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Author: Katie Taylor

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SENIOR RETROSPECTIVE: Katie Taylor

By Katie Taylor
OPINIONS| I flew over Stanford the other day.

Music: "Rockferry" rocks

By Katie Taylor
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Music: The Weepies will make you smile

By Katie Taylor
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Music: Remember this Naim

By Katie Taylor
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Music review: Winehouse "B-Side" herself

By Katie Taylor
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Kate Nash is a Smash

By Katie Taylor
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Rock on with your socks on

By Katie Taylor
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Oddities & Katie-o-Syncrasies: Time for contemplation

By Katie Taylor
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Oddities and Katie-o-Syncrasies: We're our own worst judges

By Katie Taylor
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Oddities and Katie-o-Syncrasies: The word of Generation Y: awkward

By Katie Taylor
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Oddities and Katie-o-Syncrasies: Index the Index

By Katie Taylor
OPINIONS| The entire world is getting indexed, archived, digitized.

Oddities and Katie-o-Syncrasies: We all might be kinda, sorta passive-aggressive

By Katie Taylor
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Oddities & Katie-o-syncrasies: I don't believe in talent

By Katie Taylor
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Oddities & Katie-o-Syncrasies: For girls, smart is ugly?

By Katie Taylor
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Oddities and Katie-o-Syncrasies: Fair-weather fans

By Katie Taylor
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Oddities & Katie-o-syncrasies

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Give these "Innocent Criminals" a chance

By Katie Taylor
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Our faulty memories

By Katie Taylor
OPINIONS| And so it begins: door-propping, luggage-carrying, book-buying, hot-neighbor scouting.

Buble is absolutely bubbling with delight

By Katie Taylor
INTERMISSION| Michael Bublé came from humble beginnings.

Oddities & Katie-o-Syncrasies: I love the Bubble

By Katie Taylor
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The ‘Sky’ is a bit grayer than Wilco would like

By Katie Taylor
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Oddities & Katie-o-Syncrasies: You'd think funny was on the Y chromosome

By Katie Taylor
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An eye opening experience: ‘Cassadaga’ by Bright Eyes

By Katie Taylor
INTERMISSION| Conor Oberst, front-man of the indie band Bright Eyes has the emo look down: he wears plaid, is poetic and soft-spoken and has long, generally greasy hair that falls into his eyes when he sings.

Oddities & Katie-o-Syncrasies: If only life were like the Internet

By Katie Taylor
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MIKA: From shy to fly!

By Katie Taylor
INTERMISSION| British pop singer-songwriter Mika’s unique style has drawn comparisons to a broad range of other musicians, including David Bowie and fellow Brits Elton John, Freddie Mercury and Robbie Williams.

Am I in high school again?

By Katie Taylor
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Kaiser Chiefs: Reinforcements for the British invasion

By Katie Taylor
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Oddities & Katie-o-Syncrasies: What I should have been taught in college

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John Butler: A ‘Grand’ new CD

By Katie Taylor
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Oddities & Katie-o-Syncrasies: Why growing up means becoming a serious cyclist

By Katie Taylor
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Oddities and Katie-o-syncrasies: The best things in life are spontaneous

By Katie Taylor
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Joss Stone keeps rollin' along with her third release

By Katie Taylor
INTERMISSION| At the ripe age of 19, Joss Stone has already accomplished more than many musicians hope to do in a lifetime.

Oddities & Katie-o-Syncrasies: I think I need a crash course on life

By Katie Taylor
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Amy Winehouse brings down the house

By Katie Taylor
INTERMISSION| She is a smoother Macy Gray.

Oddities and Katie-o-Syncrasies: Anonymous art

By Katie Taylor
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Choose Your Own Adventure: Katie

By Katie Taylor
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Oddities & Katie-o-Syncrasies: Upperclassmanship

By Katie Taylor
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It’s ‘Too Soon’ to dismiss Norah Jones

By Katie Taylor
INTERMISSION| Norah Jones has always had a lot to live up to.

Oddities & Katie-o-Syncrasies: A few college pet peeves

By Katie Taylor
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Oddities & Katie-o-Syncrasies: Your library personality

By Katie Taylor
OPINIONS| As much as I have repeatedly fallen victim to the siren’s call of procrastination, I still try to resist the lure of “Scrubs” reruns, collage-making and vacuuming, and go to the library.

Bistro Vida: The place memories (could) be made of

By Katie Taylor
INTERMISSION| This cute French bistro located in downtown Menlo Park is a charming blast from the past.

‘American West’ shows us ourselves

By Katie Taylor
INTERMISSION| If you go to the Cantor Arts Center just once a year, it should be to see this show.

Who said presidents aren’t good lovers?

By Katie Taylor
INTERMISSION| The presidency of the United States boasts quite a catalogue of great men, some greater than others, some, ahem, much greater than others.

Oddities & Katie-o-Syncrasies: How do we go from college drinking to wine sipping?

By Katie Taylor
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Oddities & Katie-o-Syncrasies: When does not having a real job get embarrassing?

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Dining Review: Golf n' Grub at the Stanford Grill

By Katie Taylor
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The Rhythm Divine

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Oddities & Katie-o-Syncrasies: When will the liberal arts get some street cred?

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Oddities and Katie-o-Syncrasies: When will we be in the mood for a serious film?

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Oddities and Katie-o-Syncrasies: Catchwords of the literati

By Katie Taylor
OPINIONS| Valley girls insert “like” into the holes of their oral communications.

Oddities & Katie-o-Syncrasies: The upside of rain

By Katie Taylor
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Oddities and Katie-o-Syncrasies: "That Kid"

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Oddities & Katie-o-syncrasies: Reading on the John

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Oddities & Katie-o-syncrasies: Judgement day at the gym

By Katie Taylor
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Oddities and Katie-o-Syncrasies: The Athlete Outfit

By Katie Taylor
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Oddities and Katie-o-Syncrasies: A look at a LARP

By Katie Taylor
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Oddities & Katie-o-syncrasies: Letting go of that nerd pride

By Katie Taylor
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Oddities and Katie-o-Syncrasies: Since when did getting a randomly good number make you cool?

By Katie Taylor
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What's your biking style?

By Katie Taylor
OPINIONS| Although bikers are presented as relaxed and smiling in 100 percent of Stanford’s photographs, I’d bet my grandma’s most expensive clown statuette that .05 percent of Stanford bikers do, in fact, have scenic, calm biking experiences on a regular basis.

Law scholar Gerald Gunther dies at 75

By Katie Taylor
NEWS| Gerald Gunther, the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law emeritus and a constitutional law scholar at Stanford, died at home on July 30 from complications related to lung cancer.

Merit scholarships awarded to undergraduates

By Katie Taylor
NEWS| This year, 10 Stanford undergraduates received national merit scholarships, including the Morris K. Udall scholarship, the Beinecke scholarship, the Barry M.

San Jose Symphony provides early fireworks

By Katie Taylor
NEWS| On July 3, the San Jose Symphony performed at Frost Amphitheater what was one of its few scheduled concerts during the next 18 months, at its annual pre-Independence Day celebration.

Latin American Studies professor dies at age 66

By Katie Taylor
NEWS| John D. Wirth, the Gildred Professor of Latin American Studies, died at the age of 66 on June 20. Prof. Wirth was in Toronto, delivering a lecture to the Friends of Fort Polk when he suffered a fatal heart aneurysm.

Wright sweeps most recent TopCoder Championship

By Katie Taylor
NEWS| Junior Daniel Wright took first place 2002 Sun Microsystems, Inc. and TopCoder Collegiate Challenge.

9/11 dialogue draws diverse perspectives

By Katie Taylor
NEWS| In an event that brought the Stanford community together to discuss the implications of the events of Sept. 11 for its members, the University and the nation and world at large, roughly 400 students, faculty and alumni participated in “University Voices: A Post-9 / 11 Dialogue” yesterday afternoon.

Student-led seminars to debut in FroSoCo

By Katie Taylor
NEWS| Residents of the Freshman / Sophomore College will begin a series of week-long student-led seminars next week. Eight sophomores, with the help of faculty and experts in their subjects of interest, will hold seminars this quarter, and an additional eight will do so in the spring.

CASA profs discuss culture, symbolism

By Katie Taylor
NEWS| The Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology last night hosted an hour-long faculty panel and discussion entitled “Culture and Symbolism in the Context of Current Global Politics.

E-books ease access to lbirary materials

By Katie Taylor
NEWS| The California State University system recently negotiated a deal with a provider of electronic library books to allow multiple readers to use select e-books simultaneously during a one-year pilot program.