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(07/13/09 6:00am)
It's difficult to conceive of any other way to begin talking
about Brà ¼no"" besides exclaiming ""oy vey."" The film is
clearly designed to engender ambivalent responses; viewers leave
the theater perfectly aware of the fact that they laughed heartily
at the various exploits of the film's eponymous protagonist, but
they also walk away feeling kind of... repulsed. If ""Brà ¼no""
seems to cross a certain line, it is because the film follows one
plan of attack: Lay it on thick, lay it on heavy and actively flirt
with an NC-17 rating, knowing full well that not even the MPAA
would dare give the death sentence to a film with such surefire
profit potential.
(07/10/09 6:00am)
The following should be made clear right away: Madison doesn't
figure very prominently in this, the latest film directed by
UW-Madison alum Michael Mann. The Capitol serves as the backdrop
for a brief press conference delivered by J. Edgar Hoover (Billy
Crudup) and Melvin Purvis (Christian Bale). The scene lasts all of
30 seconds or so. Now that this disappointing fact has been
established, it should also be said that the other 8,370 seconds of
Public Enemies"" are pretty remarkable in their own right.
(04/27/09 6:00am)
At a trim 80 minutes, ""Wendy and Lucy"" is as slender and
simple as it is dense and stunning. For a film that's pretty
straightforward about the emotions it's trying to stir, ""Wendy and
Lucy"" deserves the highest compliment: It's a really potent punch
to the gut. It marries big-time affectivity with intellectual
abstraction; that is, if it doesn't make you too miserable to think
afterward.
(04/13/09 6:00am)
In the midst of midterms and finals UW-Madison students often
find it difficult to receive help from professors with crowded
office hours, but with the Greater University Tutoring Service
looking to expand its services, help may be more readily available
to students.
(02/12/09 6:00am)
Gov. Jim Doyle announced Wednesday a stimulus package he hopes
will decrease the state budget deficit and put Wisconsin residents
to work improving infrastructure.
(02/05/09 6:00am)
The Associated Students of Madison approved the General Student
Services Fund Wednesday with little debate.
(12/10/08 6:00am)
UW-Madison officials are in the process of directing a study on
financial aid and how it affects students' schoolwork.
(10/02/08 6:00am)
UW-Madison students and faculty members offered thoughts and
concerns about the newly drafted Associated Students of Madison
constitution during an open information session Wednesday at
Memorial Union.
(09/25/08 6:00am)
The Wisconsin men's soccer team (4-2-1, 0-1-0 Big Ten) and head
coach Jeff Rohrman welcome Michigan (5-2-1 overall) this Saturday
for their conference home opener at the McClimon Soccer
Complex.
(03/31/08 6:00am)
The Wisconsin softball team opened Big Ten play on the road last
weekend, and the results were disastrous. The Badgers (0-4 Big Ten,
10-25 overall) fell to Northwestern (4-0, 17-8) on Friday and
Saturday and then were swept in a doubleheader on Sunday at
Michigan State (2-2, 16-15).
(11/26/07 6:00am)
State Sen. Alan Lasee, R-DePere, plans to propose a bill that
would ban text messaging while driving. If passed, Wisconsin will
be the third state to adopt such legislation.
(09/13/07 6:00am)
For most of us, polarization and partisan division have
characterized our entire political lives. We came of age right as
America went into a war it never should have started. The political
realities for our generation rest in division, fear and negativity,
in the choice of politicians to purposely sidestep the Constitution
and violate civil liberties. After seven long years, we must take
our country back. Barack Obama is ready to provide this needed
leadership.
(04/22/07 6:00am)
My name is Jay Storey, and I am an overprotective older brother.
For the past 19 years I've denied it, but with my sister's first
serious boyfriend has come the realization that my role in life is
to be an asshole to every little bastard that takes a liking to
her.
(12/14/06 6:00am)
A vocal UW System critic, state Rep. Steve Nass, R-Whitewater,
was appointed head of the state legislative Committee of Colleges
and Universities Tuesday, leaving some state lawmakers and UW
System officials questioning the university's future for the next
two years under a split-party government.
(12/06/06 6:00am)
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a lawsuit brought by the
Madison-based Freedom from Religion Foundation challenging the Bush
administration's Faith Based Initiatives program.
(09/20/06 6:00am)
In their latest release, the foreboding and ambitious Game
Theory, Philadelphia hip-hop veterans the Roots exhaust little time
and mince few rhymes before conveying the monolithic cloud of
social and political turmoil that shrouds our nation. The first
full-length track, ""False Media,"" depicts a disoriented country
stuck inside the nightmare of Columbine High School, a country
where ""Eleven million children are on Ritalin."" They explain
resolutely, ""That's why I don't rhyme / For the sake of
riddling."" Game Theory earnestly identifies with America's
struggling youth and couples raw, emotionally vivid poetry with
nuanced, funk-inspired riffs, offering a dark, stimulating hip-hop
experience par excellence.
(12/07/05 6:00am)
Until the policy was changed in October, cafeterias in the 18
schools of the North Penn School District (northwest of
Philadelphia) had been supplying as eating utensils only plastic
cutlery that was washed after each meal and reused, even though
students had long expressed disgust at spoons and knives riddled
with bite marks and had, defensively, taken to eating foods like
yogurt and applesauce with their hands. (The district admitted that
this recycling saved only $15,000 a year).
(10/31/05 6:00am)
A multidisciplinary team of UW-Madison researchers recently
received a five-year, $3.4 million grant to develop techniques for
using stem cells to repair nerve damage in victims of diseases like
Multiple Sclerosis, and to improve imaging technology to view the
lesions and repairs at the cellular level.
(04/08/05 6:00am)
(12/10/03 6:00am)
Most students work hard through college to make money after
graduation. Students in Professor Ronald Wallace's English 167
class, on the other hand, might make money by simply attending
lecture. Wallace's rather unorthodox teaching methods include
contests, costumes and $100 giveaways.