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Highway of discontent

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, Dec. 6,2006 10:12 p.m.

IU bus drivers have taken on their biggest challenge yet: the free-market economy. On a daily basis, drivers are somehow able to accomplish extraordinary traffic-related feats, including maneuvering under the tight 10th Street underpass and avoiding the emboldened pedestrians who seem to enjoy playing in traffic. Still, even given these impressive skills, their latest battle -- to stall the Campus Bus Service's campaign to hire student bus drivers -- might be one that current employees can't win.

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Cafe's closing brings end to cook's 49-year career

By Kasey Hawrysz · Wednesday, Dec. 6,2006 1:03 a.m.

On Sunday, Ladyman's Cafe cook Jack Covert will rise at 4:30 a.m. and head to work. He will arrive at the restaurant by 5 a.m. and light the stove, heat up the sausage gravy and prepare what he will need for the breakfast rush, the same way he has for years. But when Covert's shift ends at 1:30 p.m., he will hang up his apron for good after 49 years in the Ladyman's kitchen. Now 72, Covert has worked at Ladyman's, a Bloomington landmark, since it first opened in 1957. On Dec. 10, a little less than a year after Walnut Street Development purchased the building housing the restaurant, Ladyman's Cafe will close for good. Ladyman's building will be torn down next spring to make way for Finelight Strategic Marketing Communications offices. And Covert, for the first time in nearly 50 years, will be out of a job. "I'm going to be fighting for unemployment," he said. "They tell me I should have no problem, but I don't know." A part-time job is not out of the question, Covert said, but at this point, he wants to stay home and take care of his ailing wife, Pat. "I don't like to go into places I don't know," he said. "I'd have to learn a new routine and new people. I'm too old to go through that again." Covert says he is not much of a talker, gesturing with a long, serrated knife he used to cut up ham for ham salad. Most of the customers know the man by his food, not his face.

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Final crisis: A cautionary tale

By Jessica Simendinger · Wednesday, Dec. 6,2006 12:45 a.m.

It was Monday of finals week, and I had no tests until my Spanish exam Wednesday. So I got up, enjoyed a leisurely morning and began my normal routine of checking my e-mail and Facebook account and the away messages of everyone I know.

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Bolton resigns as U.S. Ambassador to U.N.

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, Dec. 6,2006 12:42 a.m.

Listen to critics of U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton and you hear the same stock opinions repeated and regurgitated. Like "a bull in a China shop," he has practiced abrasive diplomacy toward dangerous, dictatorial, outspoken leaders who seek to bring a new world disorder.

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Alumnus will try a world record on for size at IMU

By Peter Stevenson · Wednesday, Dec. 6,2006 12:33 a.m.

Aaron Waltke will take the idea of layering for the winter to a new extreme Saturday when he tries to wear a record-breaking 160 T-shirts at once. Waltke, who graduated from IU in May, will attempt to set a new world record for "the most T-shirts worn at one time by a single human being" by breaking the old record of 155 shirts. He will attempt to put the shirts on at a comedy show at 9 p.m. Saturday in the Frangipani Room in the Indiana Memorial Union.

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Saddam tells judge he will stop attending genocide trial

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, Dec. 6,2006 12:32 a.m.

AMMAN, Jordan -- Saddam Hussein wrote the chief judge in his Kurdish genocide trial to tell him that he no longer wants to attend the hearings -- whatever the consequences, according to a letter released Tuesday by former Iraqi leader's lawyers.

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Finally, Finals

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, Dec. 6,2006 12:29 a.m.

I've had to write and administer a fair number of final exams. And while it's undoubtedly less stressful than taking them, there are reasons why proctor and proctologist come from the Latin root word for "pain in the ass." (OK, I totally made that up, but it sounded good.) So here are a few insights that should help students and instructors alike.

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Online Only: Cotton-candy Christmas

By Abram Hess · Wednesday, Dec. 6,2006 12:14 a.m.

Call me Scrooge, but I'm just about sick of smarm. American culture is saturated with hollow happiness and empty smiles. The facade of every advertisement tells us our wealth will make us happy, but only if we use that wealth to buy Product W from heartless Corporation XYZ. The hollow ringing of our spiritual emptiness is most deafening in the first three weeks of December, when we all bustle about, burning our wealth in an annual attempt to make the American Dream come true: Maybe this will be the year that I can finally buy happiness.

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Misspent moolah

By Abby Schwimmer and Ab Schwimmer · Wednesday, Dec. 6,2006 12:12 a.m.

My hometown of Memphis, Tenn., is the poster child for wasting money. In the early '90s, we spent $62 million building a pyramid-shaped basketball arena. (It was a play on Memphis, Egypt -- aren't we clever?). Our college and NBA teams used the arena, but apparently, it wasn't good enough. Ten years later, we shelled out another $250 million to build an entirely new complex for our Grizzlies, condemning the Pyramid to years of lonely, debt-ridden, pointy abandonment.

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Justice at home

By Grace Low · Wednesday, Dec. 6,2006 12:08 a.m.

A story broke Nov. 29 about the plight of a man in Louisiana. Pedro Parra-Sanchez, a legal immigrant and resident of California who moved to New Orleans to assist in the Katrina recovery efforts, was arrested more than a year ago on charges of battery.

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The 'as if' style

By Brian Stewart · Wednesday, Dec. 6,2006 12:08 a.m.

Brothers and sisters: There's something faintly unbecoming about the way in which argument and disputation are currently being conducted.

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Double outsider

By Brian J. McFillen and Brain J. McFillen · Wednesday, Dec. 6,2006 12:04 a.m.

In September, the IDS ran an Opinion front reacting to the findings of Cathy Small, a Northern Arizona University anthropology professor who enrolled as a university freshman to gain insight into her undergraduate students' behavior. During the course of my term as the IDS Opinion editor, I've felt a lot of kinship for Small. I'm a double outsider: a graduate student in a mostly undergraduate organization (though more grad students are involved than you'd think) and a nonjournalist who's working for a newspaper.

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Goody Two-shoes

By Joanna Borns · Tuesday, Dec. 5,2006 11:55 p.m.

They were big, black and furry like a pair of yak legs. I immediately got out my camera phone to document the spectacle. It wasn't a Big Foot sighting, but it was pretty darn close. I was staring at a young woman who entered the library wearing colossal, hairy boots that were downright Paleolithic.

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Account-ability

By Alyson Brodsy · Tuesday, Dec. 5,2006 11:53 p.m.

A Nov. 17 IDS article headlined "IUSA leaders defend fee distributions" piqued our interest. We learned that IUSA delegates the responsibility of distributing $350,000 in student-organization funds to a staff of nine board members and one director, known together as the IUSA Assisted Inter-organizational Development Department board. Four of the nine are elected by the student body while the remaining members are appointed by the incoming IUSA administration. We can only hope each new administration will appoint students best equipped for this important position, as opposed to engaging in favoritism.

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