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"Black Comedy" lights up the stage
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Dining Review: Thaiphoon does not blow
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Don't be Fraiche: A New Fro-Yo Joint Comes to Town
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Axe and Palm: We miss the CoHo
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Boge places 2nd in 2007 Jeopardy tour
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Plagued by slips of the tongue, bad luck and a quick-fingered opponent, Craig Boge ‘07 had to settle for second place in the 2007 College Jeopardy! Tournament, despite a strong performance in last week’s two-day final round.
Boge clings to win in semifinals
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Despite an up-and-down performance in yesterday’s College Jeopardy! semifinal game, Craig Boge ‘07 pulled off a convincing victory to advance to the tournament’s final round, which spans two days and will be aired today and tomorrow.
Wilbur 'valet service' opens
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Beginning today, drivers who park their cars in the Wilbur lot will participate in a University-mandated valet service that aims to ameliorate the parking shortages caused by nearby construction.
Boge dominates Jeopardy!
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When “College Jeopardy!” contestant Craig Boge ‘07 appeared on the screen for the annual tournament’s quarterfinal round last night, Grove Lausen residents erupted in celebration.
Childcare provided for young professors
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Junior faculty members often feel pressure to choose between the demands of the tenure track and the limitations of their biological clocks. In an effort to expand the options available to such up-and-coming professors, Provost John Etchemendy recently introduced a new financial aid program for faculty families with young children.
Night walk to end violence
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Approximately 150 members of the Stanford community joined together in White Plaza last night for Stanford’s 16th annual Take Back the Night (TBTN) walk. The march, which takes place nationally each year, seeks to raise awareness of sexual violence against women, particularly at night.
On the Rhodes: Q&A with Sarah Schulman
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Boasting an impressive array of alumni including Bill Clinton, Nicholas Kristof and David Souter, the Rhodes Scholarship is regarded as a launching-pad for some of the most accomplished college-aged intellectuals in the nation.
'Free' laundry shapes washing habits
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Entering the Wilbur laundry room for the first time is one of the more surreal moments of the Stanford experience. Equipped with 21 washers and 22 dryers, the room is an awe-inspiring, wall-to-wall demonstration of laundering prowess. And it’s all free. Well, sort of.
Tour guides pave their own path
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You’ve seen them before — or at least the crowd surrounding them. They are the gregarious, well-groomed, name-tagged Stanford student tour guides, who routinely walk the walk and talk the talk — backwards the whole way.
Alumna makes call for public service
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The United States has both a pragmatic and moral obligation to help eradicate transnational problems like poverty, Stanford alumna Susan E. Rice,’86, argued at a lecture in Cubberley Auditorium last night.
Bollywood Opera?
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“Opera Meets Bollywood” is the eye-catcher on the yellow flyers advertising “The Sorcerer,” and the short answer is that the Stanford Savoyards manage to pull it off.
North Korea comes back to the six-party talks
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Experts were quick to throw water on the hype surrounding Kim Jong Il’s Tuesday decision that North Korea would rejoin the six-party talks over its nuclear weapons program. A panel of University specialists argued about what role the United States should play in the North Korea crisis that erupted after the totalitarian power’s apparent nuclear test on Oct. 9.
Superior Court sides with County and University
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In the latest chapter of a five-year long struggle between Stanford and an environmental advocacy group, the Santa Clara County Superior Court has ruled in favor of the University and Santa Clara County in a suit regarding a trails project.
Lecture honors Daniel Pearl
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In a lecture notable for its candor and critical edge, CNN Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour offered a forceful defense of journalism last night at Kresge Auditorium.
Compulsive buying not just for women
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From glossy pink chick-lit like “Confessions of a Shopaholic” to “Sex and the City,” women have traditionally been portrayed as more prone to therapeutic shopping trips and lust for expensive shoes than men.
Salsa and tango up next at Dance Camp
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HumBio taps new director
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The Program in Human Biology welcomed Carol Boggs, Biology Professor, as its first female director this fall.
Program’s personal teaching methods prove popular
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When Mike Rauta headed to Stanford in 2003, he came not only for graduate degrees in business and education, but to achieve a considerably broader goal: to change kindergarden-12th grade education in the United States. His ambition was rooted in notably less grand beginnings, though: helping his younger sister with math.
Electronic postage system causes controversy
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Though email has been assuming the role traditionally filled by “snail mail,” email providers AOL and Yahoo! have proposed a program that inadvertently preserves a relic of the bygone era: stamps.
Local Concert Venues
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While iTunes playlists and Facebook.com profiles play a fair role relaying student’s musical preferences to the world, there exists no truer way of demonstrating diehard musical love than seeing a band live.
The dark side of the Force
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In 1996, when Stanford computer science graduate students Larry Page and Sergey Brin toyed with a search engine that would one day revolutionize the internet world with its powerful search and retrieval capabilities, they might have dreamed that Google would one day become a household name.
Panel agrees 'No Child' inefficient
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Tackling different perspectives on education policy, panelists Linda Darling-Hammond, Eric Hanushek and Michael Kirst managed a difficult feat — attracting a large crowd to an unequivocally academic talk.
Science program builds bonds across nations
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In an era characterized by fierce international competition, students from the United States and China are looking to combine their talents for the greater social good.
Asia’s Aesthetics, Hollywood’s Style: Korean festival opens
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The culturally adventurous and the cinematically inclined are in luck: from Feb. 9 to Feb. 11, three major motion pictures from the 2006 San Francisco Korean American Film Festival will be screened at Stanford, thanks to a joint effort between Korean Studies in Media Arts (KIMA) and the Walter H.
Weather too gray? Diversions to save for a rainy day
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With the winter quarter in full swing, many Stanford students are discovering a drizzly season that is nowhere to be found in convincingly sunny University brochures.