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Nip / Tax

By Alyson Brodsy and Aubrey Donaldson · Monday, Jan. 31,2005 11:33 p.m.

Remember back in '04, when a Diet Coke cost $1.39 and butt lipo was tax-free? Those will be the wistful words of fond reminiscence echoing 'round the suburban social circuit 20 years from now. That is, if Washington Senate Democrat Karen Keiser gets her way. According to The Associated Press, Keiser has proposed a 6.5 percent sales tax on elective cosmetic surgery procedures, suggesting that the revenue be used for poor children's health insurance.

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Pope cancels audiences due to flu

By Alyson Brodsy and Victor L. Simpson · Monday, Jan. 31,2005 11:32 p.m.

VATICAN CITY -- Pope John Paul II has the flu, leading him to cancel scheduled audiences Monday, the Vatican said. It was the first time the pope skipped an audience because of illness since September 2003.

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Act like adults, not politicians

By Alyson Brodsy and Daniel Hiester · Monday, Jan. 31,2005 11:32 p.m.

In America, men with as much power and influence as President Bush are innocent until they plead the Fifth. A few years ago, almost everyone I talked to believed Bush took us into Iraq so we could take the oil. Even some Republicans I knew said this. Last week, Fox News reported that the Coalition Provisional Government, established in Iraq after the toppling of Saddam's regime, cannot account for the Iraqi oil money it spent. So where is the money?

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Pope cancels audiences due to flu

By Alyson Brodsy and Victor L. Simpson · Monday, Jan. 31,2005 11:31 p.m.

VATICAN CITY -- Pope John Paul II has the flu, leading him to cancel scheduled audiences Monday, the Vatican said. It was the first time the pope skipped an audience because of illness since September 2003.

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Sudan's government cleared of genocide

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, Jan. 31,2005 11:31 p.m.

ABUJA, Nigeria -- Sudan's foreign minister said Monday a U.N. report concluded that no genocide was committed in his country's Darfur region, where tens of thousands of civilians have died in a nearly two-year crisis.

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Boo-boo kitty bonsai

By Alyson Brodsy and Warren Christopher Freiberg · Monday, Jan. 31,2005 11:30 p.m.

I've done plenty of stupid stuff here in college, often involving gross amounts of Skol Vodka, urine and occasionally near-naked pictures of myself on the Internet, but I figure I have an excuse: I was drunk. What is inexcusable, however, is the recent rash of chain letters I have received from apparently sober people on http://thefacebook.com whom I'd normally think of as at least slightly more intelligent than mentally challenged chimpanzees.

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Gitmo prisoners can challenge confinement

By Alyson Brodsy and Gina Holland · Monday, Jan. 31,2005 11:30 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- A federal judge ruled Monday that foreign terror suspects held in Cuba can challenge their confinement in U.S. courts, and she criticized the Bush administration for holding hundreds of people without legal rights.

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Sen. Hillary Clinton faints before speech

By Carolyn Thompson · Monday, Jan. 31,2005 11:30 p.m.

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton collapsed Monday during a speech on Social Security, moments after complaining about a stomach virus. "She fainted after not feeling well, got medical attention and is proceeding with her planned schedule," according to a statement released by her office in Washington.

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Iraqi officials begin first phase of vote-counting

By Alyson Brodsy and Jason Keyser · Monday, Jan. 31,2005 11:30 p.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraq's interim leader called on his countrymen to set aside their differences Monday, while polling stations finished the first-phase count of millions of ballots from the weekend election that many Iraqis hope will usher in democracy and hasten the departure of 150,000 American troops.

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Beating teams

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, Jan. 31,2005 11:28 p.m.

Beating kids is bad. We all know this. That's why Gary coach Thayer Williamson is charged with three counts of felony battery after allegedly beating 11 of the 12 players on the Melton Elementary School boys' basketball team. According to the players, Williamson was profoundly upset by the loss of a game Nov. 16, and as a means of discipline, he brought a duct tape-wrapped paddle to practice the next day.

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Losing streak continues for IU

By Dan Click · Monday, Jan. 31,2005 12:57 a.m.

The first half couldn't have gone better for the Hoosiers. IU made No. 11 Michigan State slow the tempo while limiting them to 18 points, en route to trailing by just one at the break.

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IU wins every match against 2 teams this weekend

By Eamonn Brennan · Monday, Jan. 31,2005 12:54 a.m.

Twelve singles matches. Six doubles matches. 30 sets of unbeaten tennis. The IU men's tennis team dominated its pair of home matches Saturday, never surrendering even a set to the opposition, en route to two 7-0 victories over Murray State and Butler. Head Coach Ken Hydinger glowed about his players Saturday.

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Fee renewals, PeopleSoft top trustees meeting

Monday, Jan. 31,2005 12:50 a.m.

IU Student Body President Tyson Chastain pressed the IU board of trustees Friday for thoughtful deliberation over the next few months as they consider renewing a number of student fees, including last year's $30 athletics fee.

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The Mark of Democracy

By Alyson Brodsy and Mariam Fam · Monday, Jan. 31,2005 12:50 a.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraqis defied violence and calls for a boycott to cast ballots in Iraq's first free election in a half-century Sunday. Insurgents seeking to wreck the vote struck polling stations with a string of suicide bombings and mortar volleys, killing at least 44 people, including nine suicide bombers.

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HPER 'peeping tom' enters plea of not guilty

By Lori Geller · Monday, Jan. 31,2005 12:50 a.m.

The suspect involved in a string of "peeping tom" incidents in the women's locker room at the Health, Physical Education and Recreation entered a plea of not guilty to charges of voyeurism, a Class B misdemeanor, and trespass, a Class A misdemeanor.

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IU fails to meet goals in Relays

By John Fischer · Monday, Jan. 31,2005 12:25 a.m.

IU's track team showed its first signs of struggle this weekend as it competed against 16 other teams at the Hoosier Relays. The increased level of competition weeded out the strongest IU competitors despite a lack of recognizable names in collegiate athletics. IU advanced to the finals in nine out of 15 events Saturday after a long night of preliminaries Friday for a total of four victories.

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Streak ends at Penn State

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, Jan. 31,2005 12:24 a.m.

Despite great performances from both the swimming and diving teams, the streak of five wins came to end against Penn State. The IU women's swimming and diving program fell to the Nittany Lions 211-158 in a two-part competition Friday and Saturday at the Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatic Center.

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