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Strong performances bolster win

By Kristen Louderback and Kristin Louderback · Monday, Feb. 3,2003 12:23 a.m.

The IU women's track and field team came up with several impressive performances in Champaign, Ill., this Saturday in their win against the Illini, Missouri and Eastern Illinois. IU won the meet with 178 points. Illinois, Missouri and Eastern Illinois had 156, 154 and 54 points respectively.

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Action ticket announces IUSA candidacy

By Jake Rossman · Monday, Feb. 3,2003 12:23 a.m.

The IU Student Association election season is starting up again with students forming tickets and recruiting others to join them. The Action ticket, led by IUSA presidential candidate Laura Walda, said she hopes that their diversity will appeal to students on campus.

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Cardinals turn slow start into anguish for IU

By Sara Meinecke and Sarah Meinecke · Monday, Feb. 3,2003 12:21 a.m.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Eight minutes of anguish. That was the feeling for the IU men's basketball team and their fans after the No. 19 Hoosiers let a lead as large as 16 points dwindle to zero as IU gave into the No. 8 Louisville pressure in the second half. The Hoosiers lost the lead, their shot and, for the second time that week, the game. Louisville won 95-76.

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Around The Arts

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, Feb. 3,2003 12:19 a.m.

BOSTON -- Actress Jane Fonda withdrew her $12.5 million donation to the Harvard Graduate School of Education, derailing plans to establish a research center to study gender in education.

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Pressure gets to Hoosiers in second half

By Matt Pera · Monday, Feb. 3,2003 12:18 a.m.

LOUISVILLE, Ky -- It was still halftime and the No. 8 Louisville Cardinals (16-1, 6-0 Conference USA) had already listened to coach Rick Pitino's locker-room speech and were back out on the floor warming up. But before they took the court for the second half to attempt a comeback against the No.19 Hoosiers (14-6, 4-3 Big Ten), they would hear from one more source of motivation: John Belushi.

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Chicago Sinfonietta pledges to promote diversity

By Alyson Brodsy and Eric Fidler · Monday, Feb. 3,2003 12:12 a.m.

CHICAGO -- Paul Freeman calls it "preaching the gospel of symphonic diversity." Freeman, the musical director of the Chicago Sinfonietta, sees the midsize orchestra he helped start in 1987 as more than a chance to pursue musical excellence. He sees it as a means to extend the reach of classical music beyond the realm of white musicians playing music by white men to white audiences.

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Independent store celebrates one year

By Joelle Petrus · Monday, Feb. 3,2003 12:10 a.m.

A year after Boxcar books opened its doors to the Bloomington public, the independent and non profit bookstore celebra-ted its Feb. 1 birthday with a sale on books, readings by local artists, food, a raffle, as well as two separate auctions.

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A legacy or a dream deferred?

By B. Abena Cobham · Sunday, Feb. 2,2003 11:59 p.m.

I was not surprised to find that the least quoted portion of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech during the 1963 March on Washington was the following passage: "When the architects of our republic wrote the magniaficent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned … America has given the Negro people a bad check, which has come back marked 'insufficient funds …"

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The Patriot … Newdow

By Scott Dillon · Sunday, Feb. 2,2003 11:57 p.m.

As the son of two Bronx-raised parents, naturally, I've always loved baseball -- especially my favorite "evil empire," the Yankees. Of all the thrilling moments -- World Championships, high-profile off-season acquisitions, and the merciless taunts of blue-collar road-warrior Bronx Bomber fans showered upon traumatized Jacobs Field patrons -- the two most memorable had little to do with baseball.

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Sleeping in, cashing in

By George Lyle IV · Sunday, Feb. 2,2003 11:55 p.m.

Do you remember Charles Moose? He's the chief of the Montgomery county Maryland Police department, and the lead public information officer during the D.C. sniper manhunt. He is also the latest example of the dishonest, opportunistic slackerdom in this country.

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The cost of exploration

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, Feb. 2,2003 11:50 p.m.

Saturday, when we turned our TVs to CBS to watch the basketball game, we saw footage of what appreared to be a falling star. We were to find out that not one, but seven had fallen that day at nine o'clock, and there would be no basketball as a result.

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Mortgage fraud threatens Indiana homeowners

By Alyson Brodsy and Mark Jewell · Sunday, Feb. 2,2003 11:45 p.m.

INDIANAPOLIS -- Faced with the unexpected loss of her sales job last winter, Judy Helminger sought a second home mortgage. She has kept her house so far, but the mortgage's undisclosed rates and fees might cause her to lose it in the end.

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Iraq says it will comply with UN inspectors

By Alyson Brodsy and Charles J. Hanley · Sunday, Feb. 2,2003 11:39 p.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Just days before a crucial round of talks with chief inspectors, a senior Iraqi official said Sunday that Baghdad is "keen to resolve any pending issues" in the U.N. search for banned weapons, but didn't immediately offer new concessions.

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Russian ship launched

By Alyson Brodsy and Steve Gutterman · Sunday, Feb. 2,2003 11:37 p.m.

MOSCOW -- Russia launched an unmanned cargo ship to the international space station Sunday, a day after the loss of the space shuttle Columbia threw into doubt future missions to the orbiting complex.

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Briton interviews Hussein

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, Feb. 2,2003 11:34 p.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- President Saddam Hussein met with a retired British legislator Sunday and their conversation will be broadcast within the next day or two, the former legislator said.

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Train wreck kills 46

By Alyson Brodsy and Angus Shaw · Sunday, Feb. 2,2003 11:33 p.m.

HARARE, Zimbabwe -- The death toll in the head-on collision between a packed passenger train and a freight train in northwestern Zimbabwe rose to 46, police said Sunday.

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