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Real guns used in 'Assassins'

By David Charles · Thursday, Feb. 17,2005 12:39 a.m.

When you think of a big budget show, an elaborate set and costumes come to mind. "Assassins" has that. It also has real guns and a huge lighted that says "Kill a President."

Michigan leads after 1st night of Big Ten meet

By Doug Klausen · Thursday, Feb. 17,2005 12:31 a.m.

Wednesday was an easy night for Big Ten teams in the 2005 Women's Big Ten Swimming and Diving Championships. Only two finals took place: the 200-yard medley relay and the 800-yard freestyle relay.

Bills to release Bledsoe Losman to step up

By Alyson Brodsy and John Wawrow · Thursday, Feb. 17,2005 12:27 a.m.

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. -- Drew Bledsoe will be released by the Buffalo Bills, a move that upset the 33-year-old quarterback who started every game for the team the past three seasons.

New faces abound as spring training starts

By Alyson Brodsy and Ronald Blum · Thursday, Feb. 17,2005 12:26 a.m.

TAMPA, Fla. -- On a day of arrivals and notable absences, Randy Johnson got lost on his way to the New York Yankees' spring training camp, and the Chicago Cubs started getting used to life without Sammy Sosa.

Senior from Czech Republic a surprise as IU's No. 1 player

By Eamonn Brennan · Thursday, Feb. 17,2005 12:25 a.m.

Jakub Praibis is surrounded by his teammates and their opponents shouting, yelling, cursing and arguing on green surfaces that stretch the length of the floor -- he doesn't sense it. He sees only his opponent, senses only the ball as it is slowly thrown up in the air and smacked down at what seems to be a 90-degree angle by his larger, taller competitor. In defiance, Praibis counters the player's power with grace, slicing a return to the corner that dies under the outstretched hand of his defeated foe.

Recipe for home court advantage

By Dan Click · Thursday, Feb. 17,2005 12:21 a.m.

To create the perfect homecourt advantage, the recipe calls for equal parts motivated team, large loud crowd and hated opponent.

Tickets look to 'lighten the load'

By Colleen Corley · Thursday, Feb. 17,2005 12:20 a.m.

Editor's Note: The IU Student Association Elections are looming. Next week students will weigh in on who they think will do the best job. In the meantime, the five tickets -- College, Connect, Kirkwood, Vote for Pedro and What About Bobby? -- discuss a different issue each day with the Indiana Daily Student.

Must have been that flaxseed oil

By Ryan Corazza · Thursday, Feb. 17,2005 12:19 a.m.

Keep trying, baseball. Keep denying and lying about steroid use in the league. It's your best disguise and will continue to make some fans believe that players weren't on the juice. Had you asked me a few months ago, I would have still given the game the benefit of the doubt. But now, I just can't buy into that anymore.

IU to face non-conference foe

By Matt Ostrega · Thursday, Feb. 17,2005 12:13 a.m.

For IU coach Kathi Bennett, the 2004-2005 campaign has been a story of night and day. The home team seems unstoppable. The road team can't get their act together.

Dressing the part for an interview

By Patrice Worthy · Thursday, Feb. 17,2005 12:12 a.m.

Dressing for an internship or interview can be very perplexing. As first you are excited, just because you have an interview or a chance for an internship and then fear comes over you.

Dance unraveled by faculty

By Lynndi Lockenour · Thursday, Feb. 17,2005 12:11 a.m.

When dance comes to mind, many think of freedom, not structure. Finding the process among that freedom was the focus for the lecture demonstration Tuesday by Laura Poole, Gwendolyn Hamm and Liz Shea, who are all professors of modern dance in the Department of Kinesiology.

Film becomes less costly, no less competitive

By Josh Kastrinsky · Thursday, Feb. 17,2005 12:11 a.m.

One camera, one stand, one mic, some creative lighting and three hours are all it takes to make a short film these days. Even a few years ago, such a project would have seemed impossible because of the cost and time directors would spend on it.

Around The Arts

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, Feb. 17,2005 12:10 a.m.

At 4 p.m. today, the IU Art Museum will give audience members a chance to consider Shakespeare from different angles. "Shakespeare in Art, Music and Word" is a special Arts Week program that will bring together performers from the Indiana Shakespeare Festival and the Early Music Institute, IU Dramaturg Tom Shafer and Jenny McComas, the IU Art Museum curator of Western Art after 1800. Henry Fuseli's painting Prospero, Caliban and Miranda in Shakespeare's "The Tempest," Act 1, Scene 2 (ca. 1806-10), and James Fittler's print "Measure for Measure," Act 3, Scene 1 (1794), both in the IU Art Museum's collection, are the inspiration.

A Major Mission

By Joelle Petrus · Thursday, Feb. 17,2005 12:06 a.m.

Laura Farruggio is a woman on a mission. That mission is to make music business a major. Students can currently study the field through the Individualized Major Program at IU, a program designed for people determined to choose the precise flavor of their degree. These students can choose their own curriculum with the help of at least one sponsor.

'Notebook' a noteworthy tearjerker

By Mallory Simon · Thursday, Feb. 17,2005 12 a.m.

Every couple months a director feels the need to force a little love into our lives in one way or another. The love story is often a reproduced, clichéd attempt at a box office hit. And while many of them may indeed become acclaimed (if not critically than with women as a whole), it's not often a movie has actually moved me to find the Kleenex, until now.

Strictly for the grown and sexy

By Sana Jafrani · Thursday, Feb. 17,2005 12 a.m.

With Gemini, Brian McKnight is attempting to show off the more risqué, edgy side of his personality. Listeners are used to the romantic side of McKnight, which produced hits like "Back at One," but now the songs are more sexual in nature. Since this is a more personal album for McKnight, it is appropriately titled with the name of his astrological sign.

'P.S.' ... this movie's mediocre

By Tony Sams · Thursday, Feb. 17,2005 12 a.m.

After watching "P.S.," Dylan Kidd's romance, I think there are five sins every romance movie commits. First, find yourself a couple of attractive leading stars; then pull some heartstrings here and there to make the audience coo first, cry next and coo again at the end; recycle the same plot that was cliché even when Shakespeare wrote it; throw in some empty, meaningless comic relief side characters and finally rinse with some quirky angle which makes us believe this romance is the one that breaches the formula.

Kapow! Explodes on Music Scene

By Annie Tasker · Thursday, Feb. 17,2005 12 a.m.

Fledgling rock band Kapow! is getting its name known around Bloomington by leaving it where people can see. Sketches of its comic-like logo explode on multicolored CD envelopes all over town. Free demos sit in front of the register at Soma and on the counter at Dharma Emporium on Kirkwood. Local merchants don't know where they came from. "If they came in and left those CDs, I didn't see them," says a Dharma Emporium employee.

Visions Of Hardcore's Future

By Chris Wisner and compiled by Chris Wisner · Thursday, Feb. 17,2005 12 a.m.

Orange County's Eighteen Visions is no stranger to the hardcore scene; in fact, they've been working hard for almost a decade. Eighteen Visions is a band whose members have never been afraid to be themselves and it shows in their music and image.

Pooh and Company pull a Macauley Culkin.

Overcoming stereotypes with Pooh

By Tristan Mathews · Thursday, Feb. 17,2005 12 a.m.

Winnie, Tigger, Piglet, Rabbit and Eeyore take the backseat in "Pooh's Heffalump Movie," an amusing tale of disproving prejudice and finding new friends.

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