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International students celebrate Thanksgiving

By Chelsea Merta · Sunday, Nov. 25,2007 10:07 p.m.

While most students braved traffic jams and delays at airports in order to get home for Thanksgiving, many international students at IU did not have the luxury of flying to their home countries for the break.

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Business students return from India

By Jeremy Rosenthal · Sunday, Nov. 25,2007 10:06 p.m.

It’s not often that a person gets to see one of the wonders of the world, ride an elephant, visit with top government officials and see poverty and happiness all in the same place, but 50 IU students did just that this month.

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U.S. Representative announces diagnosis of terminal lung cancer

By Associated Press and Alexandra R. Moses · Sunday, Nov. 25,2007 8:57 p.m.

INDIANAPOLIS – U.S. Rep. Julia Carson told a newspaper she has terminal lung cancer but did not say whether she intends to return to Congress or seek a seventh term. Carson, 69, said in a statement published in The Indianapolis Star on Sunday that she had planned to return to Washington after recuperating from a leg infection before a doctor diagnosed her with cancer.

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State police to use electronic ticket system

By Alexandra R. Moses · Sunday, Nov. 25,2007 8:55 p.m.

Indiana State Police Lt. Paul Bucher, commander at the department’s Bloomington post, announced Sunday that officers statewide will begin using a new electronic ticket system to generate computerized citations.

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Nobel laureate Guenter Grass files lawsuit

Sunday, Nov. 25,2007 8:12 p.m.

BERLIN – Nobel laureate Guenter Grass has filed a lawsuit against the publisher of his biography for claiming that he voluntarily joined the Nazis’ murderous Waffen-SS unit during World War II, his lawyer said Friday.

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State of the Union

By Anna Piontek · Sunday, Nov. 25,2007 8:02 p.m.

At my dinner table this Thanksgiving, there were three conventional Democrats, three people too far left to call themselves Democrats and one socially conservative Republican. Even though the Republican was outnumbered 6-1, the lefties felt uncomfortable when the topic of abortion came up in conversation, and the righty felt attacked. No inflammatory words were exchanged; rather, our Thanksgiving discomfort was caused by all parties’ apprehension and fear of the opposing political abyss. This is not an unusual situation. It is the state of the union.

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In God’s country

Sunday, Nov. 25,2007 7:41 p.m.

Richard Roberts, the president of Oral Roberts University, resigned on Friday, amidst accusations that he and his wife misspent university funds and jeopardized the university’s tax-exempt status with fundraising efforts for a Republican candidate. Roberts is the son of school founder and well-known evangelist Oral Roberts, and although ORU’s strict dress code and morals have loosened over the years, students are still required to sign an honor code.

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Cracked cosmos

By Brian J. McFillen · Sunday, Nov. 25,2007 7:41 p.m.

Apparently, we’re doomed… Again. And this time it’s the astrophysicists’ fault. On Wednesday, the London Telegraph reported that in an upcoming article in New Scientist, physicists Lawrence Krauss and James Dent claim that by observing evidence of dark matter in a 1998 project measuring the light from supernova, scientists might have shortened the lifespan of the universe.

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My favorite things

By John Barnett and Stefania Marghitu · Sunday, Nov. 25,2007 7:38 p.m.

Every year, Oprah reveals “My Favorite Things,” a list of what she believes are the best products and gift ideas around. This is always her most popular show, as the lucky guests all receive some of her favorite things. This year especially, a lucky group of Macon, Ga., residents seemed quite hysterical when they received these offerings from O herself.

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Gordon shines as Hoosiers improve to 3-0

By Chris Engel · Friday, Nov. 23,2007 7:49 a.m.

For the first four minutes of Tuesday’s game, the No. 8 IU men’s basketball team looked like it would be in for a battle against the University of North Carolina-Wilmington.

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