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'McCool's' lacks humor, quality, entertainment

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The writer and director of "One Night at McCool's" are bigger teases than my high school girlfriend. They should never have an opportunity to make another movie after the disappointing, not funny, leave you blue (not depressed), annoying dud of a movie they turned out.


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Council raises concerns

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The Bloomington Economic Development Corporation won't be seeing any new faces for a while. In a marathon session Wednesday, the members of the Bloomington City Council raised several concerns with an ordinance to broaden the BEDC membership base to include a more diverse population. The resolution, sponsored by council members Andy Ruff and Jeffrey Willsey, was voted down 3-6.


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Bush promises aid to Afghan civilians

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WASHINGTON -- President Bush committed $320 million in humanitarian aid to the "poor souls" of Afghanistan Thursday as he and allies from Mexico to Qatar moved ahead with plans against terrorists sheltered by Afghanistan's ruling Taliban. "In our anger, we must never forget we're a compassionate people," the president said.


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Cook sells drug division

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Cook Group Inc., the Bloomington-based medical supplies titan, is getting back to basics -- minimally invasive medical devices such as stents and catheters. Company officials announced Wednesday that Cook has sold its pharmaceutical branch to Baxter Healthcare Inc. for $219 million in cash and stocks. The Deerfield, Ill.,-based pharmaceutical giant reported $6.9 billion in sales last year. "Cook Group has always recognized the tremendous potential for growth in our contract pharmaceutical business," said Phyllis McCullough, executive vice president of operation for Cook Group Inc. "Our decision to sell that portion of our business to Baxter will ensure that the pharmaceutical business we started reaches its fullest potential."

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Woman reports rape at SAE

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A 20-year-old student and member of the Alpha Omicron Pi sorority, reported being raped at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house, 1511 North Jordan Ave., early Tuesday morning. While the IU Police Department continues its investigation Thursday, SAE President Kyle Bach says the reports of misconduct are not true. "The alleged altercations are false, and it's in the laws hands at this point," said Bach late Wednesday night. "It's basically out of our hands. We're waiting for a response from IUPD." The student went to the Bloomington Hospital Emergency Room 6 a.m. Tuesday morning after a Bloomington Police Department officer responded to a call, IUPD said.


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Fans' lawsuit to continue

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Special judge Cecile Blau ruled Monday to allow 46 plaintiffs to pursue their claim that the IU board of trustees broke the Indiana Open Door Law in firing former men's basketball coach Bobby Knight last September. While Blau ruled Myles Brand was within both the scope of the law and his legal authority as university president in firing Knight, she did acknowledge the plaintiffs' claim that the board met in executive session without public notice. Blau rejected both parties' requests for summary judgment and will allow the suit to commence. In a ruling received by the Monroe County Court Monday, Blau agreed Brand had sole authority to fire Knight, a power designated by the trustees. Blau wrote that the president "had the authority to make, enforce and terminate contracts," thus enabling him to legally fire Knight.


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Women test knowledge

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The women of Alpha Omicron Pi know sports. And they aren't afraid to show it. Sunday, the sorority's intramural sports trivia team, consisting of seniors Dana Sitarz and Ann Poosuthasee and juniors Maria Delimata and Natasha Heimer, was in first place heading into the third round of an intramural sports trivia contest held at the Student Recreational Sports Center Auditorium.


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World-class trio to perform

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For over 40 years the Beaux Arts Trio has provided audiences with precise, exciting and critically acclaimed performances and recordings of chamber music for piano, violin and cello. The founding pianist of the trio, Menahem Pressler, is accompanied by violinist Daniel Hope and cellist Antonio Meneses. Hailing from Britain, Hope was voted Young Artist of the Year 1999 by Germany's two leading music magazines and Classical Performer (of the year) 2001 by London's Evening Standard newspaper. Meneses has performed with top orchestras all over the world, and has won first prize in several international competitions, not the least of which was the prestigious Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.


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Game has postseason implications for team

The men's lacrosse club team is preparing for a home game that has playoff implications. The Hoosiers will meet Illinois at 2 p.m. Saturday at the intramural fields.


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Chinese spiritual group spreading peace across campus

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Mary Lan often thinks about her home in China. Sometimes at night, she can't get to sleep, she is so overcome with longing. She thinks of the river that runs near her parents house. She thinks of her father, who is old and not always well.


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Six IU singers take home top awards from vocal competition

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Voices echoing with operatic arias -- an air or melody in an opera, cantata or oratorio, especially for solo voice with instrumental accompaniment -- rang through the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in the 33rd West Palm Beach Vocal Competition, held this past April in West Palm Beach, Fla. Five of the winners were students from IU and one was an IU alumnus.


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Burton grows with race team

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Ward Burton will always cherish his win in the Daytona 500, the biggest victory of his career. But when everything that followed was a disaster, it's easy to forget that moment. Week after week after his season-opening victory, Burton fell deeper and deeper into a miserable slump. He had finishes of 21st or worse 11 times, scored just two top-10 finishes and went to New Hampshire International Speedway last weekend stuck in a rut of finishing 33rd of worse in six of the last seven races.


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'Halloween' in July?

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Jamie Lee Curtis is back once again for the eighth installment of the "Halloween" franchise, but only for a brief while. Michael Myers is as relentless as a Rolling Stones tour manager. It turns out that Laurie Strode (Curtis) had decapitated the wrong guy in a mask in the last episode. Kind of like when you walk into the wrong classroom on the first day of school. So we can all relate, right?


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Chinese village voting wins praise

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QUANWANG, China -- With former President Carter watching, villagers cast ballots Wednesday in a display meant to showcase China's experiment with limited, low-level elections. About 860 voters gathered in the back lot of a silk factory to choose the five-member Quanwang committee, supposed to run daily affairs in this village near Shanghai. Carter called it proof that democracy was spreading, albeit slowly, through China's grass roots.


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Let's stop homeland terror

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Regardless of Washington's best efforts to desist terrorist efforts overseas, nationally, the U.S. has yet to take a united stand against the dangerous cadre of environmental extremists who continue to commit horrendous acts of terrorism against their fellow citizens.


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Black history month

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MLK day is short, celebratory and over before the ice-cream melts. And that's how us white folks like it. But if Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a short-lived celebration, then Black History Month is an unfulfilled commitment. That's right. Black History Month. You know…this month?


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Protesters defy everything and accomplish nothing

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As a friend of mine drove past a group of protesters on the steps of the Monroe County Justice Building Friday night, he heard them yell at him, "How's your mama?" The group was protesting the arrest of six demonstrators earlier in the day during a cycling activist event. The police arrested some of the riders after they refused to stay in one lane so traffic could pass them.


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Ozark folk music from back in the day

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Lance Randolph did most of his work in other people's kitchens or on other people's porches. The folklore collector spent nearly 50 years recording the music of the Ozark Mountain region, which covers parts of Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Kansas. Nestled in that rugged terrain, Randolph captured Ozark natives as they spilled forth the soul of a culture.


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Student names given to FBI

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Complying with a request to colleges and universities nationwide to aid terrorism investigations, records of about 3,200 IU students were released to federal authorities last week. Acting in collaboration with University legal counsel, the Office of International Services released the names of all nonimmigrant students who have taken intensive English-as-a-second-language courses during the past five years, according to OIS Associate Dean and Director Kenneth Rogers. Nonimmigrant students are classified as international students attending school in the United States on "F" or "J" visas.


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Summer enrollment on rise

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INDIANAPOLIS -- Summer enrollment at some Indiana colleges is on the rise as summer school students try to get ahead or turn to college because of a slow job market.