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Inside the NHL | Revamped league reaping benefits in excitement and attendance
February 1After the long holiday, Inside the NHL is back for the New Year with plenty of material.
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Jill Harrison | Travelling Lush
February 1The Lush is back, and this time all bets are off. Any shred of dignity I had left at the end of last semester was kindly removed by my sister and cousin. Great gals that they are, they spiced up our family Christmas Eve party this year by distributing copies of the column in which I confessed to having participated in that most hallowed of Tufts traditions: the Naked Quad Run. Now that my entire extended family has been shocked and a good number of them have been appalled, here goes senior spring.
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Women's Swimming and Diving | Jumbos take out Bobcats in resounding win
February 1The women's swimming and diving team continued its strong winter this past weekend with a dominant showing against Bates in the last scoring meet of the season.
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Mom, look what I Cannes do!
February 1It doesn't take a Spielberg or even a "Project Greenlight" to make a film these days. It may just take a trip to Miner Hall, where the Experimental College is at the disposal of any would-be Hitchcock, Coppola or Scorsese at Tufts.
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The shortest month promises much to do
January 30February in Boston is usually nothing short of misery. Students can barely trek to class in the bitter cold, let alone make the trip all the way into Boston proper. But with the relatively mild winter weather so far, the potential to actually appreciate some of the city's cultural opportunities seems quite high. So, say "thank you" to global warming and venture out in style with the Daily's February calendar to see what Boston has to offer.
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'Fight' cuts through the fog of war
January 30After all the hype surrounding Eugene Jarecki's new film, "Why We Fight," one might think that it would finally offer a definitive explanation, thereby putting all of us I.R. majors out of work. The fact that such a feat is impossible, however, doesn't stop critics like Entertainment Weekly's Owen Gleiberman from defying "anyone not to be staggered by it."
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Phew: Filibuster fight averted
January 30Sometimes, good news can be found in the strangest places - even the United States Senate. Yesterday, the Senate avoided reopening a political can of worms with the decisive defeat of an attempt by Mass. senators John Kerry and Ted Kennedy to filibuster the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court. A vote of 72-25 stopped floor debate, ensuring that Alito will receive an up-or-down vote on the Senate floor, probably today.
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For the elderly, nutrition could be the solution
January 30For most Tufts students, nutrition isn't much of a concern. They either worry about the freshman 15 or the cost and usefulness of their meal plans - too many meals? Not enough points?
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Economics of Baseball | Major League Baseball's offseason, from Furcal to a Florida fire sale and more
January 30Major League Baseball's off-season has been intriguing, and at some points, amusing. Contract lengths this off-season were driven up because a lot of teams had money to spend and holes to fill on their roster, but few free agents were available. The Marlins had a fire sale, the free agent pitching market skyrocketed and Toronto's General Manager (GM) J.P. Ricciardi went from stathead to meathead.
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Women's Basketball | Five-game skid ends at Connecticut College
January 30With her jumper one minute into the first half of Saturday's matinee, senior tri-captain Jessica Powers launched her team on a 16-3 scoring barrage, clinching a 58-35 victory over the rickety Connecticut College Camels.
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...and in the next race: Tortoise and Will Oldham take off
January 30Last Wednesday, Chicago-based Overcoat Records released "The Brave and the Bold," a cover album jointly fronted by freeform jazz and math-rock outfit Tortoise and slowcore king Will Oldham under his Bonnie "Prince" Billy moniker. This unlikely duo recorded an album of ten covers originally by such pop music virtuosos as Bruce Springsteen, Elton John, Lungfish, Devo and Melanie Safka.
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By the Numbers | Grads in bad shape?
January 30Can you balance a checkbook? If you said 'no,' you're not alone. In fact, according to a study recently released by the American Institutes for Research, many graduating college students do not have high enough levels of quantitative literacy to do so. In this installment of "By the numbers," the Daily explores the findings of the study, entitled "The National Survey of America's College Students."
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Ice Hockey | Hockey team sputters, fails to pick up ground in NESCAC standings
January 30In a pivotal weekend that offered a prime opportunity to gain ground in the NESCAC standings, the Jumbos came up empty-handed, dropping two consecutive matches against league-rivals.
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Ayn Rand Institute lecturer exalts reason's primacy over religion
January 30"Why does the search for heaven always lead to hell on earth?" Dr. Andrew Bernstein, a lecturer for the Ayn Rand Institute, asked a Braker Hall audience on Jan. 30.
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Asia-Pacific Economics | Nikkei downturn: A not-so-happy New Year
January 30Japan entered 2006 with the hope of continuing on its path of economic recovery and stabilization, which had restarted in 2005. With the prospect of cutting its budget deficit (6.4 percent of its GDP), pulling back from deflation and gradually decreasing government participation in the economy, the New Year was anticipated to bring unconventional changes.
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Banana Republic Insights | Tickle Me Evo: New Bolivian president faces many tall tasks
January 30It is natural for every fad to eventually come to an end. I am reminded of the Tickle Me Elmo craze in the mid-'90s, in which upstanding, middle-aged people would rumble at Toys-R-Us in hopes of securing a Tickle Me Elmo doll for their kids. Bolivian politics, I believe, are experiencing a similar craze that is bound to be equally short lived.
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Surprise faceoff over TCU Senate seat
January 30A mid-year election has been called to fill the open junior seat on the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate that was vacated last semester by junior Ivan Nurminsky.
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Tufts' new Jebsen Center tackles terrorism
January 30Tufts' new Jebsen Center for Counter Terrorism Studies aims to keep pace with the increasing quantity and diversity of terrorist threats and "increase the understanding and competence of counter-terrorism professionals," according to its mission statement.
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Theater Review | One-liners can't hold Martin's cheap, silly 'Underpants' together
January 30Don't let the fact that the Lyric Stage Company is on the 2nd floor of the YWCA deter you from seeing "The Underpants" - the show's lack of wit and its wisecrack humor are reasons enough.
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Men's Track and Field | Jumbos excel at Terrier Classic, team building momentum
January 30Facing a double-header in the Terrier Classic at Boston University on Friday and a meet the following day at Bowdoin College, the Tufts men's track and field team had a lot on its plate.
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