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The Chilean film "Fernando Has Returned" features the workings of Chile's Identification Unit as it attempts to identify all the bodies of the "disappeared" persons during the Pinochet dictatorship. The movie is one of many Latin American films that professor and Director of Portuguese studies Darlene Sadlier features in her communication and culture class, C398: National Cinemas: Latin American Film.
Journalistic reporting requires an effective relationship between reporter and source to relay important information to the reader. This is especially true when reporting on the issue of sex research.
Sitting with their desks in a circle in a small room in the IU School of Optometry, a group of seven graduate students, one auditor and a professor discuss the musical "Rent." Although the graduate seminar, provided by the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, might appear like a music course, it looks solely at -- as the name suggests -- "Musical Responses to the AIDS Pandemic."
The Business Careers in Entertainment Club is out to show students and faculty why the group was recently voted IU's "Best Student Organization" by WEEKEND readers. The club is preparing to produce a full-length film, and although it will not be "coming soon to a theater near you," the script might be written by a student near you.
LONDON -- Two former 1960s rock stars appeared before a music-loving judge Monday for a showdown over authorship of one of the decade's most iconic songs.
The audience fell silent after Daniel Bolshoy and Julie Nesrallah struck the last chords of a passionate, Spanish-influenced guitar ballad. The crowd waited for the duo to say something insightful about the song.
LONDON -- Two Fra Angelico paintings missing since the Napoleonic wars of the 18th century were discovered hanging in the study of a retired manuscript librarian and will be auctioned by the woman's heirs.
A little girl stood on the ice, ready to skate across the arena and perform in front of the audience. What this little girl was showing off, besides her talent in the rink, was her outfit. When she was young, fifth-year senior Lauren Feldman designed her own skating outfits.
Where can you find "celebration" bread, wine and beer, an acoustic guitar signed by John Mellencamp and four tickets to Disney World? The answer: Bread Fest.
INDIANAPOLIS -- Conservation officers who entered the home of a man who sought treatment for a poisonous snake bite found 15 venomous vipers, including cobras and rattlesnakes.
ROLLING PRAIRIE, Ind. -- Federal and local authorities worked Tuesday to recover the remains of four employees of an Iowa marketing company and a pilot killed in a small plane crash in a rural area of northern Indiana, officials said.
Hoosiers should view their state's economy with tempered optimism over the next year, say some experts, who predict little economic growth but steady performance in Indiana.
A Bloomington woman stabbed another woman in a fight about a man Monday, police said.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- The South African parliament overwhelmingly approved legislation Tuesday recognizing gay marriages -- a first for a continent where homosexuality is largely taboo.
Iran's president boasted that his country will soon have mastered the production of nuclear fuel, but he added the country was far from producing enough fuel to power its Russian-built reactor. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claimed the world had finally accepted that Iran has the complete cycle of fuel production -- from mining uranium to enriching it to the level required for consumption in a nuclear power plant.
WASHINGTON -- Senate Democrats picked two women for senior posts Tuesday and appointed former U.S. Capitol police chief Terrance Gainer as sergeant at arms. Their choice as majority leader, Sen. Harry Reid, said a top priority is getting a new secretary of defense confirmed.
In 1948, IU zoology professor Alfred Kinsey published a book broaching all social taboos surrounding the sexual activity of American men. That same year, renowned anthropologist Margaret Mead reviewed Kinsey's work, which became known as "The Kinsey Report," and commented, "In every society, sex patterns depend on a careful and meticulous balance between ignorance and knowledge, sophistication and naivete ... between the things we don't mention and the things we do."
On Tuesday, the Washington Post published an extensive piece on the debate about the existence of Internet addiction. It placed particular emphasis on a recent study published in the neuropsychiatric journal CNS Spectrums that, having employed a telephone survey of more than 2,500 adults, is being touted as "the first large-scale look at excessive Internet use."
I detest Indiana weather. From the end of September to the beginning of May, I have been known to huddle in my room, decked out like Randy from "A Christmas Story," sipping hot tea and counting the days until spring.