Feingold receives a well-deserved honorary committee chairmanship when the Senate Judiciary Committee debates the funding of the Iraq War this week. '
Fans travel to Iowa City to root for the Badgers.'
Police suspect that the man who robbed Anchor Bank Friday — located just blocks from the Capitol — may have also recently robbed other banks in the Madison area.'
The UW System could receive extra money if the state Legislature supports a plan Gov. Jim Doyle is expected to introduce at his 2007 State of the State address. '
Others accuse our generation of apathy, but all we're really doing is biding our time, waiting for the worst before we begin our own Flower Power revolution.'
Could tape hurt Tucker's shooting?'
Sports columnist Sam Pepper would love to see a Jim Sorgi appearance in Sunday's Super Bowl matchup.'
Hockey first, life second'
Carrying signs emblazoned with block letters and peace signs, shouting anti-Bush and anti-war rhetoric, community members and UW-Madison students alike marched down State Street Saturday to protest the war in Iraq.'
By the time the last event in the heptathlon rolled around in Saturday's Wisconsin Elite Invitational Track, UW senior Joe Detmer knew he needed to run the 1,000 meters in 2 minutes, 30.95 seconds in order to automatically qualify for the NCAA indoor championships.
You have seen the posters sprouting up all over campus. At College Library, Memorial Union and many other university hot spots, the ""We Conserve"" campaign organized by the UW-Madison Energy Initiative is making itself visible at the university.
As the cost of higher education continues to escalate, America's publishers are helping students get the most out of their tuition dollars by responding to changing needs.'
When the word ""emotional"" is used to describe Wisconsin men's basketball head coach Bo Ryan, his fiery demeanor on the sidelines is usually what comes to mind. The word took on a different meaning Saturday in Platteville, as Ryan fought '
The Melvins have always fallen short of the mainstream""maybe that's why they're so damn good. They heavily influenced the grunge movement and inspired more than a few doom metal acts with their savagely slow tempos and fanatically fuzzed-out guitars. But sadly, the FM gods have denied the radio-listening public the pleasure of the Melvins' eclectic rock cocktail.
The UW men's basketball team extended its nation-best winning streak to 17 games Sunday by defeating Iowa 57-46.'
I can't wait for the Super Bowl. But it's not the game or greasy snacks I'm looking forward to. The buzz is that Brett Favre will finally end his waning career following the Big Game. It's not Brett I dislike â_it's the almost '
As a hot-button issue in the November elections, ethics reform once again took center stage last week in the Wisconsin state Legislature. In a bipartisan effort, the Ethics Reform Bill advanced through the state Assembly and Senate and now awaits approval'
Wisconsin head coach Lisa Stone had two things to celebrate Sunday afternoon as the Wisconsin women's basketball team (5-4 Big Ten, 16-6 overall) defeated Minnesota 70-57 at the Kohl Center in front of a crowd of 15,269 people. Stone donated 25 cents per fan in attendance to the Gilda's Club Madison, a nonprofit cancer foundation, for the ‘Raise the Roof' event. Stone was impressed with the crowd turnout and decided to donate a total of $4,285.50 to match a sellout crowd. This number was matched by the American Transmission Company, and Bucky's Locker Room also donated $2,000, for a grand total of over $10,000.
It took me approximately 12 seconds to register what I saw lying on the bathroom floor — my jade bracelet broken into four separate pieces. At first, I thought I was looking at a surreal photograph or having a mean joke played on me. '
Creating an original, compelling film from scratch is hard enough, but adapting a popular novel into a successful movie brings its own unique set of complications. With the exception of books by authors like Elmore Leonard, who writes terse yet vivid prose that is naturally cinematic, it's impossible to perfectly replicate material from the page to the silver screen. Then there are those pesky books that, for one reason or another are deemed unfilmable,"" like ""Naked Lunch,"" ""A Confederacy of Dunces"" or anything by Kurt Vonnegut or Thomas Pynchon. Patrick Suskind's 1985 cult novel ""Perfume: The Story of Murderer"" was considered one of them after some notable filmmakers""such as Stanley Kubrick""tried and failed to adapt it. But now ""Run Lola Run"" director Tom Tykwer has done it, and while his ""Perfume"" is a visually astounding, well-paced effort, the results are certainly mixed.
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