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Writer's paradise

By -Jenny Kobiela · Thursday, Oct. 30,2003 12:43 a.m.

Recent IU graduate Kit Willihnganz has been creating stories for as long as she can remember, dictating her tales to her family until she could write for herself. She has written nine novels -- finishing her first at age 14 -- as well as many short stories. So when a friend from school mentioned a Web-based event called National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo, Willinhganz decided to give it a shot.

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2 CIA agents ambushed in Afghanistan

By Alyson Brodsy and Burt Herman · Thursday, Oct. 30,2003 12:41 a.m.

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The mountainous region where two CIA operatives were killed on the Pakistani border often sees the heaviest combat in the country, treacherous ground for al Qaeda marauders that the U.S. military calls "the most evil place in Afghanistan."

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Rescuers find 11 Russian miners

By Alyson Brodsy and Sergei Venyavsky · Thursday, Oct. 30,2003 12:41 a.m.

NOVOSHAKHTINSK, Russia -- Search crews blasted through solid rock to rescue 11 of 13 coal miners who emerged covered in soot Wednesday after six days trapped in a deep shaft in southern Russia. One miner died underground and another remained missing, emergency officials said.

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Jordan River Forum

By Duncan Mitchel · Thursday, Oct. 30,2003 12:26 a.m.

In his letter to the IDS entitled, "War on fatherhood," Lucas D. Weeks discusses a situation involving a minor's right to choose to have an abortion and the consent that is required by a sole parent.

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Trick-or-treat-and-vote

By Alyson Brodsy and Tony Sams · Thursday, Oct. 30,2003 12:24 a.m.

I think we've reached the point as a mature and civil society when we can start being a bit more selective with holidays and observances.

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Wal-Mart's war on workers

By Alyson Brodsy and Jim Harper · Thursday, Oct. 30,2003 12:23 a.m.

Last year, I wrote a column detailing the negative effects that Wal-Mart has on workers, communities and society as a whole. As you've probably noticed, Wal-Mart is becoming increasingly omnipresent in our society.

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Let's just sleep on it

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, Oct. 30,2003 12:22 a.m.

Sleep is something no college student isn't accustomed to forfeiting when it comes between them and studying, partying or driving their long treks to and from their home towns.

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IUSA looking for 'spirited' design

By Alex Moore · Thursday, Oct. 30,2003 12:18 a.m.

The IU Student Association and the T.I.S. Bookstore are unifying Hoosier basketball fans by challenging IU students to create a design for a unified fan T-shirt, which will be passed out at the first three men's basketball home games.

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IUAA creates new position

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, Oct. 30,2003 12:17 a.m.

The IU Alumni Association announced the creation of a new position responsible for overall communication activities at the organization, including development of new initiatives on the Internet, editorial content of the IUAA Web site and efforts to increase IUAA's visibility.

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Family issues to be discussed at conference

By Dana Sands · Thursday, Oct. 30,2003 12:16 a.m.

The Center for Adolescent and Family Studies at IU will present guest speaker Rene Breuk at 6 p.m. tonight in the Geology building, Room 143, to speak on child and adolescent mental health in the Netherlands.

School Spirit... Haunted Since 1820

By C. Warner Sills and Chris Freiberg · Thursday, Oct. 30,2003 12 a.m.

Since its founding in 1820, IU has gained a national reputation for itself in several respects, including basketball, business and partying. But it's also deserving of another title: one of the most haunted campuses in the country.

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Scary for all the wrong reasons

By C. Warner Sills and Erin Revtyak · Thursday, Oct. 30,2003 12 a.m.

Turning over the director's chair to David Zucker for the third installment of the Scary Movie series might have been the one good idea Keenan Ivory Wayans had when conceiving this movie.

Spice up Your Halloween

By C. Warner Sills and Jess Huffman · Thursday, Oct. 30,2003 12 a.m.

Tradition tells us that Halloween is all about tricks and treats, but digging deeper, history tells a much more elaborate story. Originally an Ancient Celtic celebration of the final harvest of the growing season, when spirits were thought to be closest to the living, townspeople would go from door to door collecting food for the gods.

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