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Street Beats

Dallas Cowboys receiver Terrell Owens tries to kill himself by overdosing on pain medication. Sources speculate Owens mistook the pills for Campbell's Chunky Soup. Dow to reach record high.

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Bubble bubble toil and trouble

Street: How did you come to own Bubble House? John Wicks: I owned the building and I was approached by three kids from Wharton about a bubble tea house.

by DALIA HERVITZ

Hello, Would you like a sample wiener?

Hello. Some of you may know of what a free sample is. Some of you may know the extreme lengths that some may go to procure said samples. If you rewrite the previous sentence and replace the words "some of you" with "I" you will enter a first person narrative about the extreme and somewhat embarrassing lengths that I or "some" will go to sample, if you will, free things.

by KERRY GOLDS

Street beats

Adopted West Virginia woman learns she's royalty. Interstate relations go sour, however, when attempts to rename Maryland "East Virginia" end in bloodshed. Birth-control patch label warns of blood clots.

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Happy Birthday Rafael!

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Pop Quizo

Street: Ok Let's begin. So how long have you been a quizmaster? Ronan Gill: Too Long. Um, about 3 years. Street: And how did you get into the biz? RG: I've been playing quiz for about 10 years at Fergy's Pub and there are 8 of us that all play together every tues night and the guy that invented quiz, his name is Pat Hines, he's the quizmaster there, and Pat and I have been friends for years and what happened was, on a Monday Night, Pat called me and said the guy that normally does quiz can't do it anymore and didn't give him any notice and he had nobody to cover the quiz and he said, you know how the format of the quiz goes, can you go and do the quiz?

by DALIA HERVITZ

The power of negative thinking

I am not an optimistic person. In fact, I would say that I'm the farthest you can get from optimistic.

by AMY STAROSTA

Back to the future

Today as I walked towards my new apartment I found myself unconsciously inching closer to what used to be my home sophomore year, the infamous High Rise North, I realized the chilling fact: I am a senior and I don't live there anymore.

by JENNIFER LOPES

Street Beat

Girls Gone Wild producers fined $2.1 million for failing to record ages of female performers. Supreme Court fined $6.9 million for failing to see the hilarity in underage boobs. Russian protestors object to Madonna performing on a cross as a part of her "Confessions" tour.

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The man behind the Lady

Street: Why did you decide to buy Allegro? Dimitrios Dimopoulos: It was a good opportunity that came up.

by DALIA HERVITZ

Street Beats

Iowa college town reels in wake of tornado strikes. Student compares sensation to watching episode of 7th Heaven. The rising Danube causes floods in Europe. Venice has identity crisis. Katrina report recommends improving disaster response. In a similar report, comedian Chris Farley posthumously recommends low-fat salad. Enron prosecutors question Skilling's story. Audience baffled prosecutor wouldn't just take Skilling at his word. Europe starts to take harder line on terror suspects. In Paris, anyone caught trying to hijjack a plane will be sentenced to 10 days without wine, cheese or cigarettes. Ohio has its fifth mega millions win since June.

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Person on the street: Keep on DeTurckin'

Street: Being Dean, don't you find you don't have enough time to give to your students? Dennis DeTurck: Sometimes.

by JENNIFER LOPES

From the Editor

While the last thing we like to do at Street is educate (we much prefer the word "inform"), exams are fast approaching.

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Word on the street: Mad about Bush

I commenced my senior year at Penn in a fit of political rage. After having spent the summer and fall of 2004 canvassing for the John Kerry campaign, and the following spring abroad in Paris ignoring the results of the election, I returned to the States in June of 2005 only to be bombarded by torrents of Bush-friendly media images.

by MAGGIE HENNEFELD

Fom the editor

I am the epitome of goyim. My time at Penn, if anything, has been not unlike a large lecture course in Jews.

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Street Beats

Italian national election remains too close to call. Winner will be decided by Florida hanging chad ballots from 2000 election. Britain confirms case of bird flu in dead swan.

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Person on the street

Due to an overwhelming level of recent interest in Penn's squirrel community, this week, Street has decided to feature an exclusive interview with a campus squirrel. Street: Were you born on campus, Squirrel? Campus Squirrel: No, my family emigrated from war-torn Czechoslovakia after the Iron Curtain fell in '89.

by MAGGIE HENNEFELD

Street Beats

Studies show hazing extends beyond frats. Several Wharton professors admit to force-feeding "new hires" crack-laced Red Bull. Webmail fails for first time in 2006. Peggy Curchack has identity crisis. Penn medical school moves up to third in nation. Crazy Carl's Online College of Rodent and Penguin Dentistry edges out the number 147,843,384 slot. Doctors worry about abortion pills' safety.

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Word on the street: Gimme shelter

Mick Jagger is used to having younger women fall in love with him, but my first infatuation was premature even for Mick -- I was nine years old. Jagger strut down the catwalk stage at my first rock concert and I was converted.

by GENA KATZ

From the editor

If under- and upperclassmen have anything in common, it's an unfounded, schoolgirlish excitement over Spring Fling.

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