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Tenant Union answers apartment-hunting questions
1:14 AM 9/8/2008 — Maybe it's the sounds of construction at 8 a.m. or drunken freshmen screeching in the halls at a much later hour. Or maybe it's the roommate whose dirty laundry is slowly seizing control of the room. Maybe it's just time for a change.
Whatever the reason, with a little less than a month before most places go on the market, now is traditionally the time that students desperate to escape another year of dorm life begin apartment hunting.
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Woody Allen makes opera directing debut in LA
12:05 AM 9/8/2008 — He had just made his successful debut as an opera director Saturday, creating a hilarious and memorable production of "Gianni Schicchi," the third of the one-act presentations in Puccini's "Il Trittico." The Los Angeles Opera's opening-night audience at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion kept applauding, wanting to see the 72-year-old filmmaker join the cast and conductor James Conlon for the curtain call.
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Madonna dedicates song to pope during Rome concert
12:07 AM 9/8/2008 — ROME (AP) - Italian news reports say pop star Madonna dedicated "Like a Virgin" to Pope Benedict XVI when she sang the classic hit during a Rome concert.
Madonna made the dedication just a few kilometers (miles) from the Vatican as she sang for tens of thousands of fans at the capital's Stadio Olimpico on Saturday night, the only Italian date of her international "Sticky and Sweet" tour.
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Multi-network cancer telethon donations top $100M
12:10 AM 9/8/2008 — NEW YORK - Spurred by a historic telethon Friday night, viewers stood up to cancer and pushed total donations for research to battle the disease past the $100 million mark.
That dollar figure reflects contributions from viewers of the telethon, "Stand Up to Cancer," as well as money raised since late May, when the Stand Up to Cancer initiative was launched, according to Lisa Paulsen, head of the Entertainment Industry Foundation, the charitable organization behind Stand Up to Cancer.
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