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Bush admits to secret CIA prisons

By Alyson Brodsy and Nedra Pickler · Wednesday, Sept. 6,2006 10:39 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- President Bush on Wednesday acknowledged the existence of previously secret CIA prisons around the world and said 14 high-value terrorism suspects -- including the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks -- have been transferred from the system to Guantanamo Bay for trials.

Carving up a third season

By Chris Wisner and compiled by Chris Wisner · Wednesday, Sept. 6,2006 10:36 p.m.

When season two of "Nip/Tuck" came to a close, the mysterious murderer "The Carver" had just paralyzed Dr. Christian Troy (Julian McMahon) and taken a fine slash to his handsome features. Commence season three. Who could the Carver be? Who has the sick and twisted mentality to run around Miami slashing open the faces of all the beautiful people while leaving a simple note stating, "Beauty is a curse upon the world?"

Hip-hop H20

By Abby Schwimmer · Wednesday, Sept. 6,2006 10:33 p.m.

He's cool. He's crunk. And now he spreads the word about the world's impending water crisis. Jigga, what?

Pizza delivery driver robbed at gunpoint

By Audrie Garrison · Wednesday, Sept. 6,2006 10:32 p.m.

A delivery worker for Domino's Pizza was robbed at gunpoint Tuesday night when he was called to deliver a pizza to a vacant house.

The best in bathroom writing

By Scott Leadingham · Wednesday, Sept. 6,2006 10:31 p.m.

The United States of America:land of the free, home of the brave, cesspool for the non-sensical and abstract.

A treatise to coexist

By Grace Low · Wednesday, Sept. 6,2006 10:29 p.m.

A Jew, a Catholic and a Muslim meet on the square. But instead of being the beginning of a bad joke, it is the embodiment of something profoundly beautiful. A few weeks before students arrived, when the recent conflict between Israel and Lebanon was at its height, about 100 Bloomington citizens representing the aforementioned faiths, along with many others, met on the square (the area surrounding the Monroe County Courthouse).

Homeowner wounds one teen and kills another during an apparent robbery

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, Sept. 6,2006 10:28 p.m.

KOKOMO — A man who took a gun when he answered a knock on his door shot two would-be teenage robbers early Tuesday, killing one and wounding another, police said.

No tuition without representation

Wednesday, Sept. 6,2006 10:25 p.m.

In the great American tradition of decision-making, IU has formed a committee to fill the monumental role of University president. The committee has been working furiously to find the brightest, most qualified individual to lead this great institution into a new generation of high-tech higher education. Its task is not an easy one. The president is not only the face of the University, but also an administrator, a fund-raiser, a spokesman and lobbyist. He or she must be personable but business oriented; if he or she stands seven-feet-tall and shoots lightning from his eyes, all the better.

Federal Appeals court to hear Indiana House prayer case

By Alyson Brodsy and Mike Smith · Wednesday, Sept. 6,2006 10:24 p.m.

INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana House leaders will seek private donations in their efforts to overturn a federal judge's ruling restricting opening prayers in the body's Statehouse chambers, House Speaker Brian Bosma said Tuesday.

IDS headline lacks chemistry

Wednesday, Sept. 6,2006 10:23 p.m.

Dear IDS editors, We were recently surprised, and frankly disappointed, to see a headline on page 13 of the August 29, 2006 edition of the IDS that read "Scientists create alcohol from ethanol."

The funniest show to ever be cancelled

By C. Warner Sills and John Barnett · Wednesday, Sept. 6,2006 10:21 p.m.

The funniest and most bizarre show on television got even funnier and more bizarre in its third and final season, going out with a bang and not a whimper. Enough fuss has been made about Fox's decision to cancel Arrested Development midstream, but what more can be expected from the same roundtable that keeps the Fox News Channel going 24/7? The best that can be done is to celebrate the show for what it was, which was much, much more than any comedy currently on air.

Missing Marching Hundred

By Maeve Hall · Wednesday, Sept. 6,2006 10:19 p.m.

When I arrived at Memorial Stadium on Saturday and went for my usual seat at the front of the student section, I was shocked to discover that the band would no longer be in the stands next to me.

IUSA-GPSO split hurts student interests

By Jim Hoff · Wednesday, Sept. 6,2006 10:18 p.m.

While Paul Rohwer's guest column was interesting with his views on the goals of higher education, he mistakenly attempts to wedge a divide between undergrad and graduate students by faulting IUSA.

Razor blunted

By C. Warner Sills and Brian J. McFillen · Wednesday, Sept. 6,2006 10:17 p.m.

If you loved early-noughties garage-dance-punk, then these are depressing times. The indie world has embraced proggier, twee-er, less-accessible sounds (Sufjan, Beirut, The Knife -- bleh). The mainstream is eagerly blending the style with emo so it can be marketed to 12-year-old mall crawlers (Hellooo, She Wants Revenge!). And the bands that made up the movement are either deceased (The Libertines, Death From Above 1979) or looking to "expand" beyond their original sound (Franz Ferdinand, The Futureheads, Hot Hot Heat, The Strokes, The White Stripes/Raconteurs, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, etc.). This last category has met with varying levels of success.

Sodrel good, Hill bad

By David White · Wednesday, Sept. 6,2006 10:14 p.m.

Last week's article about the 9th District Congressional race downplayed many important issues.

Roots rock new album

By C. Warner Sills and Matt Dollinger · Wednesday, Sept. 6,2006 10:13 p.m.

This is the kind of music even white guys can find the rhythm to. "Game Theory" is the name of the new album released by the most musically gifted group in hip-hop, The Roots. Combining the beat prowess of ?uestlove and the dominant flow of Black Thought, "Game Theory" is the greatest hip-hop record this year. This is the type of music that makes Levis and Coca-Cola commercials. The kind that where the entire town storms Main Street and jumps on the giant celebration float while hundreds of other gorgeous citizens cheer on the product like it's the second coming of freedom.

A public "despair"

By C. Warner Sills and Ryan Corazza · Wednesday, Sept. 6,2006 10:11 p.m.

Jessica Simpson confuses the hell out of me. At first she was presented as a goody good songstress, molded from a strong Christian-rooted family. She was no sexy Britney Spears. And she was certainly no Xtina. Then came her vastly popular show with Nick Lachey, "Newlyweds," on MTV, and yup, that squeaky clean image quickly disappeared.

Student comments insensitive

By Matthew Hutchens · Wednesday, Sept. 6,2006 10:10 p.m.

I am absolutely appalled that you would print such moronic and insensitive comments from students with regards to Steve Irwin's death in your Sept. 5 print edition.

Dylan brings in the blues, brings out the love, on blazing new disc

By Eamonn Brennan · Wednesday, Sept. 6,2006 10:07 p.m.

If there's one thing I don't like about the Rolling Stones -- and by the way, I love the Rolling Stones -- it's that they have a longer Wikipedia page than Bob Dylan. To you, a rational human being, this might seem like total nonsense, but to me, those with more impact, more legacy, more verve, -- whatever -- should have the longest pages. And while the Stones are still lickin', Dylan's still awake too, busy bolstering his legacy with triumphant folk-hero exuberance.

'Man,' this sucks

By C. Warner Sills and Greg Schoenbaechler · Wednesday, Sept. 6,2006 9:59 p.m.

Hollywood is notorious for being the town where production companies make huge blockbusters that people watch and love forever. While this is still true for some movies, the remake of British film classic "The Wicker Man" is not one of them.