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Illini's Zook can only watch as recruiting world changesApr 21, 2008 11:00 pm - By now, everyone knows the NCAA has banned Division I-A football head coaches from recruiting during the current open period. Everyone also knows Illinois coach Ron Zook...
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Myers, Walker team up in baseball; MSU honors KilukApr 21, 2008 11:00 pm - Ryan Myers and Sean Walker are in a giving mood. The Carmel High School products want to give back to an area where they grew up and starred in baseball. Myers and Walke...
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Fear of retaliation could stop spread of nuclear weaponsApr 21, 2008 11:00 pm - The era of nonproliferation is over. During the first half-century of the nuclear age, safety lay in restricting the weaponry to major powers and keeping it out of the h...
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Excellent 'Orphanage' creates creepy sense of dreadApr 21, 2008 11:00 pm - "The Orphanage" -- While I'm not opposed to a good old-fashioned splatterfest every once in a while, the horror flicks I like best rely more on atmosphere than gore...
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Lessons to help our Earth can be learned at any ageApr 21, 2008 11:00 pm - My middle child started kindergarten in Chatham, N.J., in 1986, the same year Robert Fulghum's book, "All I Really Need To Know I Learned in Kindergarten," was published...
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Tree huggerApr 20, 2008 11:00 pm - Trees benefit from good soil, adequate moisture and a friend like George Ware. It seems no coincidence that Ware will celebrate his 84th birthday on April 27, just days...
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Officials betting that we won't notice cougars and quakesApr 20, 2008 11:00 pm - The great Illinois earthquake and that ferocious cougar that was on the loose in Chicago had a few things in common. They harmed no one, commanded an undue amount of pub...
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Clinton, Obama battle is starting to worry DemocratsApr 20, 2008 11:00 pm - As a rule, presidential elections are not won or lost by what happens in April. But last week, more and more Democratic officeholders and strategists were worrying out l...
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Bulls' one-year dropoff has precedent in NBAApr 20, 2008 11:00 pm - One important question should be addressed before this 33-49 Bulls' season disappears from the rear view mirror: Exactly where does this performance rank on the all-time...
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That's some kind of p.r. Urlacher has foundApr 20, 2008 11:00 pm - The article Sunday seemed intended to be a paid political announcement. The Chicago Tribrian -- er, make that Tribune -- provided Brian Urlacher with a forum to state hi...