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In India, a sampling of chai, saffron-cardamom milkshakes and an elephant-headed god

By Eric Littlepage, Emma Aller, Kate Skiba and Shulamit Warren | March 27, 2002

India is.... Hmmm... elegant and gaudy; ancient and modern; familiar and foreign; extraordinary and ordinary; full of rickshaws with photos of Hollywood stars and gold streamers, ghee, street urinals, lentils, unparalleled generosity, Green Apple Fanta, yogurt, stray dogs, and water buffalo... All at the same time! -- Shulamit Warren Eric Littlepage In this article, my study abroad companions and I will undertake an impossible task.

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A Period of Protest

By Sarah Bouchard | March 27, 2002

This is the first article in a two-part series looking at how the University community confronts war, both in the 1970s Vietnam conflict and the Sept.

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Psyched up

By Lytle Wurtzel | March 27, 2002

It's 6 p.m., you're hungry and you're broke. Coincidentally, tonight you're also in luck. Beginning this evening at 6, the psychology department will hold Psychology Experiment Night in Gilmer 190.

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A Model For All Nations

By Angela Manese-Lee | March 26, 2002

A gavel pounds and a roundtable discussion ensues. Sixteen people, identified by the countries they represent, sit and decide the fate of the world. It is the year 2025 and a troop of Manoan super-soldiers has just invaded Austria - or so it appears within the confines of the Emergency Bioethics Committee, one of the 11 committees within the 2002 Virginia International Committee Simulation.

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Speaking Spirituality

By Laura Good | March 26, 2002

Concepts like tradition, scholarship and practicality compose the very core of University life. The Office of Admission strives to find the most driven and goal-oriented students.

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Word Association

By Alexandra Valint | March 25, 2002

At age 21, Jimmy Santiago Baca entered prison illiterate. Five years later, he came out a poet. He has transcended the odds - and survived to tell about it - through writing that is praised internationally for its style, cultural richness and honesty. Baca came to Charlottesville this past Friday as part of the Virginia Festival of the Book.

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Smooth Operators: The smoothie ladies know how to dish out the ice

By Jake Hostetter | March 25, 2002

My Spring Break should have been a Beach Blanket Bingo fiasco to remember. Unfortunately the bingo ball caller that is my conscience got all triflin' and went SPF 5 million on my fun in the sun.

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Making waves

By Lauren Akselrod | March 25, 2002

Last night at 7, area air waves got an international infusion of music that rocked the globe with the premier of "Culture Shock," a new radio program sponsored by the International Studies Office and WUVA 92.7 Kiss FM.

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BreadWorks' and Hotcakes' unique recipe - the secret's in the crust

By Adam Reno and Caroline Altman | March 22, 2002

Over near the 900 block of Preston Avenue, the area has recently turned into fertile ground for new restaurants and food stores.

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Culture collage

By Cavalier Daily Staff | March 22, 2002

By Alexandra Valint Cavalier Daily Associate Editor Imagine using a few easy clicks to upload an entire novel into a portable, convenient technological device.

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Night Light

By Catherine Dunn | March 22, 2002

He stood on the Lawn early one November morning, surveying the University's architectural jewel, wondering how he could transfigure Jefferson's legacy. "This can't look like a carnival or a barber shop," Ralph Himelrick said to fourth-year trustee Michael Huneke.

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Appreciating the dirty work

By Sarah Bradley | March 21, 2002

From sweeping the carpeted hallways, to cleaning the bathrooms, to hanging ready-to-use trash bags over each student's door knob, the housekeeping staff cleans up after the messes left behind by residents daily. These housekeepers, who work daily in first-year students' living quarters, encounter the same students day after day in their robes, running to class or brushing their teeth. And the relationship gets personal.

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Learning to snap

By Katie Sullivan | March 21, 2002

A University graduate will return to his old stomping grounds today to talk about his book, "How I Learned to Snap." Kirk Read, who graduated in 1995, is a free-lance journalist for various gay publications and the former editor of "Our Own Community Press," Virginia's gay and lesbian newspaper. "How I Learned to Snap" is the story of Read's experiences as an openly gay student at a small southern high school in the Shenandoah Valley. Read began writing at age 13 and had three plays professionally staged while he was in high school, including, appropriately, one play about coming out in high school. His book addresses this and other experiences.

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Dancing in the sweet sixteen

By Lytle Wurtzel | March 21, 2002

It's March Madness, BABY!" Dick Vitale's words ring in my ears as I reach for the remote control. Mute. Much better now. There has not been a more irritating voice than Dick Vitale's since Steve Urkel hiked up his pants and flooded TGIF with his nasal sound. As I look outside my window, it is March Madness indeed: tender white blossoms hang on the limbs of a nearby tree.

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The hype about Herve - love it or bag it?

March 21, 2002

Twenty-five. No, it's not the number of pages my upcoming research paper has to be, and it's not the number of days until Easter.

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Virginia Festival of the Book:

By Lytle Wurtzel | March 20, 2002

Today at 4:00 p.m. at the New Dominion Bookshop, author Gary Kessler will tell the stories behind the story.

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Kreme of the Crop

By Caitlin Jones | March 20, 2002

They're not just for breakfast anymore. Coming in an assortment of flavors, shapes and sizes, donuts can be just as easily devoured and enjoyed in the afternoon and evening as in the early morning hours. Quite possibly originating from the Dutch Olie-Koechen, meaning "fried cake," donuts now are a popular and comforting American snack food.

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A semester in Italy opens up a new world of living, language and pasta eating

By Eric White | March 20, 2002

To immerse yourself completely into another culture is not something many Americans ever get the chance to do, so I was eager to jump at the opportunity presented to me through the University's International Studies Office to experience both the pleasures and difficulties of life in Italy.

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Virginia Festival of the Book: Celebration of Reading

By Laura Good | March 19, 2002

By Laura Good Cavalier Daily Associate Editor They've spent years refining their style and sharpening their skills.

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All the Bars are a Stage

By Beth Bland | March 19, 2002

A theater and a stage - an essential combination to perform a play. But don't tell that to the members of the Offstage Theater Company who have written, produced, directed and starred in many plays performed around Charlottesville.