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'76 ring worth more than cash

By DeAntae Prince · Sunday, Dec. 10,2006 11:56 p.m.

The recent selling of the Hoosiers' 1976 basketball championship ring has provoked many evaluations of the item itself. But what was lost among all the hoopla is the man behind the ring. The first 1976 championship ring sold on eBay for $50,100 on Dec. 3. But this price does not capture the value put on the ring by its late owner Harold Andreas, former player Kent Benson said.

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D.J.'s Big day

By Eamonn Brennan · Sunday, Dec. 10,2006 11:49 p.m.

LEXINGTON, Ky. -- After IU's loss to No. 7 Duke on Nov. 28, IU coach Kelvin Sampson said D.J. White, his talented but demure forward who had scored just seven points in the close loss, needed to develop a "swagger."

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The way of the future

By Alyson Brodsy and Jessica Simendinger · Sunday, Dec. 10,2006 11:36 p.m.

In light of Lindsay Lohan's recent e-mail debacle and the fact that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, I have decided to take this opportunity to make a similar public statement in response to Lindsay's. Here is my own e-mail. Please enjoy.

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Seasons of Love

By Alyson Brodsy and Grace Low · Sunday, Dec. 10,2006 11:33 p.m.

If the frenzied mob of angry soccer moms descending upon Target this past weekend like a pack of rabid bears after hibernation was any indication that the holiday season is here, a slew of secularized religious holidays are right around the corner. The tantalizing jewelry sales at Kay, the kitschy knickknacks at seasonal kiosks and even those creepy Bratz dolls are calling to your credit card: "Buy this or you will have failed as a friend, child, boyfriend, parent ..." With the apparent commercialization of Christmas, Hanukkah and the Winter Solstice, it is very easy to be jaded to the possibility of the season.

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Call in the cavalry

By Alyson Brodsy and Brian Stewart · Sunday, Dec. 10,2006 11:32 p.m.

It is always a sure sign that one neither knows nor cares about Iraq if he or she buys into the masochistic myth that the source of jihadist violence is U.S. foreign policy. Those people now counsel deference to the "wise men" who cut their teeth under George H.W. Bush, whose aversion to "foreign adventures" apparently stands in pleasant contrast with current management.

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Week of the living-dead

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, Dec. 10,2006 11:31 p.m.

If college is to prepare students for the cold, ravaged wasteland that lies outside the pearly Sample Gates, then there's one lesson white-collared slaves-to-be must learn during their brief tenures. Freshmen, we hate being the one to break this to you, but it's better that you learn now than have your bright-eyed optimism slowly beaten out by the University's two-by-four of disappointment over the next few years. What we are about to tell you will hurt more than learning the truth about Santa Claus: the disbelief, the anger, the betrayal. You have to stay strong because the next paragraph will expose the raw malevolence that courses through the veins of the faculty.

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Former Chilean dictator Pinochet dies from heart complications at 91

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, Dec. 10,2006 11:28 p.m.

SANTIAGO, Chile -- Gen. Augusto Pinochet, who overthrew Chile's democratically elected Marxist president in a bloody coup and ruled the Andean nation for 17 years, died Sunday, dashing hopes of victims of his regime's abuses that he would be brought to justice. He was 91. Pinochet suffered a heart attack a week ago and underwent an angioplasty, and the brief announcement by the Santiago Military Hospital said his condition worsened suddenly Sunday. Dr. Juan Ignacio Vergara, spokesman for the medical team that had been treating him, said his family was with him when he died.

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Library to adopt new, user-friendly catalog system Saturday

By Alexa Lopez · Sunday, Dec. 10,2006 11:22 p.m.

The Monroe County Public Library will release a new catalog system Saturday. The system, Polaris, is a new Web-based catalog system will allow cardholders to access their searches from home more easily through limiting the searches by format, year of publication and even library branch, sending e-mails to inform them when something is due or when books arrive at the library. Other features include self-checkout and an option of paying fines from home. Saturday is the grand opening of the program, although beginning Wednesday people will be able to use the system by resetting their passwords and managing their accounts.

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