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Live From Bloomington bands present Club Night for charity

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Charity is often considered to be a rewarding experience, but who knew that someone could see 19 bands perform just for donating two canned goods and $3? The Union Board’s 21st annual Club Night, part of Live From Bloomington’s campaign to support local bands and the Hoosier Hills Food Bank, featured 19 bands at Max’s Place, Blue Bird, Uncle Festers and Jake’s on Thursday. A donation of $5 or a combination of $3 and two canned goods got patrons into all participating venues for the night.


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Tavis Smiley to be commencement speaker

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After almost a year of deliberation and negotiation, IU President Adam Herbert announced Thursday that IU alumnus and media personality Tavis Smiley will present the commencement address during graduation ceremonies May 5.


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Around the world

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Prosecutors filed charges Thursday against three people who allegedly conspired with suicide bombers in the attacks that killed 52 subway and bus passengers in London on July 7, 2005.



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AmeriKKKA

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Sometimes, I have to remind myself that I’m in Indiana – and that’s a good thing. With just about every amenity available at our fingertips, it’s hard to believe that we go to school in the middle of nowhere. And then, at other times, I just want to forget. Like when I read that the Ku Klux Klan was planning a springtime march in Bloomington.


Telecommunications Professor Lee Sheldon holds a copy of one of the newest games he designed, "Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express," at the Radio-Televison center Thursday night.

The story of a storyteller

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The framed photo of Alfred Hitchcock hanging on the wall of his University office reminds IU professor Lee Sheldon of his first encounter with the Hollywood legend. “‘Good morning, Mr. Hitchcock.’ That’s all I said,” Sheldon remembers.


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Presidential debate

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"It’s like bringing the Rolling Stones to campus times 100.” What is it that has IUSA President Betsy Henke so enthused? Why would she sacrifice IU’s chances at having Mick Jagger scream relentlessly into a microphone while hoping his skin stays on his skull (it’s been looking kind of baggy lately)?



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Musharraf mania

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When I look at pictures of Pakistan’s so-called president, Pervez Musharraf, standing next to a smiling President Bush, I’m reminded of a similar photograph. The 1983 picture of Saddam Hussein shaking hands with Donald Rumsfeld seems to be long-forgotten.


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The mighty eraser

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Monday marked the 25th anniversary of the Falklands War, a 74-day British military campaign ordered by Margaret Thatcher to reclaim the islands after a 1982 invasion by Argentine forces. Today both countries make sovereign territorial claims to the small Atlantic islands.


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‘A Christmas Story’ director and son die in car crash

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LOS ANGELES – Film director Bob Clark, best known for the holiday classic “A Christmas Story,” was killed with his son Wednesday in a head-on crash with a vehicle that a drunken driver steered into the wrong lane, police and the filmmaker’s assistant said. Clark, 67, and son Ariel Hanrath-Clark, 22, were killed in the accident in Pacific Palisades, said Lyne Leavy, Clark’s personal assistant. The two men were in an Infiniti that collided head-on with a GMC Yukon around 2:30 a.m. PDT, said Lt. Paul Vernon, a police spokesman. The driver of the other vehicle, Hector Velazquez-Nava, 24, of Los Angeles and his passenger, described as a 29-year-old woman, were taken to UCLA Medical Center with minor injuries.