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Jerry Lewis raises record $56.8M LOS ANGELES -- Jerry Lewis, headlining his 36th annual Muscular Dystrophy Association Telethon, raised a record $56.8 million to fight neuromuscular diseases. The telethon, originating from CBS Television City in Hollywood, was broadcast for 21 1/2 hours on about 200 TV stations around the country during the Labor Day weekend. As usual, the variety show featured celebrity co-hosts, including Ed McMahon, Norm Crosby and Casey Kasem.


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Indiana Prepares for 30th year of Mini University

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The IU campus will experience a surge of student activity during the week of June 17-22. More than 400 alumni, friends and family members will attend one week of classes called Mini University. The classes, taught voluntarily by nearly 100 of the University's most distinguished faculty, range from a study of American Ballet Theatre to "How the New Tax Laws Will Affect You in 2001."


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Art in everyday life

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After the Thomas Hart Benton murals were displayed at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair, they sat forgotten in a barn until Herman B Wells rescued them. They now adorn the walls of several campus buildings, including the IU Auditorium.


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Investors look for rate cut

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Investors will be analyzing this week's economic data in an attempt to predict the actions of the Federal Reserve. Today, consumer confidence for March will be released. Economists are calling for confidence to slip to 104.2 from a reading of 106.8 in February. Wall Street will also look at the personal income and spending report for February. The report, scheduled for release Thursday, gives investors a sign of how much consumers are spending. If the report shows a positive number, it is a sign that consumption is increasing.


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Freshmen should live on campus

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Foster Quad, Eigenmann Hall and Ashton Center are just a few of the dorms scheduled to be renovated soon. This is to not only make the dorms look nicer in appearance, but also to make them more appealing to upperclassmen. A vast majority of upperclassmen live off campus because it allows them more freedom. Members of the community are bothered by students as neighbors; the noise level and the reputation of the neighborhood are only a few issues concerning citizens of Bloomington.


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Panel to address changing rights

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In an attempt to answer concerns about the balance of national security and personal privacy, a panel of experts on civil liberties will address interested students and faculty at 7 p.m. tonight in Rawles Hall 100. The discussion is open to the public.


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There's something in the water

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Misogyny seems to be a word that is thrown about more and more in today's society. It is said the objectification of women leads to it, that professional sports help nourish it and conservativism is a mindset which allows it to flourish. Not only are such statements overtly condescending and anti-masculine, but it is also the end result of a liberal mindset that is so cravenly PC that the wonderful federated republic in which we live (yes, the U.S. is not a democracy) is doomed to hear such things as a growing sentiment.


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The buck stops here

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There are two kinds of paper money floating around Bloomington these days. One is U.S. currency. The other is not Monopoly money, although it does bear some resemblance. The currency is good at more than 40 area businesses. The alternate money is called BloomingHours, with bills equivalent to $10, $5 and $2.50 in U.S. currency. The bills are measured in hours' worth of work. Bills can be purchased at dollar value at the Center for Sustainable Living, 116 1/2 S. College Ave, Suite 15.


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Antibiotics: More harm then good

You know the symptoms: your nose is plugged, your sinuses hurt, your throat is on fire and you keep coughing up that awful thick green mucus. Time to head for the Health Center or call your doctor back home and get some antibiotics, right? Maybe not.


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Pastor renovates house

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Nestled in the woods on 17th Street, the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity house sat empty and unused. Dry leaves built up in the doorways, and tree branches littered the yard. That is how it appeared to the Fellowship of Collegiate Christians Pastor Richard Burdett and his wife one day when they drove by it in 1997. Burdett said his wife looked at the house and said, "You know, somebody needs to claim that place for the Lord and his work."


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Rwandan president launches community courts

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KIGALI, Rwanda - Rwanda's president officially launched an initiative Tuesday to set up community courts to try genocide cases, saying the way to reconciliation after the 1994 slaughter is for suspects to be judged by their neighbors.



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Blaze destroys Kirkwood shop

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At about 10:29 a.m. Saturday, Greetings, a popular gift shop on Kirkwood Avenue, went up in flames after an overheated light fixture ignited flammable materials in the back room.


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Celebration honors Wells' legacy and career

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The birth, career and legacy of former IU president and chancellor Herman B Wells will be celebrated tomorrow from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Wells Plaza. While tomorrow marks the 100th birthday of the IU visionary the date will not only be a birthday celebration, but a chance for IU to honor and remember Wells' 63-year IU career and his lasting impression on the University.



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U.N. Food convoy arrives in Afghanistan capital

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- The first World Food Program convoy of food arrived Monday for the hungry in the Afghan capital Kabul, where people fear a U.S. military strike in the wake of the Sept. 11 terror attacks in the United States. Eight trucks carrying 218 tons of wheat made it to Kabul, said Khalid Mansour, the World Food Program information officer in neighboring Pakistan. The U.N. agency feeds nearly two-thirds of Kabul's 1 million people.


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Spielberg's 'A.I' vision a long way off

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The IDS has long been dedicated to bringing its readership tough-as-nails, hard-hitting arts and culture coverage. It was in that noble spirit -- certainly not the spirit of idle Internet-surfing spurred on by boredom -- that I visited the promotional Web site of "A.I." "A.I.," a widely lauded futuristic rumination on what it means to be human, rose to the top of the box office in its opening weekend and has since sank like a stone. It is thus, officially, the first Steven Spielberg picture loved by the critics and loathed by moviegoers.


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IUSA president might run again

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IU Student Association President Jake Oakman might attempt to accomplish something that has been done only once in the history of the student organization. Thursday, the senior confirmed rumors he is considering running for a second term.


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Students have right to smoke

Smoking is no longer allowed at Valparaiso University residence halls. At the beginning of the fall semester, smoking is no longer allowed in the three dormitories which previously allowed students to puff on a square. There are obviously mixed emotions among the 3,600 students. About 1,026 students voted in the March 2000 referendum to ban smoking in the residence halls. The referendum took place this fall after it was passed through VU's President Alan Harre's office.