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Readers seek information in pro- and anti-war books

By Hillel Italie · Sunday, March 9,2003 11:58 p.m.

NEW YORK -- When a customer enters the Politics & Prose bookstore and wants to learn more about Iraq, store owner Carla Cohen has a number of suggestions. David Fromkin's "A Peace to End All Peace," a general history of the Middle East. "Republic of Fear," Kanan Makiya's analysis of contemporary Iraq. Bernard Lewis' "The Middle East: A Brief of History of the Last 2,000 Years."

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The art of fondue

By Mary DeBrunner · Friday, March 7,2003 9:44 a.m.

When 24 students enrolled in Stuart Hyatt's advanced sculpture class, they probably never imagined establishing a totally functioning fondue restaurant in four weeks. But they have done so.

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Poets present anti-war poems to Congress

By Elizabeth Wolfe · Thursday, March 6,2003 5:27 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- Poets brought their anti-war verse to Congress on Wednesday, handing lawmakers thousands of poems to protest pending military action in Iraq. The group, "Poets Against the War," is barely a month old, born out of one poet's refusal in January to attend a poetry symposium with first lady Laura Bush.

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Nationally celebrated poets to read tonight

By -Kehla West · Thursday, March 6,2003 5:26 p.m.

Two nationally celebrated poets, Terrance Hayes and Crystal Wilkinson, will be reading tonight at the Neal-Marshall Grand Hall. The evening of poetry and fiction is the second event this year inspired by and in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Indiana Review and the first edition of the Indiana Review "Writers of Color."

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'I need to play, to perform for myself'

By Brandon Morley and Brandon S Morley · Thursday, March 6,2003 5:26 p.m.

The square window lets in just enough light to negate the need for overhead fixtures in the small room at the School of Music. The room is home to a well-used piano, a small table and three chairs. This room is a study, an office and a classroom belonging to Janet Ross -- one of two winners in 2003 who earned the Vision, Strength, and Artistic Expression Panasonic Young Soloists Award.

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Around The Arts

By Alyson Brodsy · Tuesday, March 4,2003 11:16 p.m.

LOS ANGELES -- The entertainment industry must not blacklist people who speak out against war with Iraq, the Screen Actors Guild said.

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Exhibit addresses female sexuality

By Kristy McClain · Tuesday, March 4,2003 11:14 p.m.

A current School of Fine Arts Gallery exhibit presents different views of female sexuality from the perspectives of male and female artists from diverse time periods. The exhibit, titled "Feminine Persuasion," is part of a yearlong celebration of the 50th anniversary of the publication of "Sexual Behavior in the Human Female," by noted sexologist Alfred C. Kinsey and his research colleagues.

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Action flick ousts comedy for No. 1

By Alyson Brodsy and Paul Wilborn · Monday, March 3,2003 11:52 p.m.

LOS ANGELES -- The pairing of a rap star and a martial arts heavyweight pushed "Cradle 2 The Grave" to the top of the box office. The high-octane action-adventure film featuring rapper DMX as a gang leader and martial arts star Jet Li as a Taiwanese intelligence officer took in $17.1 million in its opening weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday. "Cradle" follows DMX and Li as they form an unlikely alliance in a film that mixes stolen diamonds, kidnapping and a plot to distribute a deadly new weapon of war.

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Play looks at teenage '80s drama

By -Kehla West · Thursday, Feb. 27,2003 11:17 p.m.

"Today is the day!" might be an appropriate tagline for Kenneth Lonergan's play "This Is Our Youth." Showing today through Saturday and Monday through Saturday of next week at the Wells-Metz Theatre, the play has also run in London with performances by Jake Gyllenhaal and Anna Paquin.

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Italian actor Alberto Sordi dies

By Alyson Brodsy and Alessandra Rizzo · Thursday, Feb. 27,2003 12:54 a.m.

ROME -- Actor Alberto Sordi, who depicted Italy's virtues and vices in more than 160 movies and contributed to making Italian comedy famous worldwide, has died. He was 82. Sordi died of a heart attack Monday night in his Rome house, publicist Maria Rhule said. Sordi was born in Rome, and some of the actor's most successful movies are set in the capital, including the 1954 classic "An American in Rome," in which he poked fun at Italy's growing passion for things American.

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Sept. 11 book criticized

By Alyson Brodsy and Chaka Ferguson · Thursday, Feb. 27,2003 12:53 a.m.

NEW YORK -- Firefighters demanded Tuesday that the National Book Critics Circle withdraw the nomination of a book that accuses fire department members of disrespecting human remains and looting Ground Zero after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. More than 100 protesters rallied outside the New School -- where the critics will announce the winners Wednesday -- holding signs reading "Lies, Lies, Lies" and "It's fiction, not facts."

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Around The Arts

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, Feb. 27,2003 12:51 a.m.

PARIS -- Much of Paris' opera and theater world closed its doors Tuesday, as thousands of artists and musicians took to the streets in a protest against government plans to change their unemployment insurance benefits. NEW YORK -- Screenwriter Nora Ephron is this year's recipient of a lifetime achievement award from the Writers Guild of America, East. LOS ANGELES -- Filmmaker Roman Polanski's work should be judged on its merits, not on his crime, the victim of a 1977 sexual assault wrote in an op-ed article.

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Grand jury opens investigation into Rhode Island nightclub disaster, deaths

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, Feb. 27,2003 12:48 a.m.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A grand jury opened an investigation Wednesday into the nightclub inferno that killed 97 people, and members of the heavy metal group whose pyrotechnics are suspected of starting the fire could testify as early as Thursday. At least two members of the band Great White were seen entering the National Guard training center in East Greenwich where the grand jury met behind closed doors.

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Monologues for the future

By Jane Charney · Thursday, Feb. 27,2003 12:47 a.m.

Last year, Ben Barone worked as an usher for a performance of Eve Ensler's "The Vagina Monologues." Being a male, he could not perform in the show and did not have any other opportunity to help with V-Day, a national effort to abolish violence against women and girls. Now a sophomore, Barone not only is performing a new monologue, but he also co-wrote it with Bloomington residents Patrick Kinsman and Clint Wolfe.

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Maggie Smith makes a Broadway comeback

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, Feb. 26,2003 12:02 a.m.

LONDON -- Maggie Smith will return to Broadway for the first time in over 13 years late this fall in the David Hare play "The Breath of Life," the play's producer, Robert Fox, said Tuesday. But she won't be joined by her co-star, Judi Dench, who prefers to stay home in England, Fox said.

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Guggenheim art oozes jelly

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, Feb. 26,2003 12:02 a.m.

NEW YORK -- "The Cremaster Cycle" at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is New York's art happening of the year, combining highbrow and high camp with a bit of blarney.

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