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MNF Could Take Lesson From CBC

To bring back the sparkle of a once celebrated franchise, ABC snatched up John Madden, who was recently released by FOX, to take on Monday Night Football.


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MAC Men's Basketball Tournament Update

Pity the promotion staff at Northern Illinois and Marshall University. The NIU Huskies and Marshall Thundering Herd men's basketball teams are taking their race for a home playoff game in the first round of the MAC Tournament to the final day of the regular season.


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Islam in Uzbekistan: Radical Movement in Focus

"Perspectives on September 11th and its Aftermath," a lecture series sponsored by the Council on International Studies and Programs and the Office of the Vice Provost for International Education, had its fourth lecture in the series of six Tuesday afternoon.


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Landscaping Plan to Address Clemens Wind Tunnel

With a series of landscaping improvements carried out over the next decade, UB is hoping to attract and impress potential students and their parents, while at the same time improving the quality of life for students, faculty and staff who use or live on the campus by making it more accessible and encouraging everyone to use the exterior campus amenities.At this point, "the architects have developed a concept plan for each campus," said Kevin Thompson, director of facilities planning and design.


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On the Road Again and Till the End

If Buffalo is going to win another game this season, they will need a better performance from their "big three." Darcel Williams, Louis Campbell and Robert Brown - three Bulls seniors who for the season have accounted for over 50 percent of the team's offense - were held to a paltry nine points combined in Wednesday's match up against the Bowling Green Falcons at Anderson Arena.Needless to say, the Bulls lost.


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Role Reversal

It's amazing how fortune can turn on you so quickly. Last season the women's basketball team's fortunes turned on them in a heartbeat, on a last-second shot by Akron's Cheryl Bowles to end their season in the first round of the MAC Tournament.Fortune hasn't been too good to them this season either, as the Bulls enter the 2002 MAC Tournament the losers of eight straight games.


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Two-Minute Drill

In an effort to boost ratings, ABC has hired John Madden to join Al Michaels in the booth for Monday Night Football this year.


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The Simple Beauty of Cuba

For years, Cuba has remained geographically near yet culturally distant from the democratic and capitalistic society of America.Cuba remains a communist state headed by Fidel Castro, but "capitalism is coming back with a vengeance," said Jos?


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NYSSA

UB student George Pape was officially confirmed Tuesday in New York City as a SUNY trustee. Pape's rise as the most powerful student in New York state, while procedurally legitimate, is the product of lax SUNY rules governing the selection of officials for a body purportedly intended to represent the interests of students.Pape's appointment to the trustee position demonstrates how easily a non-elected student can sit on NYSSA's executive board.


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Wrestling Swept at Cornell Duals

This was not the way the UB wrestling team wanted to head into the MAC Championships.The Bulls ended the season on a down note with two lopsided losses at the Cornell Duals on Saturday.


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Excessive Sleep May Lead to Strokes

While sleep is generally viewed as a critical and beneficial period of bodily rest, researchers at UB have found that sleeping more than eight hours a day - something familiar to many college students - could lead to an increased risk of death by stroke.



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