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Conference provides network opportunities

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INDIANAPOLIS -- Students from IU and other universities around the Midwest expanded their network with sport professionals at the third annual IU Sport Management Career Networking Conference Saturday in Indianapolis.


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Dancers express love for art in 'Nutcracker'

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This weekend brought the continuation of a Christmas tradition that stretches back more than a century. The ballet suite "The Nutcracker" by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky was performed with a full cast, live orchestra and large-scale set in five performances. The classic tale of fantasy meets Christmas is entertainment for the audience, but work for the dancers. Dressed in mouse suits, dancing on stilts and playing multiple characters has its challenges.


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A soldier's story

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Right now, sophomore Travis Roll would love to be in Fallujah. But he's in Bloomington instead. This April, Roll was injured by a roadside bomb explosion in Iraq, and now he's medically retired with no hope of returning to Iraq with his Marine unit.


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Around The State

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Local man arrested for sexual assault Gary Cushinberry, owner of the World's Fare store on South Walnut Street, was arrested Thursday on the charge of sexual assault, a felony, and being a habitual offender. According to a story in The Herald-Times, Cushinberry lured a 23-year old girl into the Siam House restaurant, which was closed for the evening and is also owned by Cushinberry's wife, with the promise of the girl's friend being inside.

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Daniels names new commissioner of BMV

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INDIANAPOLIS -- Gov.-elect Mitch Daniels said Friday that former Galyan's president and chief executive officer Joel Silverman will become commissioner of the state Bureau of Motor Vehicles after Daniels takes office Jan. 10.


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Splitting hairs

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What if a cop were your hairstylist? I'm talking about the kind of hairstylist who shaves patches of your hair in an attempt to prove you use cocaine. It turns out the police station can double as a little barber shop of horrors.



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Artificial success

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Tyrone Willingham's expected success at Notre Dame was supposed to right all the racial wrong within the college football coaching fraternity. His success was supposed to awaken the echoes of the hallowed dome of Notre Dame.


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Frist: Abstinence-only programs should get review

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WASHINGTON -- Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Sunday that the government should review federally funded sexual abstinence programs, under fire from Democrats who say they contain false and misleading medical information.


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Lawmakers block fraud vote in Ukraine

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KIEV, Ukraine -- Supporters of opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko lost a round to their foes in parliament Saturday when pro-government lawmakers helped block legal changes intended to prevent fraud in the Dec. 26 repeat of the country's presidential runoff vote.


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Lies: The new contraceptive

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A new study headed by Rep. Henry A. Waxman, D-Calif., shows that nearly 100 percent of serious injuries and fatalities involving automobile accidents occur outdoors.


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Holiday spirit found in 3.5 million lights

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Even without the use of a one-horse open sleigh, students can dash through the goose pimple-inducing winter air to a holiday season light display even a holiday Scrooge or Grinch might be flabbergasted by.


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Won't you be our neighbor?

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The Indiana Daily Student reported Friday that Morgan Quitno, a private research and publishing company, rated Bloomington the 25th safest metropolitan area in the United States. We'd like to take the opportunity, because it prevented itself, to say: "Good job, Bloomington."




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Son of Hoosier great returns to IU

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Sean May's return to Bloomington didn't go exactly as planned. He came back to the town he grew up in, played in the gym his dad used to star in and watched his Tar Heels beat the Hoosiers, 70-63.


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Senior awarded British scholarship

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The Marshall Scholarship, which was established by the British Parliament in 1953 in honor of the United States' effort to rebuild Western Europe following World War II, has once again found its way to an IU student. Senior Rebecca Homkes of Russiaville, Ind., was recently selected as the 11th IU student to receive the award.


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Weekend event celebrates professor

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Computer programming languages are often confusing and complex, but Computer Science Professor Dan Friedman has made his career studying them. His work and research on programming languages will be the basis for "Daniel P. Friedman: A Celebration," an event held by the Department of Computer Science this weekend.


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Opener chance to start on right foot

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One year and two days after the beginning of the worst IU men's basketball season since 1970, the Hoosiers hit the court Tuesday night at Assembly Hall hoping to return the program to its historically winning ways.