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Opera successfully combines music, drama

By Adam Sedia · Friday, Oct. 3,2003 1 a.m.

Those who missed "Abduction from the Seraglio" last weekend must surely see it this weekend. This Mozart opera (actually a "Singspiel") is opening the IU Opera Theater's 2003-2004 season with kicks, giggles and a dash of eastern spices. But it was the performance of the opera that made it such a memorable piece. First of all, although many people probably scoff at performing the opera in English instead of its original German, the use of English actually intensified the intimacy with the audience. Singing and speaking in the native language of the performers gave them much comfort with their lines as was obvious from their facile interpretation. Much of the action in the play reached the audience quicker, especially the spoken stage action, because the audience did not have to read the supertitles for a translation.

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Jordan River Forum

By Alyson Brodsy · Friday, Oct. 3,2003 12:50 a.m.

The current rate of paper consumption in the U.S. is the sole cause of the untimely deaths of 2.5 billion trees every year. According to recent statistics, an average person in the U.S. uses 375 kg of paper made from nine trees every year and the numbers continue to increase. Since the consumption of a University student is higher than that of the average American, we in our student stage of life are contributing to the logging of more trees every year than we can ever aspire to replace. The rapid pace at which forests are undergoing metamorphoses from oxygen producers to paper mill polluters is appalling: 80 percent of the world's original forests have already disappeared and 95 percent of the old growth forests in the U.S. are lost forever. Half of the trees lost in North America owe their hastily terminated lives to paper making.

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Dance to benefit bookstore

By Jenica Schultz · Thursday, Oct. 2,2003 2:52 a.m.

"Dress to impress in your best country duds!" reads Boxcar Books' invitation for its first annual Homecoming Hoedown fund-raiser, which will take place at 9 p.m. Saturday at the Harmony School Gym, 909 E. 2nd St.

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'Worlds Apart' hits home

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, Oct. 2,2003 2:52 a.m.

LOS ANGELES -- The Russell family likes comfort: their three-bedroom, three-bathroom suburban home in Birmingham, Ala.; a packed refrigerator with an automatic ice machine; central air conditioning, and, when mom doesn't feel like cooking, fast food restaurants.

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The force is with them

By Daniel Castro · Thursday, Oct. 2,2003 2:50 a.m.

In the summer of 1977, George Lucas shook the lives of science fiction fans for generations to come with the release of "Star Wars." Those yearning for an outer space free of Klingons and William Shatner, those who were waiting for their fantasies to appear on a blank silver screen, became "Star Wars" fans.

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Adversity made them respected

By -Val Tsoutsouris · Thursday, Oct. 2,2003 2:11 a.m.

Those people who dial a phone to a sports talk radio station, ready to cough up an ill-conceived rebuke or defense of a prominent sports figure along with the rest of their phlegm, make this world great.

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Second half of season opens with in-state rival

By Zack Eldridge · Thursday, Oct. 2,2003 2:09 a.m.

After a struggling first half of the regular season for the men's soccer team, which included a tough loss at Notre Dame in double-overtime and two scoreless ties, IU jumps out of conference and hosts Butler at 7 p.m. tonight.

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Too cool for school

By -Kehla West · Thursday, Oct. 2,2003 2:05 a.m.

IU offers hundreds of classes each semester -- organic chemistry, finite mathematics, literary criticism. They all make students sweat, but IU also offers a host of classes that are downright fun. Yet more than a few students have signed up for these "cool" classes, only to find out that the subject is taken seriously -- and that the class is seriously hard.

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Herbert plans to examine salaries

By Maura Halpern · Thursday, Oct. 2,2003 2:01 a.m.

IU President Adam Herbert plans to examine University salaries across the campuses, in particular, staff salaries and the concern for a possible raise as part of his re-evaluation of IU's administrative structure.

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IU aims to build federal funding

By Mitch Blacher · Thursday, Oct. 2,2003 2:01 a.m.

Congress has started assigning a larger number of funds to specific higher education projects, and IU has put itself in a position to secure some of that money.

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Iraqi police, protesters clash

By Alyson Brodsy and Sameer N. Yacoub · Thursday, Oct. 2,2003 1:42 a.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraqi police opened fire in downtown Baghdad Wednesday after demonstrators demanding jobs stormed a police station, set fire to two cars and threw stones at officers, police said. An American soldier was also killed in a roadside bombing in Tikrit.

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Debating in D.C.

By Alyson Brodsy and Jim Harper · Thursday, Oct. 2,2003 1:21 a.m.

A few years ago, as a high school junior, I spent the summer in Washington, D.C. While there, I was a page in the U.S. Senate. As a page, I got to witness first-hand the debates and actions the Senate takes on a daily basis.

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