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‘National icon’ comes to Auditorium

By Allison Tyra · Friday, Feb. 15,2008 4:25 p.m.

“Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where the women are strong, the men are good-looking and the children are above average.” Now in its 32nd year on the radio, Garrison Keillor’s matchless program, “A Prairie Home Companion,” will bring the fictitious small town of Lake Wobegon, Minn., to the IU Auditorium at 5:45 p.m.

Courtesy photo Joe Mamlin examins a patient at an HIV Clinic in Mosoriot, Kenya.

A shelter of peace

By Sarah Hutchins · Friday, Feb. 15,2008 4:25 p.m.

As IU professor, Dr. Joe Mamlin carried plates of beans and rice into the single dining room of his home – a seven-house, 40-bedroom compound in Eldoret, Kenya – he heard the singing. IU professor Dr. Joe Mamlin has taken more than 70 refugees into his home since fighting in Kenya began. Members of all warring tribes find protection there – a safe haven in the middle of continuing gang violence.

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IU can’t close out Spartans

By Zachary Osterman · Friday, Feb. 15,2008 1:07 a.m.

Thursday night was a game of advantages for the IU women’s basketball team. Unfortunately, visiting Michigan State held most of them. Thursday night was a game of advantages for the IU women's basketball team. Unfortunately, visiting Michigan State held the upper hand in most of them. The Spartans beat the Hoosiers on the glass, in the paint, in points off turnovers and at the free-throw line on their way to a nail-biting 72-68 win at Assembly Hall that saw 14 ties and 16 lead changes over the course of the game.

Jay Seawell

Crimson Hoosiers hope to cream Spartans

By Chris Engel · Friday, Feb. 15,2008 12:20 a.m.

The IU men’s basketball team has little time to sulk about its tough loss to No. 15 Wisconsin Wednesday night, because another top-ranked team will visit Assembly Hall Saturday.

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No. 19 Hoosiers open spring campaign

By IDS staff and Aaron Beard · Friday, Feb. 15,2008 12:10 a.m.

With a wintry mix still covering a majority of the IU Golf Course, the No. 19 Hoosiers will leave Bloomington and travel to Point Vedra, Fla., to compete in their first tournament of the spring season.

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Candidates prepare for IUSA race

By Amy Burke · Friday, Feb. 15,2008 12 a.m.

With elections coming up in March, students are starting to form together and create tickets or groups to run for the chance to govern the student body. “It is our sole responsibility for students to be represented on campus,” said current IU Student Association president and junior W.T Wright. “In (IUSA) students get to voice their view on subjects and get behind different people on different issues.”

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Around the World

By AP Reports and Abisalom Omolo · Thursday, Feb. 14,2008 11:54 p.m.

A senior Justice Department official told Congress on Thursday that laws and other limits enacted since three terrorism suspects were waterboarded have eliminated the technique from what is now allowed.

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Bush pushes for surveillance law

By Abisalom Omolo and Deb Riechmann · Thursday, Feb. 14,2008 11:53 p.m.

President Bush, at loggerheads with House Democrats over how closely the government can eavesdrop on U.S. citizens, warned Wednesday that terrorists were planning fresh assaults that would make the Sept. 11 attacks “pale by comparison.”

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Podcast, blog added to Kinsey Web site

Thursday, Feb. 14,2008 11:39 p.m.

The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction has added three-minute podcasts to its Web site to appeal to a more modern audience.

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Dining with the Dean

Thursday, Feb. 14,2008 11:37 p.m.

About 120 students and staff attended a luncheon with Dean of Students Dick McKaig Thursday in the Indiana Memorial Union.

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