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With the recent passing of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, much of America has been buzzing about the provisions within the bill as well as the mode by which it was constructed and passed.
With the recent passing of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, much of America has been buzzing about the provisions within the bill as well as the mode by which it was constructed and passed.
General Motors Corp. posted a $9.6 billion fourth-quarter loss and said it burned through $6.2 billion of cash in the last three months of 2008.

The IU alma mater rang more like a funeral dirge than a college anthem after the IU men’s basketball team fell 75-53 to Northwestern on Wednesday. The loss was the Hoosiers’ first at home to Northwestern in the Wildcats’ last 36 visits to Assembly Hall and IU’s 21st of the season.
Every team has its role-players – athletes who are committed, but rarely see the spotlight of competition.
Although the IU men’s swimming and diving team has not competed since Feb. 7, in preparation for this weekend’s Big Ten Championships its three senior captains have been anything but quiet.
Pennsylvania filmmaker Hannah Dobbz is shedding new light on the economic housing crisis with a film screening of her documentary “Shelter” at 7 p.m. tonight in the Fine Arts Building.
The Association for Computing Machinery, a worldwide computing science society, has recognized computer science professor Paul W. Purdom Jr. with the honor of “Distinguished Scientist” for his research in the field of the analysis of algorithms.
IU’s compliance department discovered the secondary recruiting violation on Nov. 21 and self-reported the instance to the NCAA and Big Ten on Dec. 10. The coaching staff’s “mistake” was revealed during a routine check of compliance office’s phone call monitoring system.
Eleven teams participated in the annual Black Knowledge Bowl on Tuesday in the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center. The teams competed for three monetary prizes and a first-place trophy.

Northwestern (15-11, 6-9) notched its first-ever victory in Assembly Hall, dominating IU (6-21, 1-14) 75-53. IU coach Crean said he has dreaded a performance like Wednesday’s
The two competing Residence Halls Association tickets, Hoosier Compass and The Chuck Norris ticket, met Wednesday to promote their platform issues and answer student questions.
Kilroy’s Sports Bar was ranked No. 36 of the “Top 100” nightclubs in the nation by Nightclub & Bar Magazine.
Confirmation hearings began Wednesday to appoint IU Law Professor Dawn Johnsen as the U.S. associate attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel.
Results from a recent study from the University of California-Irvine reported that one-third of students expect a B just for going to lectures, and 40 percent think a B is appropriate for finishing reading assignments.
A British bishop whose denial of the Holocaust led Argentina to order him out of that country returned to England on Wednesday.
They have a sample of his DNA, a description from a survivor and a $500,000 reward, but detectives investigating the city’s most notorious serial killer have hit a wall.
For months, prosecutors say, technicians in the gloom of a run-down North Carolina plant prepared life-sustaining syringes and shipped them before ensuring they were sterile.
To most people, the beginning of March brings thoughts of warmer weather and spring, but for me, it’s survival time. It’s about that time for networks to begin planning for the ’09-’10 new season, and for shows on the bubble, panic sets in. Therefore, this week I’m going to suggest four shows that should be checked out immediately. If you don’t, chances are they won’t be around this fall – tell all your friends.
If you’ve seen one stupid comedy, you’ve seen them all.
The Cardinal Stage Company will present a reading of the off-Broadway play “The Exonerated” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday in the John Waldron Arts Center Auditorium as a part of ArtsWeek.