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On his last night in town, I asked my best friend if he was ready to leave, if he was ready for officer basic and ranger school and whatever else he has left before he’ll get deployed. He nodded. “Of course.”
On his last night in town, I asked my best friend if he was ready to leave, if he was ready for officer basic and ranger school and whatever else he has left before he’ll get deployed. He nodded. “Of course.”
All across the world – from a brothel in India to a home in California, from brick factories in Pakistan to charcoal production in Brazil, from the cocoa fields in the Ivory Coast to your own neighborhood, wherever that may be – about 27 million people are enslaved.
U.S. credibility in the international community, one can hardly dispute, has suffered a gradual deterioration over the past six years.
Michael Steele has long been in the business of telling black voters that Democrats took their votes for granted.
As stated on the aptly named blog IU Fashionista, “Just because we are in Indiana doesn’t mean we don’t understand fashion.”
The IU Art Museum recently received a $500,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to create two new staff positions to enhance the museum’s presence on campus.
Can you tell a lie? And if so, can you do it in such a way that will get you out of a sticky situation?
Oil prices fell alongside the broader markets Tuesday despite Senate passage of President Obama’s economic recovery plan and a new Department of the Treasury program to raise more than $1 trillion in public and private funds.
The Vatican will include discussion of intelligent design in a conference marking the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species,” officials said Tuesday.
IU’s production of “The Vagina Monologues” this weekend will seek to liberate women and their V-spots.
President of France M. Nicolas Sarkozy awarded IU Distinguished Professor of Ballet Violette Verdy France’s highest decoration for her numerous successes in ballet.
The girlfriend of a former hedge fund manager convicted of swindling clients out of millions of dollars pleaded guilty Tuesday to helping him flee before he was supposed to start serving a 20-year prison sentence.
At least 16 patients being treated at a makeshift hospital in the northern Sri Lankan war zone were killed by shelling, the Red Cross said Tuesday, as the military accused rebel fighters of killing 19 other civilians fleeing the area.
The IU men's basketball was beaten 62-54 by the Gophers tonight in Minnesota. IU falls to 6-17 on the season and 1-10 in the Big Ten. The Hoosiers also lost to the Gophers on Jan. 25 inside Assembly Hall, 67-63. This time around IU took the court without its leading scorer Devan Dumes. For more information, visit the Basketblog.
The major stock indexes fell more than 5 percent Tuesday after the government's latest bank bailout plan was announced.
President Barack Obama's economic recovery plan has passed 61-37 in the Senate and is on its way to difficult House-Senate negotiations.
General Motors Corp. is planning to slash another 10,000 salaried jobs this year, saying the cuts are unavoidable.
Positive Link is providing free HIV testing from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today in the Dogwood Room in the IMU.
During Saturday’s game against Michigan State, Dumes was whistled for a flagrant foul and ejected after throwing his third elbow of the game.
Brock Gill’s shows typically feature magic tricks integrated with discussions of truth and how it relates to religion and life.