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Andrew Bird hits Bloomington

By Alyson Brodsy and Nina Mehta · Sunday, Feb. 5,2006 10:46 p.m.

It is surprising the Buskirk-Chumley had room for 600 people and all of Andrew Bird's talent. The singer, songwriter, classical violinist, guitarist, expert whistler and glockenspiel player showcased his instrumental repertoire to an audience familiar with his work.

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Testosterone Bowl

By Alyson Brodsy and Amanda Dorman · Sunday, Feb. 5,2006 10:27 p.m.

Between ads showing Fabio posed as a 120-year-old man and model Brooke Burke with her fellow "Whopperettes" dressed as life-size burgers, this year's Super Bowl commercials are bound to stick in the minds of the game's 90 million viewers. But one ad in particular had significant emotional impact.

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Nero's Top 40

By Alyson Brodsy and Brian J. McFillen · Sunday, Feb. 5,2006 10:26 p.m.

This Wednesday brings us the 48th Annual Grammy Awards, the night the music industry's finest gather together to award each others' sales -- er, work -- and music lovers the world over mass around their TV screens to see whether this year's ceremony is deeply embarrassing, or just simply mediocre.

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Crazy Coulter

By Alyson Brodsy and Melanie Sims · Sunday, Feb. 5,2006 10:25 p.m.

Right-wing pundit Ann Coulter is coming. And in the words of hecklers present during Coulter's speech at the University of Connecticut: Boo. Boo to whomever thought Black History Month would be an OK time to feature a lecture from the woman who called Kwanzaa founder Malauna Karenga "a black radical FBI stooge" in her column "Kwanzaa: Holiday from the FBI."

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Indiana's clinical error

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, Feb. 5,2006 10:23 p.m.

At the IDS editorial board, we can all agree about the importance of women's health. Unfortunately, the Indiana House of Representatives has taken a good-intentioned bill, designed to aid the regulation of the state's abortion clinics, and subverted it into an under-handed attempt to close down all nine of them.

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Suspected USS Cole planner escapes from prison

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, Feb. 5,2006 10:22 p.m.

LYON, France -- A man considered a mastermind of the USS Cole bombing that killed 17 sailors in a Yemeni port in 2000 was among 23 people who escaped from a Yemen prison last week, Interpol said Sunday.

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Caricature spurs more protests

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, Feb. 5,2006 10:20 p.m.

BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Thousands of Muslims rampaged Sunday in Beirut, setting fire to the Danish Embassy, burning Danish flags and lobbing stones at a Maronite Catholic church as violent protests over caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad spread from neighboring Syria.

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InVenture starts new business program

By Laura Jane Hyde · Sunday, Feb. 5,2006 10:17 p.m.

South Central Indiana Small Business Development Center and inVenture will partner Feb. 8 to present Genius Groups, a 10-part entrepreneurial development series to help small business owners prosper.

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Local officers arrest possible Indy homicide informant

By Audrie Garrison · Sunday, Feb. 5,2006 10:16 p.m.

Bloomington police officers arrested 26-year-old Royal Amos, a "person of interest" in the Marion County double homicide of Keyonia Dunn, 20, and Erika Thornton, 31, early Friday morning in the parking lot of the Jackson Creek Shopping Center.

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Libertarians select secretary candidate

By Joseph S. Pete · Sunday, Feb. 5,2006 10:15 p.m.

INDIANAPOLIS -- Party officials announced Mike Kole as the de facto Libertarian candidate for the Indiana Secretary of State race before a conference of student activists Saturday.

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Hat tradition cherished at Black History Month event

By Ari Shifron · Sunday, Feb. 5,2006 10:14 p.m.

About 70 people, some with rather exotic head ornaments, participated in an event Sunday afternoon to praise blacks and their role in society. The Monroe County Library played host to a program called Bloomington-style Crown's Day, part of the month-long black history celebration, cosponsored by Ivy Tech Community College and the Bloomington Black Business Bureau.

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Ann Coulter coming to IU

By Adam Aasen · Friday, Feb. 3,2006 11:14 a.m.

Whether you think she's a bright, conservative speaker or a misinformed, narrow-minded shock artist, Union Board expects a packed crowd for author Ann Coulter, who is coming to speak at the IU Auditorium Feb. 23.

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The Last Stop

By Alyson Brodsy and Joe Kay · Friday, Feb. 3,2006 12:53 a.m.

DETROIT -- Jerome Bettis returned for one more chance to make a run at a championship. Against long odds, he got it.

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Meal points to roll over into fall semester

By Kim Cullman · Friday, Feb. 3,2006 12:45 a.m.

After this year, students with meal points might never again have to storm the C-store for junk food to spend their leftover points each May. Beginning next spring, 75 percent of leftover points from every meal plan contract will roll over into the fall semester.

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Indiana Senate passes student loan bill

By Michael Zennie · Friday, Feb. 3,2006 12:45 a.m.

The Indiana Senate overwhelmingly passed a bill Thursday that could save Hoosiers who pay for their college with student loans as much as $575 per loan and $425 million statewide.

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Hoosier at Heart

By Brian Janosch · Friday, Feb. 3,2006 12:45 a.m.

Alvin Trisler slowly shuffles his way to an old friend and pulls him closer as he shakes his hand. Clad in a red vest and tie, Trisler struggles to share a story amid the Assembly Hall madness.

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