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Bloomington named state’s ‘best walking city’

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Twenty-four years ago, Mike Lorton graduated from IU. After retiring, he decided to come back to Bloomington with his wife. One of the main reasons, he said, was because of the ease of walking in the city.


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Fat lady sings

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If you’ve any lingering hope that humanity’s nature is essentially good, I need only the music libra

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Bush, with more nuts

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Many people tend to think of Sen. John McCain as a maverick. Many people think of him as a foreign policy expert. Many people think he sticks to his guns and his principles.


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Macabre milestones

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Five years. 4,000 American bodies. $500 billion. The United States’ terrorizing war recently passed these grim milestones. One day


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Evaluating evaluations

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"I talk about No Child Left Behind like Ivory soap: It’s 99.9 percent pure or something.” That’s Education Secretary Margaret Spellings on the efficacy of the federal law passed in 2002. She continues: “There’s not much needed in the way of change.” Experts say otherwise. The latest move away from No Child Left Behind, which is considered by the National Education Association to have “produced many unintended and unfavorable consequences for students, parents and educators across the country,” is a recent bill passed by the New York Assembly, preemptively barring New York City and other districts from linking teacher tenure to students’ test scores.


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Thank you, Israel

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Instant messaging, wireless computer chips and video camera capsules that examine internal organs. What do these three relatively new innovations have in


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No guns on campus

Dear Chase Cooper, I noticed in your article “Ban gun bans” (IDS Feb. 26) you have showed lots of passion towards the safety of the students on college


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Fire Greenspan now

As a graduate of IU, I would like to give my opinion on the most recent incidents at IU with regard to men’s basketball. I would


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Not for the money

As a current Advocate for Community Engagement,


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Flee from hate speech

Jonathan Rossing asks an important question and deserves a


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Drinking law is necessary

With reference to Monday’s editorial article “Bad news for boozers,” (IDS Mar. 24) I would like to commend the professionalism endorsed, as it is a good thing to practice as we preach. That is to


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Remember Ron Paul?

I saw Chelsea Clinton at IU Monday night and asked her why Sen. Hillary Clinton has been lying about sniper fire during a visit to Tuzla, Bosnia in 1996. Chelsea Clinton was on that trip that was “too dangerous for Bill” and could have given an honest answer


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Open a book

Being a native Minnesotan who spent much of my early life in Tennessee, Texas and Alabama, I always find it amazing how people in both parts of the country can express


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No elves in ELF

I thought I’d expound a little more on David Nosko’s recent well-reasoned March 6 letter to the editor. I think


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Give to RAISE

On campus, there exist so many great and worthwhile clubs and organizations. As an incoming freshman last year,


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Learn history

It’s a shame to see what history is taught in America’s schools, that the snide behavior that students are taught is acceptable in public forums. A few facts



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Sidetracked

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Alex Cohen grades this week’s hottest tracks.