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GonzA¡lez IAA¡rritu towers with ‘Babel’

Their father gives two Moroccan children a .270-caliber rifle to go hunt jackals. Once alone on the nearby cliffs, the youngest shoots at a tour bus, seriously wounding an American woman (Cate Blanchett). The nearest hospital is four hours away, so the bus detours to a remote village where her husband (Brad Pitt) begs for aid from the U.S. Embassy. This incident provides the narrative center of Alejandro GonzA¡lez IAA¡rritu's ""Babel.""  

News of the Weird

This week's News of the Weird features some \smooth"" criminals.'

Reader of the Day

Emily Pomeranz, a UW-Madison junior, is still recovering from her summer internship in New Mexico. '

Ben brings old songs back into the fold

Victory in silver lining for gay marriage group

Homosexuality is becoming more acknowledged and more accepted every day in society, if not yet in the legal statutes. Fair Wisconsin may have come up short in 2006, but, sooner or later, a day will inevitably come when gay people will no longer be subject'

Seniors finally defeat Hawkeyes

The wait is finally over. After four straight losses to Iowa — including a heartbreaking 20-10 loss in Barry Alvarez's last home game as head coach — the Badgers came up with a 24-21 win Saturday over the Hawkeyes in Iowa City.'

Mac Genius calls Julia a bad apple

\Out of boredom during last year's holidays, I decided to borrow a couple of DVDs from my relatives whom I was visiting,"" writes Julia Shiplett. ""And because my grandparents are not the most technologically inclined people, I had no other choice but'

A double life of books & training

They join with different majors, have different career goals and come from different military branches. But UW-Madison's Reserve Officer Training Corps students have one aspect in common—passion. 

Ferrell’s talent isn’t fictional

When ""Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"" was in theaters, Kate Winslet compared Charlie Kaufman to Shakespeare and repeatedly referred to him as the greatest writer of our generation. After only a handful of films, not only has Kaufman reinvented the meta-movie; with ""Being John Malkovich,"" ""Adaptation"" and ""Eternal Sunshine"" (ignore ""Human Nature""), he's been responsible for three of the weirdest, and best, movies ever made. If you doubt his enormous talent in the slightest, watch what happens when others try and mimic his inimitable style. First we had ""Eternal Sunshine"" director Michel Gondry's ""The Science of Sleep,"" which was equal parts eccentric and irritating, and now we've got Marc Forster's ""Stranger Than Fiction,"" a somewhat engaging existential romp that, despite a wonderful central performance from Will Ferrell, never quite manages to come together. 

UW’s two stars help to dominate Mercer

Senior guard Kammron Taylor paced the Badgers in the first half, and senior forward Alando Tucker led them in the second as UW went on to a 72-48 victory over the Mercer Bears. 

UW Roman Catholic foundation sues UW System

The UW Roman Catholic Foundation filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the UW System Board of Regents and four UW-Madison administrators, claiming the university is discriminating against the organization on the basis of religion.'

November warmth welcomed by city gearing up for snow

Snow will eventually fall this winter regardless of Mother Nature's spiteful reminders this week of the warmth of summer. The week's unseasonably warm weather brought shorts and Frisbees out of storage for only a brief moment it seems, as four'

Veterans Day parade will be Madison’s first in 30 years

Madison will see a downtown Veterans Day parade for the first time in 30 years Saturday. 

Grad students to balance budget

Remedy of a $20 million budget deficit was the focus of a Coalition for Affordable Public Education town hall meeting Thursday. '

SSFC fully funds Wunk Sheek

The Associated Students of Madison Student Services Finance Committee reheard an American Indian student organization's budget Thursday night, deciding to give the organization all of its originally proposed funding for the 2007-'08 academic '

Board of Regents assesses Milwaukee public health, UW System salaries

At the UW System Board of Regents November meeting Thursday, Regents focused on Milwaukee's public health, how the university is helping the city meet those needs and difficulties the UW System is facing retaining faculty due to its inability to mee'

UW chancellor, dean attack marriage ban

Campus could soon feel consequences from the passage of the gay marriage ban, administrators and student leaders said of the ban's approval Tuesday. '

State Democrats, Republicans, name new leadership in Senate

After the Democrats won the majority of the state Senate with four seats, both Democratic and Republican senators chose new leadership Thursday for the upcoming legislative session. '

Death penalty unlikely to make it past Legislature

Despite receiving support from 55 percent of voters Tuesday, reinstating the death penalty in Wisconsin does not seem to be a feasible possibility in the near future. 

Cross country teams head to regionals

The Wisconsin men's and women's cross-country programs prepare for battle in the NCAA Great Lakes Regional Meet in Bowling Green, Ohio this Saturday.'