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Playing with emotions in only 30 minutes

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In many ways, I am a very stubborn man. For years, when asked to name the best rock albums of the 1970s, I would give the same three answers: Who's Next by the Who, Exile on Main Street by the Stones and Rust Never Sleeps by Neil Young. That's it. Period. I would consider nothing else. I was without pity or remorse.


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Council debates proposals

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The Bloomington Faculty Council discussed a newly developed University Information Technology Services portal as well as an interim re-implementation policy for language proficiency standards at a meeting last night in Ballantine Hall.



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After four straight league titles, MSU starts slow

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Michigan State is used to expectations. That's what four consecutive Big Ten regular season titles and three consecutive Final Four appearances will do to a program. Throw in a National Championship in 2000, and the Spartans are supposed to be on top of the Big Ten.

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Young players earn increased time on ice

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The men's hockey team learned some disappointing news over the winter break. The announcement was that defenseman Andy Bauermeister and forward Trent Washburn had left the team for personal reasons.


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Panel discusses problems of white privilege

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Teter Quad CommUnity Educators, Black Student Union members and students gathered Monday in the Teter Formal Lounge to discuss the implications of white privilege. The panel discussion is part of a week-long activities schedule slated in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.


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Mixed thoughts on fine increase

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A five dollar increase in the price of parking tickets has been proposed to the Transportation and Parking Advisory Committee (TPAC), Bruce Jacobs, associate vice chancellor of administrative affairs for Residential Programs and Services said. Jacobs proposed the increase at the Nov. 16 TPAC meeting. Revenue generated from the increase would be incorporated into the IU Auditorium budget.


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Bloomington entertainment is adding a few twists to the scene

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Most bands are not made for a primetime television show and have nothing to do with Orlando. Often, they are composed of your friends, siblings or neighbors. You have always wanted to hear them play, but question whether they are making music or just sitting in a garage, guitar in hand.


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'Orange' and Black are good combo

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Lately there have been several new spin-offs of comedy. One film starts a trend and many more follow in its footsteps. Recently, there's a new comedy genre that is increasingly popular and can be called the "sympathetic comedy." These are funny because of all the horrible things that happen to the main character. We laugh at these things but feel bad at the same time. "Meet the Parents" started this, and "Orange County" follows right on its heels.


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McNally hints at future potential

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Shannon McNally must be wallowing in good luck. Whether it is good luck to be signed to a major label is a matter of preference. But to latch on to Capitol at the tail end of Lilith-Fair-girl-frenzy and receive three and a half stars for her first widely-released album in Rolling Stone isn't too shabby for a 27-year-old artist.


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Complaints about Carlin's 'Complaints'

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George Carlin is the father, now grandfather, of the complaining, tell-it-like-it-is comedics. He basically just stands up before an audience to bitch and complain about everything that is annoying him. After hearing him insult people who wear visors and gun enthusiasts once, you will laugh, but hearing it over and over again you will grow tired of the moaning.


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Changes

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Daniel Duncan and Nate Dotzlaf sat on a back porch with a few drinks and a dictionary. It took hours of flipping through the pages to find the perfect name for their new creation: Vertigo. Their business first opened its doors in September 2000 and became a local hot spot for college students 18 years and older.


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Do-gooder charms audience

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Skipping stones, cracking the crust of a crème brulée with the back of a spoon and sinking her hand into a sack of dry grain. It is the moment the narrator describes Amélie's likes and dislikes that the audience becomes mesmerized by her. It's the warm smile that appears on her face throughout the movie that really shows just how much she enjoys life. But, the audience discovers, she enjoys it from a distance.


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No Doubt about it: this album rocks

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The Billboard Top 200 has Rock Steady listed as No. 13 for the week for Jan. 12. People are listening to No Doubt and becoming new fans, and it's easy to understand why with their new album, Rock Steady.


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A haunting and memorable tale

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"In the Bedroom" is a truly haunting tale that sincerely and genuinely eats at the emotions. There are no contrivances here. Nothing is forced as things are played out subtly and gradually. We experience the life of a perfectly happy family in the wonderfully light town of Camden, New England. But lurking under the surface is a tragedy waiting to erupt. And when this shocking yet very believable disaster occurs, what unfolds before us is the absorbing, involving deterioration of this once wonderful family in this once wonderful town.


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Crowe excels in schizo math flick

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Beautiful Mind," directed by Ron Howard ("Apollo 13," "The Grinch") tells the true story of John Nash (Russell Crowe), as he goes from a fresh faced graduate student in mathematics at Princeton to the winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1994.


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Latest Britney clone disappoints

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Add Lindsay Pagano to the list of young, female singers producing albums that try to prove how efficiently they can imitate Britney Spears. Pagano isn't as well-dressed and perky as Mandy Moore or as annoying as Jessica Simpson; in fact she doesn't really try anything with her image or music to even minutely distinguish herself from her fellow clones. This is unfortunate because it proves yet again that record execs haven't realized that dressing up a teenage girl in slinky outfits and giving her obsessively perky songs to sing isn't going to sell millions of copies the way it did for Britney.


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Jazzy cop rock album satisfies

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The idea of playing a whole album of TV cop show themes probably sounds a little strange but kind of cool. That's Him Officer actually is an instrumental disc made up of these theme tunes, but it's also a lot more. The mood and overall theme of the album are obvious from the start. On top of that, you can immediately hear the band's ability to create a pocket to groove in.



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Can't please everyone

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After seven years of hard work studying an instrument and a year and a half of learning to compromise, I've found out that being in a band is a little harder than I had imagined. Well, at least it's a little more like taking care of a child than I thought. Hundreds of dollars have to be invested. You have to give up some of your space. You go around introducing it to people and talking about how proud you are, thinking of a catchy name, talking about its interests, future plans…The rest of the time you spend justifying the choices you make on its behalf: "No, we don't play any Elvis Costello, but it's the drummer's fault, I swear! No, I don't have any leather pants. I can't help it that I'm not British, but Americans can rock too." But when you first start a band, one of the biggest choices you make is what image you want to put forth.