Center for the Arts Saturday and Sunday.The emotionally charged story is timeless and powerful, managing to take each audience member back to a time and place of war, destruction and heartbreak - Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War in 1975.Larger than most CFA productions, the set of "Miss Saigon" was dazzling, adding to a Broadway caliber performance.Chris, a marine, and his friend John spend one of their last nights in Vietnam before the American withdrawal.


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