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Not an accident

By Alyson Brodsy and Brian Stewart · Thursday, Aug. 24,2006 1 a.m.

The accidental war," the smart editors at The Economist called it in their first edition after the capture of two Israeli soldiers. But superior observers recognized that this war, initiated by Hezbollah with thinly veiled direction from Iran and support from Syria, was hardly accidental. It was an act of war carried out with malice aforethought.

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Academic regression

By IDS staff and Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, Aug. 24,2006 12:57 a.m.

The University of West Florida has decided to offer basic math and grammar tutorials on its Web site. The tutorials, broadcast on three- to 30-minute video clips, are an attempt to assist the student body and general public in these areas most likely last discussed in high school.

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Alumna explores bodies with photography, art

By Lindsey Landis · Thursday, Aug. 24,2006 12:50 a.m.

A little girl raises her shirt to show a feeding tube protruding from her stomach. A nude woman embraces a tree and reconnects with nature. A single mother poses with her two young children. Twelve of alumna Yara Cluver's stirring portraits are displayed in the Rosemary P. Miller Gallery at the John Waldron Arts Center, 122 S. Walnut St., until Saturday.

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Manning uses preseason for charity

By Alyson Brodsy and Michael Marot · Thursday, Aug. 24,2006 12:45 a.m.

INDIANAPOLIS -- Peyton Manning is all business when it comes to football. But since it's still the preseason, forgive Manning if this week has been devoted more to his second vocation -- helping others.

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A team is born

By Matt Dollinger · Thursday, Aug. 24,2006 12:39 a.m.

Thousands of IU students moved into their places Tuesday afternoon, settling in for a relaxing week before class begins. But relaxation was the last thing on the minds of the members of the IU football team Tuesday as they prepared for their first big test of the season: Western Michigan.

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Dutch police arrest 12 passengers

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, Aug. 24,2006 12:28 a.m.

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- Dutch F-16s escorted a Northwest Airlines flight bound for India back to an airport here Wednesday after the pilot radioed for help, and police arrested 12 passengers who had aroused suspicions, authorities said.

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Off-the-wall art

By Paul Coover · Thursday, Aug. 24,2006 12:27 a.m.

When Americans hear the word "wallpaper," many may think of The Brady Bunch or bad kitchen designs.

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"Brick" boldly reinvents noir

By Alyson Brodsy and Chris Wisner · Thursday, Aug. 24,2006 12:26 a.m.

Film noir has always been the genre most precious to me, so when I was informed of a certain "Brick" generating an appreciation that spread like wildfire at last year's Sundance Film Festival, I needed to get the lowdown. I'm not sure how writer/director Rian Johnson came up with the idea to take all the elements that make noir so great and place them in a high school setting, but the only word I can reply with is brilliant. The dark alleys of the city are transformed into dimly lit, locker-filled hallways. Heavies become jocks and the ever beautiful yet deadly femme fatale isn't a woman smoking a cigarette in some nightclub -- she is the head of the theatre and drama department.

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Stem cell process spares embryos

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, Aug. 24,2006 12:15 a.m.

NEW YORK -- In an innovative move, a biotech company has found a new way of making stem cells without destroying embryos, touting it as a way to defuse one of the country's fiercest political and ethical debates.

Madly in love with 'Sunshine'

By Alyson Brodsy and Chris Wisner · Thursday, Aug. 24,2006 12 a.m.

Stop whatever you're doing this second -- even if it means not finishing this review -- and just go see "Little Miss Sunshine." This has been my advice to anyone who's asked me about it. Stirring up one of the fiercest bidding wars in Sundance Film Festival history, "Sunshine" sold for a cool $10.5 million earlier this year to Fox Searchlight. It was worth every penny. The story is rather simple. Young Olive (Abigail Breslin) loves beauty pageants and it just so happens that the winner of a regional competition lost her crown, allowing the once second-place Olive a shot at the top prize at the Little Miss Sunshine competition. The problem is her family lives in Albuquerque, N.M. and the competition is all the way out in Redondo Beach, Calif.

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'Accept' this movie

By Alyson Brodsky and Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, Aug. 24,2006 12 a.m.

I must say I definitely underestimated this movie. Knowing that it was written by Adam Cooper and Bill Collage, the writers of the Olsen twins' "New York Minute," I expected nothing from this movie and went in with the attitude that it would suck. To my surprise, this teen flick was nothing but hilarious. "Accepted" is a college version of the 1994 hit "Camp Nowhere". Bartleby "B" Gaines ("Dodgeball's" Justin Long) is a high school senior who's always able to find excuses out of every problem he gets himself into. The only problem Bartleby can't seem to fix is that he has been rejected from every college he has applied to. Upon telling the news to his parents, who are disappointed and insistent he attend college, Bartleby comes up with a master plan to get his parents off his back: getting accepted into the South Harmon Institute of Technology, a college he created himself.

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It's all in the game

By C. Warner Sills and Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, Aug. 24,2006 12 a.m.

What makes a good television show? Is it the powerful narratives, rich characters and twisty cliffhangers that keep us coming back for more? Or is it the ease and accessibility of television that we crave? Take a show like "The Simpsons" that requires mindless and casual watching instead of dedication? Whatever draws us to escape into a show on a weekly basis or throw down $50 for an entire season on DVD, television series, when done right, have the ability to take us to places that film often can't touch. Now while I could probably sit down and pour out a list of great shows of the past and present, I am writing to praise one particular program that you are most likely unaware of or haven't yet given a shot. Why devote an entire column to one show you ask? Because television just doesn't get any better than this.

Live album bridges Waters and Stones

By Alyson Brodsy and Sam Nissen · Thursday, Aug. 24,2006 12 a.m.

Whoever said rock music's supergroups never reach their potential missed The Yardbirds. The rough and sloppy blues of their Five Live Yardbirds connects the dots between Muddy Waters and the Rolling Stones. The group earns the term "super" with one-time members Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck, though all three were never in the band at the same time. Clapton would soon be replaced by Beck (who would later invite and be fired by Page), but not before recording Five Live. He wasn't "slow hands" yet, thankfully; his later song-writing tendencies had yet to take full shape. With Clapton romping through the set, the band tears through mostly short songs for a long, frenetic album. The band plays like bees trapped in a glass box filling with smoke -- no one has any idea where they are going, but they are sure as shit going to knock themselves out trying. Is this pop? Blues? Rock? Folk? Who cares? They are burning down the walls of traditional music, exploring instrumentation that would become Led Zeppelin and so many others.

Dumb yourself down and enjoy 'Talladega'

By Alyson Brodsy and Matt Dollinger · Thursday, Aug. 24,2006 12 a.m.

You know when events in your life have such a ridiculously high build-up that you're going to be disappointed no matter what? Ladies and gentleman, "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby." "Talladega Nights" is Will Ferrell's latest comedic blockbuster featuring him in the role as NASCAR's best and dumbest driver, Ricky Bobby. Much of Bobby's fame in the movie stems from his trademark phrase "shake and bake," which he shares with his teammate Cal Naughton Jr., played by John C. Reilly. Arguably the movie's funniest actor, Sacha Baron Cohen, plays Jean Girard, the homosexual French Formula 1 driver. Cohen, who is best known as Ali G, perfects an exaggerated French accent in the movie and brings new flavor to the Ferrell comedies.

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You know what time it is

By Alyson Brodsy and Chris Freiberg · Thursday, Aug. 24,2006 12 a.m.

Every few years, there's a TV event that not only changes your life and your world but your very notion of what you thought the medium could do. On Aug. 6, a lovely (read: "horrifying") lady with the moniker "Somethin'" crapping on the floor of Flavor Flav's mansion in the premiere of Season 2 of "The Flavor of Love." It's unclear exactly what lead up to this earth-shattering moment, as it rarely is clear as to how exactly poop ends up on anyone's floor. The 14 women vying to be Flav's new main squeeze had gotten through the first elimination ceremony and "gathered 'round your man" after a brief party. Then they all started to smell something rotten, and the next thing you know there's a turd on the ground (which, in a rare classy moment, VH1 did not show on camera). The second episode didn't answer the questions about the turd, but Somethin' (who's 200 pounds if she's an ounce) said she was glad she had shat on the floor because it made her stand out. This is just one of the many examples of the absolute lunacy that has taken place on "The Flavor of Love" since it premiered in January.

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