Something to ponder as the final episodes of “Friends” make their way onto NBC: Would the show have lasted as long as it did without the Ross-and-Rachel love story?

Hindsight’s easy, but “probably not” seems like a safe answer. Yet that romance, which has run through “Friends” for all of its 10 seasons, only happened because of a “lucky accident,” co-creator Marta Kauffman says.

The Record (Bergen County, N.J.)

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NEW YORK – There was no mistaking the booing that smothered Jose Contreras as he walked off the mound Friday night _ another example of the maddening gulf between Contreras’ talent and his inability to cope with the Red Sox.

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All the Asian students sit in one corner, the Hispanics occupy another, the blacks gather in the center of the room, and the whites sit in the far corner all by their lonesome. Welcome to the University of Washington’s Husky Union Building.

Friendships are strikingly color-coded here, despite the fact that minorities make up 25.6 percent of the student body.

Last Wednesday, almost 500 Salve students voted in the student government executive board elections, and the net result is that this year’s five-member board is returning for the 2004 – 2005 academic year. Mr. John Rok, vice president for student life, thinks that the student government association (SGA) had a “very fine year in 2003 – 2004,” and he looks forward to another good year ahead.

The following figures were allocated for club and organization budgets by the Activities Funding Board for the 2004-2005 academic year.