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Ortega likely to head back to Nicaragua's presidency

Many in corporate world now embracing diversity

When Kim Ruggles, a senior majoring in apparel merchandising, started her job search, she had a tough decision to make: Should she "out" herself as a lesbian on her resume?

Our textbook paralysis

Burn your textbooks. Well, OK, maybe just close them for a minute. Whether you know it or not, these books might be doing more harm than good.

A Growing Tradition

Every Wednesday during cider season, 600 gallons of fresh apple cider flow from the press at the Musgrave Orchard.

Artifacts

What: Wooden wunkirmian (feast ladle) from the Dan peoples of Liberia/Côte d'Ivoire

Jacobs School of Music adds 2 new courses for spring

The Jacobs School of Music will offer two new courses for the spring semester to music and nonmusic students alike. They are Choral Masterworks, taught by Katherine Domingo and Opera Theatre Series I, taught by Constance Glen.

Ballet master class offers direct line to Balanchine

For Violette Verdy, a distinguished professor of ballet at IU, this past Saturday's master class was a chance to share something unique -- a personal insight into the works of George Balanchine. The solos the students danced were those Verdy herself began performing more than 40 years ago.

A small price to pay

Five-year-old Daniel Abbott was born with an immune disorder and now experiences seizures. But from the way the small, brown-haired boy raced around Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning at the Wildermuth Gym in the School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation during the 16th annual IU Dance Marathon, it was hard to tell. "We got here and he hit the ground running," said Shelley Abbott, Daniel's mother. "When everyone stopped dancing for the movie, he was running around and throwing up his hands like, 'What's going on? Let's dance!'" And he certainly had reason to celebrate. IUDM, which went from 8 p.m. Friday to 8 a.m. Sunday, shattered last year's fundraising record by more than $240,000. The event raised $920,386.20 for the Ryan White Center for Pediatric Infectious Disease at Riley Hospital for Children, which treats more than 200 children a month, including Daniel Abbott.

Where they stand

Indiana's 9th District is one of the closest House races in the country. Though the district traditionally leans Republican and President George W. Bush received 59 percent of the vote here in 2004, Democrat Baron Hill served as its representative from 1998 until 2004, when current Rep. Mike Sodrel, R-9th, defeated Hill by fewer than 1,500 votes. They first faced off in 2002 with Hill receiving 51 percent of the vote to Sodrel's 46 percent.

Campus groups push for high voter turnout

A vote for a cookie? Junior Kaitlin DeCero, co-coordinator of the Indiana Public Interest Research Group New Voters Project, said the group will be handing out cookies around campus Tuesday to those who have voted or plan to vote as "a little incentive."

Friends, family remember Kato as happy, 'unconventional'

A heart attack killed IU graduate student Gordon E. Kato, 45, last week, according to an obituary sent from his family. He was found dead in his bedroom at his off-campus home Tuesday, said Monroe County Coroner David W. Toumey.

Spotlight shines on African American tradition, new choir director

Keith McCutchen had big shoes to fill Saturday night.

'07 freshman class to get additional $9M in financial aid

Beginning next fall, IU will award an additional $9 million in scholarships to 1,000 incoming freshmen, thanks to a plan unveiled Friday at a board of trustees meeting at IU-Purdue Fort Wayne.

Israel to allow gay pride parade

JERUSALM -- Israel's attorney general refused to ban a gay pride parade in Jerusalem despite threats of violence from ultra-Orthodox Jews, instructing police and gay activists to try to work out a compromise, the police commander said Sunday.

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Fragile European power network exposed in massive blackout

BERLIN -- A German electric company said Sunday a high-voltage transmission line it shut down over a river to let a ship pass could have caused the chain-reaction power outages that left about 10 million people in the dark across Europe. The blackouts Saturday night briefly halted trains in Germany and trapped dozens of people in elevators in France and Italy. Austria, Belgium and Spain were also affected, though supplies to most regions were quickly restored. No injuries were reported.

Iraqi tribunal sentences Saddam to hang for killings

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Saddam Hussein was convicted Sunday and sentenced to hang for crimes against humanity in the 1982 killings of 148 people in a single Shiite town. The ousted leader, trembling and defiant, shouted "God is great!" as the judge handed down the verdict.

Influential Christian reverend apologizes after being dismissed amid sex, drug allegations

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Less than 24 hours after he was fired from the pulpit of the evangelical megachurch he founded, the Rev. Ted Haggard confessed to his followers Sunday that he was guilty of sexual immorality.

Hoosiers run away with 1st exhibition game

The Felisha Legette-Jack era at IU officially began Friday with the Hoosiers' shellacking of the University of Indianapolis at Assembly Hall.