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Case of dead student to be re-opened

By Nicholas J. Schmidt · Sunday, July 27,2003 9:34 p.m.

In his quest to find the truth about his dead son, 86-year-old Bill Plume, a Colorado resident, visited Bloomington recently to meet with with the Monroe County coroner. Plume's 18-year-old son, Michael, was an airman with the U.S. Air Force and a Russian language student at IU 43 years ago. Michael's body was discovered February 15, 1960 by construction workers, lifelessly hanging from a rope at the construction site of the IU Memorial Stadium.

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African students hold fundraiser

By Bonnie Real · Sunday, July 27,2003 9:05 p.m.

People spilled beyond the hundred chairs in the Grand Hall of the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center last Thursday, but guests still found room to dance on the edges of the crowd. A three-table buffet and six-piece band added to the swell of the room. A wide range of food and decorative attire splashed it with color.

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'Nevsky' pairs image and music

By Ashima Thomas · Sunday, July 27,2003 8:54 p.m.

The Festival Orchestra appeared to swell Thursday at the Musical Arts Center as it played the long, loud opening notes of the dramatic score to the 1938 film "Alexander Nevsky." The trombonists belted out an ominous bass line, supported by the timpanist beating menacing, thunderous rolls and bangs.

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'Nevsky' pairs image and music

By Ashima Thomas · Sunday, July 27,2003 8:53 p.m.

The Festival Orchestra appeared to swell Thursday at the Musical Arts Center as it played the long, loud opening notes of the dramatic score to the 1938 film "Alexander Nevsky." The trombonists belted out an ominous bass line, supported by the timpanist beating menacing, thunderous rolls and bangs.

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Book publishers cut staff, spending despite large sales

By Alyson Brodsy and Hillel Italie · Sunday, July 27,2003 8:51 p.m.

NEW YORK -- This should be a great time for the book world. "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" has set sales records. Hillary Clinton's memoirs, "Living History," has sold more than 1 million copies. Other recent successes include Oprah Winfrey's book club pick, "East of Eden," and Walter Isaacson's "Benjamin Franklin."

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Around the Arts

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, July 27,2003 8:50 p.m.

BOYS TOWN, Neb. -- The family of the late actor Spencer Tracy helped a home for troubled youth celebrate the 65th anniversary of the movie that made it famous.

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Jordan River Forum

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, July 27,2003 8:50 p.m.

The artist disagrees While I, as a musician myself, agree with your editors on the fact that Internet downloads are a fact of life these days, I feel your critique ignored a crucial fact in these artists' arguments against iTunes.

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PBS doing special on gadfly Gore Vidal

By Alyson Brodsy and Bob Thomas · Sunday, July 27,2003 8:48 p.m.

LOS ANGELES -- You might think that Gore Vidal, the novelist, playwright, essayist, congressional candidate, TV personality and all-around American gadfly, would be mellowing at age 77. Think again. The tireless iconoclast, who published his first novel at 20 and has written 25 more, remains as feisty and prolific as ever.

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High fructose bribery

By Vince Carr and Vincent Carr · Sunday, July 27,2003 8:48 p.m.

While many people count calories and carbohydrates from the "Nutrition Facts" labels on food, I have found that reading a product's list of ingredients can, at times, be even more telling about its nutritional value. During one of my recent excursions at Marsh, I realized that the overwhelming majority of sweet foods don't contain sugar; rather, high-fructose corn syrup is the primary sweetening agent. High-fructose corn syrup is basically corn syrup on steroids.

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Easy-fix it

By Alyson Brodsy and Lize Kolar · Sunday, July 27,2003 8:47 p.m.

We live in a fast-paced society that demands fast solutions to problems. Hungry? Grab a Snickers. Head hurt? Take an aspirin. Distant relatives banging on your door for a visit? Pour a scotch (for yourself). Americans' attention span has gotten dangerously short in the last few decades.

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For whom the Pell tolls

Sunday, July 27,2003 8:44 p.m.

This month, the Congressional Research Service revealed that the Department of Education's revised financial aid formula would prevent 84,000 formerly eligible students from receiving Pell grants and decrease the amount awarded by $270 million. Pell grants are need-based federal grants for disadvantaged students seeking undergraduate-level education. Eligibility and size are calculated using a complex formula involving income, assets, marital status, number of children and taxes -- and therein lies the rub.

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Vendetta Red's screaming is a howl

By -Val Tsoutsouris · Thursday, July 24,2003 10:33 a.m.

Anybody who listens to enough rock knows that a good scream doesn't come from the throat but rather the heart. Somebody needs to tell Vendetta Red. The Seattle fivesome has referred to its style as "screamo," a style of emo where the vocal-ese from frontman Zach Davidson breaks off from crooning in the verses to the occasional scream, especially in the choruses.

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These songs have been 'Used' before

By -Val Tsoutsouris · Thursday, July 24,2003 10:32 a.m.

Clearly we have entered a new era in music distribution. So rampant is electronic file sharing that we now have The Used's Maybe Memories. From a band standpoint, this album isn't a watershed but rather a symbol for how to treat one's fans. From a fan standpoint, you might feel you need this in order to recommit.

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Losing your head in a fast food joint

By Jessica Halverson · Thursday, July 24,2003 10:31 a.m.

From fast food workstyle roots, Ugly Duckling whips its collective job experience up into a "Meatshake" for the alternative rap group's newest release, Taste the Secret. A chunky puree of concept and random tunes, the album is too disorienting and fails to hit the spectacular plot line of a Prince Paul album. The main story is about the fast food joint "Meatshake," provider of liquid meat, its blockhead workers and customers and the veggie shop across the street, headed by an airy yippie.

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Mya mixes R&Band porn

By Michael Tapscott · Thursday, July 24,2003 10:31 a.m.

I'm sure that I have healthy sexual attitudes, but Mya's album managed to make me blush even when I was by myself. Of course, this is the standard coming out party for our nation's overprotected young divas. On her third album, Mya intermittently explains that she really is not that innocent and describes (in great detail) how and with whom she's having sex.

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Gray too inconsistent for her own good

By Michael Tapscott · Thursday, July 24,2003 10:30 a.m.

Macy Gray has been by far the most interesting female voice in the neo-soul movement. She is able to surpass contemporaries Jill Scott, Lauryn Hill, the loathsome Alicia Keys or Erykah Badu with sheer freakiness. Gray is an awkward woman who Jim DeRogatis once described as Betty Boop after too many bong rips. Her main asset is that her voice, a kind of smoky scratch, is quite an original instrument and is put to good work with a gift for diction and alliteration similar to Bob Dylan.

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Two 'Train's pass in the night

By -Val Tsoutsouris · Thursday, July 24,2003 10:28 a.m.

Everyone surely wishes they were someone else at some point. In a world where no one is easily satisfied, maybe you could imagine yourself inhabiting someone else's existence. Maybe you would just want to do this for a day or so to see what it's like. Maybe you would like to make it permanent.

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Moore shows us 'How to Don't'

By Jessica Smith · Thursday, July 24,2003 10:28 a.m.

My biggest question walking out of this movie was "How to Deal" with the fact that I just wasted 101 minutes of my life. "How to Deal" is the story of an oversexed high school girl played by Mandy Moore (what a surprise!) going through tragedy after tragedy all the while trying to figure out how to fall in love. Now, we've all been through the tormenting adolescence of high school, but is it necessary to drive the topic into the ground with yet another crappy teen movie?

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Atkinson plays Bean, no wait, Johnny English

By -Paul Straw · Thursday, July 24,2003 10:27 a.m.

Johnny English is Bean. Well, not exactly. While technically "Johnny English" is a different movie, and though he talks more, Rowan Atkinson plays relatively the same part as always.

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