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Constitutional ban battle intensifies

By Alyson Brodsy and Mike Smith · Wednesday, March 23,2005 11:13 p.m.

INDIANAPOLIS -- Gay men and lesbians have lost the first round against a state constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, but many plan to intensify their fight against the proposal's becoming an amendment to the document.

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Sears retirees upset with recent Kmart merger

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, March 23,2005 11:10 p.m.

NEW YORK -- With Sears Roebuck & Co. set to merge with Kmart Holding Corp. following shareholder meetings Thursday, there's at least one group that hasn't been convinced it's for the best.

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Social Security to face bankruptcy year earlier

By Alyson Brodsy and Martin Crutsinger · Wednesday, March 23,2005 11:06 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- The trust fund for Social Security will go broke in 2041 -- a year earlier than previously estimated -- the trustees reported Wednesday. Trustees also said that Medicare, the giant health care program for the elderly and disabled, faces insolvency in 2020.

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U.S., neighbors address economic issues

By Alyson Brodsy and Jennifer Loven · Wednesday, March 23,2005 11:05 p.m.

WACO, Texas -- President Bush, seeking smooth relations with U.S. neighbors despite dustups over immigration, trade and defense, announced Wednesday a pact with Canada and Mexico to broaden cooperation on security and economic issues.

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Students, teachers coping with shooting

By Alyson Brodsy and Amy Forliti · Wednesday, March 23,2005 11:05 p.m.

RED LAKE, Minn. -- Teachers met Wednesday to work out ways of helping young survivors of the nation's worst school shooting in six years as outsiders streamed in to help the tight-knit community cope with the tragedy.

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U.S. raid kills 85 Iraqi guerilla fighters

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, March 23,2005 11:04 p.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- U.S. and Iraqi forces raided a suspected guerrilla training camp and killed 85 fighters, the single biggest one-day death toll for militants in months and the latest in a series of blows to the insurgency, Iraqi officials said Wednesday.

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Crime does pay

By Alyson Brodsy and Joanna Borns · Wednesday, March 23,2005 11:02 p.m.

Warning: If your name is McGruff the Crime Dog, I urge you to stop reading. I am about to suggest something highly unorthodox. Celebrities should commit more crimes.

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Japanese jingoism

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, March 23,2005 11:02 p.m.

KRAKOW, Poland -- The German army tormented Poland during World War II. Few know that the infamous Auschwitz camp began not as an extermination center for Jews, but as a camp for Polish political prisoners.

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Spank the tank

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, March 23,2005 11:01 p.m.

When people piss me off, I bite them. One time, for instance, when I was little, my sister called me a "vas deferens." So I bit her face.

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Short and smart code

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, March 23,2005 11:01 p.m.

Details do matter, but in the new Student Code of Rights, Responsibilities and Conduct, simplicity rules.

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Utah's Bogut leading vote-getter on AP

By Alyson Brodsy and Jim O’Connell · Wednesday, March 23,2005 1:13 a.m.

Andrew Bogut was just another international player when the college basketball season started, not even meriting an honorable mention in the preseason All-America balloting. All that has changed now for the 7-foot sophomore from Australia. The Utah center was the leading vote-getter on The Associated Press' All-America team announced Tuesday.

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Knight and day for Mike Davis

By Matt Glenesk · Wednesday, March 23,2005 1:11 a.m.

With Tuesday's announcement by IU Athletics Director Rick Greenspan removing any doubt as to who will coach the Hoosiers next year, let's all exhale.

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Roark flirts with 2nd no-hitter of season

By Tim O Brien and Tim O'Brien · Wednesday, March 23,2005 1:09 a.m.

With the weather resembling the middle of winter more than the second official day of spring, the IU softball team took the field Tuesday afternoon to face in-state rival Ball State. The Hoosiers wasted no time getting started, scoring three runs in the bottom half of the first inning.

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The Roots to take IU back to 'old school'

By Adam Van Osdol and Adam VanOsdol · Wednesday, March 23,2005 1:05 a.m.

The two-year drought has ended. Hip-hop group The Roots will play a concert at the IU Auditorium for Little 500 week, bringing back a tradition of inviting major musical acts to perform during the "World's Greatest College Weekend."

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IU professor's devotion not forgotten

By Lindsey Jancek and Lindsay Jancek · Wednesday, March 23,2005 1:05 a.m.

So many professors are forgotten as many people pass through the giant that is IU, but to Kipchoge Kirkland's friends and colleagues, he will not be. Kirkland, assistant professor since 2002 in the School of Education, died of natural causes Friday, according the education school's Web site. He was 35. Director of Recruitment and Retention at the School of Education Ghangis Carter said Kirkland will be extremely missed.

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