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Afghan recount ordered; Karzai nears outright win

Wednesday, Sept. 9,2009 12:24 a.m.

A U.N.-backed commission Tuesday ordered a recount of tainted ballots from the Afghan presidential vote, saying it had “convincing evidence of fraud,” even as President Hamid Karzai for the first time surpassed the threshold needed to avoid a runoff and win re-election.

Pirate-plagued Somalia trains 500 navy recruits

Wednesday, Sept. 9,2009 12:23 a.m.

Somalia took a step toward policing its own shores with the graduation of its first 500 naval recruits Tuesday.

USI sets record with more than 10,500 total students

Wednesday, Sept. 9,2009 12:20 a.m.

EVANSVILLE – The University of Southern Indiana has set an enrollment record with nearly 400 more students than a year ago.

IUPUI receives teaching grant on U.S. religion, history

Wednesday, Sept. 9,2009 12:19 a.m.

INDIANAPOLIS – A National Endowment for the Humanities grant will help the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture at IU-Purdue University Indianapolis train high school teachers on the role of religion in American history and life.

Panel sets first meeting on Ind. jobless system

Wednesday, Sept. 9,2009 12:18 a.m.

INDIANAPOLIS – A new committee formed to provide oversight of Indiana’s unemployment insurance fund is set to have its first meeting on Wednesday.

Group pushing to switch Ind. to Central Time

Wednesday, Sept. 9,2009 12:16 a.m.

CARMEL, Ind. – A group that wants to move all of Indiana into the Central Time Zone is asking state legislators to reopen the time debate.

Police use sobriety checkpoints

By Adam Lukach · Wednesday, Sept. 9,2009 12:14 a.m.

Indiana continued to enforce its “Over the Limit, Under Arrest” campaign during Labor Day weekend. The Indiana State Police were able to catch a number of impaired drivers with a sobriety checkpoint set up in Bloomington on South Walnut Street.

Blige, Brown to remember Michael Jackson with global Vienna tribute

Tuesday, Sept. 8,2009 11:47 p.m.

VIENNA – Top artists such as Mary J. Blige, Akon and Chris Brown will sing some of Michael Jackson’s greatest hits at a Sept. 26 global tribute. But the much-anticipated lineup was a disappointment to a throng of reporters who had speculated that superstars such as Madonna would be part of the show to be staged in front of a 17th-century palace in the Austrian capital.

Photographer Annie Leibovitz’s to pay loan or lose properties, photos

Tuesday, Sept. 8,2009 11:46 p.m.

NEW YORK – Celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz risks losing the copyright to her images – and her entire life’s work – if she doesn’t pay back a $24 million loan that was due Tuesday. The lender, Art Capital Group, sued Leibovitz in July claiming she breached an agreement that authorized it to act as the agent in the sale of her photography and real estate.

Improv: the unexpected art

By Caitlin Peterkin · Tuesday, Sept. 8,2009 11:45 p.m.

A room full of people giggled, gasped and guffawed Friday night. At the end of the show, each cast member took his or her bow amidst thunderous applause and cheering as the audience showed their appreciation for the performance they just witnessed.

Ten great songs that’ll make you party

By Erica Rogers · Tuesday, Sept. 8,2009 11:41 p.m.

Here are the songs that make you turn up the stereo, get up off the couch to dance and put your hands in the air and sing along. Here I have ten great beats, old and new, that need to be on everyone’s playlist to make the night memorable (with or without alcohol).

West Side Story auditions attract 300 students

Tuesday, Sept. 8,2009 11:39 p.m.

Students swarmed the hallway outside an opera rehearsal room filled with nerves and crescendos as auditions for “West Side Story” took place Sunday at the Musical Arts Center. More than 300 students showed up to sing and dance for a chance to participate in the show that will run in April.

‘The Beatles: Rock Band’ (re)makes history

By Danielle Paquette · Tuesday, Sept. 8,2009 11:37 p.m.

More than 30 years after the Beatles’ untimely dissolution, a video game allowing fans to go where no fan has gone before rises from the ashes. Today, “The Beatles: Rock Band” is released worldwide, enabling gamers not just to see John, Paul, George and Ringo perform psychedelic hits in legendary venues, but to be the band as well.

Oladipo’s coach speaks about 2010 guard’s recruitment

By Sean Morrison · Tuesday, Sept. 8,2009 11:29 p.m.

Jones: ‘It’s going to be great for both Victor and Indiana’

Big Ten blunders put Hoosiers opener in perspective

By Ryan Winn · Tuesday, Sept. 8,2009 11:25 p.m.

As the rest of the Big Ten showed last weekend, you can’t judge a team by its opening act. The Hoosiers still have 11 games to show what their 2009 version is capable of doing.

Suicide awareness

Tuesday, Sept. 8,2009 10:21 p.m.

Suicide is a public health problem that is preventable. Most people who die by suicide do not want to die; rather, they want to relieve their pain, or “psychache,” that they are experiencing but feel hopeless about doing so.

Credit where credit’s due

Tuesday, Sept. 8,2009 10:19 p.m.

Looking around at the relative prosperity of our country, I would have to say that American men by and large do a pretty good job.

State-blessed sodomy

Tuesday, Sept. 8,2009 10:17 p.m.

The primary document of interest in this case is the Church of England’s “Book of Common Prayer.” Since 1662 nearly every wedding in the English-speaking world has been modeled from the template given under the Prayer Book’s heading “The Form of Solemnization of Matrimony,” wherein we learn the three purposes of marriage: first for “the procreation of children, to be brought up in the fear and nurture of the Lord, and praise of God”; second as “a remedy against (sexual) sin”; and third to provide for “the mutual society, help, and comfort, that the one ought to have the other.”

No Kirkwood Labor Day parades

Tuesday, Sept. 8,2009 10:15 p.m.

Labor Day is an important national holiday like Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Memorial Day, set aside to give everyone a chance to take a break from their work to serve their community and learn about groundbreaking achievements in our nation’s history. Unfortunately though, IU’s administration has decided not to give students and professors a day off to recognize this holiday.

Recycling is important, but we can and should do more

Tuesday, Sept. 8,2009 10:13 p.m.

Educating and providing the right opportunities and incentives are needed! The common talk about recycling and how important and beneficial it is allows us to stay comfortably in the “business as usual” mode. But this is not enough. Herman B Wells, the 11th president of IU, advocated the retaining of tree and green space throughout the campus. That was his vision of being “green”. Today, we know that preserving nature is a key step but not enough. We can and should do more.