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NBA Playoff predictions

John Berger
Senior Editor

With the second round of the NBA playoffs about to begin, it’s time to make some predictions. Realistically, there is a big gap between the so-called elite teams in the NBA and everybody else, and arguably an even bigger gap between the Miami Heat and the other elite teams. The first round has become increasingly uncompetitive lately. Any type of upset is really rare in today’s NBA. Over the last ten years, lower seeded teams have only won a series about 16.7% of the time.

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The World We Live In

Juan Pablo Rivera Garza
Blogs Editor

The last few months have been filled with a great amount of tragedies, threats and global instability. Without a question, 2013 will be marked in the History books as a year filled with monumental struggle and fear. In the coming months, the way these crises are dealt with could impact our national security for years to come.

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Confessions of a high school Buddhist: Not ready for enlightenment

Taylor du Pont
Multimedia Editor

Over the past few years, I have struggled to accept a religion into my life. I was brought up in a Congregational family, but as the years of my childhood flew by, I began to question my Christian faith. After my best friend was diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor when I was in seventh grade, my skeptical religious views turned into agnosticism. When I was a sophomore in high school, she died, and I became a pessimist, turning to atheism.

When I told my friends that I was going to convert to Buddhism, most of them thought that I had jumped off the deep end. I was tired of living my life like a zombie: emotionless and hopeless. I needed something to hold onto. I needed to make a difference in the world around me and be a part of something that was bigger than myself. In the beginning of June last year, without any warning, I started taking my first steps towards becoming a self converted Buddhist.

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