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Homeless seeking shelter in academic buildings on campus

By VINCE ZITO · Wednesday, Feb. 24,2010 8:37 p.m.

Bloomington’s frigid and unpredictable winter climate is driving some of Bloomington’s homeless into campus buildings. “Every now and then we will run across somebody sleeping in an academic building,” said IU Police Department Lt. Craig Munroe.

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Best Place to Make Out

By Adam Lukach · Wednesday, Feb. 24,2010 7:45 p.m.

“At Home” is officially the best place to make out, according to residents. As sophomore Kirsten Powell put it upon learning the results, “Yikes, B-Town.”

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Best Professor

By Brian Marks · Wednesday, Feb. 24,2010 7:38 p.m.

“I thought I’d be a classical composer teaching theory. That was my assumption about my life."

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Best Pizza

By Elvia Malagon · Wednesday, Feb. 24,2010 7:12 p.m.

Mother Bear’s bests the competition for a fifth year.

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Best Bar

By Zina Kumok · Wednesday, Feb. 24,2010 7:07 p.m.

Locals take a seat at Nick’s for a shot of history.

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Best Dorm

By Madeline Haller · Wednesday, Feb. 24,2010 6:58 p.m.

McNutt residents live the high life in IU’s northwest neighborhood.

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Court convicts Google execs

Wednesday, Feb. 24,2010 6:47 p.m.

An Italian court convicted three Google executives of privacy violations Wednesday for not acting quickly enough to remove an online video showing bullies abusing an autistic boy. In the first criminal trial of its kind, Judge Oscar Magi sentenced the men to six-month suspended sentences and absolved them of defamation charges. A fourth defendant, charged only with defamation, was acquitted.

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Woman sentenced to prison for lying about gang rape

Wednesday, Feb. 24,2010 6:46 p.m.

A woman who fabricated a gang rape accusation was sentenced Tuesday to up to three years behind bars. Biurny Peguero, 27, pled guilty in December to perjury, admitting she made up the September 2005 incident that imprisoned William McCaffrey for nearly four years. A judge overturned his conviction, with new DNA evidence.

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Pancake Day: the British Mardi Gras

By Caitlin Ryan · Wednesday, Feb. 24,2010 6:45 p.m.

In New Orleans, Mardi Gras festivities mark the last day before the official start of Lent. In Spain, the week-long Carnival festival ushers in the season. It’s all about Fat Tuesday — the day where it’s OK to indulge in your favorite things, as you’re about to give up excesses for the next 40 days. In the United Kingdom, “Shrove Tuesday”  is more affectionately known as Pancake Day, following a longstanding Catholic tradition of using up indulgent ingredients in the kitchen, such as fat, butter and eggs, by cooking a food that contains all three — pancakes.

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Confirmation process drags on for many

By Olufemi Taiwo · Wednesday, Feb. 24,2010 6:44 p.m.

The stage was a confirmation hearing by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The reminder of Bernanke’s experience was a sobering one for the four witnesses, and their families behind them, who came to testify before Congress.

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