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Despite youth, MacTaggart displays veteran skills

By Justin Albers · Wednesday, Feb. 17,2010 12:08 a.m.

IU freshman Josh MacTaggart doesn’t overpower anyone on the tennis court. His serve is of average velocity compared to his Hoosier teammates, and he rarely surprises anyone with his strength. At first glance, he looks more like a runner or a swimmer than a tennis player.

Basket Ball

Hoosiers make small strides in loss

By Jordan Cohen · Wednesday, Feb. 17,2010 12:06 a.m.

The scoreboard might not have shown it — and it was the team’s seventh loss in as many games — but IU took some baby steps in the right direction Tuesday.

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Diversity Committee brings culture to campus

By Lindsey Mohlman · Tuesday, Feb. 16,2010 11:29 p.m.

The IU-Bloomington Diversity Committee gathered Tuesday to discuss the upcoming events on campus for spring, including a Holocaust exhibit and Diversity Day presentations with the theme of Civil Conversation.

Elinor Ostrom Nobel Speech

Auditorium fills for Nobel Lecture speech

By Alycin Bektesh · Tuesday, Feb. 16,2010 11:17 p.m.

McRobbie told the packed auditorium that Ostrom had received her Nobel Prize in Economics “for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons,” and that she was the first woman to have won the prize.

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Students express from the heart in spoken word poetry

By Alyssa Goldman · Tuesday, Feb. 16,2010 10:04 p.m.

“Spoken word is poetry, but it’s basically a song without music,” said IU alumnus Branden Scott. “Spoken word has more feeling. It’s like giving a speech. Poetry is reading from a book; it’s not emotional. Spoken word is a conversation meant to sway you.”

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Ignore the idiots

By Sarah Hann · Tuesday, Feb. 16,2010 9:40 p.m.

There are some very stupid people in the world. Take, for instance, the missionaries who are currently being held in a Haitian jail for the attempted kidnapping of 33 children abandoned or orphaned in the wake of the earthquake. They claim they had the correct papers and had set up a place in the Dominican Republic to take the children until their relatives could be found or someone could adopt them.

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Don’t mess with France

By Zach Ammerman · Tuesday, Feb. 16,2010 9:29 p.m.

Don’t let France’s obsession with such stereotypical “feminine” things as cuisine and fashion fool you; France is no wimp.

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Praise be to Google

By Nick Jacobs · Tuesday, Feb. 16,2010 9:27 p.m.

I left my church recently against my pastor’s advice. Why? Because I sat down and tried to list what the Big Guy had done for me recently, and I couldn’t think of much. Alternatively, Google has solved just about all of my mortal problems.

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The guilty Americans

By Nathan Dixon · Tuesday, Feb. 16,2010 9:26 p.m.

“We cannot trade irresponsible Democrat leaders for Republican leaders we don’t have complete confidence in,” said Todd Young, a Bloomington attorney running for Indiana’s 9th Congressional District, at the IU College Republicans callout meeting.

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