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Israeli blockade of Lebanese air and sea ports to be lifted

By Alyson Brodsy and Aron Heller · Wednesday, Sept. 6,2006 10:56 p.m.

JERUSALEM -- Israel said it will lift its sea and air blockade of Lebanon today as it faced widespread international pressure more than three weeks after a cease-fire took effect, ending a bloody month-long conflict with Hezbollah guerrillas.

Revamped, retro-style theaters allow residents to drive in, drive out

By C. Warner Sills and Bryan Lufkin · Wednesday, Sept. 6,2006 10:55 p.m.

If you ask your grandparents (and some of your parents) what it meant to "go to the movies," their answer may be significantly different than yours. Fifty years ago, few were the posh theaters with 20 screens, stadium seating, air conditioning and a smorgasbord of overpriced candy. And reserving tickets ahead of time online was not even a fathomable luxury. Back in the good ol' days, "catching a movie" suggested one thing; a nearly obsolete practice that's usually seen only in movies themselves: pulling up in your car to a drive-in theater.

Welcome back, primetime

By C. Warner Sills and Mallory Simon · Wednesday, Sept. 6,2006 10:45 p.m.

For the first time in a couple of years, my DVR is being used to its fullest capacity. In the past five years the networks faltered and primetime programming fell into a deep reality TV abyss, one I thought we would never navigate our way out of. Don't get me wrong, for the first couple of years it was mildly entertaining to see how far people would go to win an exorbitant amount of money.

Seriously, Entourage: Be more like Weeds

By C. Warner Sills and Zack Teibloom · Wednesday, Sept. 6,2006 10:44 p.m.

What if I were to tell you that Entourage became formulaic and stale in its third season with lame characters like Dom, and Weeds is getting more chronic every episode. Is that something you might be interested in? The pace of Weeds flies by even though they start each episode the second the last episode ends. While Entourage meanders through finding Vince a new project week after week, Weeds' plot lines weave in and out.

Italian reissue skewers family's hypocrisy

By C. Warner Sills and Will Hernandez · Wednesday, Sept. 6,2006 10:40 p.m.

"We're not millionaires or barons. Our only treasure is our good name", says patriarch Don Vincenso (Saro Urzi) in "Seduced and Abandoned". It's a philosophy most people live by, but to him, it's more of a duty. As a result, he and his family are thrown into a series of emotionally distressing yet comedic events, sparked by the affair between his daughter Matilde's fiancé, Peppino (Aldo Puglisi) and his other daughter, Agnese (Stefania Sandrelli). Pietro Germi, who also wrote and directed "Divorce-Italian Style", offers another clever and amusing satire which provides a glimpse into the idiosyncrasies of Italian family values and traditions during the 1960's in small-town Sicily.

Bush admits to secret CIA prisons

By Alyson Brodsy and Nedra Pickler · Wednesday, Sept. 6,2006 10:39 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- President Bush on Wednesday acknowledged the existence of previously secret CIA prisons around the world and said 14 high-value terrorism suspects -- including the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks -- have been transferred from the system to Guantanamo Bay for trials.

Carving up a third season

By Chris Wisner and compiled by Chris Wisner · Wednesday, Sept. 6,2006 10:36 p.m.

When season two of "Nip/Tuck" came to a close, the mysterious murderer "The Carver" had just paralyzed Dr. Christian Troy (Julian McMahon) and taken a fine slash to his handsome features. Commence season three. Who could the Carver be? Who has the sick and twisted mentality to run around Miami slashing open the faces of all the beautiful people while leaving a simple note stating, "Beauty is a curse upon the world?"

Hip-hop H20

By Abby Schwimmer · Wednesday, Sept. 6,2006 10:33 p.m.

He's cool. He's crunk. And now he spreads the word about the world's impending water crisis. Jigga, what?

Pizza delivery driver robbed at gunpoint

By Audrie Garrison · Wednesday, Sept. 6,2006 10:32 p.m.

A delivery worker for Domino's Pizza was robbed at gunpoint Tuesday night when he was called to deliver a pizza to a vacant house.

The best in bathroom writing

By Scott Leadingham · Wednesday, Sept. 6,2006 10:31 p.m.

The United States of America:land of the free, home of the brave, cesspool for the non-sensical and abstract.

A treatise to coexist

By Grace Low · Wednesday, Sept. 6,2006 10:29 p.m.

A Jew, a Catholic and a Muslim meet on the square. But instead of being the beginning of a bad joke, it is the embodiment of something profoundly beautiful. A few weeks before students arrived, when the recent conflict between Israel and Lebanon was at its height, about 100 Bloomington citizens representing the aforementioned faiths, along with many others, met on the square (the area surrounding the Monroe County Courthouse).

Homeowner wounds one teen and kills another during an apparent robbery

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, Sept. 6,2006 10:28 p.m.

KOKOMO — A man who took a gun when he answered a knock on his door shot two would-be teenage robbers early Tuesday, killing one and wounding another, police said.

No tuition without representation

Wednesday, Sept. 6,2006 10:25 p.m.

In the great American tradition of decision-making, IU has formed a committee to fill the monumental role of University president. The committee has been working furiously to find the brightest, most qualified individual to lead this great institution into a new generation of high-tech higher education. Its task is not an easy one. The president is not only the face of the University, but also an administrator, a fund-raiser, a spokesman and lobbyist. He or she must be personable but business oriented; if he or she stands seven-feet-tall and shoots lightning from his eyes, all the better.

Federal Appeals court to hear Indiana House prayer case

By Alyson Brodsy and Mike Smith · Wednesday, Sept. 6,2006 10:24 p.m.

INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana House leaders will seek private donations in their efforts to overturn a federal judge's ruling restricting opening prayers in the body's Statehouse chambers, House Speaker Brian Bosma said Tuesday.

IDS headline lacks chemistry

Wednesday, Sept. 6,2006 10:23 p.m.

Dear IDS editors, We were recently surprised, and frankly disappointed, to see a headline on page 13 of the August 29, 2006 edition of the IDS that read "Scientists create alcohol from ethanol."

The funniest show to ever be cancelled

By C. Warner Sills and John Barnett · Wednesday, Sept. 6,2006 10:21 p.m.

The funniest and most bizarre show on television got even funnier and more bizarre in its third and final season, going out with a bang and not a whimper. Enough fuss has been made about Fox's decision to cancel Arrested Development midstream, but what more can be expected from the same roundtable that keeps the Fox News Channel going 24/7? The best that can be done is to celebrate the show for what it was, which was much, much more than any comedy currently on air.

Missing Marching Hundred

By Maeve Hall · Wednesday, Sept. 6,2006 10:19 p.m.

When I arrived at Memorial Stadium on Saturday and went for my usual seat at the front of the student section, I was shocked to discover that the band would no longer be in the stands next to me.

IUSA-GPSO split hurts student interests

By Jim Hoff · Wednesday, Sept. 6,2006 10:18 p.m.

While Paul Rohwer's guest column was interesting with his views on the goals of higher education, he mistakenly attempts to wedge a divide between undergrad and graduate students by faulting IUSA.

Razor blunted

By C. Warner Sills and Brian J. McFillen · Wednesday, Sept. 6,2006 10:17 p.m.

If you loved early-noughties garage-dance-punk, then these are depressing times. The indie world has embraced proggier, twee-er, less-accessible sounds (Sufjan, Beirut, The Knife -- bleh). The mainstream is eagerly blending the style with emo so it can be marketed to 12-year-old mall crawlers (Hellooo, She Wants Revenge!). And the bands that made up the movement are either deceased (The Libertines, Death From Above 1979) or looking to "expand" beyond their original sound (Franz Ferdinand, The Futureheads, Hot Hot Heat, The Strokes, The White Stripes/Raconteurs, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, etc.). This last category has met with varying levels of success.

Sodrel good, Hill bad

By David White · Wednesday, Sept. 6,2006 10:14 p.m.

Last week's article about the 9th District Congressional race downplayed many important issues.