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5 keys against the Boilermakers

By Brad Rysz | Oct. 16, 2003

Purdue and Wisconsin fight to keep their conference records unblemished'

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Jimmy's Comet blazes brilliantly with 'bye'

Oct. 16, 2003

Jimmy's Comet, the Madison quintet of Karl Christenson, Kris Larson, Patrick Cassidy, Adam Strom and Brad Kolberg, proves it is not going to be a shooting star with its upcoming ' ¦'

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Freedman talks Mid-East strife, politics

By Emily Falencyzkowski-Scott | Oct. 16, 2003

When Marcia Freedman arrived in Israel in the late '60s, the women's rights movement was in its nascent stage and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was just about to explode. Freedman, a ' ¦

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Seniors to lead team through season battles

By Matt Carroll | Oct. 16, 2003

When the men's hockey team took votes from the players to determine who this year's captain would be, the results were so close between three of the players that it ' ¦

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Nies talks about life on reality 'Road'

Oct. 16, 2003

Eric Nies was on the first season of MTV's \The Real World."" He went on to work on MTV's ""The Grind."" He has a new documentary coming out on DVD ' ¦'

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Midseason Awards

By Michael Jones | Oct. 16, 2003

Because I'm both hungover and lazy, here are my College Football midseason awards. Enjoy: \Yeah, the kids won't miss Jump Around"" Award for Biggest Moron: Any fan, sportswriter or pundit ' ¦

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UW, Wis. suffer without state funds

By Whitney Newman , Anne Flavin and JoEllen Amato | Oct. 16, 2003

With the 2003 state budget cuts and tuition hikes at UW-Madison, there has been a continuous debate about whether the state has made the correct decision to cut higher education ' ¦

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Need to park in Madison? Good luck.

By Michael Gorwitz | Oct. 16, 2003

Parking spots can exceed 25 percent of rent

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Turkey enters Iraq and more conflict arises

By Nathan Kalmoe | Oct. 16, 2003

On Tuesday, the Turkish parliament approved a plan negotiated with the United States to send troops to Iraq, even though almost 65 percent of Turks oppose the measure. In exchange ' ¦

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Outraged about Rush's racist remarks

By Dan Hinkel | Oct. 16, 2003

It has been 15 years since CBS fired the late sports prognosticator Jimmy \The Greek"" Snyder for saying blacks are superior athletes because of breeding habits encouraged by slave owners. ' ¦'

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A Senate committee on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt's nomination as head of the Environmental Protection Agency after Democrats on the panel ended a boycott of the vote. ' ¦

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Patriot Acts I and II shrouded in confusion

By Molly Borgstrom | Oct. 16, 2003

For a relatively old piece of legislation, the USA Patriot Act has garnered a lot of headline attention lately. Legislators from both sides of the isle in the U.S. Senate ' ¦

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Madison has got blues on its mind

By Molly Reppen | Oct. 16, 2003

In the book, \Blues Poems,"" Kevin Young said, ""The blues describe a state of being, a feeling, a form and sound not yet named until their 12 bars and repeated ' ¦'

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Going head-to-head with Alex Lewis

Oct. 16, 2003

With the Badger's football season halfway over and the team leading the Big Ten, hopes are high for a trip back to the Pasadena in January. The Daily Cardinal met ' ¦

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State legislators question legality of Regents meeting

By Jen McCoy and Jayme Zwerling | Oct. 16, 2003

Three state representatives called for further investigation Wednesday by state Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager into the Sept. 2 meeting of the UW System Board of Regents, citing a \violation of ' ¦

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High Court considers constitutionality of Pledge one year after Wisconsin

By Emily Winter and Ian Zangs | Oct. 16, 2003

The Supreme Court decided Tuesday to consider whether \The Pledge of Allegiance"" is constitutional at public schools nationwide because it contains the phrase ""one nation under God."" Proponents claim forcing ' ¦

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Orpheum seeks to allow liquor in theater

By Amanda Becker | Oct. 16, 2003

The Orpheum Theater, 216 State St., is in the process of expanding their liquor license to allow alcohol in the large theater. Orpheum owner Henry Doane said he thinks expanding ' ¦

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Pot reformers deserve real respect

Oct. 16, 2003

Dan Hinkel?s opinion of the Great Midwestern Marijuana Harvest Festival [10/9/03] only disturbed me slightly?even though his article was a mean attack on a bunch of hard-working organizers. His negative ' ¦

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Possible tenants eye old Burger King lot

By Elizabeth Wachowski | Oct. 15, 2003

New building appeals to many stores

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Gridiron hangover

By Cary Dohman | Oct. 15, 2003

Someone please pinch me because I think I might be dreaming. I need someone to verify that the fireworks I saw Saturday night above the north end zone were not ' ¦