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Land of real women would be better

By Sandy Cohen · Thursday, April 26,2007 12 a.m.

Relationships, self-actualization, senile old people, death and pedophilia. These are pretty much the five corners of Jon Kasdan's movie. "In the Land of Women" is his directorial as well as writing debut for the big screen, and it shows. "In the Land of Women" is a story about Carter (Adam Brody from "The O.C."), who, after suffering a Hollywood breakup, finds out that his grandma is, well, old. He leaves Los Angeles to live with her in Michigan and take care of her while writing his magnum opus story about growing up in L.A. at age 26. Oh, I forgot to mention, Carter writes soft-core porn scripts for movies.

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Students remain in Bloomington for jobs, relaxation

By Sara Amato · Thursday, April 26,2007 12 a.m.

It’s dead week. It’s 70 degrees outside and you’re stuck in Woodburn Hall. A classmate sitting next to you, wipes the sweat from his brow, turns to you and says: “What are you doing this summer?”

“Children of Men” is just one of the many brilliant films unable to find an audience at the box office in recent times.

The importance of cinema

By Chris Wisner · Thursday, April 26,2007 12 a.m.

It's become customary here at WEEKEND that the editor writes the final Last Word column of the semester, and it has been on my mind for a good couple months. All the possible ideas came rushing through my head: a Top 10 list of films people missed in 2006, another rant on why Hollywood should quit remaking films, even a salute to all the greats whom I wrote alongside over the years -- Alec Toombs, John Barnett, C. Warner Sills, Tony Sams and numerous others to whom I raise my glass. For a while I was even debating a column on why the massacre at Virginia Tech had nothing to do with entertainment media, which various news outlets and conservative rabblerousers are surely preparing to declare, like they did when the Columbine shootings occurred. Yet, the more I thought about all these ideas, I just kept coming back to the importance of cinema itself.

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Taliban says bin Laden planned attack on Cheney

By Abisalom Omolo and Anna Johnson · Thursday, April 26,2007 12 a.m.

CAIRO, Egypt – A top Taliban commander said al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was behind the February attack outside the U.S. military base in Bagram, Afghanistan, during the visit there by Vice President Dick Cheney, according to an interview aired Wednesday on Al-Jazeera.

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'Medal' receives discharge

By Chris Wisner and Elizabeth Dilts · Thursday, April 26,2007 12 a.m.

Before I even put "Medal of Honor: Vanguard" into my PS2, I had to go through the motions of telling myself, "Hey this is PS2, not Xbox 360, so ignore the graphical differences and let the game speak for itself." My apologies, but I cannot ignore how disappointing the latest "MoH" installment is. After playing countless honors of "Call of Duty 2" and "Call of Duty 3," I think it is safe to say the WWII first-person-shooter (FPS) genre can't be topped. "Vanguard" touts itself as being a WWII FPS in which you play the American paratroopers who dropped into Europe and saved the continent from the Nazi war machine. So you think, "Hey, sweet! I get to jump out of planes!" Except all you get to do during those sequences is aim for a landing. The environments are drabber than the officer's uniforms and save for the occasional decent-looking aerial attack, they lack any immersive qualities.

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Dugdale’s ignorance hinders GLBT community

By Alyson Brodsy and Jordan River Forum · Thursday, April 26,2007 12 a.m.

I can understand why those who are not involved with the drag culture may have misunderstandings and prejudices against it. Colin Dugdale clearly did not educate himself on the Miss Gay IU pageant or the drag community when he wrote his opinion column last Thursday. First, it is important to know that a transvestite is not the same thing as a drag queen. A transvestite is a heterosexual who enjoys dressing like the opposite sex, which from my experience is not how any former Miss Gay IU should be identified. Second, describing Miss Gay IU as nothing more than “hypersexed” is unfair.

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Elder crimes task force to be trained

By Nadia LaMantia · Thursday, April 26,2007 12 a.m.

This Friday, Bloomington law enforcement will engage in a training session to be educated on how to successfully investigate and prosecute crimes made on the elderly.

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Dancers, composers fuse ideas in ‘Hammer and Nail’

By Ashley Wilson · Thursday, April 26,2007 12 a.m.

The Contemporary Dance Program, along with the Student Composers Association, will present “Hammer and Nail 2007, An Evening of Music and Dance” this Friday and Saturday at the John Waldron Arts Center. For the student choreographers and composers participating, first impressions meant everything.

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‘Pawfect’ picture for charity worth 1,000 dogs

By Jessica Andrews · Thursday, April 26,2007 12 a.m.

Bloomington’s canine population, along with their owners, will gather this Saturday at Byran Park to take a picture worth a thousand words. Or in this case, a thousand dogs, said Mayor Mark Kruzan in a press release.

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Quiet desperation

By Thomas Wachtel · Thursday, April 26,2007 12 a.m.

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” Henry David Thoreau wrote that in “Walden.” Thoreau went to Harvard, but back then college was a lot different than it is now. He could have fooled me. After a year of college, I would say that the mass of men and women here are definitely leading lives of quiet desperation. Some aren’t even keeping the desperation quiet. This is probably the most critical part of our lives: young adulthood.

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New graduates honored at DeVault Center

By Jessica Anderson · Thursday, April 26,2007 12 a.m.

After four years, or possibly more, of papers, web work, labs and group projects, graduates are invited to the annual “Senior Salute,” to enjoy free food, live music and enter to win one of many raffle prizes, including an IU engraved iPod nano.

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Miss Gay IU responds to Dugdale’s concerns

By Alyson Brodsy and Jordan River Forum · Thursday, April 26,2007 12 a.m.

Mr. Dugdale, In an column published in the April 19 edition of the IDS, you showed concerns for the Miss Gay IU pageant. Your concern for the MGIU program, as I see it, can be broken down into three parts: professionalism on stage by those involved; the actual name “Miss Gay IU”; and your thoughts that a gay group giving money to HIV causes is hypocritical.

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Around the World

By Abisalom Omolo · Thursday, April 26,2007 12 a.m.

Mexico City lawmakers voted to legalize abortion during the first three months of pregnancy, a landmark decision likely to heighten church-state tensions in the Roman Catholic nation and lead to a bitter court battle.

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You’ve got mail

By Mike Abrams · Thursday, April 26,2007 12 a.m.

Here’s the mail. It never fails. It makes me want to wag my tail. When it comes I want to wail. Mail.

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