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Do you believe in miracles?

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Ah, there's nothing like a good sports film. It gets the blood pumping, sends chills down your spine and might even bring a tear to your eye. This Friday, Disney is releasing what could be the next greatest sports film, "Miracle." The movie tells the story of the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey team that shocked the world and beat the seemingly invincible Soviet Union on their way to capturing the gold medal. The previews and trailers for "Miracle" are -- for a lack of a better word -- inspiring.


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Shooting drought allows Illini to come back for late game victory

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For the second-straight game, IU held a halftime lead. For the second-straight game, the Hoosiers gave it away. This time they can blame it on their inability to make any field goals. IU (11-8, 5-3 Big Ten) converted on only 4-26 shots in the second half, 15.4 percent, to give away a seven-point halftime lead. Senior forward A.J. Moye scored IU's last field goal of the half with 9:53 to go.


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Living La Vie Bohème

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Rent" played this past weekend at the IU Auditorium. Never having seen it before, I accepted my friends' invitation to join them and watch the show from their nosebleed seats back in the 11th row of the balcony. I was touched by the portrayal of New York bohemians dealing with financial instability, drug addiction and HIV, all the while trying to create art and find a love that binds them as a family. Though the setting and living conditions of the characters are drastically different than anything a middle class, Midwestern suburban, white Anglo-Saxon Protestant such as myself is familiar with.


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The walking contradiction

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There was a point in junior high where there were certain social constraints -- where the cool kids didn't play computer games, skaters hated rap and anyone who was athletic got some chick just based on that fact and that fact alone. Boy, how things change.

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Generational warfare

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In the last Presidential race, we heard a lot about class warfare. This time, there's a different kind of conflict not too many people have mentioned that should be getting more attention than it gets -- generational warfare. Deficits don't matter. That's the wisdom Dick Cheney would pass on in White House meetings on the economy, according to former Secretary of the Treasury, Paul O'Neill, in a new book by called "Price of Loyalty," by journalist Ron Suskind.


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A boost in the blue lot

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All too often, students complain about IU's parking problem with a disregard for nature's Law of Conservation -- you can't make something out of nothing. It's no secret parking on campus is extremely limited. But more room just isn't going to spontaneously appear. This is why the latest parking project is the right kind of effort for improving the situation.



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Car bomb blast at southern Russian market kills 2

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VLADIKAVKAZ, Russia -- A car bomb exploded Tuesday night in a parking lot near the central market in Vladikavkaz, a southern Russian city near the war-ravaged Chechen Republic. At least two people were killed, and several wounded. Heavy smoke filled the area as firefighters battled flames. The blast shattered glass in buildings near the lot. The central market and others in the city have been hit by a series of bombings over the past five years.


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Death toll in Iraq blasts at 101

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IRBIL, Iraq -- A video camera captured images of a man shaking hands with a Kurdish official seconds before blowing himself up in one of the two suicide bombings during holiday celebrations. The death toll soared to 101, the U.S.-led coalition said Tuesday. Meanwhile Tuesday, an American soldier was killed and a second was wounded when a roadside bomb exploded during an operation to clear such weapons, the U.S. military said. The explosion occurred near Iskandariyah, 35 miles south Baghdad, the statement said.


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Medicaid to cover mental illness care

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INDIANAPOLIS -- Some Indiana children with serious emotional problems soon will can get the cross-section of services they and their caregivers need at home instead of only at hospitals. Indiana this week became only the fourth state granted a waiver from federal Medicaid rules so these children -- which include about 10 percent of all those between the ages of nine and 17 in Indiana -- can remain in their home communities.


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Around The State

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$1 million worth of cocaine found; police arrest smugglers INDIANAPOLIS -- Police arrested two men after a drug-sniffing dog found about $1 million worth of cocaine in their sport utility vehicle. Officers found 10 kilograms of unprocessed cocaine in the SUV after they stopped the driver for speeding Monday on Interstate 70 on Indianapolis far-east side. Police said the cocaine would have had a street value of about $1 million after it was processed.


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Late Indianapolis woman gave millions to regional charities

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INDIANAPOLIS -- Sally Reahard was a recluse with a legion of friends, a woman who never married but worried about families and children, who called her friends "honey" and only made right-hand turns when she drove. She had all the credentials of high society: a member of Tudor Hall Class of 1926, the Junior League and Woodstock Country Club. But friends remember her best as a guardian angel for people she never met.


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Attacker chokes woman in bed

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A twenty-year-old female was attacked in her home at the 400 block of South Dunn early Sunday morning. Bloomington Police Department officers responded to the call at 4:25 a.m. after the woman awoke to find an unknown man sitting on her bed. Sgt. David Drake said the man then started choking her with both hands until her screams awoke another person in the house. The man fled through the back door without being identified.


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Rain causes slick paths

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The beauty of the freshly-fallen snow from last weekend's storm has quickly turned into a safety concern for IU students and professors.


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Spring enrollment climbs to record level

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The number of students enrolled on the Bloomington campus this semester has hit an all-time high. A total of 36,473 people are taking classes this spring, an increase of 200 from spring 2003. IU's eight campuses combine to a record level of 94,212, with 1,054,232 total credit hours being taken. The .6 percent increase in total spring 2003 enrollment is marked most significantly by increases at IU-East, IU-Kokomo and IU-Northwest.


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Dinner for Daniels

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Indiana is in desperate need of change. That was the message republican candidate for governor Mitch Daniels brought to Monroe County Monday night when the Indiana Republican Party held its annual Lincoln Day Dinner.


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Higher high school graduation rates predicted in future

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The number of students graduating from high school in the United States will rise steadily over the coming years, reaching a peak of 3.2 million in 2008-9, according to a recent study. In Indiana, the number of public high school graduates is expected to increase from 56,156 in 2001-2002 to 65,245 in 2017-2018.


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Around The State

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MUNCIE -- A jury convicted a Ball State University professor and his wife of trespassing on a hog farm the couple had complained about to state environmental officials.



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IUSA asks for support

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College students are normally a politically apathetic bunch. In fact, the U.S. Census Bureau reported only 18 of 35 percent of registered 18-24-year-olds voted during the 1990s.