Lorrie Novasad / The Daily Cougar

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Slowhand: Sophomore philosophy major Ryan McCarthy practices his guitar playing near the University Center on a cool and pleasant
Tuesday afternoon.

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Inside the UH Bookstore, lines of students waiting to buy this semester's books snaked around shelves and business was clearly booming. But
outside at the University Center, a small cadre of mostly history students led by associate history professor Bob Buzzanco passed out flyers and
called for a boycott of the campus bookstore.

Welcome to yet another semester of brilliant patriotic rhetoric and conservative commentary. Today's focus is on the recent collapse of Houston-based energy giant Enron, the political ramifications of that collapse and the potential renaming of our brand-new baseball facility.

The other Golden Globe nominees don't seem to stand a chance against this year's A Beautiful Mind and Moulin Rouge, as both films will go into the ceremonies with six nominations apiece … but there's always room for a surprise or two.

Maybe they just wanted to make it suspenseful, but the Cougars needed overtime to beat Texas Christian, 82-71, in a heart-stopping thriller Tuesday.