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By Michael Jones | Oct. 3, 2001Keeping up with the Jones'
Keeping up with the Jones'
A Langdon Street neighborhood housing unit received approval and Mayor Sue Bauman introduced the 2002 budget at the Common Council meeting Tuesday. A controversial workplace and housing-unit smoking ban was ' ¦
Sanctions imposed by NCAA not as severe as feared
Famed for being the only Westerner to have become a geisha, Liza Dalby delves deep into the history of Japan for her novel, 'The Tale of Murasaki.' The title is ' ¦'
Groups emphasize respect, friendship
Taliban leaders continued to defy U.S. demands that they hand over suspected Sept. 11 terrorist Osama bin Laden Monday, leading Pakistan's president to predict the coming end of Taliban rule ' ¦
Ever since Michael Jordan announced he was coming back to play in the NBA after a three-year layoff, there's been a lot of talk about him ruining his legacy.
Proposal asks for a 3.2 percent increase this year, 4.2 next
The Student Services Finance Committee held its first budget hearing of the semester Monday. Over the next several weeks, SSFC will hold several more hearings to determine its allocation of ' ¦
Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk introduced the 2002 county budget Monday. The $381.6 million budget contains a 4.55 percent tax levy increase, which Falk said is the combined rate of ' ¦
Arthur Bradford's debut, 'Dogwalker,' a collection of short stories, pounces on the scene of new fiction. From a giant mollusk found in a car by a friend who has a tempting girlfriend, to the search for a new mattress with a clumsy dead-beat friend, the short stories in 'Dogwalker' are moral-free fables.
Ushering in the fall legislative floor period, state Assembly democrats announced yesterday their plans to make the working families of Wisconsin their main focus in light of the recent economic ' ¦
Karen Wells more than a mother to Wendell Bryant
Members question possible tuition effects
Despite my belief that military intervention should always be the last resort in any conflict, I found it heartening to read Friday's news reports that Green Berets and Navy Seals ' ¦
More than $600,000 was raised for HIV/AIDS research, treatment and prevention when the 12th annual AIDS Walk Wisconsin made its debut in Madison Saturday. The fund-raising walk drew more than ' ¦
UW-Madison ranked 10th in Mother Jones magazine's annual Top 10 Activist Campuses list. The magazine cited UW-Madison students' commitment to Ecopledge, an organization that aims to persuade corporations to be ' ¦
Since about 1998, the CIA has been attempting to capture or assassinate Osama bin Laden, according to a report in The New York Times Sunday. While an executive order against ' ¦
An 18-cent cigarette tax increase in the state of Wisconsin goes into effect today, raising the state cigarette tax from 59 to 77 cents per pack. The increase will give ' ¦