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By Sarah Parvini Los Angeles Times (TNS) LOS ANGELES ­— Lindsay Lohan had young people “shadow” her while she was in London working on a play and logged it as community service. Now a judge has tacked on 125 hours of service for the actress. The court and prosecutors “had a problem with some of the work shadowing,” said Lohan’s attorney, Shawn Holley. “They didn’t want to hear more about how that played out.” Judge Mark Young’s decision Wednesday means the actress will not be able to put a period to her probation in March but will have it extended…

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Every semester, students in the business school sign up for quantitative business analysis. The stories associated with regression lines, estimation intervals and hypothesis testing are legendary, and students cringe at the thought of taking it, or any other statistical analysis class. I know I did. That is of course, until I realized that my job may depend on it.

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Getting engaged is one of the pivotal moments in any woman’s life. It’s something many girls think about for years before it happens, and thanks to wedding boards on Pinterest and ring accounts on Instagram, a woman can browse engagement rings for hours and pick out her dream ring, or at least narrow down her favorite style.

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The Lady Bears started the season with a huge question mark about them. Two players were perhaps the only shoe-ins to the starting five — sophomore forward Nina Davis and junior guard Niya Johnson. Both played immensely valuable roles to Baylor’s conference championship run last season.

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The faces change, but the headlines stay the same. The No. 5-ranked Baylor men’s tennis team has a lot of hardware in the trophy case entering this season with 20 Big 12 titles in the last 18 years, including 17-straight NCAA tournament appearances.

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No. 7 Baylor softball held its own for six innings against No. 2 Oregon on Thursday night. However, the Ducks pulled together a three-run seventh inning to put the game out of reach as the Bears dropped the 4-1 loss at Getterman Stadium.

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BOSTON — A lawyer for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev pressed a federal appeals court Thursday to move his trial out of Massachusetts, citing “saturation publicity” about the case and the large number of people in the state who were personally affected by the deadly attack.

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Over the next past weeks, No. 7 Baylor softball has debuted its relatively young bullpen in nine games, including games at Getterman Stadium and in the NSU Demon Invitational in Natchitoches, La., showing off a plethora of both experienced pitchers and newcomers on the pitching mound.

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Journalists have many different reputations, but the most common is that they are the “bad guys.” People see us journalists as people who are digging only to find bad or hurtful information. This could not be farther from the truth.

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The Baylor Lariat sports desk looks back at Baylor baseball’s domination of No. 13 Cal Poly, softball’s season-opening dominance and the elite state of Baylor athletics. Did you know every single spring sport is ranked in the top 30 nationally? Follow us on Twitter @ShehanJeyarajah @BUCodySoto @JeffreySwindoll and follow the sports desk @BULariatSports

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