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<body bgcolor="#ffffff" alink="#dddddd" vlink="#000000" link="#006699">  <base href=""> <table width=99%> <tr>  <td> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="2"><b>VOLUME 33, NUMBER 24</b></font></td> <td align="right"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="2"><b>THURSDAY, April 11, 2002</b></font></td> </tr> </table> <img src="http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/images/Flag.gif" alt="Reporter" width="450" height="77"> <table border="0"> <tr> <td valign="top"><img src="Graphics/Cover.jpg" width="300" height="218"><br> <font size=1 face="arial">Photo: Nancy J. Parisi</font></td> <td valign="middle"> <p><font color="#006699" face="Arial, Helvetica" size="5">Critical<br> Eye </font></p> <p align="left"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Bill T. Jones (right), co-founder of the renowned, multicultural Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, offers suggestions to one of his dancers during a recent rehersal in the Center for the Arts. The dance company will end a 20-day residency at UB with a performance on April 20.</font></p> </td> </tr></table> <br><br> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="4"><f1mark></font> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="4"><b>Dennis wins Pulitzer Prize in poetry<br> </b><i><font size="3">English professor emeritus takes home prize with a book full of "practical gods"</font></i><b></b></font> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="2" color="#000000" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Carl Dennis' "Practical Gods," which just won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, is full of them. </font> <font size="2"><font size="2"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> </font><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></font><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></font><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> </font><font size="2"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></font> <div 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