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Even armed with a big-name actor and a smoking-hot actress, “Max Payne” still fails to deliver anything remotely appealing. It’s yet another video-game-based bomb that offers nothing new to audiences and is devoid of a complete plot.
Even armed with a big-name actor and a smoking-hot actress, “Max Payne” still fails to deliver anything remotely appealing. It’s yet another video-game-based bomb that offers nothing new to audiences and is devoid of a complete plot.
Some of the best comedies ever made have been released in the last year and a half (and all by Judd Apatow), and it’s pretty easy to say “Sex Drive” belongs right beside them.
Usually, TV and Halloween mix together worse than apples and razor blades, but these episodes prove that sometimes the medium gets it right. If only more shows tackled the holiday – who doesn’t want to see a “House” or “Entourage” Halloween?
Sadly, the film has more style than substance. Bush ends up seeming oversimplified, and given the amount of ripe material that could have been pulled from W’s second term, the film feels incomplete and disappointing. But probably not as disappointing as his presidency.
Five years ago Jo Burgess, director of the Wylie House Museum, made a trip to Arlington, Mass., to visit a little-known relative of the Wylie family, Morton Bradley Jr. While this was Burgess’ first trip to see Bradley, staff of the IU Art Museum and IU Foundation had visited him many times. At one point during most visits, Bradley would make a point to trudge up to the attic of his estate, returning with a small gift for the museum cradled in his hands.
IU Provost Karen Hanson delivered her second “State of the Campus” speech Tuesday in front of members of the Bloomington Faculty Council at the Indiana Memorial Union. Hanson stuck with the current administration’s talking points – research, enrollment and the hiring of top-level faculty – and put forward the idea of making 10th Street a “research corridor” that would centralize research space.PODCAST: Hoosier Headlines
Volunteering services on the IU campus not only give students a chance to gain off-campus experience, but a chance for them to learn more about Monroe County and its social issues.
JASPER, Ind. – The audience at Tuesday night’s congressional debate was small, but the crowd was fierce. Once the candidates for Indiana’s 9th Congressional District dealt with the pre-written questions from the participants on stage, they had to face inquiries from the local residents themselves. Issues such as abortion, energy, the national language and the appropriate tax system had constituents’ patience stretched to the breaking point.SLIDESHOW: Indiana 9th District Debate
“It’s not about pharmacy rights or state’s rights. It’s about sex,” Dr. Marty Klein said in his lecture to a large audience Tuesday night in the Indiana Memorial Union’s Alumni Hall.
Members from the IU and Bloomington communities gathered for a Q-and-A session with sexual health experts Monday night at the Whittenberger Auditorium in the Indiana Memorial Union. The program, “Kinsey Confidential,” is one of the features in “Sexploration at IU,” a week-long series of events related to sexual health and education.
After a year-and-a-half of discussion, the decision whether to rename the Ora. L. Wildermuth Intramural Center will take a little longer. The Wildermuth name-change decision will not be resolved until at least Monday said Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer Terry Clapacs, who is also head of the All University Committee on Names.
Freshmen Yadira Aguilar and Penny Howard rely on the IU campus buses to travel to their classes and to their dorms. Although they both appreciate having transportation on campus, they said they often lose their patience waiting for their bus to arrive.
Chinese police called Tuesday for the arrest and extradition to China of the alleged leader of an Islamic terrorist group and seven core members accused of plotting attacks against the Beijing Olympics.
Iraq’s Cabinet decided Tuesday to ask the Americans for unspecified changes in the draft security pact that would allow U.S. troops to remain here another three years, despite warnings that it would be hard to reopen negotiations on the agreement.
IU kicker Austin Starr used to be automatic. Last season especially. Experts tabbed him as one of the nation’s top kickers. A 40-yarder, a chip shot, it didn’t matter. Every boot was destined to split the uprights. This year, though, Starr’s golden foot has vanished.How could a finalist for the Lou Groza award – given to college football’s top kicker – meld into a Mike Vanderjagt? It’s perplexing, I know.
It’s about time. The men’s and women’s soccer teams turned in some of the best performances of the season last weekend, but it remains to be seen whether the teams can use these results to turn their campaigns around.IU women’s coach Mick Lyon and the Hoosiers face a near-impossible road to repeat last season’s round of 16 appearance in the NCAA Tournament. Heading into the weekend, IU was 0-6 in conference play with games against in-state rival Purdue and No. 25 Illinois.
Only five games remain before the Big Ten tournament, but the No. 22 Hoosiers aren’t about to look ahead. Coming off a 3-1 upset win against then-No. 9 Notre Dame, IU (7-4-2) wants to build off its victory going into the match against No. 14 Louisville (9-3-2) at 7:30 p.m. today. Sophomore forward Andy Adlard said a key component to the win was a good week of practice preceding the match. Leading up to the Notre Dame game, every Hoosier showed up motivated and prepared, Adlard said.
Recently, John McCain’s campaign has turned to an attempt to use Barack Obama’s associations – like Bill Ayers, ACORN and the unspoken specter or the Rev. Jeremiah Wright – against him to try and call his judgment into question. Considering the campaign has a walking warning about McCain’s own judgment in his running mate, this seems to be an odd strategy, and it hasn’t worked particularly well so far. But one can’t fault a faltering campaign for trying to turn from issues toward anything that could give it some life.
The country appears ready to reward a Democratic Congress with record-low approval ratings with a landslide that could alter the course of our country for years to come. On the one hand, I’m sort of glad to see the Democrats take control. The Republicans (with few exceptions) were admittedly awful during the years they controlled Congress and the presidency. And while the Democrats will no doubt embark on a full-speed sprint toward bringing our country to ruin, rather than the slower-but-steady jog of recent Republicans, at least the Democrats will be the ones responsible.
INside forgot about something in its last issue. On this campus, we have groups for the Libertarian candidate Bob Barr and Independent candidate Ralph Nader. I’d talk about other third parties, but they do not have student groups at IU. I personally am a member of the Nader group. We had somebody work on that campaign during the summer. We have a group president. We like politics. Why are the respective leaders of these student organizations not featured and interviewed while leaders from the two major parties are?