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Hoosiers look to end recent slide at U.S. Open course

By Chris Engel · Friday, March 25,2005 12:11 a.m.

After two sub-par performances to start off the spring season which saw the IU men's golf team slip out of GolfWeek magazine's top 50 rankings, the Hoosiers look to rebound at the Pinehurst Intercollegiate this Monday and Tuesday.

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Texas Hold'em returns to IMU

By Scott Lipsky · Friday, March 25,2005 12:11 a.m.

The Union Board's highly popular IU Series of Poker is making a return for the second semester, starting tonight at 8 p.m. in Indiana Memorial Union. The event, which is expecting to have up to 300 participants, was started to give poker enthusiasts on campus a forum which would allow them to compete with players they would not get the chance to play against, Tournament Director junior David Dawson explained.

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Fund carries on legacy of former mayor

By Trevor brown · Friday, March 25,2005 12:10 a.m.

It has been almost a year and a half since former U.S. Representative, Bloomington Mayor and IU Alumnus Frank McCloskey died after a year-long battle with bladder cancer at the age of 64. Now many of McCloskey's former friends and colleagues are determined to let his legacy live through the creation of the IU McCloskey Fund.

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IU women hold recent edge with Boilers

By Andy Romey · Friday, March 25,2005 12:10 a.m.

History often repeats itself. And hopefully, that will hold true for IU's women's tennis team in this weekend's road matches against No. 51 Purdue and No. 61 Illinois. The No. 27 Hoosiers (7-7, 1-0 Big Ten) will make their way to West Lafayette for Saturday's 9 a.m. match against the Boilermakers (2-8, 0-1), a team they barely dodged in last spring's 4-3 match.

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Mr. & Miss Asia take stage this weekend

By Lydia Song · Friday, March 25,2005 12:09 a.m.

Men and women representing 13 different Asian organizations across campus will be cat-walking across the stage of the Buskirk-Chumley Theatre Saturday night in hopes of becoming the next Mr. and Miss Asia.

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Just another protest ...

By Adam Sedia · Friday, March 25,2005 12:05 a.m.

Every controversy has an entourage of angry politicians, lawyers and ... protesters. In the past few weeks we've seen quite a lot of protesters in the headlines. From Beirut to Florida to Chicago to right here in Bloomington -- where we've even had the added joy of counter-protesters -- they've clogged the streets in their efforts to change the world.

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A New Cycle

By Katie Schoenbaechler and Katie Shoenbaechler · Friday, March 25,2005 12:04 a.m.

The first test for Little 500 riders begins Saturday. Qualifications -- the most exclusive and most important of the Spring Series Events -- is the first of four events that tests rider's skills individually and as a team. The real exclusivity of qualifications comes when there are more teams than spots to fill. This year 35 men's teams will take to the track with racing hopes, but as Little 500 tradition will have it, only 33 teams will make the cut.

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When liberals attack

By Daniel Hiester and David Hiester · Friday, March 25,2005 12:03 a.m.

Liberals need to watch their mouths. After the build-up to war and the presidential election, it's as if they got drunk and said some things they shouldn't have. On www.sorryeverybody.com, liberals have posted messages such as "We're sorry half our country is a bunch of morons."

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'Coexist' sends useful message

By Alyson Brodsy · Friday, March 25,2005 12:01 a.m.

Muslims, Jews, Christians. In Jerusalem, followers of all three of these faiths densely populate the city limits, yet one look at a map would show each religious group keeps to its own corner. Though they live together, they live apart. These tensions are tantamount to the religious divisiveness echoed across all corners of the Earth.

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Texas BP refinery explosion kills 15

By Alyson Brodsy and Pam Easton · Thursday, March 24,2005 11:37 p.m.

TEXAS CITY, Texas -- The lone worker unaccounted for after an explosion at a BP oil refinery was found dead in the rubble, bringing the death toll to 15 in a blast that also injured more than 100 people, officials said Thursday.

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Turkish films attract art lovers

By Liv Cole · Thursday, March 24,2005 11:13 p.m.

The first Turkish Film Festival for Bloomington was the idea of Abbas Karakaya, a doctoral student at IU. Karakaya said he wanted to focus on sharing a mutual interest in cinema and working together to produce free public entertainment as a way to promote art on the campus.

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Palestine requests U.S. help in West Bank

By Alyson Brodsy and Mohammed Daraghmeh · Thursday, March 24,2005 11:07 p.m.

RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Senior Palestinian officials on Thursday asked two U.S. envoys to help block the expansion of the largest Jewish settlement in the West Bank, saying it endangers peace prospects and isolates east Jerusalem -- their intended capital.

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Peacekeeper sexual abuse concerns U.N.

By Alyson Brodsy and Nick Wadhams · Thursday, March 24,2005 11:05 p.m.

UNITED NATIONS -- A U.N. report on peacekeeper sex abuse released Thursday describes the U.N. military arm as deeply flawed and recommends withholding salaries of the guilty and requiring nations to pursue legal action against perpetrators.

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Kyrgyz president hands over control

By Alyson Brodsy and Steve Gutterman · Thursday, March 24,2005 11:04 p.m.

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan -- President Askar Akayev reportedly fled on Thursday after protesters stormed his headquarters, seized control of state television and rampaged through government offices, throwing computers and air conditioners out of windows.

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New local living wage: approved

By David A. Nosko · Thursday, March 24,2005 12:50 a.m.

Because the federal minimum wage of $5.15 does not provide a living wage for full-time workers, Bloomington has legislated to pay the difference for working Hoosiers living within the community.

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'Cinderella's' magic reborn

By David Bracho · Thursday, March 24,2005 12:50 a.m.

Sergei Prokofiev's "Cinderella" has been reborn into a full masterpiece production by the minds of choreographer Jacques Cesbron, set and costume designer C. David Higgins and conductor Imre Pallo.

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