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Indie band "At War' with themselves

By Alyson Brodsy and Evan Ross · Wednesday, April 12,2006 7:20 p.m.

According to the traditional pop music formula, the Flaming Lips are an aberration. The band formed in 1983 but only achieved mainstream success in the new millennium. The Lips have released 10 albums in that time, some of which include the most bizarre and un-radio friendly pieces of music ever put to tape. (The four-CD album Zaireeka is intended to be played on four separate players at once.) Now that respectability and moderate commercial success are theirs, the Lips attempt to capitalize on it with the long awaited At War With the Mystics. After a two decade long career of redefining what is and is not pop music, the Lips may have eventually run out of weirdness. At War With the Mystics follows in the path of the two previous Flaming Lips' efforts in that the lyrics focus on and explore one or two concepts.

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A film that's hard to idolize

By Alyson Brodsy and Michael Mellini · Wednesday, April 12,2006 7:11 p.m.

"American Dreamz" is an ambitious, yet underachieving movie. It's not every day a big studio movie so explicitly parodies public figures like the president and TV personalities. That's territory mostly crossed by late night comedy sketch and talk shows. And that's pretty much all "American Dreamz" is; a drawn out "Saturday Night Live" skit. After being re-elected into office, President Stanton (Dennis Quaid doing a surprisingly good Bush impression) is having an identity crisis. He confines himself to his bedroom reading newspaper after newspaper and refuses to make any public appearances.

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'Benchwarmers' should've never left the bench

By Alyson Brodsy and Doug Evans · Wednesday, April 12,2006 7:09 p.m.

"Three grown men form a baseball team to play against little league bullies." With a tagline like this, the only way "Benchwarmers" was able to see the light of day was likely because Adam Sandler was attached to produce. Because Sandler has apparently moved on to more ambitious roles (see: "Punch Drunk Love" or "Spanglish"), he sat this film out and recruited his old pals Rob "Deuce Bigalo" Schneider and David "Joe Dirt" Spade to star. Also along for the ride is Jon Heder, who in this film takes his "Napoleon Dynamite" character and plays it to unending stupidity.

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Banderas stands and delivers

By Alyson Brodsy and Josh Garfinkel · Wednesday, April 12,2006 7:07 p.m.

It is not often that a tagline can ruin a movie, but it is possible (i.e "They're making memories tonight!" for the forgettable "It's a Wonderful Life"), and "Take the Lead" qualifies. The tagline is "Never follow." Interesting, considering this is a film about a teacher who struggles throughout the entirety of the film to get his inner-city students to follow his lead. Also interesting given the fact that Antonio Banderas says at one point, "A man leads. It is the woman's job to follow." So, never follow … unless you're a woman.

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Mo'Nique takes on the fast food nation

By Alyson Brodsy and Matt McMullan · Wednesday, April 12,2006 7:05 p.m.

First off, I'd like to think that I'm well placed to review "Phat Girlz." I'm not a woman, and I'm not 350 lbs, so I've got plenty of separation to look at this movie objectively. I just wanted to make that clear: I'm your guy for black chick-flick comedies about weight. Now, onward. So, Mo'Nique is huge. She's a very large person, and -- oh yes, this is great news -- she's decided to make a movie about it. "Phat Girlz" (that's girlz with a "z") opened last weekend, and it sucks. I want to dislike it completely, I really do, but I can't. I can't because it tries. Half heartedly, it tries to say something meaningful about body image in America. But it falls flat because it's not very funny, it looks horrible and it's not convincing.

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Unlucky wannabe cult classic

By Alyson Brodsy and Tristan Mathews · Wednesday, April 12,2006 7:03 p.m.

With "Lucky Number Slevin" director Paul McGuigan ("Wicker Park") tries to become a contemporary of Quentin Tarantino and Guy Richie but outright fails to hit his mark. More boring than clever, "Lucky Number Slevin" stars Josh Hartnett as Slevin, a man who arrives in New York City to visit his friend Nick (Sam Jaeger) after being fired from his job, losing his apartment and walking in on his girlfriend with another man. Nick is missing while a case of mistaken identity places Slevin in his place forcing him to deal with Nick's gambling debts and landing him in the pocket of two of the cities warring gangsters: The Rabbi (Ben Kingsley) and The Boss (Morgan Freeman).

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Laundry betrays No. 1 Mafia boss in Sicily

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, April 12,2006 12:09 p.m.

PALERMO, Sicily -- Italy's No. 1 fugitive and reputed Mafia "boss of bosses" practically thumbed his nose at authorities for more than 40 years. He counted on Sicilians' centuries-old mistrust of the state to help him on the run, sleeping in islanders' homes, having his children born at local hospitals, even sending the public health care system a bill for prostate treatment abroad under a false name. But police finally caught up with Bernardo "The Tractor" Provenzano on Tuesday in a farmhouse outside his power base, Corleone -- the town that inspired the family name in "The Godfather."

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WIUX to host discussion on tuition increases, professors' political biases

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, April 12,2006 12:08 p.m.

Show host Carl Gutierrez is set to interview board of trustee Casey Cox about tuition increases beginning 9 p.m. today, according to a press release. Professor James Madison, Dean of Student Dick McKaig and representatives from the IU College Democrats and Republicans will discuss professors' political biases. Finally, Little 500 participants will discuss the coming race.

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Trial date set for accused man

By Michael Zennie · Wednesday, April 12,2006 2:22 a.m.

MARTINSVILLE -- A Morgan County judge Tuesday entered a preliminary plea of "not guilty" for the man accused of murdering IU sophomore Jill Behrman six years ago. Judge Christopher L. Burnham set a Sept. 18 date for the jury trial of John R. Myers II, 30, in Morgan County Superior Court. Myers sat quietly with an attorney hired by his family, Patrick Baker of Indianapolis, as prosecutor Steven Sonnega read the indictment. Myers faces a sentence of 40 years to life in prison without parole or the death penalty if convicted.

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No. 1 Big Ten party?

By Zachary Osterman · Wednesday, April 12,2006 2:20 a.m.

Badgers and Hoosiers know how to have a good time. The latest Princeton Review rankings place IU and Wisconsin at sixth and first respectively on the list of top party schools.

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Indiana's sex education near bottom

By Zack Teibloom · Wednesday, April 12,2006 1:48 a.m.

Less than 7 percent of Indiana high school sex education teachers educate students about proper condom usage, according to a recent IU survey. Researchers, who interviewed 400 Indiana high school and middle school teachers in a study to test the extent of sex education, said the results showed that many teachers are leaving out key aspects in their curricula. Fewer than half of sex education teachers reported discussing HIV/AIDS thoroughly, and only 35 percent discussed pregnancy.

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Police resuscitate IU employee

By Audrie Garrison · Wednesday, April 12,2006 1:46 a.m.

IU police officers saved an IU employee whose pulse and breathing had stopped Monday, said IU Police Department Lt. Jerry Minger in a press release.

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Capel picked to fill Sampson's vacancy

By Alyson Brodsy and Jeff Latzke · Wednesday, April 12,2006 1:38 a.m.

NORMAN, Okla. -- Jeff Capel was hired as Oklahoma's basketball coach Tuesday, resigning at Virginia Commonwealth University to replace Kelvin Sampson and take over a program under NCAA investigation.

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Reds top Cubs with flurry of home runs

By Alyson Brodsy and Rick Gano · Wednesday, April 12,2006 1:35 a.m.

CHICAGO -- Here's what Bronson Arroyo has shown the Cincinnati Reds since joining them less than a month ago: He can beat the Chicago Cubs and he can hit home runs off Glendon Rusch. Arroyo, with no homers in his first six major league seasons, hit his second off Rusch in six days Tuesday, one of six long balls by the Reds as they routed the Cubs 9-2 on a windy day at Wrigley Field.

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IU swimmers take 2nd in national competition

By Mike Abrams · Wednesday, April 12,2006 1:33 a.m.

The Hoosiers brought 16 swimmers to the University of Georgia on March 31 to swim in the 2006 East Coast Collegiate Club Championship and came home in second place for the team competition, only losing to the host team.

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IU places 4th at Nationals in San Jose, Calif.

By Josh Sacks · Wednesday, April 12,2006 1:33 a.m.

Although the Frank Southern Ice Arena -- where the IU figure skating team practices -- closed a month before its season ended, it did not prevent the team from practicing. Whether it was carpooling to Indianapolis or finding another sheet of ice, team members searched for places to go to refine their skating skills.

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Hoosiers end 11-game road trip at Xavier University

By Jake Brown and Jacob Brown · Wednesday, April 12,2006 1:28 a.m.

Since conference play started, the mid-week non-conference games have been a struggle for the IU baseball team. Two weeks into the Big Ten schedule, the Hoosiers have lost both weekday games and have gone on to drop three of four games to conference opponents that weekend.

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