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Moonlight Mile

Along with bereaved parents JoJo and Ben Floss (played by Susan Sarandon and Dustin Hoffman, respectively), Joe Nast (Jake Gyllenhaal) is trying to cope with the death of Diana (Careena Melia)-their daughter, his fianc?


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Child Abductions

Each year, 725,000 children are reported missing to police, according to the Associated Press. That number breaks down to nearly 2,000 each day.


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Business and the Economy

In this modern era of big business, it is no longer front-page news when a major company cuts 10,000 jobs and declares bankruptcy.


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No Smoking at UB

In 1994, UB implemented a policy prohibiting smoking in university-owned and operated facilities.


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Committee Overturns University Council Election

After a summer of deliberation, the University Council Representative Elections Committee has overturned April's election for the post of the student representative, due to complaint over the online election format and the election date.


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Correction

An article in the Aug. 28 edition of The Spectrum incorrectly stated that the American Political Science Association convention took place last weekend.


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SWF Seeks...?

I amazed my dad the other day by commenting that I wasn't going to start saving for my children's college educations at the behest of a mailed solicitation from Key Bank.


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Major League Baseball

In the realm of bad ideas, there are some benchmarks: the Ugandan Space Project, the US Metric Campaign, Crystal Pepsi, "Waterworld" and, of course, Quayle 2000.


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Welcome

Welcome back to school, everybody. More importantly, welcome back to page five of The Spectrum. I know what you were looking for-that tall blond guy with a witty SNL take-off or a twisting detective novel that ended in the mysterious confines of the chilled water factory.


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Letter To The Editor

I would like to comment on the issues surrounding UB's revised smoking policy which was discussed in the article "UB Tells Students To Butt Out" in the 8/28 issue.


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Animal Incineration Goes Awry in Hochstetter

Students walking past Cooke and Hochstetter halls were surprised Thursday morning by thick clouds of black smoke billowing out of the Hochstetter chimneys.Trucks from the local Getzville Fire Department arrived on the scene within minutes after noticing the smoke while at a nearby automobile accident.Al Swavy, assistant director of Occupational and Environmental Safety Services, believes the problems arose because the furnace did not reach the proper temperature required to change the incinerator's products into regular vapor.The furnace in question is used to incinerate lab animals and lab paraphernalia after testing is complete."We're not sure just yet if we had a burner malfunction or not," said Swavy.


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Bulls Come Out Strong But End Up Flat in Loss to Lehigh

At least this season the fans got to see some exciting football.The UB Bulls came storming out of the gates against the Lehigh Mountain Hawks on Thursday night in front of 21,103 fans at UB Stadium, the second largest crowd to see a game in the modern Division I-A era.


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Bulls Football Report Card

Rushing GameThe running game was one of the few bright spots for the Bulls. Although UB seemed committed to the run, they didn't have enough chances to keep the ball on the ground as they played from behind much of the game.


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MTV Does UB

MTV is putting on its toga and heading to UB.The cable television network responsible for series such as 'The Real World" and "The Osbournes" is hoping to film its latest incarnation of reality shows, "Sorority Life" - and its fraternity-based counterpart - at UB this semester.While no formal announcement has been made concerning the show's involvement with UB or any university-affiliated student organization, one is expected to come as early as next week, said Arlene Shell, an MTV spokesperson."We don't have a signed agreement yet," said Shell.


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Not of This World

Imagine a world in which our differences cause not war, but celebration. A place where the boundaries of happiness are set by our dreams and imagination, not our bank accounts.


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'Smart Politics'

I have CNN's Website and MSNBC's Website programmed into my browser, I get the New York Times delivered to me via electronic mail every day.






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