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Grossman: Time to establish myself

LAKE FOREST, Ill. -- Rex Grossman's two previous treks to Lambeau Field have been successful. He's 2-0 on the home turf of the Green Bay Packers, which is not bad considering he's made only seven regular-season starts in his career.

Barkley insists he's serious about political run

PHOENIX -- Charles Barkley insists he's serious about running for governor of Alabama, but he's got to move back there first.

Students place their own time capsule in IMU

For 67 years, Emerson Keller Elkins' letter, hotel key and Coke bottle lay waiting inside a wall of the Indiana Memorial Union. Thursday, his time capsule was replaced with a new one.

Little 500 riders hold forum to discuss rule change

A riders' forum Wednesday night gauged rider input about the recent rule that banned alumni from coaching in the Little 500 on race day.

Winningest Indiana football team is St. Francis in Ft. Wayne

INDIANAPOLIS -- The winningest Indiana college football team in recent years? It's not Notre Dame. It's certainly not Indiana or Purdue or even Wabash.

Big Easy needs a big season

Anticipation isn't the most operative word here. I love the start of the football season and the change in weather.

Hoosiers 'ready to play golf'

As the IU men's golf team heads to its first fall event this weekend, the biggest question facing the squad will be whether the Hoosiers can pick up where they left off last season.

Rocky statue returned to Philadelphia Museum

PHILADELPHIA - Rocky Balboa -- or more specifically, a statue of the Hollywood palooka, boxing gloves raised in triumph -- is being restored to a spot outside the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the winner by a split decision in a bout between fine art and pop culture.

Museum: art, coffee nights

Coffee, art and music come together for the first three Thursday evenings in September as the IU Art Museum introduces its "Coffeehouse Nights at the Art Museum." From 7-9 p.m. Sept. 7, 14 and 21, guests can stroll through a featured gallery enjoy live music related to the evening's theme - from Turkish melodies to coffeehouse jazz to African beats.

'Plucky' harpist has won competitions worldwide

Fourteen-year-old Jane Yoon strode confidently across the stage at the 2001 USA International Harp Competition in her yellow silk dress. She was not competing; however, she was a guest performer. The previous year she won the Japanese International Harp Competition in Tokyo, making her the youngest participant and the only Korean to win. She had also begun her studies under Susann MacDonald at IU.

'Four Square' displays angles of graphic design

Each square is made up of four sides. The four professors of graphic design in IU's Hope School of Fine Arts have collaborated in a new exhibit entitled "Four Square" that will have its opening reception 7-9 p.m. tomorrow at the SoFA gallery.

Around the Arts

Ben Folds tickets on sale tomorrow WHEN: 10 a.m. Friday WHERE: IU Auditorium box office and all Ticketmaster locations MORE INFORMATION: Tickets cost $25 for IUB students and $35 for non-students. IUB students may charge tickets to their bursar account if purchased at the IU Auditorium box office. Student ticket holders will be required to show a valid IUB student ID when entering this event. Ben Folds will play at 8 p.m., Nov. 9 at the IU Auditorium.

I NEED HELP

Research group Student Monitor conducted a recent study among America's college students which revealed that 73% of students surveyed rated iPods as more "in" than drinking beer. Congratulations, Apple. You have officially conquered the college demographic. Because of the portable MP3 player's intimidating popularity, the iPod has become a household name with other brands like Ford and McDonald's. The gadget has become engrained into our culture.

THE DISH

Israeli blockade of Lebanese air and sea ports to be lifted

JERUSALEM -- Israel said it will lift its sea and air blockade of Lebanon today as it faced widespread international pressure more than three weeks after a cease-fire took effect, ending a bloody month-long conflict with Hezbollah guerrillas.

Revamped, retro-style theaters allow residents to drive in, drive out

If you ask your grandparents (and some of your parents) what it meant to "go to the movies," their answer may be significantly different than yours. Fifty years ago, few were the posh theaters with 20 screens, stadium seating, air conditioning and a smorgasbord of overpriced candy. And reserving tickets ahead of time online was not even a fathomable luxury. Back in the good ol' days, "catching a movie" suggested one thing; a nearly obsolete practice that's usually seen only in movies themselves: pulling up in your car to a drive-in theater.

Welcome back, primetime

For the first time in a couple of years, my DVR is being used to its fullest capacity. In the past five years the networks faltered and primetime programming fell into a deep reality TV abyss, one I thought we would never navigate our way out of. Don't get me wrong, for the first couple of years it was mildly entertaining to see how far people would go to win an exorbitant amount of money.

Seriously, Entourage: Be more like Weeds

What if I were to tell you that Entourage became formulaic and stale in its third season with lame characters like Dom, and Weeds is getting more chronic every episode. Is that something you might be interested in? The pace of Weeds flies by even though they start each episode the second the last episode ends. While Entourage meanders through finding Vince a new project week after week, Weeds' plot lines weave in and out.

Italian reissue skewers family's hypocrisy

"We're not millionaires or barons. Our only treasure is our good name", says patriarch Don Vincenso (Saro Urzi) in "Seduced and Abandoned". It's a philosophy most people live by, but to him, it's more of a duty. As a result, he and his family are thrown into a series of emotionally distressing yet comedic events, sparked by the affair between his daughter Matilde's fiancé, Peppino (Aldo Puglisi) and his other daughter, Agnese (Stefania Sandrelli). Pietro Germi, who also wrote and directed "Divorce-Italian Style", offers another clever and amusing satire which provides a glimpse into the idiosyncrasies of Italian family values and traditions during the 1960's in small-town Sicily.

Bush admits to secret CIA prisons

WASHINGTON -- President Bush on Wednesday acknowledged the existence of previously secret CIA prisons around the world and said 14 high-value terrorism suspects -- including the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks -- have been transferred from the system to Guantanamo Bay for trials.