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Hoosiers lose for 1st time of season at Thanksgiving tournament

By Lee Hurwitz · Sunday, Nov. 26,2006 11:30 p.m.

After opening the season with its best start in six years, the IU women's basketball team suffered its first loss to the Miami Hurricanes this weekend. IU began the Miami Thanksgiving Tournament with a convincing 73-52 win against Wright State University. Four Hoosiers scored in double digits, including junior Nikki Smith, who led the team with 19 points. Despite shooting 48 percent from the field and 66 percent from beyond the arc, IU was unable to match the effort against the Hurricanes in the championship.

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Win or lose Tuesday, there's something to gain

By Alyson Brodsy and Ryan Corazza · Sunday, Nov. 26,2006 11:29 p.m.

Seventy and three. That is Duke University's home record in Cameron Indoor Stadium since 2002. Given this daunting statistic, a win at Duke Tuesday night is possible for IU but (obviously) not very probable. If anything -- much like last year's tilt in Assembly Hall against the Blue Devils -- Tuesday night's game against Duke will serve as a measuring stick for where IU is at this early-season juncture.

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Stop latte politics

By Alyson Brodsy and Brian Stewart · Sunday, Nov. 26,2006 11:09 p.m.

Ihe other day I was strolling down Kirkwood Avenue feeling pretty chipper when I gradually realized that it has little in the way of redeeming virtues. It was not the mediocre cafes and substandard bars but the "Peoples Park" mentality that aroused my aggravation. Take the room-temperature opinion in your choice coffeehouse, and you'll notice that the one factor which everyone uniformly lacks is the remotest sense of reality. Their idea, condensed only slightly, is that if a tree falls and no one is there to hear it, it did not make a noise. Thus, if we extract ourselves from the messy circumstances of the world, the problems will either be solved thereby or will simply go away.

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Show me the sexism

By Alyson Brodsy and Michelle Manchir · Sunday, Nov. 26,2006 11:08 p.m.

I was 11. The boys in my sixth- grade class held a copy of Britney Spears' first CD. They ogled her toned belly, her sweet, pretty face, her hair, her clothes, her body. I stood in the classroom alongside my fellow hormone-driven, confused, prepubescent girlfriends, watching the boys. At the time, we probably giggled at the boys' expressed sexual interest, not knowing any better.

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To protect and serve

By Alyson Brodsy and Grace Low · Sunday, Nov. 26,2006 11:07 p.m.

I finally got around to watching "The Da Vinci Code" and, though I'll refrain from commenting on the movie itself for now, there was a line that has stuck in my head since: "We are what we protect." This statement, though fairly inconsequential to the plot, holds a profound message when taken in the context of government-citizen relations and human motivation.

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Smoke and mirrors

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, Nov. 26,2006 11:06 p.m.

If Facebook is any indication of the general sentiments of students at IU, it seems that a sizable minority of us think Ugg boots are annoying, if not outright offensive. Logically, the next step is to form a group against Uggs on IU's campus, followed by submitting a proposal to President Adam Herbert outlining how to effect a ban of such hideous footwear.

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Lights

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, Nov. 26,2006 11:04 p.m.

Lights -- Fireworks light up in the sky Friday during the 44th annual Circle of Lights at Monument Circle in Indianapolis.

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Palestinian attacks ignore truce agreement

By Alyson Brodsy and Amy Teibel · Sunday, Nov. 26,2006 11:03 p.m.

JERUSALEM -- Israeli troops withdrew from the Gaza Strip as an unexpected truce took hold Sunday, but two major Palestinian militant groups, saying they had no intention of stopping their attacks, fired volleys of homemade rockets into Israel.

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Women alerted to possible identity theft

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, Nov. 26,2006 11:01 p.m.

EVANSVILLE -- Two computers containing health records on people in the state's Breast and Cervical Cancer Program were stolen, leaving more than 7,500 Indiana women at risk of identity theft, officials said.

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Elkhart woman charged with killing her 4 children

By Alyson Brodsy and Tom Coyne · Sunday, Nov. 26,2006 10:59 p.m.

ELKHART, Ind. -- A prosecutor is considering seeking the death penalty against a mother charged with strangling her four young children. Angelica Alvarez, 27, of Elkhart, was ordered to be jailed without bond on four counts of murder during a court hearing held Wednesday just hours after she was released from Elkhart General Hospital. She had been in the hospital since being found unconscious with a faint pulse Nov. 14 next to the bodies of her children, ages 2 to 8.

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Lilly gives philanthropy center $40M

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, Nov. 26,2006 10:56 p.m.

A $40 million endowment grant to the Center on Philanthropy at IU will help certify the center as one of the nation's top institutions of its kind for years to come.

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