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More than six degrees

By alex | Published: 7/19/2003
David Hampton, the protagonist of John Guare’s “Six Degrees of Separation” recently died in New York. He […] briefly experienced the glamorous Manhattan life that had first seduced him from his upper-middle-class home in Buffalo, a city that he once said lacked anyone “who was glamorous or fabulous or outrageously talented.” Add this to the […]
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Buffalo Anti-War Vote

By alex | Published: 3/3/2003
I wish I could go to this. I teach at 2… Please plan on attending Buffalo’s Common Council meeting tomorrow, Tuesday, March 4th, at 2PM in Council Chambers on the 13th floor of Buffalo’s City Hall. It will then consider and vote on the Anti-War resolution sponsored by Council President James Pitts and Councilman Antoine […]
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Terror informatics

By alex | Published: 2/26/2003
As someone interested in data mining and forms of large-scale pattern recognition, I reacted to the plans for the Total Information Awareness project at first like everone else did (“Calling Orwell…”) but then realized that the sort of ideas I work with would be very helpful to such a project. Despite the title (Informatics helps […]
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Hello, welcome to hell

By alex | Published: 2/25/2003
Please, no. Not only is MTV’s Sorority Life: Season2 filmed at the UB coming to an idiot box near you (along with “Fraternity Life”), about half of the “Rushees” are COM majors. It’s not always true that any publicity is good publicity. And one of them chose UB because of the beauty of our campus. […]
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