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Sarah Palin’s pipeline terms netted 1 viable bid

Sunday, Oct. 26,2008 10:49 p.m.

Gov. Sarah Palin’s signature accomplishment – a contract to build a 1,715-mile pipeline to bring natural gas from Alaska to the Lower 48 – emerged from a flawed bidding process that narrowed the field to a company with ties to her administration, an Associated Press investigation shows.

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Obama to cap Western run with rally in Colorado

Sunday, Oct. 26,2008 10:48 p.m.

Barack Obama is trying to snag a win in Colorado, a state that twice sided with President Bush, as the race for the presidency whirls into its final days.

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Homecoming royalty crowned

By Nick Cusack · Sunday, Oct. 26,2008 10:48 p.m.

IU seniors Luke Fields and Sara Stombaugh were named Homecoming king and queen Saturday at the Homecoming football game.

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Iranian president has fallen ill from workload

Sunday, Oct. 26,2008 10:47 p.m.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has fallen ill due to exhaustion brought on by his heavy workload, the state-run news agency reported quoting a close associate.

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Israeli prime minister-delegate to abandon talks

Sunday, Oct. 26,2008 10:46 p.m.

Prime Minister-designate Tzipi Livni on Sunday abandoned her efforts to form a new coalition government and said she would recommend early parliamentary elections.

IU alumnus David Neville returned Saturday afternoon to IU after competing in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Neville won a bronze and a gold medal in the 400-meter dash and the 4 X 100-meter relay, respectively.

Neville comes home again

By Jeremy Rosenthal · Sunday, Oct. 26,2008 10:45 p.m.

This weekend, Neville, a star on the IU track and field team from 2003 to 2006, received a standing ovation from the Memorial Stadium crowd as he flashed his two medals – the bronze from the 400-meter dash and the gold as part of the record setting 4x400-meter relay team.

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‘The Wild Party’ keeps the ’20s roaring

Sunday, Oct. 26,2008 10:44 p.m.

The idea of 1920s America typically brings to mind speakeasies, prohibition and flappers. It was a shifting era spinning toward disaster. Fortunately, “The Wild Party,” now playing at the Lee Norvelle Theatre and Drama Center, does not suffer the same fate as the decade the musical portrays.

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Save us from the robots

Sunday, Oct. 26,2008 7:56 p.m.

As the election draws nearer, any eligible voter has felt the barrage of messages, questionnaires and calls for donations. But these calls aren’t being made just by pesky campaign workers, but also by our robotic brethren in the form of spam programs. Like John Connor battled the terminators to save us from a world overrun by Arnold Schwarzenegger, we eligible voters have to find a way to overcome this robo-menace. Robocalls – phone programs that send automated messages – are being abused by both political parties to spread their messages with varying degrees of truth and propaganda. Indiana is one of three states that has banned this practice completely, but is a hard law to enforce because voters often don’t know that it’s against the law and don’t report it. Free speech shouldn’t apply to automatic messages such as these if they invade privacy and force themselves on the listener. It’s not free speech if someone takes a pamphlet, ties it to a brick and throws it through your window. Why should robocalls be considered different?

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An Ugg-ly situation

By Abby Schwimmer · Sunday, Oct. 26,2008 7:54 p.m.

“She looks like a slutty Eskimo.” This is the initial reaction an acquaintance of mine had when she saw her first Ugg boot. To provide a bit of context, I’ll concede that this acquaintance lived in Florida and that the boots happened to be paired with a miniskirt and tank top. Here in Bloomington, where the mercury actually drops below 75, it seems a bit more sensible to don these infamous boots.

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Memo to the Republican Party of 2012

By Christian Hines · Sunday, Oct. 26,2008 7:53 p.m.

Republican leaders of 2012: Well, it’s looking more and more like this thing’s wrapped up. With eight days until the election, the chances of our claiming a third consecutive term are steadily going down the tube. I suppose it’s no surprise. Despite our greatest efforts, we knew that isolating ourselves from a president with a 25 percent approval rating would be no easy feat. 

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Sarah Palin TV

By Jordan Zaslow · Sunday, Oct. 26,2008 7:51 p.m.

Sarah Palin is going to be the most chic mom at the hockey game on Nov. 5. I mean, she is going to look like a dime piece next to Joe Six Pack’s wife. But looking like a dime doesn’t come cheap. The Republican National Committee reportedly spent $150,000 on “campaign accessories” for Palin – and you know they didn’t hit up the local Wal-Mart. Palin’s new designer wardrobe was purchased at Neiman Marcus, Barney’s and Saks Fifth Avenue.

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Popular Palin

By Danielle Fleischman · Sunday, Oct. 26,2008 7:49 p.m.

Since Sarah Palin’s introduction to the general election, I’ve had trouble understanding her political appeal. It might be her folksy way of talking or her perceived incompetence in handling interviews, but either way there isn’t a word that has come out of her mouth that I have been able to take seriously. This perception has only deepened as Nov. 4 nears and the media continues their aggressive onslaught against her.

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Bloomington man arrested after car chase

By Elvia Malagon · Sunday, Oct. 26,2008 7:32 p.m.

A Bloomington man led the IU Police Department, the Bloomington Police Department and the Indiana State Police on a chase throughout the city Saturday while his 86-year-old mother was in the passenger seat, police said.

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