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Abuza discusses Thai insurgency

Dr. Zachary Abuza (F '94, '98) a specialist in Southeast Asian politics and security at Simmons College, gave a lecture at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy yesterday afternoon on the insurgency in Southern Thailand.





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Jumbo leaps into frog studies as Neubauer Scholar

Though he's normally a quiet and mild-mannered person, junior Patrick McMillen's eyes light up when he begins to talk about his research. Speaking a mile a minute about tadpole embryos and mRNA, McMillen unveils his passion - and reveals his unique opportunity to pursue it.






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Fratto's career is not quite over yet

After a four-year career, and 47 starts in her final 50 games, women's soccer senior tri-captain Jen Fratto was selected to play in the New England Women's Intercollegiate Soccer Association (NEWISA) Soccer Bowl.


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Inside the NFL | Patriots somehow able to return to winning ways

The turf change wasn't the only major turnover at Gillette Stadium on Sunday. The New England Patriots and Chicago Bears combined for a total of nine turnovers Sunday afternoon, with the Patriots fighting their way through their mistakes to come away with a 17-13 win.


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Top 10 | Future Firings In Sports

This week was not kind to college football coaches, as both Miami's Larry Coker and Alabama's Mike Shula were chased out of town after disappointing seasons. The firings didn't end there - in the NFL, the Broncos were ousting their quarterback, Jake Plummer, and in hockey, the Chicago Blackhawks said goodbye to coach Trent Yawney. These days, it appears that no one's job is truly safe. And maybe that's a good thing. In our opinion, these 10 sports figures also deserve the pink slip...



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Turn off the tap!

They're spreading! I noticed the small blue stickers first in my dorm by the shower and then next to the sink by my friend's room. What is the story behind those "Turn Off The Tap" stickers?


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Must-see art: Films shed light on contemporary Iranian experience

While the Islamic Republic of Iran is a nation most often in the news for uneasy political relations with the West, the complexities of modern Iran go far beyond Iranian leaders shaking their fists at public rallies. The Thirteenth Annual Boston Festival of Films from Iran, playing at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston until Dec. 3, seeks to explore the human side of Iranians today, allowing artists to shed light on the contemporary Iranian experience and Iranian outlooks.




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Cops break up the party: PartyPoker, that is

Online gambling in the United States may have met its match. On Oct. 13, President Bush signed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) into law, three months after the House of Representatives passed it by a vote of 317 to 93.


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Tianyao Kelly | The Tao of Sex

There are many kinds of physical relationships: There's the kind where two people meet in public, probably a little intoxicated. The setting is dark and full of loud, sexual music and raging hormones. We end up at one person's place, and things heat up for that moment of instant gratification with total abandonment. We may not know each other's names. We probably don't know each other's sexual history. But the relationship ends at that, and things are black and white: a one-night stand.


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Clipse blows by coke-rapping contemporaries on 'Hell Hath No Fury'

Over the past year, the hip-hop airwaves have been dominated by "trap-hop," a rap subgenre in which self-proclaimed dealers-turned-rappers glorify the selling of cocaine with clever metaphors like trap-hopper Young Jeezy's "I sling so much white/ it'll hurt your eyes."


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Alex Bloom | Philly Phodder

So last week I made my case for why I haven't been able to get into college football. That bellyaching ends now. In fact, I'm going to retract that column - have it stricken from the record.