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Sophomore Charlotte Martin listens to a lecture during one of her journalism classes. Martin, a journalism major, is taking 15 credit hours this semester along with nightly practices and weekend matches.

Textbooks and tennis matches

By Stephanie Kuzydym · Monday, March 9,2009 11:42 p.m.

Most people dream of living the life of a star athlete – the money, the cars and the continuous moments of fan recognition.But for sophomore Charlotte Martin, the No. 2 singles player for the IU women’s tennis team, life as a student athlete is not all glamour.

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BHS North student named top journalist

By Sarah Bloom · Monday, March 9,2009 11:35 p.m.

The Indiana High School Press Association named Bloomington High School North senior Aliya Mood Journalist of the Year at the annual First Amendment Symposium at the Indiana Statehouse last week.

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Support for Hawaii civil union vote wavering

Monday, March 9,2009 11:32 p.m.

The drive to make Hawaii the fifth state in the country to allow same-sex civil unions is on the verge of failing, despite support from most state lawmakers.

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North Korea puts troops on alert, warns of war

Monday, March 9,2009 11:31 p.m.

 North Korea put its troops on alert and cut the last hot line to Seoul on Monday as the American and South Korean militaries began joint maneuvers. The communist regime warned that even the slightest provocation could trigger war.

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Iraq’s women’s minister to withdraw resignation

Monday, March 9,2009 11:30 p.m.

Iraq’s state minister for women’s affairs said Monday she plans to withdraw her resignation after receiving pledges from aid organizations to help improve women’s lives.

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Obama overturns Bush policy on stem cells

Monday, March 9,2009 11:29 p.m.

Reversing Bush policy, President Barack Obama on Monday cleared the way for a significant increase in federal dollars for embryonic stem cell research and promised no scientific data will be “distorted or concealed to serve a political agenda.”

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Cook Group helps fund French Lick airport addition

Monday, March 9,2009 10:47 p.m.

FRENCH LICK, Ind. – A new French Lick Airport terminal to serve the growing number of travelers to southern Indiana’s Springs Valley will be nearly five times the size of the current structure, built more than 40 years ago.

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Merck buying Schering-Plough for $41.1 billion

Monday, March 9,2009 10:46 p.m.

TRENTON, N.J. – Merck & Co. is buying Schering-Plough Corp. for $41.1 billion in a deal that gives Merck key new businesses, access to a promising pipeline of new products and the chance to further cut costs, including eliminating about 16,000 jobs.

An often-grim job search awaits many IU grads

By Sean Morrison · Monday, March 9,2009 10:40 p.m.

The unemployment rate hit 8.1 percent in February and payroll employment fell by 2.6 million in the last four months. Work now is harder to find, and the jobless pool is beginning to fill with applicants more experienced than most college grads.

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Around the Arts

Monday, March 9,2009 10:03 p.m.

Find out what's going on this week in the arts.

Professor Stanley Wells, chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace trust and one of the world's leading experts on Shakespeare studies according to the trust, poses next to a newly discovered portrait of William Shakespeare, in central London, Monday. The portrait, believed to be almost the only authentic image of the writer made from life, has belonged to one family for centuries but was not recognized as a portrait of Shakespeare until recently. There are very few likenesses of Shakespeare, who died in 1616.

Portrait discovered in family’s possession

Monday, March 9,2009 9:58 p.m.

The Bard, or not the Bard? That is the question posed by Monday’s unveiling of a centuries-old portrait of a dark-eyed, handsome man in Elizabethan finery.Experts say it is the only portrait of William Shakespeare painted during his lifetime – in effect, the sole source of our knowledge of what the great man looked like.But they can’t be certain.

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Master drag queens show heightened awareness of opposite sex

By Ryan Brown · Monday, March 9,2009 9:55 p.m.

Even in the limitless world of art, this inability to see beyond sex is inescapable. There is, however, a timeless tradition in performance that not only entertains, but also raises the question of gender in a highly discursive manner: drag.

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Bah Limbagh!

By Ashley Ames · Monday, March 9,2009 9:45 p.m.

My response to Limbaugh’s speech can be summed up in one short but extremely descriptive syllable: bah.

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A New Way Forward?

Monday, March 9,2009 9:43 p.m.

The Obama administration signaled a change in Middle East diplomacy when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced the State Department would send two envoys to Damascus to meet with Syrian leadership, the first such visit since 2005.

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It’s Kenneth

By Jennifer Miller · Monday, March 9,2009 9:41 p.m.

I remember reading a spot a few months ago on new measures Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal took regarding the state’s health care and e-mailing my dad, saying that if I had to hedge my bets on a GOP pick for 2012, they’d be on him.

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Embracing stupidity

By Indira Dammu · Monday, March 9,2009 9:40 p.m.

Like many high school graduates, I was required to read Ayn Rand’s classic tome Atlas Shrugged.

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