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Around the Arts

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Selected arts events in Bloomington from May 21 to May 23.


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Peace Officers Memorial Day remembers fallen officers

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Every May 15, flags are to be flown at half-staff across all government units to memorialize fallen officers. It is the same week law enforcement officers gather around the nation to remember those killed or disabled in the line of duty.




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Festival brings baroque, medieval sounds to town

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The Bloomington Early Music Festival, now in its sixteenth year, started May 15 and will continue through Memorial Day, featuring soloists and ensembles that perform in concerts, operas and educational workshops for younger children.


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IU becomes college sports headquarters

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Founded 35 years ago, the Associated Press Sports Editors is the nation’s largest professional-sports journalism organization, including more than 550 members who are top online sports executives and from newspapers across the nation. The Associated Press Sports Editors will place its first official home at IU’s new National Sports Journalism Center on the campus of IU-Purdue University Indianapolis.


Speaker of the House of Commons Michael Martin reads a statement to the House of Commons in London in this image taken from TV  Monday May 18, 2009. Martin said Monday he was "profoundly sorry" for the handling of Members of Parliament expenses, saying the public had been let down "very badly indeed.

Brits pessimistic as Speaker quits

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LONDON – Britain’s powerful Speaker of the House of Commons resigned Tuesday after a backlash over excessive expense claims by lawmakers, but some British residents aren’t sure if that will solve the problem.


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Too qualified for the Beltway

WE SAY Continue supporting Dawn Johnsen.Johnsen “will bring unquestioned integrity and a commitment to non-partisan interpretation of the law to the Office of Legal Counsel, and we’re pleased that both of Indiana’s senators have expressed support for her nomination.” Agreed.



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More pink slips

Once teachers have tenure there is little the district can do to convince the union that the teacher is worth firing.


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Why we needed last Sunday

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Our policy debates call for serious and informed perspectives that are expressed in fair-minded words. The president’s speech in South Bend suggests that despite the obscenity and hatred permeating our national conversations, “fair-minded words” have not perished altogether.






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Obama nominee opposed by many GOP state senators

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INDIANAPOLIS — Thirty-one Republican state senators have asked U.S. Sens. Evan Bayh and Dick Lugar to oppose the nomination of an Indiana University law professor nominated by President Barack Obama for a senior position in the U.S. Department of Justice.