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Bloomington Police Department reports

By Sara Amato · Sunday, Sept. 2,2007 11:35 p.m.

The Bloomington man charged with burglarizing several Varsity Villas apartments faces an additional preliminary charge of possession of stolen property.

APTOPIX MIDEAST LEBANON VIOLENCE

Victory for Lebanon

Sunday, Sept. 2,2007 10:49 p.m.

Lebanese soldiers sit on their armored vehicle and raise their rifles as a victory sign.

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Cardiac problems fatal for athletes

Sunday, Sept. 2,2007 10:46 p.m.

Cardiac problems, like an abnormal heartbeat, are exacerbated by rigorous exercise in a way that can be fatal in athletes, and regular testing for the problem could save lives, doctors at a heart conference said Sunday.

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NYC launches new welcome campaign for foreign tourists

Sunday, Sept. 2,2007 10:44 p.m.

Mara Haensel started her vacation braced for disaster. She arrived at the airport near her home in Barcelona, Spain, three hours early, in case some security official decided to detain her for questioning.

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SoFA Gallery celebrates 20th anniversary with live music, games

By Sara Deuser · Sunday, Sept. 2,2007 10:14 p.m.

A unique party celebrating the School of Fine Arts Gallery’s 20th birthday drew students, staff, faculty and people from the community Saturday night. Movies such as “The Science of Sleep” were projected on the walls, while people played beanbag toss, Jenga, pingpong, Nintendo Wii and Twister. Pizza and refreshments were on sale, and complimentary snacks were also available for the partygoers.

Lincoln's Assassin Remains

Theatre’s lobby holds remnants of real assasins

By Maryclaire Dale · Sunday, Sept. 2,2007 10:12 p.m.

Call it theater of the macabre: A jar containing a small piece of tissue from the body of John Wilkes Booth, President Abraham Lincoln’s killer, will be on display when the musical “Assassins” opens in Philadelphia.

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Bloomington hosts Chefs’ Challenge

By Erica J. Nourse · Sunday, Sept. 2,2007 10:11 p.m.

A mouth-watering aroma seeped through the doors of the Buskirk-Chumley Theater Friday night during the first-ever Bloomington Chefs’ Challenge, which attracted food connoisseurs, local residents and University students alike.

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Laboring away

By Brian J. McFillen · Sunday, Sept. 2,2007 7 p.m.

Today is Labor Day – a day when we reflect upon the accomplishments of the common person, and America’s workers take a much-deserved break from their toils. Around the country, hard-working men and women are grilling burgers or going to sales at K-Mart or, uh, taking advantage of their last opportunity to wear white shoes.

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Freshman foolery

By Abby Schwimmer and Ab Schwimmer · Sunday, Sept. 2,2007 6:58 p.m.

Around campus this year, there is a new dynamic between new freshmen and seasoned, campus-savvy upperclassmen. After all the articles and press releases touting the Hoosier class of 2011 as the “smartest … incoming group in the University’s history,” there is a bit of resentment on the part of the sophomore, junior and senior classes toward those we might have previously thought of as “fresh meat.”

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Pretty little things

By Colleen Carroll · Sunday, Sept. 2,2007 6:57 p.m.

In the pursuit of distracting myself from the binge eating induced by 17 credit hours, I’ve used three brands of peeling masks in the past 25 minutes. A soak in the tub, a $400 Yves Saint Laurent elixir (my roommate’s internship swag paid off for me) and a taut face don’t seem to be the cure for the oh-crap-LSAT-this-month, and neither does this “liquid cure for lazy abdominals with caffeine” that I just rubbed in a circular motion on my ass for a minute. At least my bum smells like mint now.

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Fruits of our Labor Day

Sunday, Sept. 2,2007 6:55 p.m.

Last year, the Bloomington Faculty Council finally voted to institute Labor Day as a holiday in the 2008-2009 academic year. Alas, today our classes on the Bloomington campus continue to meet, while our satellite campuses (and Purdue) frolic, presumably in flower-filled fields flowing with rivers of Rolling Rock.

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Princeton Review ranks IU as No. 8 party school

By Natalie Avon · Sunday, Sept. 2,2007 1:24 p.m.

The votes are in and the tallies have been counted: IU’s students (almost) never study. They are too busy being the eighth-best party school with the fifth most amount of hard liquor, which may also be why IU’s students are the 16th-happiest.

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