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Coffee Plantation chain sold, name changing to Diedrich
	UA students who frequent the campus-area Coffee Plantation will have to endure an identity change at their favorite caffeine purveyor. In a $35 million deal finalized last week, Coffee Plantation was bought out by Diedrich's Coffee Inc. - based out of Irvine, Calif. - forcing the Arizona-based chain to become "Diedrich Coffee Plantation."

Breakdown of a Disaster
	If the Arizona football team hopes to contend for its first outright Pacific 10 Conference championship, they'd better hope for a miracle.Hopefully, the next four games won't be anything like the first four or the Wildcats (2-2 overall, 0-1 Pac-10) are in for a long season.

Don't listen to the tests
	When 3,000 New York students were sent to summer school because they performed poorly on a statewide standardized test, they must have been mildly irritated. Not as irritated, however, as they must have been when they found out last week that the test was scored incorrectly, and they could have spent the summer skiing instead of sitting in class.

Student wins Atlantic Monthly contest in fiction writing
	As a member of the Peace Corps, Chris White taught the basic points of the English language to a group of indigenous students in Thailand. Now, he sits in the less exotic brick-walled buildings of the University of Arizona, learning the finer points of that same language in the graduate creative writing program, bringing with him all those images and experiences he has gathered from his time in Thailand.

Quotable: "He just admitted enough to comply with the facts·staying just short of the death penalty." -Jasper County District Attorney Guy James Gray, in his closing statement yesterday about the dragging death of James Byrd Jr. White supremacist Lawrence Brewer was pronounced guilty and could be sentenced to death later this week.

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