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Ice hockey | Two weeks left in playoff run

This weekend will be critical for the ice hockey team as it takes on the No. 5 and 6 teams in the ECAC East, Salem State and Southern Maine. With two weeks left in the regular season, the No. 7 Jumbos find themselves in the midst of a heated playoff race.


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Sophia Gordon resident-selection process released

With construction on the new Sophia Gordon Hall dormitory on-schedule to be completed for the start of the 2006-2007 academic year, the Office of Residential Life and Learning (ORLL) has released information on the process for selecting residents.



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Boston sportswriter speaks to alma mater

Boston Herald sports columnist Tony Massarotti, a Tufts alumnus, came back to his alma mater Thursday afternoon to speak to an audience of students and faculty in the Hirsh Reading Room of the Tisch Library.





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FOX stunts growth of 'Arrested Development'

When FOX announced it had finally given up on its critically acclaimed comedy "Arrested Development," the reaction from fans was similar to that of a Democrat after the last election: "How can the rest of America be so stupid?" How can one of the most critically acclaimed shows of all time flounder in the ratings, when the post-"Everybody Loves Raymond" sitcoms about fat working-class men and the pretty women who love them continue to dominate prime time?


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Weekender | Almost famous: Celebrity lookalikes at Tufts

Next up in our faux-celebrity series: the really really ridiculously good-looking male model Derek Zoolander (and his Tufts doppelganger, Steve Leichman). In the spirit of Derek's commitment to educating our children, we quizzed Steve in the style of several standardized tests (we tried to hold the exam in the Derek Zoolander Center For Children Who Can't Read Good And Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too, but we couldn't fit; the Center needed to be AT LEAST three times that size!).


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GRE changes postponed until fall of 2007

Changes to the Graduate Record Exam (GRE), originally scheduled to take effect this October, will be delayed until the fall of 2007, according to an announcement yesterday from the Educational Testing Service (ETS), the producers of the exam.


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Staff Top 10 | Celebrities we miss

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never the same. And some people are one-hit wonder celebrities who crash and burn before their time. Today, we celebrate the too-short careers of some of our favorite stars from years past.


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Academic Resource Center founder dies

Nadia Medina, founder of the Academic Resource Center (ARC) and the Writing, Thinking, and Speaking Center, passed away yesterday morning at her home. She had been on medical leave from the University since December of 2004.


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Will Charlie Brown cause World War III?

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then I suppose a cartoon is worth, well, some violent demonstrations, multilateral trade blockades and a burned embassy. Or maybe it's worth a condemnation, signed by the Joint Chiefs.







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Keep Headley in 'Mind' - Broadway star comes through

For the most part, pop recordings from Broadway stars are not overly appealing to the mainstream. Since stage stars are more dramatic in their vocal deliverance, their records are generally not exactly what fans of today's hip-hop are looking for.


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Sultry soups... on a budget

Cooking on a student budget frequently falls short of gourmet cuisine. But the routine of Easy Mac, Ramen, and takeout from Andrea's can get quite tedious, not to mention rather unhealthy.


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Males still dominate computer-science ranks

Nestled between sports coaches' offices on the second floor of Halligan Hall, Associate Computer Science Professor Anslem Blumer's office is secluded from many students-especially female ones.