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Williams gets gritty out 'West'

By Grace Low · Thursday, Feb. 22,2007 12 a.m.

Lucinda Williams' 2003 release World Without Tears, with its jaw-dropping, bitter musings of a scorned woman, is a hard album to follow, but the old-soul, rode-hard lyricist's newest album succeeds in punching the listener in the gut and leaving very little to be desired. The gritty, honest and raw sounds that die-hard fans have come to expect play out in spades in her latest album, West. From the first track crying out from the vantage point of a concerned best friend to the last track of nonreciprocal long-distance longing, the master wordsmith weaves the stories of an intelligent, passionate human being carrying on under the weight of universal truths.

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Young drivers with cell phones might cause harm

By Aparna Venkatraman and Emily Vincent · Thursday, Feb. 22,2007 12 a.m.

I’d like to comment on the dissenting opinion given in the “Dropped call collision” editorial in the Feb. 21 issue. If irresponsible drivers only caused themselves harm for their bad choices, perhaps the “formative power of trial and error” would be more acceptable.

Georgia Perry

Poet, you know it

By Brian Hettmansperger · Thursday, Feb. 22,2007 12 a.m.

In the first round of the poetry slam, Indianapolis resident Tasha Jones brought the house down with the performance of her first poem. The poem was so intimidating that the next man competing forfeited his time and a chance to win $100. “Man, I am not a poet,” he muttered before wandering off the stage, looking like a toddler lost at the supermarket.

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Late run leads to Hoosier victory

By Matt Mattucci · Thursday, Feb. 22,2007 12 a.m.

The IU men’s basketball needed something to go its way during Wednesday night’s game against Minnesota. Shots fell and rebounds bounced their way, but the Hoosiers clung to a small lead that they could not increase.

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Oncourse and sex machines

By Colin Dugdale · Thursday, Feb. 22,2007 12 a.m.

Pimples, tumors and testicle sweat: These are now the only attributes that distinguish human beings from robots. Our imperfections.

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Student presents play about coping with heroin addiction

By Annysa LaMantia and Anyssa LaMantia · Thursday, Feb. 22,2007 12 a.m.

Garlia Jones never got to say goodbye to a close friend who died of a heroin overdose last year. Jones, finishing her master’s degree in African American and African Diaspora Studies, is the writer and director of the play “Against the Grain,” which debuts at 8 p.m. today at the John Waldron Arts Center, 122 S. Walnut St. “When he died, the best thing for me to do was to write,” said Jones, who wrote the play for her master’s thesis production.

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Event to promote Asian culture

By Rorye O'Connor and Rorye O'Conner · Thursday, Feb. 22,2007 12 a.m.

The Asian American Association is putting a spin on MTV’s “Diary” TV series this Friday at its annual fashion show. The IU show, titled “The Diary of an Asian American,” will feature several types of dancing and runway modeling from different Asian organizations on campus.

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Energy efficiency would save IU money

By Aparna Venkatraman and Lucy Frick · Thursday, Feb. 22,2007 12 a.m.

The Feb. 14 piece “Money talks” was a particularly important one as students should be aware of how budget spending has the potential to greatly affect their experience at IU. While the author correctly raised the possibility of directing funding toward sustainability, the author’s arguments against it were unsound.

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STAND against genocide in Darfur

By Aparna Venkatraman and Emily Roberts · Thursday, Feb. 22,2007 12 a.m.

Is our state helping to fund the ongoing genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan? Indiana is one of almost 20 states considering legislation that would require removal of money from companies that operate in Sudan and are complicit in the genocide. This presents an exciting new angle from which to pursue advocacy on behalf of Darfur.

Rom--com a bit off--key

By Mike McElroy · Thursday, Feb. 22,2007 12 a.m.

I went into this movie with high hopes. Since both stars had a good run in romantic comedies, I thought the combination of the two would play well together, but I was very wrong because they both lacked chemistry. Through the whole movie, everything felt very predictable and formulaic. There was the sudden-realization-they-like-each-other-after-working-together scene, the fight scene that drives them apart and makes them question their feelings and the fight-gets-worse-will-they-make-up scene that was immediately followed by the typical guy-redeems-himself-and-wins-the-girl scene.

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IU's own Oscar winners

By Michael Reschke and Aaron Beard · Thursday, Feb. 22,2007 12 a.m.

Sunday night, several students will be relaxing in front of the television at 8 p.m. watching the 79th annual Academy Awards. A few might even dream of being on the red carpet, either because of their own accomplishments or because of their aspirations to date one of Hollywood's hottest. While these people might just fantasize, some IU students have turned their red carpet dreams into reality later in life, and others got to their five minutes of fame standing in as extras in an Oscar-winning film shot on campus.

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New city Web site tracks environmental statistics

By Elizabeth Dilts · Thursday, Feb. 22,2007 12 a.m.

More than two-thirds of Bloomington workers commute to work alone everyday, according to the 2000 Census. 10 percent of workers walk and 10 percent carpool. Two percent ride bicycles to work and, believe it or not, that’s up 19 percent since 1990.

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IU photographer defines sexual slang in new dictionary

By Katie Ingmire · Wednesday, Feb. 21,2007 12 a.m.

CEOs, Grammy winners and Pulitzer Prize recipients rank among the most prominent figures to ever walk IU’s hallowed halls. Now, graduate student Jordan Tate is paving his own path of distinction by adding a new title to the list: dictionary writer.

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Back on track

By Ryan Corazza · Wednesday, Feb. 21,2007 12 a.m.

Um, if I could just write in this space, “IU will beat Minnesota,” that would be lovely. But see, I have more space to fill than that.

Stephen Crane

Author speaks about political power of hip-hop music

By Whitney Mitchell · Wednesday, Feb. 21,2007 12 a.m.

Hip-hop expert Bakari Kitwana challenged IU students to use the music that’s part of their everyday lives as a means to change the political atmosphere of the nation during his speech Tuesday at the IU Auditorium. “You can’t really have a political movement without a political infrastructure,” Kitwana said. “The hip-hop movement has created a national infrastructure – young activists that understand the power are tapping into it to make a political change.”

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Illinois basketball player charged with felonies in recent crash

By David Mercer and Jake Stewart · Wednesday, Feb. 21,2007 12 a.m.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Illinois basketball player Jamar Smith – charged Tuesday with drunk driving and leaving the scene of an accident – apparently believed a teammate in the car had died, authorities said. Smith, 19, was driving a 1996 Lexus shortly after 11 p.m. on Feb. 12 when it struck a tree in heavy snow. He then drove the car a little over a mile to the apartment complex where he lived in the small town of Savoy.

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