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LA VIE EN GROUNDS

Your neighbor to the left is crunching on an egg roll and eying a thick wedge of cherry pie. Stephanie is talking about who got drunk last weekend, and how drunk, and Alexandre is correcting everyone's grammar.


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The Woodbridge albatross

Woodbridge Cabernet Sauvignon, 2005 (Calif.) Price: $7 Grade: D Woodbridge is the wine most likely to be found at a public event.


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Does your meat make the grade?

I may have railed about the horrors of saturated and trans fats in processed foods in my last column, but I'm flipping to the other side this week to discuss a topic plentiful in saturated fats -- cuts of meat.


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Veggie Tales

Featuring exhibitors and food vendors, the 11th annual Charlottesville Vegetarian Festival was held Saturday in Lee Park.


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Recipes

Corn & Black Bean Salsa Makes: 5 servings You will need: large bowl Ingredients 1 15 oz. can corn, drained 1 8 oz.


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Riddle me this, interviewee

Each school year, the thoughts on the minds of many upperclassmen are about getting an internship for the summer or a full-time job for their life after college.


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Finding a harmony

Student musicians are just like every other student when it comes to balancing play and work in a way that ensures some degree of satisfaction and sanity.


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Food for the gods (well, not really)

I feel trite and unoriginal writing an article about dining halls. These buildings are inspiration for thousands of polemic columns berating them for volatile nutrients, urine-like odor and, in an unfair attack, their propensity to harbor most every disease listed in the dictionary.


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Awkward 101

OK, how cool would it be if this were actually a class? Much more useful than making English majors take science courses.


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Piping dreams

Amid a pan of frosting, plastic spoons and rolls of paper towels lay an open magazine illustrating various styles of piping.


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Lucky duck

Let's talk about how I got to go to the ballet for free. Friday was simply a bizarre day in general: in the morning, I completed my final registration at the Université de Lyon, so of course I ran all over creation, turning in this form here, paying for health insurance there, making a photocopy in that office there.


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A quest for cleaner air

Some people just talk about environmentalism. You've heard them -- the ones who preach about saving the polar bears but consider recycling too much of a hassle.


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My pal 'Pedia

Oh man, do I ever love Wikipedia. I'm gonna arbitrarily assign old 'Pedia a male gender for the purposes of this rant because, in fact, he's like my pal. Anyway, the guy is amazing.


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Study Time

If college is about one thing, it's about tailgate parties. But if college is about 70 things, one of those must be studying.


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Ahead of Lighting of the Lawn, Riley McNeill and Chelsea Huffman, co-chairs of the Lighting of the Lawn Committee and fourth-year College students, and Peter Mildrew, the president of the Hullabahoos and third-year Commerce student, discuss the festive tradition which brings the community together year after year. From planning the event to preparing performances, McNeil, Huffman and Mildrew elucidate how the light show has historically helped the community heal in the midst of hardship.