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Miss IU. Miss Indiana. Miss America?

By Trevor brown · Thursday, June 29,2006 3:28 p.m.

Just two days after being awarded her new title, IU graduate student Betsy Uschkrat stood outside the Sample Gates, her new sparkling crown replacing the old one she won just months ago as Miss IU. But now, instead of being the pageantfs representative from a campus of almost 40,000, she will be now representing a state of more than six million.

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Coroner says Wampler died naturally

By Carrie Ritchie · Thursday, June 29,2006 2:43 p.m.

Junior Christine Wampler, 21, died of natural causes in April while attending a formal hosted by the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity, also known as the Skulls, according to a Louisville, Ky., coroner's office report. Her official cause of death was myocarditis, presumed to be of a viral etiology, said Louisville Deputy Coroner Robert Fraction, reading from the report. Myocarditis is a condition in which the heart muscle becomes inflamed and weakened, causing symptoms of heart failure that may resemble a heart attack, according to MedlinePlus, an online medical encyclopedia.

Original version of horror classic

By C. Warner Sills and Ash Cartwright · Thursday, June 29,2006 12 a.m.

Horror movies featuring creepy children are not exactly uncommon, we have "The Bad Seed," "Children of The Damned," "The Exorcist," "Children of the Corn" and Dakota Fanning Playing "Hide and Seek" with Robert DeNiro, to name a few.

The truth is out there

By C. Warner Sills and Ty Schrock · Thursday, June 29,2006 12 a.m.

A movie of Al Gore giving a 90-minute PowerPoint presentation doesn't exactly sound like the most exciting thing to do on a Friday night, but "An Inconvenient Truth," Gore's global warming awareness doc, is probably the most important and worthwhile film you can see this summer.

The great white Russian hope

By Joanna Borns · Thursday, June 29,2006 12 a.m.

Terms like "folk," "anti-folk" and "singer-songwriter" often send people running to their bomb shelters because they're usually code words for self indulgent, un-listenable music that only five other people besides the artist truly "get."

Black sings the blues

By C. Warner Sills and Ty Schrock · Thursday, June 29,2006 12 a.m.

With each successive album that Frank Black puts out, his music sounds less and less like the band that made him famous, and that's actually a good thing.

Balkan Beat Box

By C. Warner Sills and Meghan Lucas · Thursday, June 29,2006 12 a.m.

In a world where cultures clash and politicians plunder, one band has made a message through their music of unity and harmony.

No love for the Bundys

By C. Warner Sills and Matt McMullan · Thursday, June 29,2006 12 a.m.

"Married… with Children," arguably the flagship show of the Fox network until its cancellation in 1997, has just released its fifth season on DVD. And that, friends, is a lot of television to sit through.

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FIFA won't relax card rules

By Alyson Brodsy and Robert Millward · Wednesday, June 28,2006 10:23 p.m.

FRANKFURT, Germany -- Whoever wins the World Cup, one definite loser will be soccer's battered image of fair play. A record number of red cards, including four in one game and three in the first 46 minutes of another, suggests there is something fundamentally wrong with the world's most popular sport, although FIFA president Sepp Blatter has ripped the referees for mistakes and inconsistencies.

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Indiana's Carroll a hot-bat hit with the Rockies

By Alyson Brodsy and Pat Graham · Wednesday, June 28,2006 10:21 p.m.

DENVER -- Colorado second baseman Jamey Carroll has always wanted to do everything a little better than everyone else. At Castle High School in southern Indiana, after breaking two bones in his right arm, he took ground balls one-handed and hit off a tee. And when he fretted about his height, he's listed generously at 5-foot-9 by the Rockies, his mom had a saying. "She used to tell him, 'You're short so you're closer to the ground to field ground balls better,'" recalled his father, Larry Carroll.

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