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Re-acting stupidly

Sunday, July 26,2009 5:53 p.m.

WE SAY The President’s response is being over-analyzed.Over the next four (or eight) years, Obama is not going to say the right thing all the time. We shouldn’t dwell or look too deeply on a momentary lapse in judgment.

The private lives of public officials

Sunday, July 26,2009 5:50 p.m.

What should we do when a politician’s life goes off the rails? The answer, I’m afraid, is that there is no answer.

Parenting doesn’t make sense

By Tyler Chernesky · Sunday, July 26,2009 5:49 p.m.

With so much at stake, it’s hard to see how anyone could ever be ready to raise a child.

IU’s racial disparity

By Jacob Levin · Sunday, July 26,2009 5:48 p.m.

At IU, students who are randomly assigned a roommate of a different race are three times more likely to request a change than students who were given a same-race roommate. Administrators' response illustrates clearly the disconnect between IU’s very real diversity woes and what the administration thinks it’s doing to solve them.

Orienting yourself

Sunday, July 26,2009 5:42 p.m.

Freshmen are all nervous and awkward and self-conscious, every one of them, even if they aren’t willing to admit it. They think orientation is a tryout, an audition for the college experience.

Freedoms No. 1 and No. 2

By Stephanie Kuzydym · Sunday, July 26,2009 4:44 p.m.

People take the little aspects of life for granted. You know, the meaning of freedom and the never-know-what-you’ve-got-until-it’s-gone aspects. Like the new significant other who complains more than your ex or the class that requires you to write two times as many papers as that dreaded one last semester ... or the public toilet that costs nothing to use.

France’s Sarkozy has health scare

Sunday, July 26,2009 4:42 p.m.

PARIS – French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s office says he was rushed by helicopter to a military hospital Sunday after he felt unwell during a strenuous jog on a hot afternoon.

Europe fast-tracking swine flu vaccine; some experts concerned

Sunday, July 26,2009 4:41 p.m.

LONDON – In a drive to inoculate people against swine flu before winter, many European governments say they will fast-track the testing of a new flu vaccine, arousing concern among some experts about safety issues and proper vaccine doses.

Gearing up for the Brickyard

By Michael Marot · Sunday, July 26,2009 1:22 p.m.

INDIANAPOLIS – Dale Earnhardt Jr. had no trouble qualifying Saturday at Indianapolis. Finishing 400 miles in Sunday’s race may be a different matter.

Caught in the tines of music

By Nathan Brown · Thursday, July 23,2009 10:45 a.m.

The dregs of hipsterdom were all packed tightly into Chicago’s Union Park last weekend.

New Ind. program allows online protection requests

Thursday, July 23,2009 9:42 a.m.

INDIANAPOLIS – A pilot program in eight Indiana counties allows domestic violence victims to fill out forms to request protective orders online.

New jobless claims rise to 554K

Thursday, July 23,2009 9 a.m.

WASHINGTON – The number of newly laid-off workers seeking jobless benefits rose last week, though the government said its report again was distorted by the timing of auto plant shutdowns.

Premature Speculation

By Cory Barker · Thursday, July 23,2009 12 a.m.

Emmy predictions.

High-speed rail supporters praise Daniels

Wednesday, July 22,2009 8:17 p.m.

INDIANAPOLIS – High-speed rail supporters are praising Indiana’s efforts to land federal stimulus money that’s set aside for construction of high-speed passenger rail lines.

Coal-to-wood suggestion made for power

Wednesday, July 22,2009 8:16 p.m.

JASPER – A southern Indiana city is considering whether to convert its municipal power plant so that it could burn waste wood instead of coal.

Greyhound bus station to be decorated

Wednesday, July 22,2009 8:15 p.m.

EVANSVILLE – Local officials are looking to the past in their efforts to make a downtown block attractive to developers in the future.

Area helicopter pilot killed in crash in Iraq

Wednesday, July 22,2009 8:15 p.m.

WORTHINGTON, Ind. – A pilot who grew up in southern Indiana died in a helicopter crash in Iraq while working for a private contractor just months after retiring from the Army, his brother said.

Recession tackles bait shops

Wednesday, July 22,2009 8:08 p.m.

Buddy Bill’s Bait Barn closed at 6 p.m. Sunday after nearly 38 years of business. “Buddy” Bill Moser said the bait store wasn’t making enough money.

Visitation scheduled for professor’s daughter

By Sara Amato · Wednesday, July 22,2009 8:07 p.m.

IU professor Eric Rasmusen’s daughter’s visitation and funeral will be Thursday and Friday, respectively.

Interracial roommates more likely to opt out than same-race roommates

Wednesday, July 22,2009 8:06 p.m.

IU students who are randomly assigned a roommate of a different race are three times more likely change their room assignments by the end of their first semester than roommates of the same race, The New York Times reports.

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