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MIDEAST ISRAEL PALESTINIANS

Troop pullout may signal talks

By Arthur H. Rotstein and Ibrahim Barzak · Monday, March 3,2008 11:46 p.m.

JEBALIYA, Gaza Strip – Israeli aircraft pummeled targets in Gaza for the sixth straight day Monday and militants fired rockets at a major Israeli city. But the fighting showed signs of slowing, with the army pulling ground troops out of northern Gaza.

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Police investigate 3 weekend fires

By Ben Phelps · Monday, March 3,2008 11:17 p.m.

Bloomington police are investigating three fires from the weekend, two of which were dumpster fires, while another occurred on a porch.

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Harmony School group to host forum, open house

By Heather Bougher · Monday, March 3,2008 11:14 p.m.

Harmony Press Corps, which consists of seven students and their adviser, Sallyann Murphey, will be hosting a community forum and open house from 6 to 8:30 p.m today at the Elm Heights School building at 909 E. Second St.

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The Bush ‘lybaree’

By Cheryl Thomas · Monday, March 3,2008 8:33 p.m.

It seems a president we all would like to forget will now live forever. Well, he’ll always be alive in Texas, anyway.

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Hire me, Larry

By Scott Leadingham · Monday, March 3,2008 8:31 p.m.

We’re often told that every person has a role to fulfill in this world. Certainly this is true considering that Paris Hilton is, well, alive.

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Don’t complicate me

By Abra Oliver · Monday, March 3,2008 8:27 p.m.

Does it sometimes seem like professors are going out of their way to confuse their students, rather than enlighten them? Have you sat, dumb-founded, while an instructor found a new way to “complicate” an economic model, a Dickens novel or a philosophical concept by introducing seemingly off-topic and unrelated material? Well, it turns out students aren’t the only ones having trouble cutting through the obscurity of their professors’ lectures.

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Southern view

By Abby Schwimmer and Ab Schwimmer · Monday, March 3,2008 8:26 p.m.

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica – Thousands of miles of terrain are enough to make the good ol’ U.S. seem worlds away from San Jose. Unfortunately, there are some things that living abroad absolutely has no

Mountain Goats

Bleating the blues

By Nathan Brown · Monday, March 3,2008 10:57 a.m.

John Darnielle’s project The Mountain Goats has been around since the early ’90s and has churned out a constant flow of records since its beginning.

Puppini Sisters

'Sisters' mean business

By Alec Quig · Monday, March 3,2008 10:52 a.m.

First things first: The Puppini Sisters are a vocal trio that dresses up in burlesque outfits to sing ironic pop covers (Beyonce’s “Crazy In Love”), a few originals (“Jilted”) and nearly-forgotten relics of popular music (Duke Ellington’s “It Don’t Mean A Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing”) in the style of World War II-era vocal groups

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Artistry of vandalism

By Dae Woo Son · Monday, March 3,2008 2:43 a.m.

Joe LaMantia, local artist and coordinator for “Writing on the Wall,” an ArtsWeek exhibit which asked community members to use graffiti to communicate their views of democracy, joined city and campus representatives for a panel discussion of graffiti’s place in the arts on Friday night at the School of Fine Arts Gallery. STORY:  Local artists show what democracy means to them with SoFA Gallery exhibit

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Hoosiers spiral out of Big Ten conference title picture

By Chris Engel · Monday, March 3,2008 2:42 a.m.

IU's lost to Michigan State Sunday likely knocked the No. 12 team out of the race for the Big Ten championship. Michigan State won the game 103-74 and the 103 points were the most given up by the Hoosiers this season.  BLOG:  Basketblog

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IU admission standards increase

By Katherine Fay · Monday, March 3,2008 2:41 a.m.

Many applicants with average grades placed on the waitlist this year after a surge in applications led to even higher standards for incoming freshmen. The dramatic increase in applications comes just a year after the IU board of trustees approved sweeping changes in admissions standards, which will go into effect in 2011.  PODCAST:  Hoosier Headlines

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Local artists show what democracy means to them

By Dae Woo Son · Monday, March 3,2008 2:40 a.m.

Local graffiti artist Julian Hensarling said for simply writing on a wall, many of his fellow graffiti artists have spent years in jail – a punishment, he believes, that does not fit the crime. Hensarling and four other local graffiti artists prepared pieces for “Writing on the Wall,” an exhibit exploring the intersection of graffiti and democracy on display at the School of Fine Arts Gallery. It’s a change of pace for artists who are usually prosecuted for vandalism.

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