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With Gopher blood, Hoosier guards await home town team

Two words most people don't often put together are Hoosier and Gopher. Ironically, the IU women's basketball team sports a pair of Hoosiers with Gopher blood.

Project plan faces residents' questions, concerns

Bloomington is a step closer to finalizing the Downtown Plan with a presentation to the public from the consulting group Winter and Co. at the Convention Center Wednesday night. Nore Winter, project manager for the Bloomington Project, was pleased with the meeting.

Ice-carving contest attracts champions

SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- For three straight days, Stanley Kolonko will forsake the comforts of his job as a clubhouse chef to spend 14-hour shifts, toiling in numbing subzero temperatures, chipping and carving a block of ice into a piece of art.

Will Bratislava be Yalta II?

RAKOW, Poland -- Sixty years ago this month, in the country just east of Poland, President Franklin Roosevelt met with Joseph Stalin at the Yalta Conference. At the summit in what is now Ukraine, Roosevelt got Stalin to promise democratic elections in Eastern European nations but privately did little to ensure the Russians would carry out the commitment.

Feelings and emoticons :)

Digital communication is excellent. I'm not talking about phones or TVs here, but the geekier stuff. I live in Forest, and we like to play video games there. A lot.

Chocolate-covered budget

Every once in a while you come across one of those deadbeats who always borrows money and never pays you back. Maybe his name is Larry. Larry just keeps spending more of your money and you become skeptical when he uses most of it to add to his vintage troll doll collection.

Courtside is for fans in red

Seventeen thousand fans showed up in red and white Tuesday night to watch the men's basketball team smash Purdue. Four came to the game decked out in the color of money. Four women dressed in electric-green Varsity Villas T-shirts adorned the sidelines, getting up at every time-out to draw attention to themselves and their fluorescent T-shirts. Of course the color stood out from the cream and crimson covering the hall. Apparently someone wanted those shirts to get noticed.

Emergency 2-day stay issued in battle over Florida woman

CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Two courts ruling within an hour of each other handed victories to either side in the bitterly contested fight about the fate of brain-damaged Terri Schiavo, paving the way for more legal wrangling.

At least 500 dead in Iran quake

ISLAMABAD, Iran -- Rescue teams using dogs and heavy machinery pulled more bodies from the ruins of flattened villages in central Iran on Wednesday, and officials raised the death toll from a powerful earthquake to at least 500. The count was expected to rise even higher.

Ceramic art balloons into massive undertaking

BALTIMORE -- During the next few months, it will be nearly impossible to view art in Baltimore without seeing works in clay. That's the goal of the Tour de Clay, a celebration of ceramic artwork that has ballooned into what organizers say is the largest-ever visual arts program in the United States.

'Dialogues' deeply moving for student cast members

The Catholic Church is associated with many musical genres such as the cantata and the oratorio, but it usually is never associated with the opera. French composer Francis Poulenc changed that in 1956 when he wrote "Dialogues des Carmelites."

To be young and restless in the fashion world

Around The Arts

Soweto Gospel Choir sings for IU The Soweto Gospel Choir will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday at the IU Auditorium. Described as an awe-inspiring vocal ensemble, the choir performs tribal, traditional and popular African gospel music.

Oscar oracles

Every year the world of cinema goes on a journey to see which films have accomplished the most. It all begins with various critics' association award ceremonies followed by the Golden Globes and then various guilds that award directors, screen actors and producers for their stunning achievements. At the end of all these award shows is the biggest ceremony of them all: the Academy Awards.

ENERGY DRINKS: THE NEW COFFEE?

It's Friday morning and sophomore Chad Miller has just rolled out of bed for his 11:15 class at the business school. Sluggish and groggy-eyed, Miller hops into his car at Hoosier Courts and drives down 17th Street toward campus. He makes a pit stop at the gas station to fuel up. But it's not for his car; it's for himself.

Daniels' tax plan draws fire from conservatives

INDIANAPOLIS -- Gov. Mitch Daniels proudly displays a samurai sword in his office, a remnant of the days when President Bush nicknamed him "The Blade" for his prowess in cutting taxes and federal spending. But now the former White House budget director -- and Indiana's first Republican governor since 1988 -- has proposed a one-year tax increase to slice away at the state's $645 million deficit.

Order Up!

When Edward Hughes opened Just Deliveries last month, his idea to deliver carry-out to his customers' front doors was just beginning. While delivering food items such as pizza is not a new concept, the idea to deliver other food from restaurants such as Casa Brava or The Trojan Horse, is relatively unique.

Help Me, Harlan! College

Dear Harlan, My son is in ninth grade and is a great kid. Our computer sits in the dining room, and while I don't actively snoop into who he is talking to online or what he's doing, I do look up from time to time. Last week I looked up and saw that he was discussing his sexual orientation.

9/11 victim identification comes to end

NEW YORK -- The medical examiner's office has largely ended its effort to identify the remains of those killed at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, leaving more than a thousand victims unidentified.

Fashion + rock = cool

Watching pretty girls sport original and rather sexy designer outfits would be a thrilling night on its own. Now sandwich this fashion show between four rocking bands and you've got an extravaganza worthy of a VH1 special. Well, almost.