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TV review | Take a study break, do something worthwhile for a change: watch TV!
December 8About halfway through the television season, here's a much needed update on what's been going on lately.
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Credit suspect caught
December 8Tufts University Police Department officers arrested an individual on Wednesday night after she allegedly stole credit cards from two Tufts students.
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Campus Comment | Do you think banning trans fats will improve public health?
December 8"I don't know how much of an effect it will have on how people eat. The whole mentality of going to McDonald's is that you know you're not going to be eating healthy."
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Andrew Bauld | You Can't Steal First
December 7As Bryant Gumbel stumbles through his new job as play-by-play man for the NFL Network, even he must realize just how bad he is at a calling a football game. How did a once-great network anchor fall so far to be an NFL commentator? I would call it hubris. I wonder what Gumbel would say ...
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The Big Bopper swaps Bayside maroon for Jumbo blue: Mr. Belding visits the Hill
December 7We all remember that rousing "Shoot your dreams!" pep talk Mr. Belding used to hype up the Bayside basketball team for the big game (you know, right before he hit Zack's knee with the locker room door and knocked the lad out of the game?) but it turns out, the real-life man behind the iconic persona has just as much to say about young people's pursuit of personal fulfillment.
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Women's Swimming | Jumbos swim to easy victory against Brandeis
December 7Securing an early victory, the women's swimming and diving team glided past Brandeis 156.5 to 116.5 in Tuesday's contest at Hamilton Pool.
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'More Fish' will leave you stuffed to your gills; follow-up to 'Fishscales' disappoints
December 7As far as personalities, Ghostface Killah has to be one of the most interesting emcees in hip-hop. With a menacing moniker ripped from "Ninja Checkmate"'s (1979) lethal villain and an often brutally punishing flow, it would seem easy to pigeonhole the Ironman as a rough-and-tumble rapper, a gritty, salty vet that you wouldn't want to piss off.
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The Artist's Experience | Studying engineering at Tufts and art at the Museum of Fine Arts is quite the tightrope act
December 7This article was removed, because a significant portion of thecontent was found to be plagiarized.
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Games of the Week
December 6looking back (Nov. 30 - Dec. 6) | NFL FOOTBALL: Titans 20, Colts 17
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Neil Padover | Man, I'm Awkward
December 6In this day and age of red and orange terror alerts, it seems to have become increasingly necessary to forego certain freedoms that we Americans have come to take for granted in an effort to "protect" life itself.
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Hockey | Icemen drop third straight to No. 11 UMass-Dartmouth
December 6Junior Greg O'Connell scored his fourth goal of the season 12:15 into Tuesday's game against UMass-Dartmouth to give the Jumbos an early 1-0 lead, marking the fifth time in seven games this season that Tufts has struck first.
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Men's Swimming | Men's team surfaces undefeated for the first half of the ongoing season
December 6The men's swimming team wrapped up a perfect 5-0 first half of the season on Tuesday night at Hamilton Pool, defeating local rival Brandeis, 155-106.
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Pete McKeown | Daily Townie
December 6I absolutely, positively, hate Mondays. If you see me, and it's a Monday, odds are I'm about as happy as Paris Hilton's father the day after the sex tape went public. Whether it be starting a week of classes during the school year or a week of work in the summer, Mondays have a way of sucker-punching me in the kidney.
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Tufts engages with microfinance
December 6As the Omidyar-Tufts Microfinance Fund continues to invest the $100 million it received from Pierre and Pam Omidyar (A '88 and J '89) upon its inception last fall, Tufts students and faculty are investigating the emerging sphere of microfinance.
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A final appeal
December 6I am dying: In some ways I am already dead. Let not my fertile and glistening layer, my rotating stride, my huge presence deceive you. Take a closer look, beyond your Birkenstocks and stunning locks and you will witness a being eating itself from the inside out.
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New textbook Web site hits Tufts
December 6Booksoncampus.com, a student-run textbook Web site that enables students to sell their textbooks directly to other students, is being launched at Tufts this semester.
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Lucky schoolchildren will play with robots
December 6Childhood math and science classes aren't a particularly exciting memory for most people. While memorizing requisite rules and concepts without having hands-on experience has provided an adequate elementary education for some students, a new research initiative at Tufts is examining whether there is a better way for kids to learn about math and science.
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Inside the NBA | Sixers sink to bottom of Atlantic after 3-0 start
December 6The New York Knicks are often derided as the poster children for futility in the feeble Atlantic Division, where all five teams, including the division-leading New Jersey Nets, are at least three games under .500.
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Jumbos win in triple overtime - again
December 6For the second time in five days, the men's basketball team has survived an epic 55-minute battle to emerge with a victory in the third overtime.
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Weekender Interview | Kal Penn
December 6Nestled in a small room at the Northeastern University Student Center sat three famous but composed stars -- Kal Penn, the star of the new film "National Lampoon's Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj," Art Alexakis, the lead singer of Everclear, and Jonny Dubowsky, the lead singer of Jonny Lives -- relaxing after a long day of interviews by having a pizza party with two college reporters.
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