Positivity in our darkest of days
By Peter Long | Jan. 19, 2005Columnists are a lot like politicians. Both like to tell other people what to do while shamelessly promoting themselves and their interests. I am a perfect example of this. I ' ¦'
Columnists are a lot like politicians. Both like to tell other people what to do while shamelessly promoting themselves and their interests. I am a perfect example of this. I ' ¦'
When a movie is imported from overseas, usually it is an extraordinary one that many people have loved. Be it \Shaun of the Dead,"" ""Hero"" or ""Zatoichi: the Blind Swordsman,"" ' ¦'
Sunday, Bucky Badger presented the Wisconsin National Guard's 115th Fighter Wing with an \official"" UW-Madison spirit flag. ""The point of the flag is to continue to foster positive relations with ' ¦
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Last fall, CBS ran a story detailing how President Bush leapt ahead of thousands of more qualified applicants to join the Texas Air National Guard, thereby-perhaps coincidentally-avoiding service in Vietnam. ' ¦
Meng-Ju \Mark"" Wu, a former UW-Madison student facing three counts of first-degree intentional homicide, committed suicide in his cell early Monday morning at the Dane County Jail. Using fabric torn ' ¦
While Jim Carrey's performance in \Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events"" shares very little with his role in ""Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,"" both cases show Carrey at ' ¦'
State officials are patiently awaiting Gov. Jim Doyle's upcoming state budget proposal and the effects it will have on public education throughout Wisconsin. In his State of the State speech ' ¦
Today $10 will not even fill the gas tank on the smallest of cars. In 1917, when Irene Newman graduated from UW-Madison, that now-paltry amount paid for an entire semester ' ¦
Madison, Wis. Wisconsin residents think Gov. Jim Doyle's job performance so far is, in a word, OK, according to poll data released Friday by the UW-Madison Survey Center. Of those ' ¦
Nine wins and three losses is hardly a poor record in the world of college football. For the Wisconsin Badgers, however, this year's 9-3 season turned out to fall short ' ¦
About 2,000 UW students could see drop in aid
As always, Hollywood unleashed a bevy of winter films catering to the tastes of Academy voters and the wallets of the mass moviegoing public. Sorting out the worthless from the ' ¦'
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(Def Jam) The success Ludacris has attained over the last four years has been nothing short of spectacular. While dropping albums on a near-yearly basis, Luda has held the nation's ' ¦'
Winter break saw the end of non-conference play and the beginning of the Big Ten season for the Wisconsin men's basketball team (11-3 overall, 2-1 Big Ten). It also saw ' ¦