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Life in the WAR ZONE

By Matthew Schoettmer · Monday, April 4,2005 12:42 a.m.

I sit in the quarters once reserved for Egyptian officers who came to Al Sahra, the Iraqi Air Force College, to give instruction on their various tactics, techniques and procedures. The base currently bears an American name (which I am unable to disclose) and houses several thousand troops like me.

'Lady From Rwanda' brings story of survival to American stage

By Alyson Brodsy and Jeff Douglas · Monday, April 4,2005 12:41 a.m.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- British playwright Sonja Linden has spent her career bringing horrific subjects to the stage. She dramatized a prison bathing strike and set another play in a concentration camp. Now, the 1994 massacre in Rwanda is the subject of her latest work.

'Alone in the Light' treats issues with comic bite

By Patrick Doolin · Monday, April 4,2005 12:40 a.m.

Bloomington's theater artists have given the community a great deal of original work this season. This burgeoning of new, local work made the Bloomington Playwrights Project "Alone in the Light" all the more exciting and gratifying. The event featured eleven monologues written and performed by BPP ensemble members, who were literally 'alone in the light' of the BPP's Lora Shiner Studio.

Students relive Charlie Chaplin silent films

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, April 4,2005 12:39 a.m.

The name "Charlie Chaplin" can conjure up images of his so-called "Tramp" character, who is light-hearted and fun. Many people have probably seen some of his classic films that made him a star: "The Kid," "Modern Times" and "City Lights," to name a few.

The United Nations, take 3

By Cameron Thibos · Monday, April 4,2005 12:27 a.m.

United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan is not pleased with his organization, and it is easy to see why. Member states make empty pledges of aid, Annan's own son is at the center of the U.N. oil-for-food scandal, and Libya, of all countries, oversees the U.N. human rights division. Thus, Annan has decided to clean house.

Iraqi officials elect Sunni as speaker

By Alyson Brodsy and Traci Carl · Monday, April 4,2005 12:25 a.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Lawmakers broke days of rancorous stalemate Sunday and reached out to Iraq's Sunni Muslim minority for their parliament speaker, cutting through ethnic and sectarian barriers that have held up selection of a new government for more than two months since the country's first free elections in 50 years.

Pope John Paul II dies at 84

By Alyson Brodsy and Victor L. Simpson · Monday, April 4,2005 12:24 a.m.

VATICAN CITY -- Pope John Paul II, a dynamic preacher who traveled the world, battled communism and proclaimed his moral code, set an example of how to live life. In his later years, crushed by sickness that slowed his vigorous gait and silenced his powerful voice, he became an example of how to suffer and how to die.

Indiana time switch federally OK'd

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, April 4,2005 12:18 a.m.

INDIANAPOLIS -- The federal agency that oversees the nation's time zones has given Indiana permission to move the state to daylight-saving time in June if state lawmakers still debating the proposal approve the switch.

Torched Holocaust museum reopens

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, April 4,2005 12:16 a.m.

TERRE HAUTE -- A Holocaust museum gutted by a November 2003 arson fire reopened Sunday in an expanded space that includes displays of books and photos charred by the still-unsolved arson. About 500 people attended Sunday afternoon's reopening of the new museum. The 3,700-square-foot building's entrance is flanked by six slender windows that resemble candles and represent the estimated 6 million Jews who perished in the Holocaust.

Condos offer alternative to renting for students

By Andrew Smith and Drew Smith · Monday, April 4,2005 12:15 a.m.

Every year about this time, IU students think about their next semester in Bloomington. Apartments, greek housing and on-campus residences are usually the normal locations students choose. While those opportunities are convenient for many students, the idea of owning a home has grown for those not interested in typical housing options.

National issues discussed locally Friday

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, April 4,2005 12:15 a.m.

Congressman Mike Sodrel visited Bloomington Friday to share his vision of America's future during an open town-hall style meeting Friday. City residents, students and guests packed the Bloomington Township fire station to hear Sodrel, R-Ind., discuss national preservation, the Iraq war, tax cuts and the environment. Most of the questions, however, concerned Social Security reform.

Over-the-counter alibi

By Evan Ross · Monday, April 4,2005 12:12 a.m.

When I was a kid, I was warned of the dangers of role-playing games. According to Web sites and a lot of parents, a lifetime playing Dungeons and Dragons was a life that lead to drug use, Satanism and eventual suicide via Satanic drug use. Of course, I never took any of this seriously, because I knew that people couldn't be so easily swayed by some twenty-sided dice.

John Paul II, reconciler

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, April 4,2005 12:08 a.m.

The third-longest reigning pope in history, John Paul II, will be remembered not for the length of his papacy or for his final moments in the public eye, but for his willingness to reach beyond the realm of religion and into the world of the political.

Pope John Paul II dies

By Alyson Brodsy and Victor L. Simpson · Saturday, April 2,2005 3:52 p.m.

VATICAN CITY - Pope John Paul II, the Polish pontiff who led the Roman Catholic Church for more than a quarter century and became history's most-traveled pope, died Saturday night in his Vatican apartment. He was 84.

Pope rumored to have received last rites

By Alyson Brodsy and Frances D'Emilio · Friday, April 1,2005 1:59 p.m.

VATICAN CITY -- Pope John Paul II developed a high fever Thursday because of a urinary tract infection and was being treated with antibiotics at the Vatican, his spokesman said. The latest health setback for the 84-year-old pontiff came one day after he began receiving nutrition through a feeding tube.

Police chase results in flipped van

By Alyson Brodsy · Friday, April 1,2005 1:24 a.m.

Two males who were apparently fleeing from IU police struck a concrete light pole in the Assembly Hall "blue" parking lot Thursday night, flipping their van and spilling glass onto the pavement. The incident occurred just after 9 p.m. One of the men was led off the scene in handcuffs by IU Police Department officers while another man, with bloody bandages on his left hand, was loaded into an ambulance on a stretcher. The two men could not be identified at press time.

Terri Schiavo dies in hospice

By Alyson Brodsy and Mike Schneider · Friday, April 1,2005 1:24 a.m.

PINELLAS PARK, Fla. -- Terri Schiavo, the severely brain-damaged woman who spent 15 years connected to a feeding tube in an epic legal and medical battle that went all the way to the White House and Congress, died Thursday, 13 days after the tube was removed. She was 41. Schiavo died about 9 a.m. at the Pinellas Park hospice where she lay for years while her husband and her parents fought over her in what was easily the longest, most bitter -- and most heavily litigated -- right-to-die dispute in U.S. history.

Bursar to go paperless in the fall

By Jessica Levco · Friday, April 1,2005 1:24 a.m.

When it's time for students to look at their fall bursar statements, they won't find them in their mailboxes. Instead, notifications will pop up in e-mail inboxes. Effective with July's bill, for students enrolled for fall 2005 semester, the Office of the Bursar will send tuition bills through QuikPAY, an electronic payment system. For the past two years, the system has offered an electronic statement history and printable bills, which can be saved for family records or sent with check payments to the processing center.

Bringing back the main act

By Brad Keist · Friday, April 1,2005 1:24 a.m.

With the Little 500 approaching its 55th year as the "World's Greatest College Weekend," students and administration are preparing for the race and, to some more importantly, the concert. This year, The Roots are joining the ranks of Nelly, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, the Jackson Five, Pat Boone, Petula Clark and Bob Hope, who all performed as main acts during past Little 500 concerts.

Local National Guard recruiting efforts draw war protesters

By David A. Nosko · Friday, April 1,2005 1:24 a.m.

IU senior Brett Hershey is one of nine Indiana National Guard soldiers to have left the Hoosier heartland to serve the his country, only to return home as one of more than 1,500 soldiers who have died in the Middle East.