…WHO'S THE BIG MAN ON CAMPUS AT CONGRESSIONAL HIGH? OP-ED, PAGE 5A BEST FLICKS OF '06 CAGERS FALL TO NO.2 BADGERS IN MADISON DAILY ARTS PICKS THE YEAR'S BEST MOVIES THE B-SIDE SPORTS, PA6E 8A i I1 i iC4 l Ann ArborMichigan www.michigandaily.com Thursday, January 25, 2007 N.0 Second in an occasional series about the University's connection to the Iraq war 'U' gets low marks on prolific profs Administrators blast recently released rankin...…
…0 2A - Thursday, January 25, 2007 MONDAY: TUESDAY: The Extremist Arbor Anecdotes WEDNESDAY: THRDY Before You Were Here Capshrcts FRIDAY: Explained Life in the love lane Local cab driver keeps mood 'loose' Expecting a typical silent cab ride homemany students are sur- prised when the Kenny Lnggins lyrics "Lonse, footloose/kick off your Sunday shoes" blasts frnm the speakers aa they climb intn the back of Myrna Ismail's cab. Ismail, who has...…
…The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com NEWS BRIEFS DETROIT Ford poised for biggest loss in corporate history Ford Motor Co. could post the worst annual loss in its storied 103- year history when the automaker releases its 2006 earnings today. The old record net loss was $7.39 billion in 1992, but through three quarters of this year, Ford already had lost $7 billion. Burnham Securities analyst David Healy said in a note to inves- tors that For...…
…0 4A - Thursday, January 25, 2007 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com CJbe Iidtii~nan &U I Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. 413 E. Huron St. Ann Arbor, MI 48104 tothedaily@umich.edu DONN M. FRESARD EDITOR IN CHIEF EMILY BEAM CHRISTOPHER ZBROZEK EDITORIAL PAGE EDITORS JEFFREY BLOOMER MANAGING EDITOR Unsigned editorials reflect theofficial position of the Daily's editorial board. All other sign...…
…The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Thursday, January 25, 2007 - 5A 014 New majority, ;snen's guilty pleasures are new politics? espite the promise of a new year, Americans entered 2007 with what can only be described as a tremendous hangover. Unfor- tunately, this collective head- ache has nothing to do with a fondness for Patron. The vio- lent and corrupt cocktailserved up in 2006 by the Bush Admin- istration - with the help of the. R...…
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…The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Thursday, January 25, 2007 -- 7A TUITION From page 1A a public university, Hanlon said that the school has a duty to serve Michigan students and keep costs low. But Hanlon said there's little the University can do to prevent tuition increases. Operating costs rise with the cost of commodities like food, supplies and energy. There is also continuing investments in new technology and teach- ing resources....…
…8A - Thursday, January 25, 2007 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Fast start not enough for lue inloss to the aders BEN SIMON/Daily Sophomore Andrew Cogliano represented his country well while curling in Alaska with his teamrnmeates. Icers bond over curling ByAMBERCOLVIN "He was terrible," sophomore Daily Sports Writer Andrew Cogliano said. "I think he was the worst on the team." Jack Johnson might have been Cogliano, the only other Can...…
… B THE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY, JANUARY 25,2007 The good and the over-hyped t's easy to trash bad movies we can all agree are bad. No one's going to protest a zero-star review of "Date Movie." What's more difficult is convincing people a movie everyone loves really isn't that good at all. So now I give to you the most overrated films of 2006: Take Robert De Niro's "The Good Shepherd." This has prob- ably received the most mixed reviews out of...…
…2B - Thursday, January 25, 2007 the b-side The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com orry, 2006, but it's over. No, we're serious this time - it's ot you, it's us. All right, fine, it's you. Come on, we've put up with a lot. It's hard to believe we've done this for a whole year. We've had some good times ,yes, but oh, so many had times. So this is it, our final farewell. You did give us advice to live by. You taught us not to smoke ("Thank You...…
…the b-side Thursday, January 25, 2007 - 3B The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com STYLE From page 1B not only from a continuous stack of visual surprises, but from a message that is knit into every plot twist and character rather than tactlessly pasted on. Visual playfulness is, of course, a wor- thy attribute in itself, and even with CGI kids' movies aside 2006 was a year for color. "Little Children's" deep palette offered nighttime shadows ...…
…4B - Thursday, January 25, 2007 (the b-side} 9 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom And the award goes to.. Daily Arts rolls out its own red carpet The agony of victory. 0 Don't ever open this envelope: It stinks. By ELIE ZWIEBEL DailyArts Writer It's impossible to rate this shit. In alphabetical order: The Da Vinci Code - Pop- culture literature without sub- stance and little-to-no redeeming value can only yield a pop-culture film wi...…
