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Social Monkey founders hope to revitalize the Tufts party scene

Sitting at the restaurant Stephanie's on Newbury Street, senior Alex Maloney may be far from the Medford campus, but with the help of the new student-initiated enterprise Socialmonkey.com, a single text message from his cell phone is able to reach his entire social network at Tufts.


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There's nothing trivial about 'The Life Pursuit'

Despite being arguably the most beloved indie-pop band of the past decade, Belle and Sebastian have always had a certain stigma attached to them. Described by Jack Black as "sad bastard music" in "High Fidelity" (2000), the Scottish seven-piece band's delicate chamber-pop style and cynically literate lyrics have painted the typical B&S listener as either a sexually frustrated art school student or a latte-drinking, scarf-wearing yuppie.



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Understanding what Concert Board really is

The only thing that was "S.L.A.P. (Silly, Lame and Absolutely Pathetic)" was Jasmine Watson's article ["Busta Rhymes is coming back?! "] in yesterday's Viewpoints section of the Daily.


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Checks, lies and red tape

It's not a year ago, but President Bush thinks it is. Despite poll numbers wallowing in the tepid low-40s, Bush unveiled a budget proposal yesterday characterized by the exact same brand of fiscal irresponsibility he pursued a year ago when his so-called "mandate" was fresh and at least slightly credible.



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By the numbers | Day labor = danger?

A recently-released nationwide study on day laborers in the United States - the first study of its kind - revealed an unexpectedly high level of community engagement among the day-laborer population. It also, however, confirmed what many individuals and activists had already asserted: that the life of a day laborer is one fraught with on-the-job dangers. In this installment of "By the numbers," the Daily explores the findings of the study, called "On the Corner: Day Labor in the United States" and conducted by researchers from UCLA, the University of Illinois at Chicago and New School University.



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School days are gone but not forgotten for these pro athletes

This article marks the first of a month-long series in which Daily sportswriters interview members of the Boston Bruins - topics range from this year's playoff picture, to the NHL in the post-lockout era, to what it's like to live as a professional athlete in Boston.



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Theater Review | Arthur Miller's timeless work gets a sex change

The Gold Dust Orphans' production of "Death of a Saleslady" is at the same time everything and nothing like the Arthur Miller classic on which this modern adaptation is based. Though the general plot of this version mirrors the original about a washed-up salesman whose delusions of grandeur bring about the downfall of himself and of his family, the Orphans' adaptation incorporates many of their signature twists, the most striking of which are the gender reversals most of the characters, if not the actors themselves, undergo.




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Jacob earns a final spot on NESCAC Championship team

Throughout the swimming season, training regimens and competitions are designed so that athletes peak at the right time. For the men's swimming and diving team, that time was definitively on Saturday, when the Jumbos competed in the non-scoring Middlebury Invitational, the team's last meet before the NESCAC championships.


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Indie band Tristeza shows no new 'Colores'

It is hard to produce an atmospheric yet engaging record under the flag of instrumental indie rock, or so-called post-rock. Accordingly, such attempts tend to be overly ambitious; they strive to make something intensely dramatic but come across as plain or clich?©d, tending to retreat into a tired m?©lange of dub bass lines, post-punk-inspired guitar riffs and standard-fare post-rock drum set syncopation.



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Theater Review | 'Five by Tenn' measures up to previous Williams works

Sometimes a playwright achieves such prominence that his talent comes to mean less than his reputation. After seeing "Five by Tenn" at the SpeakEasy Stage Company, however, no one could ever suspect Tennessee Williams of such aggrandizement. In this series of five short plays his genius is so wildly apparent, and yet so subtly rendered, that the entire production is an extraordinary success.


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Tuesday's Top Ten

To kick off the Top Ten for 2006, the Daily decided to play Nostradamus and predict the big headlines in sports for the coming year. These predictions are so good even Pete Rose would bet on them. Swami says...


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IGL will now report to Provost's Office

Tufts' Institute for Global Leadership (IGL) - one of the University's major centers of student leadership, learning and research - will soon enjoy an affiliation with the Provost's Office that will allow for greater inter-school collaboration.