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Helping Hands

Like many homes with school-aged children, the Torres household is filled with puzzles, crayons, stuffed animals and shelves of books. Tonight, as with most Monday evenings this semester, three volunteers of the Migrant Aid Program are welcomed inside.


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Comedy Cho

The nation's newspapers are calling Margaret Cho exuberant, provocative and brilliant. From performing in small clubs as a teenager in the 1980s, Cho has developed into a nationally renowned comedian.


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Tales of a walk-on substitute

I put my game face on: Dignified, uncompro-mising, chin slightly raised and eyes squinted as if my mere gaze is incendiary and will soon ignite the potted plant and ant farm residing on the windowsill.


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Trash bash

Be warned: Pungent fumes may drift from the general direction of the Lawn today, compliments of the contents of two dumpsters spilled in front of Old Cabell.


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Sigh

How nauseatingly nostalgic. Autumn makes me sappier than a sappy New England maple oozing sap, and as cold air seems to have finally found its way back into the Blue Ridge Mountains, I find myself pining for days gone by.


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Professor Profile

HIEU 354 Modern German History 1914-Present HIEU 401 Undergraduate Research Seminar Q: Why did you choose to study German history? A: All history is contemporary history, but some is more contemporary than others.


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Thoughts of Palestine

While the American media frequently covers the conditions and issues of the Middle East, few University students can grasp the far-reaching consequences of the reports. Almost no one will ever fully understand the frustration felt by suicide bombers, experience the humiliation of passing through checkpoints on a daily basis or live in fear of enemy soldiers, but one student has. Second-year Engineering student Raya Yusuf is the only student attending the University from Palestine. Born in Jerusalem, Raya grew up in Ramallah in the West Bank with her parents and three younger siblings. She attended a private Christian school for girls run by nuns although she and most of her classmates were Muslim. "Over there, there is no difference between Christian and Muslim," she explained.


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Sock It to Me

The bagel necklaces, the pocketed stuffed animals, the Caesarean leaf crowns. Frantic victims running from attackers armed with socks. This scene has become familiar on Grounds in the past few weeks, as most of the first-year dorms have set up their own Assassins tournaments, arranging for all interested residents to partake in a game that might be described as a cross between hide-and-go-seek and tag.


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DTD had a frat, and in that frat there was a pig

Walking down Rugby Road today, students are likely to see a new face. Not a new fraternity guy or a face lift on one of the fraternity houses, but instead, a smaller change, and a pinker change, a rounder change ... Delta Tau Delta's newest acquisition, Charlie, the female miniature pig. Even if you are not a frequent visitor to Rugby, Charlie is by no means a sedentary swine.


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Shake your body

In the hiatus from home football games, organizations have taken it upon themselves to schedule their own events during the upcoming weekends.The Virginia Dance Company has jumped on the bandwagon along with others, making certain not to miss their opportunity.


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Newcomer to Charlottesville, Garden of Sheba Caribbean restaurant is 'jammin, man'

In the words of the great Bob Marley, "One Love! One Heart! Let's get together and feel all right." This song, and others like it, greeted us last night as we sat down for a meal in the fairly new Garden of Sheba, an Afro-Carribean restaurant located just past the Downtown Mall on East Market Street, across from the parking garage. We walked up to the restaurant very disappointed that we could not sit in the courtyard dining area due to the torrential downpour.


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Sound Bytes

Thanks to the guy who straightened out the mess in the tray deposit of Newcomb Hall today. If everyone were as responsible as you, the belt wouldn't have gotten overloaded in the first place, and the University would be a much cleaner place to live. -- Appreciating Civic Duty Look, if you're going to get to class 10 minutes early, for the love of God, do not sit right on the aisle so everyone else has to climb over you.


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Aces Up!

Once upon a time names like Johnny Chan, Phil Hellmuth Jr. and Chris Moneymaker were just that -- names.


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Timing: The prerequisite to relationships

It only took me two weeks at the University my first year to find a guy I wanted to date. As one of my best friends said to me last year, I am always up to something (and I am). So, I did the typical girl things that would help me get this guy to like me.


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Efforts from exile

Joseph Abdel Wahed and his family were expelled from Egypt in 1952 because they were Jews. Wahed was one of thousands of Jews given a "one way ticket" out of the country and forced to leave behind family, friends and personal belongings. Despite the horror of this forced removal, little is known of what Wahed calls the Forgotten Exodus. Fourth-year Commerce student and president of Hoos for Israel Matthew Rubin was touched by Wahed's story, printed in National Review.


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In the middle of a mid-college crisis

I have this odd obsession with time. I think it's a control issue -- because time is intangible and constantly running, I am a fanatic about keeping track of it -- to an embarrassing degree. Oh yes, I'm the girl who slashes each and every day in her planner as they end.


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Renaissance Man

A smallish, sprightly man darts through parkedcars at the Aquatic & Fitness Center. Students may recognize him as "Bill, that guy who writes tickets." Bill Kelley is a 61-year-old man who may look his age, but he certainly doesn't act it. When he walks he bounces.

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