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Predictability so totally rules

By C. Warner Sills and Alyson Brodsky · Thursday, Oct. 12,2006 12 a.m.

Many people have been successful with their chosen careers, have turned around and then failed to realize that success isn't always transferable. It seems simple: Dane Cook should stick to stand-up comedy and Dax Shepard should stick to "punking" celebrities. And above all, Jessica Simpson should stick to, well, being Jessica Simpson. It's obvious director Greg Coolidge, who helped with the "Employee" screenplay, put in more effort coming up with corny one-liners than he did casting this movie.

Scorsese returns to his roots

By Chris Wisner and compiled by Chris Wisner · Thursday, Oct. 12,2006 12 a.m.

Some time ago, I penned an article condemning the frequent Hollywood practice of remaking Asian films, mentioning in particular "The Departed," a remake of the highly successful Hong Kong thriller, "Infernal Affairs." Any regrets I had were dashed as the end credits began to roll; I realized Martin Scorsese and writer William Monahan took great source material and improved upon it tenfold.

Lost in the maize

By C. Warner Sills and Sonia Rana · Thursday, Oct. 12,2006 12 a.m.

If you were to fly a plane over the state of Indiana, every once in awhile, you might think you were in the movie "Signs." An aerial view of the terrain would show elaborate shapes and patterns like a giant patchwork quilt. That's because autumn marks the season of corn mazes -- the human-scale labyrinths beaten through the stalks of farm crops. Though they might look like the crop circle handiwork of aliens from outer space, they're actually the fruits of hard Hoosier manual labor. Maze making has a long and winding past. From the Minoan temple at Knossos, prior to, and ever since then, many world cultures have joined in the fascination. Some traditions even had a spiritual aspect connected to the maze, which often incorporated dance and other ceremonies. In European history, garden mazes sculpted out of topiaries and tall hedges were often used to deter unwanted visitors or enemies from castles.

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'Magic Budd' on display through December

By Molly Peters · Wednesday, Oct. 11,2006 11:54 p.m.

Budd Stalnaker is still having an effect on the art world at IU, despite passing away in May 2005. Stalnaker came to IU more than 40 years ago to teach textiles, and now his own private collection of African artwork will be displayed in the IU Art Museum.

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RPS gives students opportunity to 'Eat Wright'

By Jessica Anderson · Wednesday, Oct. 11,2006 11:52 p.m.

Walk into Wright Place Food Court any afternoon, and it will be packed with students trying to grab a bite to eat before rushing off to their next class. Choices like burgers and fries are staples, but many students are also making salads to go or picking up a piece of fruit. Flyers and banners hanging outside the cafeteria promoting the Residential Programs and Services' "Eat Wright" campaign attempt to educate students about eating healthy on campus, said Director of Dining Services Sandra Fowler.

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CORE philosophy explores the unconventional

By Allyson O’Connor · Wednesday, Oct. 11,2006 11:51 p.m.

Mountaineering and canyoneering are only a sample of the leadership and outdoor skills taught on a typical day in the Conservation and Outdoor Recreation/Education program at IU. "It is not the sort of program where you would want to skip a day of class," said Frank Vernon, coordinator and instructor for the program.

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Student group offers incentives for alternative transportation

By Carly Dachis · Wednesday, Oct. 11,2006 11:50 p.m.

On Wednesday students proved there are more benefits to biking than just being able to get parking close to campus. As part of Indiana Public Interest Research Group's Campus Climate Challenge, the student environmental activist group gave out free bagels and snacks to those using alternative forms of transportation.

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Muslim Student Union raises money for kitchen with Fast-a-thon

By Zachary Osterman · Wednesday, Oct. 11,2006 11:50 p.m.

More than 150 people were packed wall-to-wall in the Greenleaf Room of Forest Quad on Wednesday night, participating in the Muslim Student Union's annual Fast-a-thon. The program, which involves participants voluntarily fasting for one day and then eating a large meal after dark, is held during the holy month of Ramadan.

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Help Me, Harlan!

By Alyson Brodsy and Harlan Cohen · Wednesday, Oct. 11,2006 11:39 p.m.

I am 24, and am beginning to enter the dating game after years of shyness. I dated a girl a few times last year, and we are still friends. Through Internet sites, I have gone out with seven different girls so far this year.

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Prosecutor charges Pacer guard Jackson for strip-club fight incident

By Alyson Brodsy and Cliff Brunt · Wednesday, Oct. 11,2006 11:37 p.m.

Indiana Pacers guard Stephen Jackson was charged with criminal recklessness Wednesday following last week's confrontation outside a strip club. Jackson was charged with felony and misdemeanor counts of battery and disorderly conduct by the Marion County prosecutor five days after he fought with another group of men at the club.

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Half a Hilly Hundred, one heckuva long, bike-riding experience

By Alyson Brodsy and Jonathan Hines · Wednesday, Oct. 11,2006 11:31 p.m.

Broken bones. Fractured faces. Road rash. These were the fears that kept me from sleeping soundly last Saturday night, the night before I participated in my first Hilly Hundred. I heard all the horror stories earlier in the day from a few longtime Hilly riders. "I was raw meat," one 14-year Hilly veteran told me of the year he ended up in the emergency room, drugged up on pain medication after a nasty spill. "I had to call a friend from Indianapolis to pick me up and take me home."

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Comic Relief!

By C. Warner Sills and Andrew Roberts · Wednesday, Oct. 11,2006 11:15 p.m.

Nate Powell makes comic books. And do not insult him by calling them "graphic novels." He begins with a scene, develops characters and allows imagination to carry him away from the autobiographical and into an accessible story line that turns and tells truths with intelligence and purpose, despite the preconceived notion that comic books are a distasteful and unintelligent medium.

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Lost in the maize

By C. Warner Sills and Sonia Rana · Wednesday, Oct. 11,2006 11:11 p.m.

If you were to fly a plane over the state of Indiana, every once in awhile, you might think you were in the movie "Signs." An aerial view of the terrain would show elaborate shapes and patterns like a giant patchwork quilt. That's because autumn marks the season of corn mazes -- the human-scale labyrinths beaten through the stalks of farm crops. Though they might look like the crop circle handiwork of aliens from outer space, they're actually the fruits of hard Hoosier manual labor. Maze making has a long and winding past. From the Minoan temple at Knossos, prior to, and ever since then, many world cultures have joined in the fascination. Some traditions even had a spiritual aspect connected to the maze, which often incorporated dance and other ceremonies. In European history, garden mazes sculpted out of topiaries and tall hedges were often used to deter unwanted visitors or enemies from castles.

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President calls Foley conduct "disgusting"

By Alyson Brodsy and Associated Press · Wednesday, Oct. 11,2006 11:11 p.m.

President George W. Bush on Wednesday called ex-Rep. Mark Foley's approaches to House male pages "disgusting" and backed Speaker Dennis Hastert's efforts to learn how officials handled the problem. Peggy Sampson, the supervisor of the page program, was questioned for less than two hours before the House ethics committee. The panel is investigating Foley's inappropriate electronic messages to former pages and if House officials covered up Foley's come-ons.

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AT&T purchase of BellSouth gets OK from feds

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, Oct. 11,2006 11:10 p.m.

T&T's $78.5 billion buyout of BellSouth Corp. won Justice Department approval Wednesday, a decision that sets the stage for further reuniting modernized parts of the old Ma Bell phone monopoly broken up by the government in 1984.

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Science vs. Séance

By Elisha Sauers · Wednesday, Oct. 11,2006 11:09 p.m.

If not for Pythagoras -- that old, gray-bearded Greek philosopher and mathematician from 2,500 years ago -- students today would still be hunched over their geometry homework, wondering how to draft a proof for the area of a right triangle. Good ole Pythagoras. Now he was a man of rational-thinking and logic, one might say. He also, around 540 B.C.E., led a cult of other mathematicians known as the Pythagoreans in séance rituals which involved our earliest documented accounts of Ouija-like boards: A mystic table, moving on wheels, moved towards signs, which the philosopher and his pupil, Philolaus, interpreted to the audience as being revelations supposedly from an unseen world. Logic obviously did not govern all of his actions.

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Army plans for current troop levels in Iraq through 2010

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, Oct. 11,2006 11:08 p.m.

The U.S. Army has plans to keep the current level of soldiers in Iraq through 2010, the top Army officer said Wednesday, a later date than Bush administration or Pentagon officials have mentioned thus far. The Army chief of staff, Gen. Peter J. Schoomaker, cautioned against reading too much into the planning, saying troop levels could be adjusted to actual conditions in Iraq. He said it is easier to hold back forces scheduled to go there than to prepare and deploy units at the last minute.

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Small plane crashes into New York highrise

By Alyson Brodsy and Colleen Long · Wednesday, Oct. 11,2006 11:06 p.m.

A small plane with New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle aboard crashed into a 50-story condominium tower Wednesday on Manhattan's Upper East Side, killing at least four people and raining flaming debris on sidewalks, authorities said. There was no immediate confirmation that Lidle was among the dead.

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