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Impeachment on table for some

By CLINT JOHNSON | July 19

For some people, the wait until Jan. 20, 2009 is agonizing. They want President Bush and Vice President Cheney out of office now. In recent months, the clamor for impeachment has grown. Activists on the left have urged the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives to take action against the administration. Outside of U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, few Democrats have obliged. Kucinich introduced Articles of Impeachment, H.Res. 333, against Cheney in April.

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Bullpen silences USC batters, fuels victories

By CLINT JOHNSON | June 14

Reliever Andrew Carignan lives for late-inning, high-pressure situations. So when UNC head coach Mike Fox gave him the call from the bullpen in the sixth inning of Sunday's rubber match against South Carolina, he was more than happy to oblige. "I always want the ball, and when that's on the line, I pitch off adrenaline," Carignan said. "There probably couldn't be any more adrenaline than right then."

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TAR HEELS WIN ACCs

By CLINT JOHNSON | May 31

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Coach Mike Fox laughed as he shook ice cubes from his pants during Sunday's postgame interview. That's what happens when your team beats Wake Forest 3-2 to win the ACC Tournament and pours a Gatorade cooler full of ice on your head. "I am overjoyed on behalf of all of our players to win the ACC Championship," Fox said. "They get to take something special away from this."

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UNC WINS ACC CHAMPIONSHIP

By CLINT JOHNSON | May 24

The Tar Heel baseball team defeated Wake Forest 3-2 Sunday to claim the ACC title. Short stop Josh Horton drove in the winning run when he tripled home Dustin Ackley in the eighth inning. Horton was awarded the MVP of the tournament. "I am tickled to death for the team," Horton said. UNC had lost five straight tournament games coming into Jacksonville, Fla. this year. After dropping their first game, they won the next three to win the championship. They had not played in the title game since 1990.

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Tar Heels swat down Jackets

By CLINT JOHNSON | May 17

The No. 4 North Carolina baseball team treated No. 24 Georgia Tech to a rainstorm last weekend at Boshamer Stadium. The Tar Heels, winners of four straight coming into the series, took two of three games in an offensive tour de force. UNC (41-11, 18-9 ACC) scored 29 runs on 42 hits in the series. The Yellow Jackets (31-20, 15-11 ACC) belted seven home runs during the weekend and won the second game, which was suspended due to rain. But the Ga. Tech win was sandwiched between two memorable games for the Tar Heels.

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Health effects unclear for 4/20 celebrations

By CLINT JOHNSON | April 20

When the clock strikes 4:20 p.m. today, a familiar odor will fill the air in many private hangouts in Chapel Hill and Carrboro. "4/20 has become a kind of day of celebration for people who smoke marijuana," said senior Lotus Perkins. Typical acts of celebration include smoking marijuana and watching others do the same.

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'Whose streets?' 'Our streets!'

By CLINT JOHNSON | March 21

Hundreds of protesters walked out of class Tuesday and marched through campus and the streets of downtown Chapel Hill to demand the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. Activists rallied in the Pit and then walked a loop around North Campus, blocking, among others, the intersection at Franklin and Columbia streets for several minutes. As they marched, they chanted slogans such as "Whose streets? Our streets!"

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Dance Marathon sets record

By CLINT JOHNSON | February 26

They were trying their best not to collapse.More than 500 students moved to the beat of 'N Sync's "Bye Bye Bye," but they were a step slow, and the scene looked more like a hyperactive Generation X concert than a school dance.These were the waning moments of the UNC Dance Marathon - an annual celebration that marks the end of a year of fundraising.

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World within a world

By CLINT JOHNSON | January 31

As of Tuesday morning, senior Joshua Hilton had logged 92 days, 14 hours and 38 minutes playing the computer game World of Warcraft. But compared with some, he doesn't even play very often. Hilton said he knows students who have played for more than 150 days. "Thankfully I'm not to that point where I ignore everything else and just do World of Warcraft," he said.

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Trip-seekers find means in legal salvia

By CLINT JOHNSON | January 22

Philip Emanuel took a hit of salvia, held the smoke in his lungs for a few moments and then let it escape his lips. "Oooh, it works!" he said mere seconds later, his eyes wide. Beforehand, Emanuel explained that a salvia trip produces "the most dissociative effect you can possibly have." He just might have been correct. For the next five minutes, the sophomore moved and spoke as though spirits had passed through his hookah's tubes and seized control of his body.