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GSC Co-chair Tom Lee and junior Troy Steinmetz look amused at last night's Graduate Student Council meeting. #gallery http://daily.stanford.edu/image/full/5603
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GSC Co-chair Tom Lee and junior Troy Steinmetz look amused at last night's Graduate Student Council meeting.

Health care creates stir among labor

By James Hohmann
NEWS| Health care spending reached $1.9 trillion in 2004, the U.S. government reported last week. That number is 16 percent of the U.S. Gross Domestic Product.

Strike two

By James Hohmann
NEWS| Union leaders say they are ready for a 48-hour strike at the Stanford Hospitals on Tuesday, Jan. 24. As the Hospitals prepare for a likely strike, their representatives and the Service Employees International Union Local 715 (SEIU) each met independently with a federal mediator Tuesday.

ASSU senate imposes cap on funding

By Kaitlin Wood
NEWS| The recently-imposed soft cap placed on student group funding by the ASSU Senate Appropriations Committee has left many student groups questioning how they will meet their needs.

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Dan Grunfeld / SR / featured athlete #gallery http://daily.stanford.edu/image/full/5601
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Dan Grunfeld / SR / featured athlete

Heating Up

Streaking men’s squad travels in search of first road win
By Alex Gyr
SPORTS| Few teams have matched the recent success that Stanford men’s basketball has enjoyed at the McKale Center, home of the Arizona Wildcats.

Hard work pays off for senior guard

By Christian Torres
SPORTS| 10:15 a.m., four hours before game-time and senior guard Krista Rappahahn was already on the Maples Pavilion three-point line.

Card energized to face visiting Arizona teams

By Blair Critchlow
SPORTS| After losing back-to-back games to end 2005, the Stanford women’s basketball team has started 2006 with five straight victories and a renewed determination to get back to Boston — the site of its last loss and the Final Four.

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The right scent: is it Fresh or Glacial?

By David Gauvey Herbert
OPINIONS| I left New York last week weighed down by clothes, trinkets from foreign lands and my oversized ego. So packed to the gills were my bags that I was forced to leave behind certain yardsticks of civilization, like a razor, my camera charger and, most importantly, my soap.

Hope: is it justified?

Senate trying to tame spending

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