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And they all
fall down ... Three friends, Samantha
(left to right), Christine and Amana, laugh at
their spill on the McCormick Tribune Ice Rink
at Millenium Park, 55 N. Michigan Ave. The rink
will remain open through March 15. During the
off season, the 15,910 square foot skating area
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Tight
Columbia budget rules out tuition discount
Budget cuts, admission numbers make tuition discounting 'risky' for Columbia, officials say
When Becky Jans, a freshman photography student,
decided to attend Columbia this fall, she knew
going to a private arts school would be expensive.
What she didn’t realize was that once she
came to Columbia, she wouldn’t get any monetary
assistance from the school to make it more affordable.
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Columbia
alumnus missing in Hawaii since November
Grad worked at college until early last year
A 2000 Columbia graduate and former associate
director of the college’s Science Visualization
Lab is missing and feared dead after he disappeared
off the coast of Hawaii in November.
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City orders hotel to clean up or close up
Electrical items top
hotel's 68 violations
Based on a laundry list of 68 building code
violations, the city of Chicago gave the owners
of the Congress Plaza Hotel, 520 S. Michigan Ave.,
one month to fix all listed obstructions or they
will file formal charges against them.
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Swedish company not coming to city, yet
Developement delays
force IKEA to look to suburbs for store opening
Swedish “big box” retailer IKEA
has abandoned plans for a site in the South Loop
and is instead scouting locations for a possible
2005-store opening in the suburbs.
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Editorial: Room for improvement in the new year
The new year is here. Hooray! And with the passing of an old year comes the perfect chance to make big changes. It is a time for resolutions and at Columbia things are no different. The Chronicle's staffers are already implementing their own plans for personal improvement: quitting smoking, losing weight and for one employee, growing a beard.
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Editorial: Dean, Dean the political machine
Joseph Lieberman got a shot in the teeth Dec. 9 when his old buddy and former presidential trail runner Al Gore endorsed former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean in next fall's impending steel cage match against incumbent George W. Bush.
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From awful to Oscar in 2003
From hobbits to headbangers, clown fish to comic books, 2003 offered yet another year of cinematic pleasures and multiplex pain. It was a year where performances from Bill Murray, Naomi Watts, Sean Penn and Nicole Kidman tried to play hardball with The Matrix: Revolutions and Return of the King.
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 Praise the 'Lord,' the 'King' has finally arrived
The journey has come to an end. After waiting impatiently since last Christmas to witness the final film in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, the time has come to catch the last three- plus hours of cinematic brilliance.
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