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• From Dorms to Dakar

  Aug. 21, 2006 at midnight

  The familiar pounding of six Sabar drums drew nearly every villager to a pulsing circle of dancers. Small children rushed to the center of the circle, eagerly starting the first ...

• SOUNDBITE: "Blue"

  June 5, 2006 at midnight

  Diana Ross “Blue” MOTOWN RECORDS Most mothers soothe their newborns to sleep with nursery rhymes or seemingly innate lullaby standards. In 1971, just months after leaving The Supremes, Diana Ross ...

• Free Falling

  June 2, 2006 at midnight

  Chad Stevens adjusts the harness connecting him to his inexperienced student and conducts yet another examination of the equipment that will save two lives in the next few minutes. The ...

• Keeping tabs

  May 22, 2006 at midnight

  Shoveling horse manure in Los Feliz does not typically serve as a gateway into movie stardom, unless your name is Tab Hunter, the Warner Bros.’ strategically devised heartthrob of the ...

• Fourth annual Coachella diary

  May 1, 2006 at midnight

  With eight reporters on the scene, the Daily Bruin fulfills its yearly duty and offers to everyone who was (all 60,000) and wasn’t there the fourth annual Coachella diary. 2:45 ...

• Isadora Duncan collection on hold

  April 28, 2006 at midnight

  Though the UCLA Library recently announced the acquisition of the Isadora Duncan Special Collection – spending just under a million dollars of donated funds – they do not intend on ...

• Lawyer to discuss human rights

  April 11, 2006 at midnight

  Thirty years ago, a car bomb killed a former ambassador to the U.S. and his colleague as they drove to work at the Institute of Political Studies in Washington, D.C. ...

• Armenian colloquium helps preserve culture

  March 6, 2006 at midnight

  A monk who blinded himself in order to resist temptation. Women demand the right to divorce the husbands who abandoned them. The emergence of a 17th-century school of miniaturist painters. ...