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Racist remark angers lawmakers

By Alexandra R. Moses and Mike Smith · Tuesday, April 17,2007 12 a.m.

Indiana’s secretary of state asked forgiveness Monday for evoking images of slavery in describing black voting trends during a Republican event in southern Indiana last week. During a Thursday speech at the Daviess County annual Lincoln Day Dinner, Republican Secretary of State Todd Rokita said 90 percent of blacks vote Democrat and questioned why.

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Shake like a feminist

By Abra Oliver and Michelle Manchir · Monday, April 16,2007 12 a.m.

Get low. In fall of 2003 Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz hit it big with a track by that name. If you don’t recall, maybe these lyrics will refresh your memory: “to the window, to the wall, to the sweat drip down my balls, to all these bitches crawl.” The songs lyrics are all demanding of females, probably in a nightclub sort of scenario, in which sex at the end of the night is hoped for and presumed – by both men and women. Still, the words are aggressive towards women and express little thought for what she might find enjoyable. Surely I could make these statements about any number of popular songs – rap and other genres – by male songwriters. If a song isn’t explicitly sexually demanding of a woman, it is describing her lips or her legs or the way her body looks when she’s grindin’ on the dance flo’.

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Around the world

By Abdullah AlShihri · Monday, April 16,2007 12 a.m.

Airlines canceled 300 flights Sunday as a hard-blowing nor’easter gathered strength along the East Coast and threatened to deliver some of the worst shore flooding in 14 years. The storm, already blamed for five deaths on the Plains, also flooded people out of their homes in the middle of the night in West Virginia.

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Baghdad bombing kills 45 people

By Abdullah AlShihri and Hamid Ahmed · Monday, April 16,2007 12 a.m.

BAGHDAD – Six bombs exploded in predominantly Shiite sections of the capital Sunday, killing at least 45 people in a renewal of sectarian carnage that set back the U.S. push to pacify Baghdad.

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Quacking for a cause

By Vivian Huang · Monday, April 16,2007 12 a.m.

With a shrill blow of the whistle, a plethora of bright yellow rubber ducks, all personalized with individual names, were thrown from a plastic box into the Jordan River on Sunday afternoon in Dunn Meadow. As the ducks floated down the river, the first three to pass the “finish line,” about 15 yards from the starting line, were picked up and were called the winners.

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Homeward Bound walk raises more than $50,000

By Shannon McEnerney · Monday, April 16,2007 12 a.m.

Clad in green volunteer shirts, graduate student Megan Janasiewicz and her two friends spent their Sunday afternoon at Third Street Park. They enjoyed the music and the breezy afternoon, but they were there for another reason: to help raise awareness in the fight to prevent homelessness.

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Put it in the books

By Abra Oliver · Monday, April 16,2007 12 a.m.

Without fail, every semester produces the same sad story: A student walks into the bookstore, diligently collects between four and 48 textbooks (assuming all the required books are actually in stock), proceeds to the cash register and subsequently dies of a massive heart attack upon seeing the total bill. If you haven’t heard this unfortunate news, we recommend you pick up the paper more often.

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What would Woody do?

By Stefania Marghitu · Monday, April 16,2007 12 a.m.

My English teacher junior year of high school once said that every smart kid goes through a Woody Allen stage. Now, most people that even remotely know me are aware of the fact that I’m obsessed with this guy. But to me it isn’t so much a smart kid thing – or even a Jewish or an agoraphobic or a nervous kid in general thing. Granted, there’s no denying if you fall into these categories, you are slightly prone to relate to him. And Woody himself is smart indeed.

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