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Chocolate Fest entices thousands

By Paige Ingram · Sunday, Feb. 4,2007 10:50 p.m.

Flora Knable spent her birthday selecting gourmet pieces of chocolate and washing the sweets down with Upland Chocolate Stout. "It's my favorite," said the Bloomington resident of the stout. "I've made it before on my own, except we called it 'Chocolate Fog' because it was a school day with a two-hour delay." Knable was one of several thousand who attended the 10th annual Chocolate Fest Saturday night at the Bloomington Convention Center.

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Citizens celebrate the city's character

By Katrina Loh · Sunday, Feb. 4,2007 10:47 p.m.

Playful, active, neighborly, artistic. Bloomington residents are all these things. They will have the opportunity to celebrate such qualities this year with the "Be Bloomington" campaign. Sponsored by Mayor Mark Kruzan and Bloomington, the campaign will feature a different theme each month, along with activities that support it.

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Monroe County Jail works to solve 'overloaded conditions'

By Will Moffat and Will Moffatt · Sunday, Feb. 4,2007 10:46 p.m.

Currently, 270 people reside in the Monroe County Jail. But the jail's capacity is 124. Monroe County Sheriff Jim Kennedy is in charge of the facility, which is across the street from Smallwood Plaza. A genial yet stern man, he smiles when talking, except when referring to the inmates or their housing.

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Scholarly love is in the air

By Jessica Andrews · Sunday, Feb. 4,2007 10:05 p.m.

As the sparks and romance of Valentine's Day linger in the not-so-distant future, many students, including graduate students, are faced with doubt and uncertainty.

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Trustees debate president's role again

By Michael Zennie · Sunday, Feb. 4,2007 10 p.m.

The battle over the leadership roles of the IU president, which the trustees tried to put to rest a year ago when they restructured the University administration at their January 2005 meeting, seems to have resurfaced again.

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Just fine?

By Mike McElroy · Sunday, Feb. 4,2007 9 p.m.

It began as a way to help first-time offenders of misdemeanors keep their records clean. Now, the Monroe County Prosecutor's Office's Pretrial Diversion Program is big business. In 2003, each offender paid $304. In 2004, each paid $329. Last year it was $360, and now the Pretrial Diversion Program fetches at least $399 per customer. Cha-ching.

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The pursuit of happiness

By Jacob Stewart and Jake Stewart · Sunday, Feb. 4,2007 8:23 p.m.

"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence." These are the words of Aristotle. One of the greatest thinkers in the history of the world came to this conclusion. It isn't some deeply philosophical end that drives men. The purpose is not success or wealth, honor or pride. Happiness is the end all, the telos of human existence.

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Liberty for all

By Grace Low · Sunday, Feb. 4,2007 8:22 p.m.

The immigration reform debate rages on and since the conservative pundits and bigoted politicians have refused to desist, so have I. The negative backlash I received in response to last week's column was saddening but only convinced me more of the need for alternative voices in defense of the American way.

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Plague-iarism

By Aparna Venkatraman · Sunday, Feb. 4,2007 8:21 p.m.

At first glance, there appears to be a rather unfortunate trend at IU. According to statistics from the Office of Student Ethics, plagiarism cases at IU have more than quadrupled in the last 10 years. In the 1995-1996 academic year there were 30 cases of plagiarism reported, the office said. In the 2005-2006 academic year there were 132 people reported for plagiarizing.

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Expensive Harry Potter already online bestseller

By Hillel Italie · Sunday, Feb. 4,2007 8:21 p.m.

NEW YORK -- It's months away from being on bookshelves, but fans can't get enough of the seventh -- and final -- Harry Potter book, no matter the cost. Not only is "Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows" topping the charts of Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.com, a deluxe edition, priced at $65, is No. 2, outselling the "You" diet book, Sen. Barack Obama's book and an Oprah Winfrey-endorsed memoir by Sidney Poitier.

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Jazzy 'Side Man' opens at center stage

By Kelsey Nash · Sunday, Feb. 4,2007 8:18 p.m.

Warren Leight's Tony Award-winning show "Side Man" is about jazz musician Gene Glimmer and as his last name suggests, "Side Man" shines. The play opened Friday night at the Wells-Metz Theatre to a full house.

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Feminists, freaks and fairies: Boxcar photo exhibit takes back the language

By Michelle Manchir · Sunday, Feb. 4,2007 8:15 p.m.

Their faces are sincere and stoic -- distracted by nothing as they advocate for their cause. More than a dozen of IU alumna stef shuster's black and white photographs of these faces -- belonging to people participating in rallies and protests over the last six years -- came together Friday night for her exhibition "Feminists, Freaks, & Fairies" at Boxcar Books.

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U.S. general to command NATO troops

By Jason Straziuso · Sunday, Feb. 4,2007 6:26 p.m.

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Gen. Dan McNeill, the highest ranking U.S. general to lead troops in Afghanistan, took command of 35,500 NATO-led soldiers on Sunday, putting an American face on the international mission after nine months of British command.

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Venezuela's leader takes up green cause

By Ian James · Sunday, Feb. 4,2007 6:25 p.m.

CARACAS, Venezuela -- His ambitious social programs are built on Venezuela's petroleum wealth, but President Hugo Chavez is increasingly talking up environmental causes and urging the world to cut back on oil use to fight global warming.

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Around the World

Sunday, Feb. 4,2007 6:24 p.m.

The bipartisan nonbinding resolution amounted to a demoralizing "vote of no confidence" in the U.S. military because it criticized Bush's plans to send 21,500 more troops to Iraq without offering concrete alternatives, said Arizona Sen. John McCain.

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UPDATE: Hoosiers fall to Hawkeyes 81-75

Sunday, Feb. 4,2007 5:24 p.m.

IOWA CITY, Iowa -- The IU men's basketball team fell to the Iowa Hawkeyes 81-75 Saturday afternoon at Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City, Iowa. Guard Adam Haluska led the Hawkeyes with 33 points on 5-for-11 3-point shooting.

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