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A 'Hero' for late summer doldrums

By -Alec Toombs · Wednesday, Sept. 1,2004 10:55 p.m.

Throw "Rahomon" and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" into a blender, hit puree and what do you get?: "Hero," the 2002 offering from Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou (best known for beautifully-crafted character pieces such as "Raise the Red Lantern," "Shanghai Triad" and "The Road Home").

More dancin,' less romancin'

By Pete Schrock · Wednesday, Sept. 1,2004 10:55 p.m.

The Master of R&B has struck again, yet true fans will be disappointed in Kelly's latest effort Happy People/U Saved Me.

Alter Bridge resurrects the sound of Creed

By Benjames Derrick and Benjamin Derrick · Wednesday, Sept. 1,2004 10:53 p.m.

After breaking up with good friend and musical collaborator Scott Stapp, the former singer of Creed, guitarist Mark Tremonti was depressed, but his jam sessions with Creed drummer Scott Phillips seem to have perked him up and given him hope, which has turned into Alter Bridge.

Live album is musical 'remedy'

By Amanda Trost · Wednesday, Sept. 1,2004 10:50 p.m.

Live albums are dangerous. So much money is invested into production before it can even be recorded and then there are so many variables.

Superstupid: Baby Geniuses 2

By -Jenny Kobiela · Wednesday, Sept. 1,2004 10:48 p.m.

Babies are cute -- no doubt about it. But when they become the sugary-sweet, smarty-pants protagonists of a plotless movie, that's when I draw the line. I have to admit, I've never seen the original "Baby Geniuses."

'Anacondas' a guilty pleasure

By Amy Hamblen · Wednesday, Sept. 1,2004 10:45 p.m.

Does "Anacondas" incorporate an intricate plot with stellar acting and dynamic special effects? No, but there are some really big snakes.

'Zero' reason to see this movie

By C. Warner Sills · Wednesday, Sept. 1,2004 10:41 p.m.

It is amazing that an actor like Ben Kingsley, who is both talented and respected, can jump from Oscar-nominated performances to movies that make you wish you had waited for video.

GRIDIRON GROOVES

By C. Warner Sills and Weekend review · Wednesday, Sept. 1,2004 10:36 p.m.

IU Football's first home game is this Saturday, Sept. 4. To get in the spirit of things, Weekend asked our staff and a Hoosier football player to give their picks for great tailgating songs.

THIS WEEK'S TOP MOVIES

By C. Warner Sills and Weekend · Wednesday, Sept. 1,2004 10:07 p.m.

Countdown the week's top flicks

Former 'IDS' publisher dead at 80

By Jane Charney · Wednesday, Sept. 1,2004 1:06 p.m.

Pat Siddons began and ended his journalistic career at the Indiana Daily Student, where he went from cub reporter to publisher. At Ernie Pyle Hall, his legacy remains that of a friendly, grandfatherly mentor to an entire generation of IDSers from the 1980s, said Kevin Corcoran, an IU alum and former IDS reporter.

Student code of ethics updated

By Rick Newkirk · Wednesday, Sept. 1,2004 3:07 a.m.

University students may be unaware they are operating under a new code of rights and responsibilities. The Code of Student Rights, Responsibilities and Conduct, known more casually as the code of ethics, underwent its first revision since December 1996. The changes went into effect at the beginning of the fall semester.

Willkie's legacy not forgotten at RNC

By Josh Sanburn · Wednesday, Sept. 1,2004 3:07 a.m.

NEW YORK -- On the side of the New York Public Library, in a place thousands of New Yorkers pass each day, there is a monument dedicated to out-of-nowhere 1940 Republican nominee Wendell Willkie. "I believe in America because in it we are free -- free to choose our government, to speak our minds, to serve our different religions," it says, quoting Willkie.

Republicans shift to domestic issues

By Josh Sanburn · Wednesday, Sept. 1,2004 3:07 a.m.

NEW YORK -- If Monday night was all about national security and Sept. 11, the Republican National Convention certainly took a shift toward domestic issues Tuesday, featuring first lady Laura Bush, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and U.S. Secretary of Education and IU alumnus Rod Paige.

Campaigns cater to student votes

By Josh Weinfus and Josh Weinfuss · Wednesday, Sept. 1,2004 3:07 a.m.

NEW YORK -- With the general elections only 62 days away, politicians are heating up their campaigns and keeping college students in sight. Tuesday saw the arrival of Indiana Republican gubernatorial candidate Mitch Daniels to the Republican National Convention. Daniels had the opportunity to speak at the convention but didn't pursue it. He said doesn't make that much of a difference.

T.I.S. fights for Bursar billing

By Maggie Bozich · Wednesday, Sept. 1,2004 3:07 a.m.

If a student wants to charge books to a bursar account, the IU Bookstore is still the only option. Negotiations between IU and competing textbook store T.I.S. Bookstore to offer the student payment option in stores have been unsuccessful.

Don't press your pot luck

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, Sept. 1,2004 3:06 a.m.

Thirty years ago is a hot-button for politics this year. What someone did or didn't do during the Vietnam War. What someone said or didn't say at an anti-war rally. What someone did or did not smoke in a college dormitory. As for Indiana politics, there isn't much relevance to the recent news that Democratic Gov. Joe Kernan and Republican challenger Mitch Daniels, both vying for the Indiana governor's mansion this fall, smoked pot in their youth.

New regulations could change overtime pay

By Mike Malik · Wednesday, Sept. 1,2004 2:47 a.m.

New changes made by the George W. Bush administration to the regulations in the Fair Labor Standards Act are affecting workers all across the nation, and IU employees are no exception. The FLSA establishes minimum wage, overtime pay, record keeping and child labor standards affecting full-time and part-time workers in the private sector as well as in federal, state and local governments.

State of Iraqi oil conflicted

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, Sept. 1,2004 2:16 a.m.

FAW, Iraq -- The status of Iraq's crucial oil exports was mired in confusion Tuesday, with government and industry officials giving contradictory statements about whether oil was flowing or whether there were even oil tankers at the main offshore terminal near Faw. Two top officials with the state-run South Oil Co. said Tuesday that oil shipments from southern Iraq -- which account for 90 percent of the country's exports -- remained halted after weekend attacks on pipelines and oil fields.

Moscow subway station attacked in bombing

By Alyson Brodsy and Steve Gutterman · Wednesday, Sept. 1,2004 2:04 a.m.

MOSCOW -- A woman strapped with explosives blew herself up outside a busy Moscow subway station Tuesday night, killing at least 10 people and wounding more than 50 in the second terrorist attack to hit Russia in a week, officials said. Seven days earlier, almost to the hour, two Russian jetliners crashed within minutes of each other in what officials determined were terrorist bombings.

16 people killed in terrorist attack

By Alyson Brodsy and Steven Gutkin · Wednesday, Sept. 1,2004 2:03 a.m.

BEERSHEBA, Israel -- Palestinian suicide bombers blew up two buses in this Israeli desert city Tuesday, killing 16 passengers and wounding more than 80 in the deadliest attack in nearly a year. The blasts ended a six-month lull in violence that Israel had attributed to its separation barrier, arrest sweeps and widespread network of informers. The buses exploded into flames just seconds apart and about 100 yards away from each other near a busy intersection in the center of Beersheba.