Illustration by JASON CHEN/Daily Bruin Senior Staff By Julie Yoshioka Daily Bruin Contributor From lining up along Sunset Boulevard during finals week to buy the latest *NSYNC album to sleeping outside Pauley Pavilion for basketball tickets, some students let nothing stand in the way of getting what they want. Read more...

  The Associated Press President of the Climate Conference Jan Pronk, right, with Executive Secretary Michael Zammit Cutajar, listen to an address on Friday. Read more...

  DANIEL WONG Salam Al-Maryati, director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, and Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller, director of UCLA Hillel, host a discussion. By Todd Belie Daily Bruin Contributor As months of escalating conflict in the Middle East claimed more than 270 lives, speakers addressed the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in the Ackerman Lounge on Tuesday. Read more...

Medical schools create funds to lure doctors BOSTON “”mdash; The University of California, San Francisco and Harvard University hope to lure doctors back into the classroom by creating multi-million endowments to offset time spent away from patients. Read more...

  Illustration by ZACH LOPEZ/Daily Bruin By Lisa Klassen Daily Bruin Contributor The sounds of gunfire, shouting, and running resound through resident halls any given night, signaling not a terrorist attack but another round of the popular computer game Counter-Strike. Read more...

  BRIDGET O’BRIEN/Daily Bruin Senior Staff Detective Bob DeVega from the USC Department of Public Safety photographs stolen equipment on the day it was returned to UCLA. Read more...

  PRIYA SHARMA The recent discovery of high levels of the suspected carcinogen chromium 6 in Los Angeles area drinking water prompted legislation to report the levels. Read more...