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Cooking up a storm... or not
March 14The tendency to eat alone appears to be a common phenomenon for students living off-campus.
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By the numbers | Older, wiser - and calling it quits
March 13Most college students' employment concerns involve getting a job, not deciding when to leave it. Even though retirement may seem far-off to the college crowd, it's less-so than it used to be: A government report called "65+ in the United States: 2005," released late last week, found that Americans are retiring younger, possibly because of their access to Medicare, social security and pensions. "Not too long ago, people, particularly men, worked until they were physically unable to work," Robert Friedland, director of the Center on an Aging Society at Georgetown University, told the Associated Press. "Now, people have a period of time to which they are looking forward." In this installment of "By the Numbers," the Daily explores these and other results of the report, which was compiled by the Census Bureau and commissioned by the National Institute on Aging.
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Restaurant review | Churrasco no backyard BBQ
March 13Brazil's gift to the world has got to be supermodels; a quick search of the 'net yields names by the hundreds. However, if you don't like supermodels, Brazil's second gift to the world is fantastic too: food!
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Panelists address cartoon controversy, media responsibility
March 13Five panelists shared their views of the controversy surrounding recent outbreaks of violence over cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad that were originally published in September 2005 in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
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Inside MLB | Two perennial losers may turn it around
March 13The Milwaukee Brewers and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays have dubious franchise histories at best, but they may finally be starting to turn things around.
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Throwing an off-campus party: tough stuff?
March 13College freshmen are known across the country for being pretty serious partiers. Tilton and Houston Halls house hundreds of living examples, as annual batches of students enter Tufts eager to finally cut the remaining strands of their umbilical chords and taste their newfound freedom.
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TV review | Families experience being black - or white - like me
March 13Meet the Wurgels and the Sparkses, two well-educated middle-class families who, through the marvels of modern makeup, switch races on the new FX network reality show, "Black. White." Heightening the drama, these two families are required to live in the same house, and tensions flare.
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My experiences with the Burmese struggle for democracy
March 13Last year I traveled to Thailand and met a wonderful friend, Yaw Bawm Mangshang. He was born in Burma, a country bordering Thailand, where he lived under the Burmese military dictatorship for most of his life. Although he never suffered direct torture, like Bo Kyi (see above Viewpoint) and many other political prisoners, he suffered the oppression from the military dictatorship in his daily life.
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Leah Roffman | Baseline Banter
March 13Whenever I ask someone here at Tufts if he or she is a basketball fan, I almost always get the same answer: "Really I'm more of a baseball fan."
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See Clinton, Connery and Trump at Cohen
March 13It's the quiet ones you've got to watch. Although Darrell Hammond hasn't enjoyed the superstardom claimed by other Saturday Night Live alums like Will Ferrell, Eddie Murphy, Chris Farley or Adam Sandler, he certainly holds his own. His bit parts in movies like "Celtic Pride" (1996) or "Blues Brothers 2000" (1998) were forgettable, and he doesn't have his own sitcom on network TV. But maybe that's because he has not yet left SNL and entered the alum club.
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Benjamin Rolfe | Modest Proposant
March 13I believe that our republic is in danger, that this danger is of historic proportions and that this danger is growing every day. Yet the threat of terrorism, though it has staggeringly multiplied in the last four years, is currently not an eminent danger to this country.
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Spring break: beyond the brochures
March 13Spring break is only a short five days away. You can hear the excitement in the air. Tufts students are buying sunscreen, pulling their bathing suits out from the bottom of their drawers, and getting ready to fly to exotic locations - Puerto Rico, The Bahamas, Cancun, Dominican Republic, Jamaica... take your pick.
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Keith Barry | Blight on the Hill
March 13Excuse me, can you tell me where Bendetson Hall is?" The man asking the question looked like countless others I'd seen that morning - approaching the tail end of middle age, wearing a fleece emblazoned with a company logo and showing enough shiny teeth to guarantee that he didn't need to speak to anyone in the financial aid office.
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Letter to the editor | Jyllands-Posten did not support Nazis during WWII
March 13To the Daily:
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Committee meets to select new Elections Board members
March 13Five members of the Tufts student body were selected last Sunday night to serve on the 2006-2007 Tufts Community Union Elections Board (ELBO).
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Battle of the sexes, day two | Saints and Sinners versus Beirut and Flip-Cup
March 13Two teams, consisting of a pair of females and a pair of males, allowed the Daily access to their party-planning processes for the Daily's Battle of the Sexes. The teams took a very different approach to planning a social gathering.
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Presidential Marathon Challenge team trains hard
March 13Tufts students, faculty, alumni, and parents are gearing up for the Boston Marathon, which will take place on Apr. 17.
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Women's swimming and diving | Young-Hyman finishes 17th in 100-yard breastroke at NCAAs
March 13The final chapter in the women's swimming and diving season finally drew to a close this weekend as junior Chloe Young-Hyman returned from the Div. III National Championships at Carleton College in Minneapolis, Minn.
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