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Hoosiers just about set as fall approaches

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Verdell Jones III amassed the third-most minutes on the IU men’s basketball team in 2008 with 799 total, despite nursing an injury for three games after an early-season win against Cornell.



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Keep pay within reason

WE SAY Adjusting compensation if it’s too high is the right thing to do.Like any responsible shareholder, government should take an active role in the company’s performance and business.


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Can the Kindle catch fire?

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Meaningful literature is not a thing to be consumed like MP3s and newspaper articles. It is not so transient a medium, and even a digitalized age cannot make it such.

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‘Exit strategy’

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The United States’ current Sisyphean strategy toward counterinsurgency – the wholesale invasion of other states to root out non-state actors – seemingly ignores this reality and, as such, has proven largely ineffective and exorbitantly expensive.


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This is serious

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After close evaluation of my columns from this semester as well as the previous three semesters I have written for the Indiana Daily Student, it has come to my attention that, in my attempts to entertain my readers, I have failed to provide any substantial political, moral or spiritual opinions.


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Mathers Museum earns grant for cosmic exhibit

A new exhibit exploring humanity’s cosmic, terrestrial, biological and cultural origins will open in Bloomington in fall 2010, thanks in part to a $149,000 grant recently awarded to the Mathers Museum of World Cultures.


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Remembering the last 4 years like yesterday

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When I was in high school, we had a “homeroom” period. It was literally 15 minutes of morning introductions before the day got started. Toward the end of my senior year, I remember my homeroom teacher said to the class, “If you think high school went by fast, college will go by that much faster.” He was right.




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Around the Arts

A summary of arts events in the next week.



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ISO to perform Queen music medley

In the spirit of Freddie Mercury and his band, the ISO will perform “The Music of Queen” on Friday and Saturday.


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Twitter opera in works

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In an effort to get more people involved with opera, which sometimes suffers from an elitist, highbrow reputation, London’s world-famous Royal Opera House is turning away – temporarily – from classic talents like Giuseppe Verdi and Giacomo Puccini and giving the composer’s pen to ... just about anybody.


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A return to the racket

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A little more than 10 years ago, Scott Lippitt spent hours at the tennis courts on North Fee Lane. Now, Lippitt is starting to reunite with the game of tennis.


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College financial aid shrinking as demand booms

MADISON, Wis. – Struggling with budget shortfalls that reach into the billions, several states are making deep cuts in college financial aid programs, including those that provide a vital source of cash for students who most need the money.


UBS Secrets

US, Swiss reach deal on secret bank accounts

MIAMI – The U.S. government and Swiss banking giant UBS AG have reached a long-awaited agreement in a case about secret Swiss bank accounts for alleged American tax evaders, lawyers for both sides told a federal judge Wednesday.



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State to spend $600K repairing monument

The Indiana War Memorials Commission will spend $600,000 to repair the Soldiers and Sailors Monument in downtown Indianapolis beginning later this month.


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Evansille to have free clinic for nonunion workers

A top city official expects a new free health clinic for nonunion city employees and their dependents will result in savings for the city within a year and a half.