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Volleyball | Tufts comeback falls short against Jeffs

The volleyball team's regular-season NESCAC title hopes hit a speed bump this past weekend in a dramatic 3-2 loss to Amherst. It slowed them, but did not stop them, as the Jumbos recovered with a 3-0 victory over Middlebury.



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Theater Review | 'High Fidelity' is more Sam Goody than independent

In the opening number for the showstopping new musical adaptation of Nick Hornby's best-selling book "High Fidelity," leading slacker Rob and his record store friends belt out "The Last Real Record Store," in homage to Rob's proudly independent, anti-corporate business.



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TV Review | ABC's new drama won't have nine lives

The premiere for the new ABC drama, "The Nine," is nearly everything its cheesy promo tagline suggests. Nine complete strangers inadvertently meet at the location of a bank robbery, which snowballs into a SWAT-storming, 52-hour hostage lock-down. With two hostages dead, the nine survivors "are now banded together like an unlikely family" as they try to deal with problems of the past, present and future.


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Jumbos climb the slippery slope of college debt

Forty-six thousand, five hundred dollars. According to the Tufts admissions Web site, that is the jumbo-sized bill landing annually in the mailboxes of Tufts students and their families. The price of tuition has risen by $2,087 since last year.



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Health Services offers HPV vaccine

Tufts University Health Services is in its second week of offering Gardasill, a newly approved vaccination for the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV).




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Matt Mertens | Freelancer

Twelve minutes of basketball morphed the Portland Trail Blazers from a powerhouse into a laughingstock.


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Jyll Saskin | Fashion Informer

Like it or not, ladies, size does matter. Muffin top, plumber's butt, back cleavage, armpit boob ... not a day goes by that you don't see way more of another woman's body than you want to. Why aren't modern women wearing clothing that fit them? How can you even tell if an article of clothing looks like the designer intended it to? Have no fear, the Fashion Informer is here!



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Letter to the editor | "Stop the Collection plate, Mr. Bacow," Oct. 5 Viewpoint

Firstly, the couple thousand dollars that fund these student groups come nowhere near being large enough to make a significant contribution toward so great an endeavor as making Tufts 100 percent need-blind. If you want student activities fee funding to matter towards making Tufts need-blind or increasing faculty salaries, it would take the entire student activities fund to even contribute - never mind the fact that activities fee money is for student activities, not grand, university-wide initiatives.





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Leontief Prize awarded to trail-blazing economists

The Global Development and Environment Institute (G-DAE) at Tufts University yesterday awarded the 2006 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought to Dr. Juliet Schor and Dr. Samuel Bowles.




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Neil Padover | Man, I'm Awkward

Let's face it: Hooking up has become a staple of the college culture around the nation and here at Tufts. And, over the past three years, I feel I have become an expert in awkward hook-ups.