diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 14cfc7b..f673b76 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -3,3 +3,4 @@ pom.xml
 lib
 classes
 .lein-deps-sum
+/.lein-failures
diff --git a/project.clj b/project.clj
index e0e05fa..0c86503 100644
--- a/project.clj
+++ b/project.clj
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 (defproject doric "0.6.0-SNAPSHOT"
   :description "Clojure table layout"
-  :dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure "1.2.0"]
-                 [org.clojure/clojure-contrib "1.2.0"]])
+  :dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure "1.3.0"]]
+  :multi-deps {"1.2" [[org.clojure/clojure "1.2.1"]]})
diff --git a/src/doric/core.clj b/src/doric/core.clj
index 19c25d0..151de9c 100644
--- a/src/doric/core.clj
+++ b/src/doric/core.clj
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 (ns doric.core
   (:refer-clojure :exclude [format name join split when])
-  (:use [clojure.string :only [join split]])
-  (:require [clojure.contrib.string :as s]))
+  (:use [clojure.string :only [join split]]))
 
 (defn- title-case-word [w]
   (if (zero? (count w))
@@ -44,7 +43,7 @@
 
 (defn align-cell [col s align]
   (let [width (:width col)
-        s (s/take width s)
+        s (subs s 0 (min (count s) width))
         len (count s)
         pad #(apply str (take % (repeat " ")))
         padding (- width len)