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Townie Bowl LX
It’s that time of year again, the time of year that I well up with sadness. I have to face the cold hard truth: my Giants were not in the Super Bowl....
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Nachos: y tu, Ben Roethlisberger?
You’ve got to have nachos on Super Bowl Sunday, and who knows more about football than women? Well, men, but that’s not important. Women make good food, and so I went on...
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Playback Theater: not just fun and games
HDEV 463 is not your garden-variety Human Development course. For one thing, the course has an enrollment cap of 12 students. For another, those 12 students are graded on how well they...
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Super Bowl XL position-by-position breakdown
Quarterback If Ben Roethlisberger throws one more lob up for grabs, look for him to be yanked for Tommy Maddox. OK, so Big Ben doesn’t have the arm of Peyton Manning yet,...
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Why you should be in front of your TV on Sunday
Jeremy Stevens and Joey Porter taking shots at each other can’t possibly be this exciting. For a Super Bowl being billed as XL, the pregame hype has proven to be more XS...
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Weird news!
Announcement Sherlock Holmes society seeks members The DR. WATSON’S HOLMESTEAD was formed in 1991 by a group of area residents interested in the study and analysis of the Sherlock Holmes stories as...
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Senior Photos: Do it your own way
Let’s all look back on our time in high school. Imagine it’s the last days of May. You can finally go to the beach or whatever hot-weather locale the attractive kids frequent....
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Trying to fill Simms shoes
Historically, great blunders in judgment have been committed by New Yorkers. We are a stubborn, strong-headed people. We are also extraordinarily intelligent people. We either ignore our mistakes or intellectualize our way...
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Around the horn with tasty libations
I love it when breweries release sampler packs. Perhaps you’ve seen the Saranac sampler in Wal-Mart. That one comes in both a six-pack and twelve-pack, and both are good introductions to that...
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Strategic plan in focus: how will BU’s plans affect academics?
Last month, Binghamton University’s latest Strategic Plan, entitled “Excellence in a Climate of Change,” was presented with an emphasis on ensuring that the institution would adapt to changing trends in higher education....