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Madison airport to offer direct flights to NYC
Nov. 16, 2005Traveling to New York should get easier January as a result of American Eagle's recently announced plan to provide non-stop service from the Dane County Regional Airport to New York ' ¦
Scrutinizing Alito’s beliefs
By Teddy O???Reilly | Nov. 16, 2005Attorney General Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, President Ulysses S. Grant's nominee to the U.S Supreme Court, was rejected by the Senate in part because he advocated judicial neutrality in a time of judicial partisanship. Times have changed.
’Sweat-free’ labor proposal faces opposition from chancellor; prof. says plan is feasible
By Jeff Rumage and Katy Hertel | Nov. 16, 2005Chancellor John Wiley has yet to sign a resolution improving the working conditions for sweatshop laborers manufacturing University of Wisconsin apparel.
iCame, iSaw, iConquered, iPod
By Lindsay Wunrow | Nov. 16, 2005Students march up and down Bascom Hill daily listening to music through their white ear buds. A muffled mix of rap, classical and pop music pierces the silence at libraries ' ¦'
Dueling sex education bills garner heated debate in Assembly committee
By Dana Hamilton | Nov. 16, 2005Two opposing bills regarding the role of abstinence in sexual education for Wisconsin public schools prompted contentious testimony before members of the Assembly Committee on Education Tuesday. As proposed, Senate ' ¦
Palermo’s departure may open assistant-coach floodgates
By Jon McNamara | Nov. 16, 2005His final game at Camp Randall has passed. His farewell tour of the Big Ten is now over and the bronze statue is in the making.
Fourth album not quite Thrice as nice
By Dan Wohl | Nov. 16, 2005There comes a time in every band's career when complicating their sound is irresistible, and this time has come for epic-hardcore rockers Thrice. Their new album Vheissu is a radical ' ¦'
Recently released UW-Madison study hopes to save money, prevent deliquency
By John Helgeson | Nov. 16, 2005Helping troubled kids become stable adults while staying within budget is the goal of a new method that uses cost-benefit analysis to evaluate how well delinquency prevention programs work. The ' ¦'
’Diaries’ a holiday treat
By Andrew Hirshman and Jon Spike | Nov. 16, 2005Thanksgiving is next week, which means in a little over a week the holiday season will begin. This year, however, the holidays come a little early at the Madison Repertory Theatre with their production of David Sedaris' 'The Santaland Diaries.' It is a sardonic little holiday comedy that takes a wry look at the holiday hype, yet still plays sweeter than a candy cane.
Pollard swipes Malchow from Badger Athletic Dept.
By Jon McNamara | Nov. 16, 2005Former UW deputy athletics director and current Iowa State athletic director Jaime Pollard announced that Steve Malchow, a senior-level athletics administrator with the Badgers since 1990, has accepted a position ' ¦
U.S. senators compromise on detainee policy
Nov. 15, 2005WASHINGTON'A bipartisan group of senators reached a compromise Monday that would dramatically alter U.S. policy for treating captured terrorist suspects by granting them a final recourse to the federal courts, ' ¦
Former U.S. Sen. McGovern compares Iraq War to Vietnam
By Nicky Kurtzweil | Nov. 15, 2005???72 presidential candidate criticizes White House
UW religious debate reaches Wis. lawmakers
By Sam-Omar Hall | Nov. 15, 2005Critics say current policy restricts first amendment
U.S. public diplomacy failing in Middle East
By Jake Herrera | Nov. 15, 2005It is neither a secret nor a surprise that the United States has image problems in the Middle East. After all, when not even a majority of Midwesterners support the ' ¦
Recycle properly and save your soul
By Justin Zyduck | Nov. 15, 2005Last year, I worked as a student custodian in the Lakeshore dorms. Ladies, was there a time when you walked into your bathroom early on a Sunday morning, only to ' ¦'
Execution foes gather in vigil for reformed gang leader
By Jeff Rumage | Nov. 15, 2005Death penalty opponents gathered on Library Mall Monday night for a candlelit vigil in support of Stanley 'Tookie' Williams, a co-founder of the Crips gang in California. Williams was convicted ' ¦





