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Education deregulation

Tuesday, Feb. 10,2009 10:53 p.m.

Last week the Indiana State Board of Education instituted a large agenda of deregulation that allows individual school districts to have much more freedom in how they award credits. To those of us who have gone through four treacherous years of high school, the announced proposals might come off as a bit surprising. Requirements for student-teacher ratios, administrators and counselors were removed.

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Considering numbers

By Sanjay Mohanty · Tuesday, Feb. 10,2009 10:52 p.m.

On his last night in town, I asked my best friend if he was ready to leave, if he was ready for officer basic and ranger school and whatever else he has left before he’ll get deployed. He nodded. “Of course.”

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Break slavery’s silence

Tuesday, Feb. 10,2009 10:51 p.m.

All across the world – from a brothel in India to a home in California, from brick factories in Pakistan to charcoal production in Brazil, from the cocoa fields in the Ivory Coast to your own neighborhood, wherever that may be – about 27 million people are enslaved.

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A Fresh START

By Christian Hines · Tuesday, Feb. 10,2009 10:50 p.m.

U.S. credibility in the international community, one can hardly dispute, has suffered a gradual deterioration over the past six years.

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Steeling the show

By Nathan Dixon · Tuesday, Feb. 10,2009 10:49 p.m.

Michael Steele has long been in the business of telling black voters that Democrats took their votes for granted.

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Seniors blog about city’s fashion

Tuesday, Feb. 10,2009 10:06 p.m.

As stated on the aptly named blog IU Fashionista, “Just because we are in Indiana doesn’t mean we don’t understand fashion.”

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Art museum receives $500K grant

By Jackie Kochell · Tuesday, Feb. 10,2009 10:06 p.m.

The IU Art Museum recently received a $500,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to create two new staff positions to enhance the museum’s presence on campus.

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Fox’s new mixed bag

By Erica Rogers · Tuesday, Feb. 10,2009 10:05 p.m.

Can you tell a lie? And if so, can you do it in such a way that will get you out of a sticky situation?

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Oil prices fall Tuesday after Senate passes stimulus plan

Tuesday, Feb. 10,2009 10:04 p.m.

Oil prices fell alongside the broader markets Tuesday despite Senate passage of President Obama’s economic recovery plan and a new Department of the Treasury program to raise more than $1 trillion in public and private funds.

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Vatican to treat ID as ‘cultural phenomenon’

Tuesday, Feb. 10,2009 10:04 p.m.

The Vatican will include discussion of intelligent design in a conference marking the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species,” officials said Tuesday.

Ballet professor Violette Verdy stretches on a barre Tuesday at the Musical Arts Center. Verdy, a native of France, will be presented with France's highest honor by President Nicolas Sarkozy this June.

Winning France's highest honor

By Amy Burke · Tuesday, Feb. 10,2009 10:01 p.m.

President of France M. Nicolas Sarkozy awarded IU Distinguished Professor of Ballet Violette Verdy France’s highest decoration for her numerous successes in ballet.

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NY hedge fund swindler’s girlfriend pleads guilty

Tuesday, Feb. 10,2009 10:01 p.m.

The girlfriend of a former hedge fund manager convicted of swindling clients out of millions of dollars pleaded guilty Tuesday to helping him flee before he was supposed to start serving a 20-year prison sentence.

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Sri Lanka: 16 patients killed in shelling of makeshift hospital

Tuesday, Feb. 10,2009 10 p.m.

At least 16 patients being treated at a makeshift hospital in the northern Sri Lankan war zone were killed by shelling, the Red Cross said Tuesday, as the military accused rebel fighters of killing 19 other civilians fleeing the area.

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Hoosiers downed by 8 in Minnesota

Tuesday, Feb. 10,2009 8:55 p.m.

The IU men's basketball was beaten 62-54 by the Gophers tonight in Minnesota. IU falls to 6-17 on the season and 1-10 in the Big Ten. The Hoosiers also lost to the Gophers on Jan. 25 inside Assembly Hall, 67-63.  This time around IU took the court without its leading scorer Devan Dumes. For more information, visit the Basketblog.

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Dumes addresses elbowing incident

By Tom Kirby · Tuesday, Feb. 10,2009 12:16 a.m.

During Saturday’s game against Michigan State, Dumes was whistled for a flagrant foul and ejected after throwing his third elbow of the game. 

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