Before taking the field against the University of Arizona Wildcats today the Cal football team, as it does before every home game, spent a night at the exclusive Claremont Resort and Spa discussing strategy and focusing its attention on the game. -more-

Murder and big-time bloody mayhem are what Medea commits when her husband starts fooling around with another woman. Cal Performances opened an ingenious and powerful modern-dress rethinking of the Greek classic Thursday at Zellerbach Playhouse on the UC Berkeley campus. -more-

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For 47 minutes, Sean Young was a goat. But he needed just 10 seconds to make himself a hero. -more-

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A deal struck to publicly acquire a swath of private Berkeley waterfront property could be a home run for local playing field advocates and environmentalists. -more-

“Sacrifice is not a bad thing,” said the opinionated and vociferous Bill Maher on how people should change in response to 9/11. He ardently reiterates this point and many others with vivid pictures and straightforward, thought-invoking prose in his new book “When You Ride Alone, You are Riding with Bin Laden.” Maher’s points are made through the book’s pictures of World War II-style U.S. propaganda posters, as well as 33 new eye-opening posters created to hoist American citizens to action against terrorism. He takes his book on a tour of the United States, which stops in Berkeley next Tuesday. -more-

STANFORD – Cal finally won a postseason game in women’s soccer, and Laura Schott finally got her record. -more-

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LOS ANGELES — A federal judge issued a sweeping ban Friday on a section of the Aviation and Transportation Security Act that barred non-citizens from being airport security screeners. -more-

t takes the average immigrant 15 years to earn an income comparable to the average non-immigrant, according to the Berkeley-based New America Foundation (NAF). Sylvia Rosales-Fike, executive director of the Berkeley nonprofit, is helping immigrants, what she calls “new Americans,” speed up that process. -more-