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Give students tests back to learn from mistakesNov 30, 2007 10:00 pm - I honestly can't remember the last time I took any kind of test that wasn't published in a women's magazine. Way, way, way back when I took tests regularly, I don't reme...
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Playoff would clear up flawed field of contendersNov 30, 2007 10:00 pm - It seems odd that after a season defined by upsets and top-of-the-polls flux, the debate over the BCS title game is muted. Today's scenario is strikingly straightforwar...
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Despite loss in translation, Iudica sounds like a winnerNov 29, 2007 10:00 pm - Halftime is not usually a time for a lot of laughs. Coaches talk about adjustments and improvements. Players are expected to devote their complete attention. So, Federic...
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Sports fans to pay ransom for games held hostageNov 29, 2007 10:00 pm - All right, everyone, before Comcast basic-cable subscribers and other unfortunates who missed the Packers-Cowboys game get all anxious about next week's Bears-Redskins t...
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'Grease' cast won't say a word about holiday surprise tonightNov 29, 2007 10:00 pm - Members of the cast of "Grease" seem to have something up the sleeves of their leather jackets for tonight's tree-lighting ceremony in Des Plaines. But exactly what is u...
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Pulitzer? No, but this critic has his own T-shirtNov 29, 2007 10:00 pm - I first saw it on the Web site www.HMSS.com. A white, sleeveless cotton shirt with a winged griffin brandishing a pistol on the front. It was called "The Dann Gire Shirt...
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Burno brings unique background to MarmionNov 29, 2007 10:00 pm - You can't blame the Marmion basketball team for being curious about their new coach, Rashon Burno, before they even met him. With all the wonderful advances in technolog...
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'Is she or isn't she?' That is the questionNov 29, 2007 10:00 pm - Sigmund Freud would have had a field day with Henry James' "The Turn of the Screw." The psychosexual undertones of James' 1898 novella about a governess who believes dem...
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Relax, learn at new Florey Park picnic pavilionNov 29, 2007 10:00 pm - If it seems like a new picnic pavilion along Campbell Street sprung up overnight, well, it basically did. Last week, workers built the wood and metal structure as part o...
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Plenty for Stortz to smile aboutNov 29, 2007 10:00 pm - Getting the media-reluctant Bryan Stortz to return my phone calls -- or those of any other reporter for that matter -- can be tough enough sometimes. He has told me that...