Yesterday's Sports article "Arakawa flew under radar, stunned world" (Feb. 28, 2006) was erroneously attributed to Kelley Vendeland. The article was written by Contributing Writer Alyson McGee.
As February - Black History Month - comes to a close, African-Americans at Tufts are weighing in on its changing and continuing significance.
The living voice of the Negro Leagues did not even blink when the door was slammed in his face one more time. Buck O'Neil just nodded and smiled a little when he was told that he did not get enough votes to be elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
The pocket e-mail device has completely shifted the way corporate America functions, connecting lawyers, bankers and executives to their work anywhere they go. The clear market giant is the Canadian creator of the Blackberry, Research in Motion (RIM), though their position is tenuous, with the fate of their dominance resting on a patent ruling.
"Fear arises when society lacks freedom and democracy," 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi said.
Joni Mitchell had it right; you really don't know what you've got 'til it's gone.
So far most of the talk in the American League this offseason has focused on the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox. What else is new? The world champion Chicago White Sox made big news with their acquisitions of Jim Thome and Javier Vazquez. But one team has flown under the radar thus far, and yet it may be the best of the bunch: the Oakland Athletics.
Having recently joined the Tufts Daily as an editor for the Viewpoints section, I was under the impression that my responsibility would largely consist of reading and editing an abundance of submissions from the Tufts student body and faculty.
A critical review of a complex show can, in this context, convey but bits and pieces. So, as many of Fifth's other varying elements have been remarkably covered by Kate Drizos and Sarah Butrymowicz in the show's respective preview and review, I will take to the juicy guts of its performance: ...
After you made Dean's List last semester, your parents agreed to a little shopping excursion, their treat. But that walk down Newbury Street tends to work up quite an appetite.
With the regular season winding down and Selection Sunday less than two weeks away, it's time for Inside College Basketball to hand out some awards for the 2005-2006 season.
Professor Gwyn Prins, alliance research professor at the London School of Economics, began a panel discussion the night of Thursday Feb. 23 on anti-Americanism.
British reporters are nasty; American reporters are soft - at least, that was the general consensus reached at the end of this Friday, Feb. 26 panel.
This panel, held the night of Saturday, Jan. 25, discussed the nature of international law and warfare.
Shakespeare is Shakespeare is Shakespeare. And yet, every time we think he is nothing more than an overrated and under-talented man of little variation and few real classics, there is something eternal, something brilliant about this 400-year-old playwright that shocks even the most modern audience.
Scanning books, washing dishes and waiting tables are common experiences of college students around the country trying to make a buck in between parties and study sessions. Some Tufts students, however, have found less typical ways to pay their bills.
Ben Bernanke, a Princeton University macroeconomist, was recently appointed to succeed the respected Alan Greenspan as the new Federal Reserve Chairman.
The Tufts University Bookstore isn't putting Buck-A-Book out of business yet, but the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate is working on a plan that would give students more options to find reasonably priced textbooks.
Walking up Packard Ave. past Gifford House and the Fletcher School complex, Tufts students might notice the small sign marking the Edward R. Murrow Center for Public Diplomacy - and they probably won't give it a second thought. But contained within that small building is one of Tufts true treasures: possibly the most significant repository of Edward R. Murrow's papers on the planet.
It's not every day that you find a record so bad it drives you into a brief period of acute, introverted sorrow. When you do, it serves not only to remind us of the many detestable qualities of pop music and the music industry, but even to further sully and mar its once good name. "If Only You Were Lonely," the second record from suburban tattoo-and-all-black-clad Ohio emo quintet Hawthorne Heights, is such a record.
