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Hanging on in the computer age

By Michael Tapscott · Wednesday, June 18,2003 8:07 p.m.

Somewhere in the bleakest of all possible worlds lie the fellows from Grandaddy. Obsessed with the dissolution of nature and its eventual and inevitable displacement by technology, the group is able to paint extremely vivid pictures of a burnt-out planet.

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Taste of Bloomington offers local cuisine and live music in downtown Bloomington

By Michelle Ruth · Wednesday, June 18,2003 8:04 p.m.

Whatever your food cravings might be, they are sure to be satisfied at the 21st Annual Taste of Bloomington held at Showers Plaza at Seventh and Morton Street on Saturday, June 21. The event allows visitors to sample a wide variety of food from 34 local restaurants and enjoy a day of live entertainment by local and regional bands. Proceeds from the event benefit two local charities: the Monroe County Community Kitchen and the Hoosier Hills Food Bank.

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3 music students awarded

Sunday, June 15,2003 9:32 p.m.

Three IU music students recently won awards for music composition at the 51st BMI Student Composer Awards, held at the Plaza Hotel in New York City. Graduate students Ben Jacob and Joseph Sheehan and sophomore Jeffrey Stanek were announced Friday as winners in this prestigious competition.

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Arkansas and LSU take championships

By Alyson Brodsy and Rob Gloster · Sunday, June 15,2003 9:26 p.m.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Aleen Bailey completed a sprinting sweep in the NCAA track and field championships Saturday night, defeating LSU's Muna Lee in the 200 meters, just as she had a day earlier in the 100. But the Jamaican speedster, who almost single-handedly kept defending champion South Carolina in contention for the team title, could only watch as LSU pulled away for its 13th team crown. In the men's competition, Alistair Cragg clinched Arkansas' 10th team title, its first since a string of eight straight championships ended in 1999, by winning the 5,000.

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Business school starts venture

By Aaron Uslan · Sunday, June 15,2003 9:19 p.m.

The IU Kelley School of Business and the American Banking Association are working together to allow students of the ABA's Stonier School of Banking to transfer credits toward a masters in business administration at IU's business school.

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Creative Learning Center offers more summer courses

By Claire Bletz · Sunday, June 15,2003 9:19 p.m.

Don't you ever wish you could take really good pictures? Or give someone a massage that actually made them feel better? Or figure out what throwing a pot really does mean? Or, for that matter, do you ever wish you could take a class in wine tasting on a university campus?

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Athlete gets NCAA win in javelin

By Rob DeWitte · Sunday, June 15,2003 9:19 p.m.

Senior Irina Kharun lived up to her top-seed billing Friday at the NCAA Championships in Sacramento, Calif., by dominating the javelin event and setting an American collegiate record. Kharun said she remembered her father's advice and dedicated her final throw to Coach Randy Heisler.

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3 music students awarded

Sunday, June 15,2003 9:19 p.m.

Three IU music students recently won awards for music composition at the 51st BMI Student Composer Awards, held at the Plaza Hotel in New York City. Graduate students Ben Jacob and Joseph Sheehan and sophomore Jeffrey Stanek were announced Friday as winners in this prestigious competition.

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'Fun Frolic' frustrates campus police

By Brandon Morley · Sunday, June 15,2003 9:19 p.m.

While the annual "Fun Frolic" brightens the days of residents and college students, that exuberance comes at the expense of the IU Police Department's work because of the carnival's potential to draw criminal activity.

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U.S. forces seize weapons

By Chris Tomlinson · Sunday, June 15,2003 9:18 p.m.

FALLUJAH, Iraq -- With a deadline passed for Iraqis to hand in heavy weapons, U.S. forces fanned out across Iraq Sunday to seize arms and put down potential foes -- and tried to soothe the sting with deliveries of food, fuel, medical supplies and even teddy bears.

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Washington coach fights decision on gambling

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, June 15,2003 9:13 p.m.

MEDINA, Wash. -- Rick Neuheisel maintains he did not break NCAA rules when he gambled on college basketball tournaments and believes he should keep his job as Washington's football coach. Neuheisel addressed reporters Saturday at his lakeside home, two days after athletic director Barbara Hedges announced her decision to fire him.

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Schumacher wins Canadian Grand Prix

By Alyson Brodsy and Jenna Fryer · Sunday, June 15,2003 9:13 p.m.

MONTREAL - Michael Schumacher took a long swig of champagne, then sprayed some on his younger brother. Finally back on top of the Formula One standings, Schumacher was ready to celebrate. Schumacher won his fourth race of the season and finally passed Kimi Raikkonen for the lead in the driver standings by beating his brother, Ralf, in the Canadian Grand Prix on Sunday.

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The End of College Sports?

By Alyson Brodsy and Kevin A Switaj · Sunday, June 15,2003 9:12 p.m.

For the past two decades, the Big East has been the center of college athletics in the northeast. From its beginnings as a way to bring basketball powers like Georgetown, Villanova and St. John's better competition in the 1970s through the conference's expansion and inclusion of football in the 1990s, the Big East has shaped college sports in a section of the country where they are normally an afterthought.

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All-American Karen Dennison plays with the pros

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, June 15,2003 9:10 p.m.

Junior All-American Karen Dennison entered the Giant Eagle LPGA Classic as the only amateur in a field of 144 golfers and one of two who had earned a sponsor's exemption. Thirty-six holes later, Dennison couldn't make the cut with a 6-over-par 78. Overall, Dennison carded a 153 and missed the cut by eight strokes.

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Hunting for orchids

Sunday, June 15,2003 9:10 p.m.

ANGOLA, Ind. -- Within earshot of Interstate 69 and the Indiana Toll Road lies some of the wildest land in northeast Indiana's Steuben County containing rare lady's-slipper orchids. The treasure is so beautiful and rare that some people have been known to risk the poison sumac-tangled, Massasauga rattlesnake-infested, soupy bogs where the orchids live. Orchids hold a special, unexplainable mystique in the imaginations of many who establish clubs and societies around this wonderful creature. People collect them, trade them, grow them and brag about the ones they have seen or have acquired.

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International students thriving

By Alyson Brodsy and Rob Gloster · Sunday, June 15,2003 9:09 p.m.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Minnesota's Adam Steele came from far behind to win the 400 meters, a race in which the top three men were separated by 17-thousandths of a second Saturday night at the NCAA track and field championships.

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Picasso meets Einstein

By Brandon Morley · Sunday, June 15,2003 9:06 p.m.

Actor/comedian turned playwright Steve Martin's work "Picasso at the Lapin Agile" opened at Nashville's noted Brown County Playhouse to a crowd of more than 125 people Thursday evening. Directed by Murray McGibbon, assistant professor of directing and acting at IU, the show depicts a chance meeting by patent office worker and soon-to-be noted scientist Albert Einstein and the then amateur artist Pablo Picasso in a Parisian bar in 1904.

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Iranian police keep rioting protestors at bay

By Ali Akbar Dareini · Sunday, June 15,2003 9:01 p.m.

TEHRAN, Iran -- Police patrolled Tehran dormitories Sunday to prevent attacks by pro-clerical militants, and President Bush said a week of anti-government protests by Iranian students showed a yearning for freedom. As clashes in the capital eased, sporadic violence elsewhere claimed the first reported fatality. Ali Moini, an anti-government protester, was killed Friday night in Shiraz, 550 miles south of Tehran, the daily Nasim-e-Saba reported Sunday.

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Free clinic set up in Columbia

By Juan Pablo Toro · Sunday, June 15,2003 9 p.m.

ARAUCA, Colombia -- The high fever and sores spreading over her son's skin had been worrying Jensi Rojas for days, but she could not afford to take him to a doctor. So when a group of medics, including six from the U.S. military, set up a makeshift clinic inside a school in this town in eastern Colombia, Rojas brought in her 8-year-old son.

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Hussein's daughter claims deposed Iraqi leader still alive

Sunday, June 15,2003 8:59 p.m.

LONDON -- A daughter of deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein told a British newspaper she believes he is still alive even though she has not seen him since before the U.S.-led invasion. "The last time I spoke to my father was five days before the war," Raghad Hussein was quoted as saying by The Sunday Times. "He was in good spirits.

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