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Thoughts from Sin City

By Scott Leadingham · Tuesday, April 17,2007 12 a.m.

LAS VEGAS – Everyone should experience a desert sunrise, especially when the view includes hookers fighting over bread, and soulless men enticing passers-by with offers of delivering loose women. It may only be 6 a.m., but it’s never too early to begin a day of despair and sleaze, especially in a city built on preposterous human ambitions.

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Health-center horrors

By Matt Peyton · Tuesday, April 17,2007 12 a.m.

This weekend I had the sickies. As I stared down my throat in the bathroom like my parents used to do, I was struck by two equally perturbing questions. First, what the hell am I supposed to be looking for? Second, does this mean I’ll have to go to the IU Health Center?

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Up and down the Hill

By Alyson Brodsy · Tuesday, April 17,2007 12 a.m.

Last week, 9th District Rep. Baron Hill visited campus to address School of Public and Environmental Affairs students on the Iraq war. He defended the standard Democratic stance that the soldiers are doing a fine job but that policymakers have bungled everything.

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IU reacts to Virginia shootings

By Brian Spegele · Tuesday, April 17,2007 12 a.m.

Following the nation’s deadliest shooting spree, the IU Police Department said increased vigilance would occur both immediately and in the near future in Bloomington, acknowledging that similar situations could occur at IU.

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Stress and self-esteem

By Gal Shifron · Tuesday, April 17,2007 12 a.m.

Don’t underestimate the power of self-esteem. Having low self-esteem is one of the primary reasons that many people enter therapy. Throughout the course of therapy, they learn to like who they are and appreciate their uniqueness. Stress becomes much easier to overcome. High self-esteem enhances the quality of life and makes us happy people. Self-esteem is appreciating who you are and what you have instead of being miserable about what you do not have. It is the power of positive thinking and comes from liking who you are, including your flaws. When you believe in yourself, you have the strength to make things better.

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‘Nine, the Musical’ not quite a perfect 10

By Kelsey Nash · Tuesday, April 17,2007 12 a.m.

The provocative and unusual production “Nine” opened Friday night at the Ruth N. Halls Theatre. A mixed bag of stupendous and so-so performances, “Nine” fell short of my expectations but still delivered an engaging and entertaining show.

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Racist remark angers lawmakers

By Alexandra R. Moses and Mike Smith · Tuesday, April 17,2007 12 a.m.

Indiana’s secretary of state asked forgiveness Monday for evoking images of slavery in describing black voting trends during a Republican event in southern Indiana last week. During a Thursday speech at the Daviess County annual Lincoln Day Dinner, Republican Secretary of State Todd Rokita said 90 percent of blacks vote Democrat and questioned why.

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Shake like a feminist

By Abra Oliver and Michelle Manchir · Monday, April 16,2007 12 a.m.

Get low. In fall of 2003 Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz hit it big with a track by that name. If you don’t recall, maybe these lyrics will refresh your memory: “to the window, to the wall, to the sweat drip down my balls, to all these bitches crawl.” The songs lyrics are all demanding of females, probably in a nightclub sort of scenario, in which sex at the end of the night is hoped for and presumed – by both men and women. Still, the words are aggressive towards women and express little thought for what she might find enjoyable. Surely I could make these statements about any number of popular songs – rap and other genres – by male songwriters. If a song isn’t explicitly sexually demanding of a woman, it is describing her lips or her legs or the way her body looks when she’s grindin’ on the dance flo’.

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Around the world

By Abdullah AlShihri · Monday, April 16,2007 12 a.m.

Airlines canceled 300 flights Sunday as a hard-blowing nor’easter gathered strength along the East Coast and threatened to deliver some of the worst shore flooding in 14 years. The storm, already blamed for five deaths on the Plains, also flooded people out of their homes in the middle of the night in West Virginia.

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Baghdad bombing kills 45 people

By Abdullah AlShihri and Hamid Ahmed · Monday, April 16,2007 12 a.m.

BAGHDAD – Six bombs exploded in predominantly Shiite sections of the capital Sunday, killing at least 45 people in a renewal of sectarian carnage that set back the U.S. push to pacify Baghdad.

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Quacking for a cause

By Vivian Huang · Monday, April 16,2007 12 a.m.

With a shrill blow of the whistle, a plethora of bright yellow rubber ducks, all personalized with individual names, were thrown from a plastic box into the Jordan River on Sunday afternoon in Dunn Meadow. As the ducks floated down the river, the first three to pass the “finish line,” about 15 yards from the starting line, were picked up and were called the winners.

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