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“Joke” indeed: here’s some of the responses online to the Daily’s lead “story” in last Friday’s joke edition: “Three ‘snobs’ slain outside Rick’s” It makes me wonder what the responses say that aren’t “approved” by the newspaper to appear on their website. “As a Jewish graduate reading this article I think it is offensive. With […]

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John Kerry, who carried all states except South Carolina and perhaps Oklahoma (where Clark did well) in the democratic primaries yesterday, looks to be doing well in Michigan in a poll conducted in advance of this Saturday’s Democratic caucuses.

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Keep tabs on the results for today’s democratic primaries as they come in on CNN.com.

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Dean to Visit Campus Friday Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean is coming to Ann Arbor this Friday. Although the details are tentative, he’s scheduled to speak on campus “midmorning” somewhere on campus, most likely the Michigan Union or League.

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The fifth of the eight public lectures in the “Michigan Colloquium on Race and Twentieth-Century American Political Development” organized by professors Matt Lassiter, Tony Chen, and Robert Mickey is this Thursday. Professor Mae Ngai will be giving the lecture “Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America” in Angel Hall B on Thurday […]

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Keeping track of the embittered former members of government who are now making a career of criticizing the Bush administration on the lecture circuit and/or working for a democrat? Well, in addition to former director of the Office of Faith-Based Initiatives John J. Dilulio, former counter-terrorism specialist at the National Security Council Rand Beers, add […]

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The suggestions from this town hall meeting held on the future of north campus sounds remarkably similar to a design project conducted by Dean Douglas Kelbaugh called North Campus Redux, completed with grant money given him by B. Joseph White during his interim presidency. Maybe it’s because Mr. Kelbaugh himself seems to have been in […]

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