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Bidding adieu to a brilliant duo

By Aaron Beard and Jonathan Hines · Tuesday, March 4,2008 11:42 p.m.

It’s still hard to make sense of this season. After 29 games, it’s impossible to gauge whether this team has thrown in the towel or is gathering itself for a memorable postseason run.

Self-defense, rape awareness seminar teaches techniques

By Allison Tyra · Tuesday, March 4,2008 11:42 p.m.

Members of the Hapkido/Self-Defense club offered strangers the opportunity to punch, kick and sit on them Saturday afternoon at the School of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation building. But it was for a good cause.

Red Cross campaign strives to create ‘heroes’

By Kyle Kerns · Tuesday, March 4,2008 11:41 p.m.

In an effort to raise money and awareness, the Monroe County Chapter of the American Red Cross, along with the IU Red Cross Club is kicking off its annual fund-raising campaign, Heroes for the American Red Cross.

Unwanted populism

By Nathan Dixon · Tuesday, March 4,2008 11:36 p.m.

Sen. Hillary Clinton says she wants a “new manufacturing policy” that would involve renegotiating the North

Unsafe at this speed

By Thomas Wachtel · Tuesday, March 4,2008 11:35 p.m.

A couple weeks ago, consumer advocate and generally pissed-off citizen Ralph Nader announced he would, once again, be running for president. He has, of course

Copycats

By Abra Oliver · Tuesday, March 4,2008 11:32 p.m.

From day one of our education, administrators and instructors have engraved into our eager little minds that we must strive to produce good work of which we can be proud. Of course, there’s one little catch that most of us in academia understand – we can claim responsibility for a work only if it is a result of our own labor. Madonna G. Constantine, a professor at Columbia University’s Teachers College, didn’t seem to get this memo. Or she simply chose to ignore it.

Drunkorexia?

By Jennifer Miller · Tuesday, March 4,2008 11:28 p.m.

Last Sunday’s New York Times ran a feature on distorted body image entitled “Starving Themselves, Cocktail in Hand.” It discusses the

Natural born

By Tristan Reitz · Tuesday, March 4,2008 11:27 p.m.

Within the U.S. Constitution lies a confusing rule. The rule states “No person except a natural born citizen

Contemporary authors present work at Waldron Arts Center

By Greg Winget · Tuesday, March 4,2008 11:14 p.m.

Written words will come alive at 8 p.m. today at the John Waldron Arts Center auditorium as published fiction writer and poet John Keene will read with poet Evie Shockley as part of the “Writers at the Waldron” series. The event is presented by IU’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program.

Around the World

By AP Reports and Abisalom Omolo · Tuesday, March 4,2008 10:13 p.m.

Russia and China on Tuesday scuttled a Western attempt to introduce a resolution on Iran’s nuclear defiance at a meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency, diplomats said.

Rice to attempt to salvage peace talks between Israel, Palestinians

By Abisalom Omolo and Laurie Copans · Tuesday, March 4,2008 10:12 p.m.

Israeli aircraft sent missiles crashing into the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, pressing an offensive against Palestinian rocket squads even as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in the region to try to rescue peace talks amid the latest outbreak of violence.

Venezuela moves troops to Colombian border

By Abisalom Omolo and Frank Bajak · Tuesday, March 4,2008 10:11 p.m.

Hundreds of Venezuelan troops moved Tuesday toward the border with Colombia, where trade was slowing amid heightening tension over Colombia’s cross-border strike on a rebel base in Ecuador.

If lepers had iTunes

By Teri Rosenbaum · Tuesday, March 4,2008 10:09 p.m.

And because of the unfaltering – but perfectly sensible – rules of leper deportation, you can bring only the following items to accompany you on your slow march towards a limbless death: tweezers, a year’s supply of Nutri-Grain Bars in various flavors, a Magna Doodle, a Roomba and – the kicker! – five albums of your choice.

Valentino says fashion industry lacks ‘creativity’

By Gabrijel Gelic · Tuesday, March 4,2008 10:07 p.m.

Fashion industry veteran and celebrity designer Valentino Garavani showcased his last collection this past October in Paris before leaving the fashion industry forever. “This environment is no longer stimulating,” Valentino said during his last show in an interview with fashionweeknews.com.

Health services grants to combat secondhand smoke in rural areas

By Kristina Hunter · Tuesday, March 4,2008 8:55 p.m.

Rural Hoosiers have been given more means to combat secondhand smoke in the workplace and receive advances in health services, thanks to grants awarded to the Indiana Rural Health Association by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Federal Communications Commission.

Health officials have doubts on proposed cleanup plan

By Kristin McFarland · Tuesday, March 4,2008 8:54 p.m.

Twenty-five years have passed since the Monroe County Health Department found polychlorinated biphenyls, called PCBs, contaminating Bennett’s Dump, a quarry-turned-landfill on the North Park development in northwest Bloomington.

Arts Review: ‘Evita’ shows only part of true Eva Peron

By Shannon Dahmer · Tuesday, March 4,2008 8:26 p.m.

Multi-colored lights flashed from all angles as melodious voices filled every inch of the auditorium. The dancers’ strong synchronized steps in front of an ever-changing screen of historic footage were surrounded by authentic Latin art.

Breaking through the bars

By Paul Coover · Tuesday, March 4,2008 3:51 p.m.

A number of inmates are pursuing associate’s and bachelor’s degrees, hoping to one day walk out from behind those walls, through the facility gates and into the outside world with a college education.

Officials request time to decide building name

By Erin Riley · Tuesday, March 4,2008 10:43 a.m.

When former IU President Adam Herbert discovered last April that a campus building bares the name of a known segregationist, he vowed to take speedy action. Almost a year later, with Herbert out of office, the team of faculty and administrators responsible for resolving the issue is requesting more time. COLUMN: Shaffer: IU building should not be named after a racist (04/10/07)

Pop-Ed with Peter Chen

Tuesday, March 4,2008 3:10 a.m.

WEEKEND reviews editor Peter Chen discusses the lost art of the book review. PODCAST: Pop-Ed with Peter Chen

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