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Campaign economics

By Nathan Dixon · Tuesday, March 25,2008 10:27 p.m.

On Monday, Sen. Hillary Clinton laid out a plan in Philadelphia to slow mounting foreclosures. She called for greater lender transparency and for $30 billion in federal assistance for individual homeowners. She clearly hopes to woo enough Pennsylvanians to keep her bid for the Democratic nomination alive.

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Charter cash

By Jennifer Miller · Tuesday, March 25,2008 10:26 p.m.

"Yeah. Don’t teach – you’ll never have any money.” Ah. The famous rebuttal. Ever notice how the phrase “noble profession” is a code for “you’ll be broke if you do this”?

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Judging a book by its cover

Tuesday, March 25,2008 10:23 p.m.

On March 21, the Indiana Daily Student ran an article about a student and janitor at IUPUI accused of harassing his black co-workers by reading an anti-Ku Klux Klan book called “Notre Dame vs. the Klan: How the Fighting Irish Defeated the Ku Klux Klan” in front of them. The book features two burning crosses on its cover. The man, Keith J. Sampson, claims he didn’t do anything besides read the book and that he is a very racially tolerant person who was just trying to learn what the book had to say.

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Prominent U.S. foreign policy scholar to speak about Iraq War

By Alanna Malik · Tuesday, March 25,2008 9:42 p.m.

The IU Department of History is hosting Andrew J. Bacevich, professor of international relations at Boston University, at 8 p.m. today in the Indiana Memorial Union’s Georgian Room. Bacevich will be speaking about U.S. foreign policy after the Iraq War. Bacevich is part of the annual McNutt lecture series hosted by IU’s history department.

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IU-EMS to host mock drunk-driving scenario

By Dion Hazelbaker · Tuesday, March 25,2008 9:40 p.m.

Little 500 week is IU’s most popular time to party, and rather than just advising the community to not drink, IU-EMS, the University’s emergency medical team, is putting on “In An Instant,” an event that will showcase the dangers of drinking and driving, at 12 p.m. today.

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Arts Column: It’s the time of the season to switch up playlists

Tuesday, March 25,2008 9 p.m.

There’s a lot to love about March. First of all, it’s when Uranus was discovered. And it’s got St. Patrick’s Day, which thankfully you don’t have to be Irish to celebrate, you just have to wear catchy t-shirts with slogans like “Kiss Me I’m Drunk,” the way St. Patrick intended it.

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Tribute band covers Queen

By Shannon Dahmer · Tuesday, March 25,2008 8:57 p.m.

Electrifying guitar solos, belting out notes at the top of the scales and high-powered performances are common occurances for Gary Mullen and the Works.

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‘Inappropriate’ product stirs local controversy

By Brandi Baldwin · Tuesday, March 25,2008 8:43 p.m.

After buying a pack of fun straws from Wal-Mart for her 3-year-old daughter in February, Andrea Bailey of Kentucky said she found not just the usual hearts and squiggles. Two of the straws appeared to be phallic-shaped.

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Charity trades old equipment for new phone cards

By Allison Tyra · Tuesday, March 25,2008 8:41 p.m.

Between dropping them in the toilet, leaving them on the bus or accidentally stepping on them, college students can be hard on their cell phones. Now, they can donate old cells and chargers to Cell Phones for Soldiers, which trades them in for 60-minute phone cards that are given to families and friends of soldiers so they can call their loved ones stationed overseas.

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‘Ma(u)l’ surprises

By Gabrijel Gelic · Tuesday, March 25,2008 7:15 p.m.

Walking into the Wells-Metz Theatre on Saturday night, I had no idea what to expect, and boy, was I surprised with what I saw.

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Thank you, Southerners

By Scott Leadingham · Tuesday, March 25,2008 1:14 p.m.

Don’t know much about history. Don’t know much biology.” – Sam Cooke. It was recently suggested to me that I, like Sam Cooke’s song lyrics indicate, am lacking in my knowledge

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Columnist delivers thoughts on presidential election

By Haley Adams · Tuesday, March 25,2008 3:32 a.m.

When Pulitzer prize-winning columnist William Safire took the stage, he said the purpose of his speech was to analyze the current political scene. He then focused on the uniqueness of this year’s presidential election.  PODCAST:  Hoosier Headlines

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Chelsea Clinton, Sean Astin campaign at IU

Tuesday, March 25,2008 3:30 a.m.

Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton and actor Sean Astin visited IU today to campaign for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

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Bill Frist to speak on medicine’s potential

By Elvia Malagon · Tuesday, March 25,2008 12:18 a.m.

A former Republican senator will discuss medicine’s potential to improve U.S. foreign policy at IU today. Former Tennessee Sen. Bill Frist will present his lecture “Global Medicine as a Currency for Peace” at 7 p.m. today in the IU Auditorium.

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Around the World

By AP Reports and Abisalom Omolo · Tuesday, March 25,2008 12:03 a.m.

A longtime loyalist of slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was elected Pakistan’s new prime minister Monday and immediately freed judges detained by President Pervez Musharraf.

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IU to offer skin cancer screenings

By Allison Tyra · Tuesday, March 25,2008 12:02 a.m.

Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in the United States, but the IU Health Center is trying to fight the disease by educating students. The IU Health Center will offer free melanoma screenings to students from 1 to 3:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Hoosier room of Indiana Memorial Union.

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