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Letter To The Editor

This is in response to Benjamin Siegel's op-ed about the "customer always being right" ("Can I Help You?" April 5).He is absolutely right so far as an unruly and uncooperative customer is concerned.


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Editor's Picks

Wednesday, April 10 "Arms and the Man", Irish Classical Theatre, 7:30 p.m., $ 10 for students. Thru May 19.Kittie, Flaw, Skinlab, My Run, and 3rd Strike, Showplace Theatre, 7 p.m.Miranda July, media performer and video artist, Hallwalls, 8 p.m., $5 for students.Thursday, April 11"Shadow Serenade", Alleyway Theatre, 7:30 p.m., $ 10 for students.


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Music and Her Message: DiFranco at Shea's

With a guitar that looked three times too big for her body, and yet half the size of her voice, the tiny singer with the dreadlocks should have looked small, all alone on that stage.Yet Ani DiFranco's presence, energy, and passion seemed too big to be contained at Shea's Performing Arts Center Monday night, as she performed a solo show and donated her proceeds to help aide the under-funded Buffalo Public School system.DiFranco, a native of Buffalo, joined forces with Aiding Buffalo's Children (ABC), a group of parents and teachers.


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Feet First

"I am Clin-ton. As overlord, all will kneel trembling before me and obey my brutal commands."- Clinton-Kodos, "The Simpsons"Last December, the New York Times reported former President William ("Bill" on his trading card) Clinton gathered a number of his former White House cohorts at his Harlem office to map an effective strategy to combat the latest crisis.It wasn't recovery from the terrorist attacks or the on-going war effort against al Qaeda.


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Scoreboard

UBBaseball4/4 Buffalo 15, Niagara 44/5 Kent State at Buffalo - PPD4/6 Kent State at Buffalo - PPD4/7 (DH) Buffalo 5-2, Kent State 7-13Softball4/5 St.


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Provost in Demand

Depending on how things go in the great commonwealth of Massachusetts, UB may need to begin searching for a new No.


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Capaldi Looks to UMass

The University of Massachusetts at Amherst has selected UB Provost Elizabeth Capaldi as one of three finalists for the position of university chancellor.Capaldi, who could not be reached for comment, went to visit the campus this past weekend and will learn at the end of April whether she has been offered the position."I wish her well, I hope she doesn't go," said UB President William R.


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Letter To The Editor

With the Election of 2000, former President Bill Clinton was evicted from office by his boss, the people of the United States of America.


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April 9 to April 13

4/9The Graduate Student Association will show "Amores Porres" at 7 p.m. in the Student Union Theater.


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Sidelines

BaseballUB defeated Niagara University in the bitter cold Thursday afternoon 15-4 at Niagara's Bobo Field.


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Faculty Raises Concerns Over OASIS

A resolution up for consideration at Tuesday's Faculty Senate meeting has garnered wide support from UB faculty frustrated with the software used to manage research at UB.The resolution, which deems the more than $20 million installation of the OASIS project by the SUNY Research Foundation "a disaster," asks the president and provost to communicate the software's shortcomings to the SUNY Research Foundation and either improve or abandon the software altogether.OASIS, the Oracle Application Software Implementation Strategy that links SUNY's four research centers, is based on Oracle's database application software, which has been implemented in similar systems by Yale, Carnegie Mellon and other universities.


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Upcoming Games

UBTuesdayBaseball vs. Canisius, 2 p.m.Local Pro TeamsMondayAAA Baseball: Buffalo at Scranton, WB, 7 p.m.TuesdayAAA Baseball: Buffalo at Scranton, WB, 7 p.m.


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"Supporters, Detractors Sound Off About Ex-President"

During former President Bill Clinton's eight years in office, either he guided the United States into an unprecedented age of economic expansion and international stability in spite of an unfair, illegitimate and partisan attempt to oust him from office, or ... Peace and prosperity were not the product of a tenure unremarkable at best, criminal at worst and justifiably subject to the highest sanction the Constitution allows: impeachment and removal from office.


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Conspiracy Theory

Have you ever realized some force is aggressively acting against you, perhaps in combination with all of Nature and the National Parks Service?


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