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Friday, July 17
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Jay Seawell

TREE RELIEF

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Folklorist Joseph Campbell once said that God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, 'ah!'




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Hot club of Naptown heats up July

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Art and music lovers came out by the hundreds Friday night to the IU Art Museum for an evening of live music on the Sculpture Terrace. The cost-free event was the last of four performances in the Jazz in July series put on by the museum and other sponsors.

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Opera 'Pinafore' promises fun, laughs

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What do opera and "Saturday Night Live" have in common? The ability to delight audiences even after years have passed, according to IU stage director, Vince Liotta.



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Swimming in ice cream

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Before melting underneath the glaring heat and suffocating humidity of the city's recent weeklong sweat fest, some residents and guests slurped and licked their way to cooler body temperatures despite oppressive heat waves.



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Police arrest suspected July 21 bomber

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BIRMINGHAM, England -- Police pursuing suspects in the failed July 21 terror bombings in London raided four homes across Britain on Wednesday and detained four people, including a Somali man believed to be one of the fugitive bombers, media reports and a witness said.


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Give it 10 more years

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The U.S. House of Representatives voted to renew the USA PATRIOT Act in a 257-171 vote and it now sits ready for a Senate vote. This time, however, the House voted to make 14 of the Act's 16 provisions permanent, while the more controversial ones dealing with roving wiretaps and secret searches of library and medical records will expire and be reviewed again in 10 years.


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'No' to Patriot Act

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Renewing the Patriot Act for even one more day is a continued travesty for the American people -- patriots of a nation gone rabid by continued war. The 9-11 attacks mangled any hope of the American dream, as exemplified by the first-responder legislated reaction to unanimously support the further stripping of sacred liberties in the name of "necessity" and "national security."


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200 killed in record monsoon rains in India

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BOMBAY, India -- Authorities said Wednesday they had recovered at least 200 bodies in western India after the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in the country shut down the financial hub of Bombay, snapped communication lines and marooned thousands of people in the past two days.


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Angry Afghans hurl stones at U.S. base, scream 'die America'

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BAGRAM, Afghanistan -- More than 1,000 stone--throwing Afghans tried to break down an outer gate at the main U.S. base in Bagram, Afghanistan Tuesday while demanding the release of eight detained villagers, and Afghan troops fired warning shots and used clubs to beat the mob back. U.S. troops also fired into the air.



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Billy Bob 'Bad' again

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In previews for "Bad News Bears," it looks as though Billy Bob Thornton brings back his piss-drunk "Bad Santa" character to play a Little League baseball coach.


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Daniels names trustees

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Governor Mitch Daniels announced his appointments to the IU Board of Trustees Wednesday filling three seats whose terms expired this summer including the student trustee. Taking over are Tom Reilly and Dr. William Cast, whose terms begin in August and extend till July 1, 2008. The new student trustee is second year law student Casey Cox whose term expires one year earlier.




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Schmaltz on ice

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Casey Carlyle (hottie and former child-spy Michelle Trachtenberg) is a math whiz on the road to Harvard who just wants to be a professional ice skater.