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25 years of ArtsWeek

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IU professor Ken Weitzman’s “Fire in the Garden” is just one work that fits this year’s ArtsWeek theme, “Politics and the Arts,” which follows up on last year’s focus. The 10-day-long celebration will run from Feb. 19 to March 1.


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AROUND THE STATE

A look at events happening around the state.Democrats OK spending $200M from Ind. reserve, Kokomo mayor to discuss auto industry at Yale, and IU Cancer researcher Dr. Stephen Williams dies at 62.


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TV exec beheads wife who filed for divorce

Police say an upstate New York television executive who sought to improve the image of Muslims in the media beheaded his wife after she filed for divorce.


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Appeals court upholds calories-on-menus rule

A federal appeals court Tuesday upheld the city’s regulation requiring some chain restaurants to post calories on menus and menu boards, saying the rule is a reasonable effort to curb obesity.

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Khmer Rouge genocide trial opens in Cambodia

The former head of a prison where thousands of Cambodians were tortured then killed for opposing the Khmer Rouge expressed remorse for his deeds as a genocide tribunal got under way on Tuesday.


Carl Thoms, of Terre Haute, points to a basement wall that hides a hidden room in his home on Sunday on Mulberry Street in Terre Haute.

Homeowner finds hidden room, staircase

A man who is renovating a 120-year-old house has discovered a hidden room in its basement – a find he says shows that some old buildings definitely hold secrets.


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Stimulus funds state water projects

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Indiana residents can look forward to better-quality drinking water and wastewater management because of provisions in the anticipated federal stimulus bill.


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Subtlety is the best policy

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By noon on Tuesday, a story about China’s collapsing exports industry was the fifth-most commented story on Economist.com, down slightly from its ranking as No. 3 just days earlier. It had beaten out stories on the financial crisis and was runner-up to a story on the Arab-Israeli conflict.


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Crean has it right

Tom Crean’s IU basketball debut gave “starting from scratch” a whole new meaning. Predictably, record-setting losses are occurring.



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A fair and good raise for IU staff is needed

As part of the IU staff, I believe that the IU staff needs a real raise this year. The most important reason is that the staff has suffered from unfair wage increases that have not compensated for inflation and the cost of living in Bloomington.


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Students responsible for clean elections

With the start of a new IU Student Association election season, I am optimistic about the student response thus far. Tickets have eagerly commenced their campaigns, and it appears that active campaigning will continue until the voting takes place from 10 a.m. March 31 until 10 p.m. April 1.


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Quitting the autism blame game

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The column I wanted to write – about vaccines, autism and last week’s court ruling that they are unrelated – was going to be triumphant.



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The real ‘Facestalker’?

One criticism of the digital age is that it decreases face-to-face contact between real human beings.  As the story goes, an increase in texts, instant messages and wall posts has put the world at our fingers but has made our understanding of it tragically shallower.


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IU should keep Coke

IU’s exclusive contract with Coca-Cola expires June 30, and soon the Anti-Sweatshop Advisory Committee will make a recommendation in light of the accusations labor rights groups have made against Coke.


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Panel to discuss Darwin, the arts

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Artists, poets, scientists and IU professors will examine the connection between evolutionary science and the arts during ArtsWeek at the discussion “Darwin, the arts, and the aesthetics of the ordinary” to see how Darwin’s principles of natural selection relate to art and how humans view beauty.


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Art contest winners released

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Your Art Here, a local non-profit organization, recently announced the winners of Billboard Generation VII, the organization’s seventh annual billboard art contest.


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BFC passes Pace resolution

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At Tuesday’s meeting, the Bloomington Faculty Council passed the resolution regarding Gen. Peter Pace and the honor of Poling Chair granted to him by the Kelley School of Business.


With Vice President Joe Biden looking on, President Barack Obama signs the economic stimulus bill during a ceremony on Tuesday in the Museum of Nature and Science in Denver.

Obama signs massive stimulus package

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DENVER – President Barack Obama on Tuesday signed a massive $787 billion package to revive the economy, saying the measure represented the "essential work of keeping the American dream alive in our time."