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View from the top: Letters from Abroad

By Lindsey Landis · Monday, Jan. 14,2008 11:13 p.m.

BOLOGNA, Italy – Cars probably didn’t drive across the stage at the Vienna premiere of Christoph Willibald Gluck’s opera “Orphee et Eurydice.” I am also willing to bet the audience would have been shocked if the parts of the firemen were played by young men in red patent leather bodysuits. This is most likely because the classic French opera, which is based upon an ancient Greek tale, debuted in 1762.

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Middle Way House hosts training

By Lindsey Alexander · Monday, Jan. 14,2008 11:09 p.m.

When IU sophomore Kelly Spicer went in for volunteer training at the Middle Way House at the beginning of her freshman year, she had no idea she would be fielding crisis calls from women planning to or exploring the option of leaving their abusive spouses.

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Around the World

By AP Reports and Abisalom Omolo · Monday, Jan. 14,2008 10:23 p.m.

Iraqi Arab lawmakers from rival sects joined forces Sunday to criticize what they claim is overreaching by the Kurds, alleging the powerful U.S.-backed minority’s go-it-alone style in oil and other major issues threatens national unity.

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Jindal sworn in as governor

By Abisalom Omolo and Melinda Deslatte · Monday, Jan. 14,2008 10:21 p.m.

Republican Bobby Jindal, the nation’s first Indian-American governor, was sworn in Monday in Louisiana and moved quickly to make good on a campaign promise to clean up the corrupt image of this hurricane-battered state.

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Ditch the desserts

By Abra Oliver · Monday, Jan. 14,2008 7:30 p.m.

A Greenwich, Conn., elementary school has banned cookies, ice cream and other sweets from the lunch menu. This might sound harsh, but we say the school couldn’t have made a better choice. With high rates of childhood obesity and diabetes, good nutrition should not just be emphasized, but rather enforced. We need to curb unhealthy eating at an early age.

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Internet buzzkills

By Amanda Lowry · Monday, Jan. 14,2008 7:27 p.m.

For quite a while now, I’ve been hearing outbursts from IU students making one particular argument that I’ve felt amounted to little more than sensory judgment. The argument is easy to identify by its high ratio of name-checked cultural fad terms to actual argumentative content, and by its inevitable brevity, as it’s hard to say a whole lot about something you haven’t thought out past your instincts. It sounds something like this: “These days, it’s like, everyone’s logging onto MySpace, Generation Y needs constant stimulation, everyone’s taking Adderall and people just want to read about Paris Hilton.”

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Baby vomit politics

By Scott Leadingham · Monday, Jan. 14,2008 7:24 p.m.

There’s a myth abounding in our education system that goes something like this: If you work hard enough and set your goals high enough, you can achieve anything. Like many children, I was i

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Mean girl politics

By Rachel Fullmer · Monday, Jan. 14,2008 7:22 p.m.

This isn’t going to shock you: I love Hillary Clinton. Always have, always will. Her name has a long-standing tradition of gracing my column. Today is no different. After my hiatus of editing-induced insanity, can you guess who I’ve been dying to defend?

Gordon, Hoosiers top Illini

By Chris Engel · Monday, Jan. 14,2008 3:17 a.m.

The No. 10 IU men’s basketball team prevailed 62-58 against the University of Illinois in a game that came down to the final few seconds. PHOTO GALLERY: IU vs. Illinois

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Driving risks for teens identified

By Jessica Andrews · Monday, Jan. 14,2008 1:11 a.m.

A new study shows that younger drivers are involved in more collisions than other age groups. The study, conducted by the National Cooperative Highway Research Program, revealed that in 2006, 25 percent of licensed drivers ages 16 and 17 were involved in collisions.

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Students react to former Pakistani prime minister’s death

By Sarah Hutchins · Monday, Jan. 14,2008 12:53 a.m.

Dec. 27 started out normal for freshman Aoun Jafarey. He played tennis at a club in his home city of Karachi, Pakistan, got in his car, turned the radio on and started his normal 10-minute drive home. That’s when he learned about former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto’s assassination in Pakistan’s capital of Islamabad. It had been exactly six minutes since her death.

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IU has Weber singing the blues

By Jonathan Hines · Monday, Jan. 14,2008 12:43 a.m.

Bruce Weber babbled the words of a tortured coach after he watched his Illinois team falter down the stretch against the Hoosiers, 62-58 in Bloomington.

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