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'Crank' it down a notch

By C. Warner Sills and Benny Goldman · Wednesday, Jan. 17,2007 5:43 p.m.

I was really excited when I started "Crank." Jason Statham is solid in everything he does; the concept of a guy who needed to keep moving or face death seemed very compelling, and I love a good action movie. What followed over the next 83 minutes (only 83!?) was a boring, contrived and disappointing exercise in patience. The plot, if it can be called that, is based around contract-killer Chev Chelios (Statham) being poisoned by a rival with a "Beijing Cocktail." This cocktail is a lethal mix with effects that can only be slowed down by constantly getting an adrenaline rush, but will eventually work within a time limit that Verona places at an hour.

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'Bandidas' wanted for stealing time

By Chris Wisner and compiled by Chris Wisner · Wednesday, Jan. 17,2007 5:43 p.m.

If movie reviews could come in the form of wanted posters, mine would read something along these lines: WANTED: Penélope Cruz and Salma Hayek for the theft of 93 minutes from numerous critics and film watchers and for taking their careers to a new low. There would be no reward as we'd be saving people from a "Bandidas" sequel. "Bandidas" is nothing more than one of those foul joke films. You know the kind where two actors say to one another, "Hey wouldn't it be great if we did this kind of movie together?" The kind of movie being a Western that borders on parody with a story told countless times in the past and lacking originality.

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Not the top 'Dog'

By C. Warner Sills and K. A. MacDonald · Wednesday, Jan. 17,2007 5:43 p.m.

"Alpha Dog" is based on the true story of Jesse James Hollywood, one of the youngest people to appear on the FBI's Most Wanted List. With a plot like that, you would think that there is a lot of potential to be exciting, fresh and dramatic, but the movie fails on all three accounts. I found it to be a mixture between a bad gangsta video and an after-school special gone wrong with a bit of the "Three Stooges" thrown in. One of the biggest problems that the movie has is that the audience laughs throughout the tough guy scenes. The movie has a soccer mom's SUV being borrowed with permission to do illegal deeds, a street thug who wears a tie to work as a salesman and a one-on-eight fight scene that turns in to a cheesy karate flick.

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Around the World

Wednesday, Jan. 17,2007 12:43 a.m.

Fidel Castro has had at least three failed operations and complications from an intestinal infection, and the Cuban leader faces "a very grave prognosis," a Spanish newspaper reported Tuesday.

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SRSC maxes out after the holidays

By Tom Kir · Wednesday, Jan. 17,2007 12:28 a.m.

There are 60 days from the start of the second semester to the start of spring break. Several events mark those 60 days in between: the bulk of second semester, the height of basketball season and, as regular visitors of the Student Recreational Sports Center know, the peak of the fitness center's popularity.

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White leads Hoosiers to victory against Iowa

By Matt Mattucci · Wednesday, Jan. 17,2007 12:27 a.m.

The Iowa Hawkeyes just couldn't stop D.J. White. In 35 minutes of play, IU's big man racked up a career-high 23 points and 12 boards during IU's 71-64 victory Tuesday night against Iowa.

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IU students spend Saturdays teaching Arabic to children

By Christina Stigliani · Wednesday, Jan. 17,2007 12:27 a.m.

In a cheerfully decorated corner of the Monroe County Public Library, a dozen young children crowded around IU graduate students Patrick Schoettmer and Aymen Elsheikh as they introduced the first two letters of the Arabic alphabet, alef and ba. "'Alef' is for 'arnab' ('rabbit')!" Schoettmer said as the children hopped around the room and gave each other bunny ears.

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The gift of music

Wednesday, Jan. 17,2007 12:27 a.m.

Though Jacobs School of Music student Georgina Joshi was killed in a plane crash last April, her parents hope her memory will live on through a donation to the music school. Louise Addicot and Yatish Joshi of South Bend made a special trip to Hamburg, Germany, in December to select a Steinway concert grand piano in memory of Georgina.

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RecSports gears up for intramural basketball season

By Linnea Coulter · Wednesday, Jan. 17,2007 12:12 a.m.

It's that time of year again. The time when thousands of students go head-to-head on the basketball court in the Assembly Hall spotlight to have their biggest fans cheer them on. It's not quite March Madness, and the players aren't Kelvin Sampson's crew, but much of the excitement is still there and, for some, there's still a lot on the line. It's intramural basketball season.

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Hoosiers hold on to knock off Hawkeyes

By Eamonn Brennan · Wednesday, Jan. 17,2007 12:04 a.m.

Before Jan. 2, IU fans presumably had little idea how well their Hoosiers -- a team with a new coach, two junior college transfers, a previously injured star and a menagerie of freshmen -- would perform in the Big Ten. Since their 74-67 loss to Ohio State in Columbus, Ohio, the Hoosiers (13-4, 4-1 Big Ten) have answered that question with four straight convincing wins -- the latest coming against Iowa, 71-64, Tuesday night.

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Getting the boot

By Julia Boriss · Tuesday, Jan. 16,2007 11:52 p.m.

There are two things I know about the IU campus: I know that it rains every Tuesday and Thursday, and I know that girls here love wearing their rain boots.

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NYU study maps Manhattan Sept. 11 memories

By Ab D. Phillip and Thomas Garry · Tuesday, Jan. 16,2007 11:43 p.m.

New Yorkers who were close to the World Trade Center during the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks have more vivid memories than those in other parts of the city on that day, a recent study by New York University researchers found.

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This weekend in the Jacobs School of Music

By Eric Anderson · Tuesday, Jan. 16,2007 11:41 p.m.

Chamber music devotees are no doubt looking forward to this weekend's Dubinsky Memorial Concert. The concert, given annually, is piano professor Luba Edlina-Dubinsky's memorial offering to her late husband, Rostislav Dubinsky, who served as violin professor and chamber-music coordinator in the Jacobs School of Music from 1980 until his death in 1997.

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New Iraq plan calls for 21,500 more troops

By Aparna Venkatraman · Tuesday, Jan. 16,2007 11:39 p.m.

When one thinks of President Bush's philosophy on the war in Iraq, undoubtedly his oft-repeated catchphrase "stay the course" comes to mind. "Stay the course" has resulted in 3,020 dead Americans, 655,000 dead Iraqi countrymen, Abu Ghraib pictures, the Haditha massacre and more body bags for fundamentalists to rally around. Has the Bush administration "freed" the Iraqi people from Saddam Hussein only to turn them first into carpet-bomb targets, then throw them into the jaws of civil war? Bush's so - called "new" strategy -- sending 21,500 more troops to Iraq-- seems oddly like the old "stay the course" mantra. When the advice of this nation's top generals, the findings of the Iraq Study Group and overwhelming public opinion are all ignored in order to escalate a war, I can't help but be skeptical at best, and morbidly terrified of the consequences at worst.

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