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              <title><![CDATA[Scene Says]]></title>
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				<![CDATA[Advice Offered by Scene<br><p> Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, Children of all ages get pumped! You may not know it yet but your entire lives have been nothing but a precursor to this one moment. The most awesome of awesome things in your lives pale in awesomeness when compared ...</p>]]>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:00:39 -0500</pubDate>
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              <title><![CDATA[Men's Soccer: Sent packing]]></title>
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				<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.ndsmcobserver.com/polopoly_fs/1.938146!image/2051691804.jpg_gen/thumbnails/100x100/2051691804.jpg" width="120" hspace="5" vspace="2" align="left"/>Irish edge Green Bay in first round of NCAAs<br><p>Seven hundred thirty minutes and 57 seconds. That&rsquo;s how long the Irish had played without a lead before senior forward Bright Dike scored a goal Thursday in the 28th minute of the first round of the NCAA Tournament....</p>]]>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:45:39 -0500</pubDate>
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              <title><![CDATA[Game-day arrests decrease this season]]></title>
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				<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.ndsmcobserver.com/polopoly_fs/1.938399!image/537285376.jpg_gen/thumbnails/100x100/537285376.jpg" width="120" hspace="5" vspace="2" align="left"/>Ad hoc committee established last year examined problems in stadium, on campus<br><p>The number of arrests on home football Saturdays has gone from 129 last year to approximately 30 this year after six home games....</p>]]>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:45:01 -0500</pubDate>
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              <title><![CDATA[Last pep rally set for Irish Green]]></title>
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				<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.ndsmcobserver.com/polopoly_fs/1.938388!image/452249812.jpg_gen/thumbnails/100x100/452249812.jpg" width="120" hspace="5" vspace="2" align="left"/>Event was tentatively scheduled in Purcell Pavilion; students disappointed with change<br><p>Although the last pep rally of the 2009 football season was tentatively scheduled to be held in the new Purcell Pavilion at the Joyce Center, it will be held today at Irish Green, Director of Gameday Operations Mike Seamon said....</p>]]>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:41:45 -0500</pubDate>
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              <title><![CDATA[Men's Interhall Football: Bottom seeds meet as underdogs for title]]></title>
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				<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.ndsmcobserver.com/polopoly_fs/1.938383!image/2831875341.jpg_gen/thumbnails/100x100/2831875341.jpg" width="120" hspace="5" vspace="2" align="left"/><br><p>St. Edward&rsquo;s (4-2) and Siegfried (4-1-1) square off Sunday for the 2009 Men&rsquo;s Interhall championship. Though St. Edward&rsquo;s is the eighth seed and Siegfried the seventh, the teams were both able to pull off upsets in the playoff rounds to ...</p>]]>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:38:17 -0500</pubDate>
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              <title><![CDATA[Dealing with cancer on Thanksgiving Day]]></title>
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				<![CDATA[<br><p>I had planned to write a whimsical yet demonstrative Thanksgiving column full of ironically fun topics for which others should give thanks &mdash; like last week&rsquo;s opposing football teams of Coaches Charlie Weis and Bill Belichick who coincidentally...</p>]]>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:20:40 -0500</pubDate>
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              <title><![CDATA[Commentary: Peaks and valleys define four years]]></title>
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				<![CDATA[<br><p>Four seasons ago, Notre Dame was ranked as the second-best team in the country. Brady Quinn, Travis Thomas and Tom Zbikowski were on the cover of Sports Illustrated. The Irish were a true national championship contender, had the Heisman frontrunner under ...</p>]]>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:00:03 -0500</pubDate>
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              <title><![CDATA[Students reflect on their work to effect change on campus]]></title>
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				<![CDATA[<br><p>Senior Kristi Haas has observed two different kinds of activism on campus during her past three years at Notre Dame....</p>]]>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:53:00 -0500</pubDate>
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              <title><![CDATA[Past activism remembered, current efforts examined]]></title>
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				<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.ndsmcobserver.com/polopoly_fs/1.936799!image/237820993.jpg_gen/thumbnails/100x100/237820993.jpg" width="120" hspace="5" vspace="2" align="left"/>Panel celebrates 40th anniversary of ‘Notre Dame 10’ protest<br><p>John Eckenrode said he was just an ordinary student when he was suspended 40 years ago for participating in the Dow-CIA protest....</p>]]>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:48:53 -0500</pubDate>
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              <title><![CDATA[ROTC holds Dixon Challenge]]></title>
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				<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.ndsmcobserver.com/polopoly_fs/1.936792!image/2992202114.jpg_gen/thumbnails/100x100/2992202114.jpg" width="120" hspace="5" vspace="2" align="left"/><br><p>Crawling under barbed wire, grenade training and responding to the fallout of a bomb all while carrying a 35 pound backpack &mdash; just an average test day for Notre Dame&rsquo;s ROTC Army division....</p>]]>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:44:04 -0500</pubDate>
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              <title><![CDATA[Men's Basketball: Gold rush]]></title>
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				<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.ndsmcobserver.com/polopoly_fs/1.936183!image/1795341007.jpg_gen/thumbnails/100x100/1795341007.jpg" width="120" hspace="5" vspace="2" align="left"/>Squad welcomes LBSU for first ever meeting<br><p>Long Beach State finished 15-15 last season, but in Notre Dame&rsquo;s eyes, it has the potential to perform a little better than that. &ldquo;Long Beach State, they could be as good as or better than the Big East opponents this year,&rdquo; senior Irish ...</p>]]>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:28:13 -0500</pubDate>
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              <title><![CDATA[Men's Soccer: ND hosts first round match]]></title>
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				<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.ndsmcobserver.com/polopoly_fs/1.936185!image/3406074620.jpg_gen/thumbnails/100x100/3406074620.jpg" width="120" hspace="5" vspace="2" align="left"/><br><p>The Irish will play host to Green Bay as they suit up for the first round of the NCAA tournament today at Alumni Stadium. No. 19 Notre Dame (10-7-4) received an at-large bid after finishing the season with a string of wins and ties against strong opponent...</p>]]>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:25:59 -0500</pubDate>
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              <title><![CDATA[Determinism]]></title>
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				<![CDATA[<br><p>&nbsp;The controversy between free will and determinism continues to rage. In one way, this is unsurprising: The same controversy has raged, in one form or another, for two millennia, and it is clearly a question near to us in our understanding of ourselv...</p>]]>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:26:49 -0500</pubDate>
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              <title><![CDATA[ND Women's Soccer: Wise Weiss]]></title>
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				<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.ndsmcobserver.com/polopoly_fs/1.934062!image/1373438343.jpg_gen/thumbnails/100x100/1373438343.jpg" width="120" hspace="5" vspace="2" align="left"/>Junior keeper steps up in 3 postseason games<br><p>Just one year removed from a campaign in which she did not make a single start, junior goalkeeper Nikki Weiss now finds herself anchoring a strong Irish defense and just two wins away from leading Notre Dame to its fourth consecutive NCAA College Cup appe...</p>]]>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:19:23 -0500</pubDate>
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              <title><![CDATA[ND Women's Basketball: Three recruits sign with ND]]></title>
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				<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.ndsmcobserver.com/polopoly_fs/1.934057!image/1645422381.jpg_gen/thumbnails/100x100/1645422381.jpg" width="120" hspace="5" vspace="2" align="left"/><br><p>The Irish have a bright 2009-10 season ahead of them, and coach Muffet McGraw is making sure that continues in future seasons. McGraw announced at a press conference Friday that three top recruits signed National Letters of Intent to play basketball at No...</p>]]>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:17:52 -0500</pubDate>
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              <title><![CDATA[Football: Weis will look to seniors to spark Irish for Connecticut]]></title>
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				<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.ndsmcobserver.com/polopoly_fs/1.934060!image/3724358686.jpg_gen/thumbnails/100x100/3724358686.jpg" width="120" hspace="5" vspace="2" align="left"/><br><p>Notre Dame&rsquo;s 27-22 loss at Pittsburgh Saturday represented the second straight game, and fourth overall this season, in which a furious fourth-quarter Irish rally fell short. And while Irish coach Charlie Weis said at his Tuesday press conference he...</p>]]>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:15:19 -0500</pubDate>
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              <title><![CDATA[‘The only rules of the game’]]></title>
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				<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.ndsmcobserver.com/polopoly_fs/1.934656!image/3647139020.jpg_gen/thumbnails/100x100/3647139020.jpg" width="120" hspace="5" vspace="2" align="left"/>Hesburgh reflects on student activism, 15-min. rule on 40th anniversary of ‘Notre Dame 10’<br><p>In the fall of 1969, then-University President Fr. Theodore Hesburgh's office door was always open, it seems. &nbsp; Reflecting on the time of what he calls &ldquo;the student revolution&rdquo; in his new office in the Library named for him, Hesburgh desc...</p>]]>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:34:50 -0500</pubDate>
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              <title><![CDATA[Former presidential candidate Huckabee hosts book signing]]></title>
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				<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.ndsmcobserver.com/polopoly_fs/1.934597!image/3605977361.jpg_gen/thumbnails/100x100/3605977361.jpg" width="120" hspace="5" vspace="2" align="left"/><br><p>Mike Huckabee&rsquo;s appearance at the Hammes Notre Dame Bookstore yesterday afternoon to sign copies of his newest book, A Simple Christmas, marked the first time a politician has appeared at the Bookstore for a book signing, Kristin Blitch, marketing m...</p>]]>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:31:25 -0500</pubDate>
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              <title><![CDATA[International Education Week helps students navigate in a global culture]]></title>
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				<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.ndsmcobserver.com/polopoly_fs/1.934458!image/1524915479.jpg_gen/thumbnails/100x100/1524915479.jpg" width="120" hspace="5" vspace="2" align="left"/><br><p>Sponsored by International Services and Activities (ISSA) and the Office of International Studies (OIS), Notre Dame is dedicating this week, International Education Week, to events that promote or will advise students on issues of international relevance....</p>]]>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:17:38 -0500</pubDate>
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