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Inside the NHL | Bubble teams scramble before trade deadline
March 9Thursday's trade deadline forced the hand of many franchises looking to bolster their rosters for the playoffs. With the top five teams in each conference basically locked up, the bottom three will fight over the next 20 games, and some boast some new acquisitions to get them geared up.
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Theater Review | Never fear, my dear, 'Brooklyn Boy' is here
March 8Suddenly, the theater is silent. The audience watches transfixed as the exterior greatness of the protagonist - the famous and successful bestselling author Eric Weiss - crumbles. Streams and streams of embittered tears, hopes and dreams later, the man stands alone on the stage - vulnerable and naked. Yet somehow, the expression of one man's weakness translates into a story of triumph.
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Traveling Lush | Drunk@MIT
March 8The Lush had a downright stressful week last week. There were job interviews to worry about, a paper to write, an exam to prepare for - all that activity left depressingly little time for drinking.
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Harvard professor explores whether science is a man's world
March 8Harvard Professor Elizabeth Spelke spoke to a mostly-female Braker 001 audience as Tufts celebrated International Women's Day yesterday.
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From California's fields to Tufts' Hill
March 8George Ellmore has a passion for biodiversity. Growing up amidst apricot and cherry orchards, from which he had fresh fruit from May until October, one season after the next, it seemed natural for him to become involved in plant biology.
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You Can't Steal First | Keep Dreaming
March 8Above my bed at home is a poster of one of the most awe-inspiring sights in sports history.
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Campus Cooking | Eggplant parmesan
March 8Eating vegetables can sometimes be a chore, and eating light can often leave one unsatisfied. But there is a solution: enter eggplant, the meat of the vegetable family. Eggplant absorbs the same Italian flavors that make chicken parmesan delicious and is just as filling as meat, but it has less fat, calories and carbohydrates.
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Armstrong to speak at commencement
March 8Seven-time Tour de France champion and cancer survivor Lance Armstrong will deliver the commencement address to this year's graduating class.
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Daily Townie | Trying new things
March 8This winter break, there was an influx of movies that either earned a lot of money or garnered critical acclaim. One movie in particular, "Brokeback Mountain," brought out an urge in me that I had been suppressing for too long - one that certainly could no longer be denied.
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Weekender Feature | Adapting Books to Movies
March 8"Why read the book when I can just rent the movie?" From Zack Morris to Mike Seaver to Eddie Haskell, this line of thinking has been the anthem of sitcom slackers and real-world rebels ever since the "Based on the Novel by" first appeared in the opening credits. The rest, as they say, was history, but it would be sheer folly to think that the link between literature and film began and ended with an easy answer for middle school book reports. Fact is, much as we like to separate the two genres and even pit them against each other, books and movies are getting tighter than Jack Nicholson's jawline when he had to announce "Crash" for Best Picture. Speaking of which, of the 15 films represented in the acting categories at this year's Academy Awards, nine of those movies were rooted in some sort of literary work, be it a novel, a short story, or a graphic novel. But as every Shawn Hunter knows, you can't judge a book - or its film interpretation - by its cover. Said senior and filmmaker Rebecca Katz, currently on domestic study at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts: "As a filmmaker, you always have make decisions on what to include, what to add, or what not to include [when adapting a book to film]." So just how does someone go from "Red Alert" to "Dr. Strangelove"? The Daily breaks down the process of flipping from page to projector. "Sense and Sensibility": Choosing the right source material
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Weekender | Almost famous: Celebrity lookalikes at Tufts
March 8There are few things that the average Tufts student loves more than satire of current events. After demigod Jon Stewart, our most beloved purveyor of politically-inspired barbs is Weekend Update's Tina Fey. The Daily caught up with Fey-ke Fey junior Margaret Senese, a math (and political science) major who has always related to Tina's "Mean Girls" math teacher. We pestered Margaret with questions about Ms. Fey until she got more flustered than Jimmy Fallon in a skit with Horatio Sanz and more annoyed than Lorne Michaels having to book Ashton Kutcher to host SNL.Tufts Daily: Was Jimmy Fallon dead weight or did he make Tina look good?Margaret Senese: I've never seen "Saturday Night Live." They just started calling me "Tina"!
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Table tennis alive and well at Tufts
March 8It is not ping-pong. Ping-pong is a casual and intramural game. The Tufts Table Tennis Club plays exactly that - table tennis. The TTTC competes in the New England Division of the National College Table Tennis Association. The other members of the league include Boston University, Harvard, Northeastern, UMass-Boston, Amherst, Dartmouth, Brown, MIT and Wesleyan. The club began several years ago, but it quickly dissolved before being rescued by senior Mike Sparandara, then a freshman. Now the president of the club, Sparandara successfully petitioned for the group to be recognized as a club sport at Tufts, which makes it eligible for funding and a coach. "We're by far the cheapest club sport. Our budget is around $200," Sparandara said. "All we really needed were new tables, and we got some new ones. Now we're saving pennies." The TTTC may seem minute compared to other club sports on campus, which are allocated tens of thousands of dollars, but interest in the club has grown over the past few years. The club now boasts a sizeable, if slightly skewed, roster. "We're a lot bigger on paper," Sparandara said. "We have close to a hundred people on the list, but only 15 to 20 people show up regularly, and of that subset, ten compete." The club has also hired a coach, Ethan Danahy, a forth year PhD candidate at Tufts in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. Danahy graduated from Tufts in 2000 and competed in table tennis events in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. He also participated in international competition in Australia in 2002. Danahy has worked to create a competitive but relaxed environment for the players. "I would say that the team is currently in a transition phase," Danahy said. "We have been gaining new members and [are] still working through the expected adjustment to a new coach, both from the perspective of the players as well as myself." Lately the team has seen its numbers drastically reduced due to the midterms and other academic commitments of its members, but Sparandara is hopeful of a resurgence of the club in the spring. "The attendance is now between five and eight people," Sparandara said. "But we'll start a new campaign after spring break to let people relax. After spring break is the seventh school-wide [table tennis] tournament, which [attracts] 50 to 80 participants and is usually pretty popular." The squad competes in six tournaments per year, three in the fall and three in the spring, and the team with the best cumulative record is chosen for Nationals. A shorthanded Tufts team consisting of only juniors Matt Dallas and Scott Sporn, along with sophomore Rob Gallagher, competed in the first match of the spring season on Saturday, Feb. 25. Tufts lost to Northeastern by default, and also competed against Harvard and BU, but failed to win a match. Dallas, a member of the team since his freshman year, commended Sparandara for the work he has done to raise awareness of the club on the Tufts campus. "I came in thinking I was really great, but came to see people a lot better than me," Dallas said. "The club has more interest and skill because of Mike's organization. Any interest [in the club] is due to Mike's really hard work." Although the team may be small, it is optimistic about the season. Harvard remains the perennial favorite for Nationals, and although Tufts stands at 5-8 and has struggled against larger teams such as Harvard, the Jumbos are competitive within the league. They currently stand at fifth. "From a competitive standpoint, Brown is our arch-nemesis," Sparandara said. "In both size and skill level they are a worthy adversary. Harvard has a very international team, so they've got the advantage. We fare much better against the smaller schools, like Northeastern and Wesleyan." Although last weekend's meet was uneventful, the club has a positive outlook for the remainder of this season and the future of the club. "Every year, we have made progress and [become] more competitive, but we have a long way to go," Dallas said. "A lot of [progress] is from the interest we can generate around campus, and we're still looking for that one player to make the difference." The TTTC meets Monday and Wednesday nights at 8:30 in Cousens Gymnasium. All tournaments are held at Harvard. The club has two remaining meets this season, which have yet to be scheduled.
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Staff Top 10 | Legitimately funny lines from otherwise horrible movies
March 8Sometimes our roommates make us sit down with them and watch horrible movies. (Anyone know why Comedy Central would think it was a good idea to play "40 Days and 40 Nights"?) So we're always surprised when we laugh out loud at one of these cinematic disasters. Here, we present 10 movies that caught us by surprise, at least for a minute.
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Weekender Interview | Rupert Murray
March 8Early last week, I sat down for an exclusive interview with Rupert Murray, director of the newest spark in the arena of documentary films, "Unknown White Male." The film details the experience of Doug Bruce, a man who, at the age of 37, awoke one morning on the New York subway without a clue as to his destination or, for that matter, his entire personal history. According to medical experts, Bruce suffered a rare case of total amnesia, completely deleting his episodic memory. In a most unique position as one of Doug's closest friends, Murray catalogued Doug's reintroduction to life as we know it as well as his desperate search to regain his personal identity. Although Murray expressed the difficulty of simultaneously creating a successful film and reforming a valued friendship, the benefits of his resulting realizations on the nature of philosophy, psychology and friendship far outweighed the downsides.
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Correction
March 8Yesterday's Arts article "Tufts actors aren't afraid to get 'Dirty'" (Mar. 9, 2006), incorrectly listed the time of the play "Dirty Story." It is at 8 p.m. tonight, not 8:30 p.m., in the Alumnae Lounge.
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