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Flexibility key to securing cheap airfare

By Nick Cusack · Monday, Oct. 27,2008 10:57 p.m.

A little bit of flexibility can stretch your dollar a long way when it comes to finding the best deal for airline prices this Thanksgiving, other holidays and school breaks, travel experts say. Air travel is volatile, said Cassidy Young, a travel agent at the Bloomington branch of Carlson Wagonlit Travel. “It’s a difficult time right now,” she said. But it’s still possible to snag a deal.

Kiersten Thomson, a IU Sophomore majoring in Criminal Justice, carefully sorts through accessories for her mask on Monday night at Campus Costume, 2530 E. 10th St.

Halloween draws hoards of students to costume shops

By Sam Leffers · Monday, Oct. 27,2008 10:55 p.m.

Halloween weekend in Bloomington can sometimes resemble something out of a Hunter S. Thompson acid trip. Thanks to Bloomington’s costume shops, that experience can last year round. The city has two main costume shops in town – Campus Costumes at 2530 E. 10th St. and Costume Delights at 336 S. Walnut St. – that are open all year. Despite their popularity during the Halloween season, both stores say they have adapted their focus to attract more than just the ghost and goblin crowd. Theresa Williams, director of the Center for Education and Research in Retailing at the Kelley School of Business, says that’s crucial for the survival of such businesses.

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Shooting at Arkansas University kills 2, wounds 1

Monday, Oct. 27,2008 10:53 p.m.

The head of the University of Central Arkansas said Monday “our campus is safe” after a shooting left two students dead and a third person wounded. Police said there was no ongoing threat and that they were questioning two people.

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Suspected US strike kills up to 20 in Pakistan

Monday, Oct. 27,2008 10:52 p.m.

A suspected U.S. missile strike killed up to 20 people in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, officials said, the latest salvo in an intensifying assault on militant hide-outs near the Afghan border.

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Civilians attack 4 UN offices in eastern Congo

Monday, Oct. 27,2008 10:51 p.m.

Thousands of civilians threw rocks at four United Nations offices in eastern Congo on Monday, venting outrage at the organization’s inability to protect them from rebel forces advancing on the provincial capital of Goma.

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Body found in SUV identified as Hudson’s nephew

Monday, Oct. 27,2008 10:50 p.m.

 Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson’s 7-year-old nephew was found dead in the back of an SUV on Monday, ending a frantic search that began after the shooting deaths of her mother and brother three days earlier.

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Praise for anti-Zionism

By Yahya Chaudhry · Monday, Oct. 27,2008 10:39 p.m.

What if the United States elects an anti-Zionist president? That’s exactly what Rev. Jesse Jackson suggested when he said Barack Obama would rid the United States of “Zionist” control if elected. In response to these falsities, Obama spokesperson Wendy Morigi said, “Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. is not an advisor to the Obama campaign and is therefore in no position to interpret or share Barack Obama’s views on Israel and foreign policy.” She went on to stress Obama’s loyalty to Israel. Obama quickly threw Jackson under the bus, just like he did to his pastor of more than 20 years, Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

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OMG! HSM3

By Erin Chapman · Monday, Oct. 27,2008 10:37 p.m.

The entertainment event of the century has come. Although, as college students, we have been sheltered from its apocalyptic ramifications, the musical messiah has in fact come – a third time. All weekend tweenie-boppers across the nation sang and danced their little hearts out to the beats of the newest cultural cataclysm: “High School Musical 3.” Ahh, the Disney marketing machine. They’ve proved once again that the recipe for big screen success is as simple as combining one teenage heartthrob, two pretty faces, several so-so voices and lots of singing and dancing. Just add water and several million dollars and POOF! Phenomenon.

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No more Joe

By Ashley Ames · Monday, Oct. 27,2008 10:34 p.m.

The sky is falling! The sky is falling! The economy is clearly a mess as we helplessly suffer through one of the greatest financial panics of all time. Nearly unanimously, the population believes our country is headed in “the wrong direction.” Jeff Probst is creating a reality TV show about terminally ill people in the last days of their lives (it’s creatively entitled “Live Like You’re Dying”). Perhaps most heartbreakingly, one of our very own pop culture icons is deserting us in our time of need: Ringo Starr has stopped responding to fan mail because he is just too busy. But hey, look on the bright side: At least you aren’t Joe Wurzelbacher.

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Obama for president

Monday, Oct. 27,2008 10:30 p.m.

In the tradition of election hyperbole, with this election goes the future of America.   We suspect that both candidates, as is typical, will adequately address only a handful of the issues on which they campaign. Yet we are approaching a time when circumstances will force the next president, whoever he is, to act. As an editorial board that had plenty of John McCain supporters, a Naderite and a few people who were fed up with both candidates we decided that the next president of the United States should be Barack Obama. Obama is one of the least experienced candidates to recently run for president. He has a tendency to exaggerate his legislative accomplishments and has little record of standing up to his own party. Still, Obama managed a campaign that beat out, in the form of Hillary Clinton, one of the biggest front-runners in history, and he has surrounded himself with some very smart (and non-ideological) foreign policy and economic advisors. Barack Obama talks a lot about change. In some areas we certainly deserve nothing less.

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University falls behind other Big Ten schools in graduate, professional students’ salaries, pay

By Ashlee Green · Monday, Oct. 27,2008 10:29 p.m.

The IU Graduate and Professional Student Organization (GPSO) has released a report comparing teaching assistant salaries at IU with those at other Big Ten universities, ranking IU last in the amount they are paid. The data, which was compiled in September, indicates average salaries of IU graduate students in the physical sciences compare favorably with the Big Ten average, but suggest IU’s student academic appointees in the social sciences and humanities are paid less on average than their Big Ten peers.

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Why Batman should move

By Chad Quandt · Monday, Oct. 27,2008 10:07 p.m.

As much as I wish superheroes were real, I’m extremely thankful that the cities they call home aren’t. Gotham City, also known as “Evil Chicago,” is home to not only Batman, but a list of villains longer than the Bush Administration’s list of “suspected terrorists.” Denizens of the city have to deal with daily bank robbings, criminal psychopaths who seem to have all taken high school drama classes and a man who dresses like a bat who will punch you in the face if you litter. It isn’t easy living in Gotham.

Former Rep. Mike Sodrel, R-9th, visits a Rotary Club lunch meeting Thursday in New Albany, Ind. Sodrell is in a race against against Rep. Baron Hill, D-9th, for southern Indiana's 9th Congressional district.

State gets $57 million for storm relief

Monday, Oct. 27,2008 9:18 p.m.

INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana communities hit by severe storms and floods last summer will get another $57 million in federal aid to rebuild, Gov. Mitch Daniels said Monday.

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Rotika: ACORN analysis found voter registration fraud

By Larry Buchanan · Monday, Oct. 27,2008 9:14 p.m.

INDIANAPOLIS – Secretary of State Todd Rokita says his office has found evidence of “multiple criminal violations, including possible state and federal racketeering laws” in connection with fraudulent voter registration applications filed in Lake County.

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