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Club plans full-length film

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The Business Careers in Entertainment Club is out to show students and faculty why the group was recently voted IU's "Best Student Organization" by WEEKEND readers. The club is preparing to produce a full-length film, and although it will not be "coming soon to a theater near you," the script might be written by a student near you.



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Duo combines guitar, opera-style vocals

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The audience fell silent after Daniel Bolshoy and Julie Nesrallah struck the last chords of a passionate, Spanish-influenced guitar ballad. The crowd waited for the duo to say something insightful about the song.


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Senior shows fashion with photography

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A little girl stood on the ice, ready to skate across the arena and perform in front of the audience. What this little girl was showing off, besides her talent in the rink, was her outfit. When she was young, fifth-year senior Lauren Feldman designed her own skating outfits.



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15 venomous snakes seized from man's home

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INDIANAPOLIS -- Conservation officers who entered the home of a man who sought treatment for a poisonous snake bite found 15 venomous vipers, including cobras and rattlesnakes.


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5 killed in plane crash

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ROLLING PRAIRIE, Ind. -- Federal and local authorities worked Tuesday to recover the remains of four employees of an Iowa marketing company and a pilot killed in a small plane crash in a rural area of northern Indiana, officials said.




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Same-sex marriage bill passed in South Africa

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CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- The South African parliament overwhelmingly approved legislation Tuesday recognizing gay marriages -- a first for a continent where homosexuality is largely taboo.


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Around the World

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Iran's president boasted that his country will soon have mastered the production of nuclear fuel, but he added the country was far from producing enough fuel to power its Russian-built reactor. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claimed the world had finally accepted that Iran has the complete cycle of fuel production -- from mining uranium to enriching it to the level required for consumption in a nuclear power plant.


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Senate Democrats waste no time gathering to choose new leaders

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WASHINGTON -- Senate Democrats picked two women for senior posts Tuesday and appointed former U.S. Capitol police chief Terrance Gainer as sergeant at arms. Their choice as majority leader, Sen. Harry Reid, said a top priority is getting a new secretary of defense confirmed.


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Online Only: Confidentially revolting

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In 1948, IU zoology professor Alfred Kinsey published a book broaching all social taboos surrounding the sexual activity of American men. That same year, renowned anthropologist Margaret Mead reviewed Kinsey's work, which became known as "The Kinsey Report," and commented, "In every society, sex patterns depend on a careful and meticulous balance between ignorance and knowledge, sophistication and naivete ... between the things we don't mention and the things we do."


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Digital dependence

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On Tuesday, the Washington Post published an extensive piece on the debate about the existence of Internet addiction. It placed particular emphasis on a recent study published in the neuropsychiatric journal CNS Spectrums that, having employed a telephone survey of more than 2,500 adults, is being touted as "the first large-scale look at excessive Internet use."


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Feelin' the heat

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I detest Indiana weather. From the end of September to the beginning of May, I have been known to huddle in my room, decked out like Randy from "A Christmas Story," sipping hot tea and counting the days until spring.


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Money is great

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It should be the easiest decision you'll ever have to make: Would you rather have the ability to fly or a million dollars?


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Donkey disbursement

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Last Wednesday, only hours after the final election results were in, Democratic leaders had already begun making promises to the public about what they intend to accomplish as the new majority in both houses. One in particular according included passing "legislation to make college more affordable for students and their families, to the Chronicle of Higher Education."


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Sampson gets 1st regular season win at IU

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INDIANAPOLIS -- Kelvin Sampson had been waiting since March for this night. It finally came, and while the story didn't play out as well as the first-year IU coach might have hoped, the final result did.


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ONLINE ONLY: Weathering the Weather Channel

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The other night, it was storming heavily and, for a short time, I wondered if Bloomington was going to have a repeat of last November when we had two tornadoes. As I was worrying about whether I would soon be homeless, I decided to check out The Weather Channel. The only problem was instead of getting some kind of weather report, I found a program called "Animal Storm Stories." The show chronicles the unsung heroes of natural disasters: animals. Don't get me wrong. I love animals, and I think that having a show paying tribute to some of their heroic work in natural disasters is a great thing. But since the station calls itself The Weather Channel, I would at least expect to get some damn weather information when I turn to the channel -- especially if there is a bad storm in my area. I know they can't cover everything going on in the nation at once, but hell, they could at least try. They didn't even have a ticker at the bottom of the screen!