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Churchgoers mourn Australian wildfire victims

Australians mourned the victims of deadly wildfires at church services across the country Sunday as news emerged of a class action lawsuit against a power company over the cause of one of the blazes.


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Taliban nears peace deal with militants

The Taliban announced a 10-day cease-fire in Pakistan’s Swat Valley on Sunday after freeing a Chinese hostage as the government neared a peace deal with an insurgent-linked group.



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North Korea extends possible olive branch to Washington

North Korea is ready to improve relations with “friendly” countries, the communist country’s No. 2 leader said Sunday ahead of a visit by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to Asia.

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Cause, effect and milliseconds

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Tragic stories have surfaced in the aftermath of the plane crash near Buffalo last Thursday. The plane dove into a house and 50 lives were lost, including a person inside the home. A list of the passengers and a short biography about each are featured on the ABC News Web site. Each story and photograph is more heartbreaking than the last, and it’s emotionally draining to read the statements made by the friends and loved ones of the victims.


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An editorial debacle

Thursday’s editorial regarding what the editors of this publication refer to as “the Gen. Pace debacle” lacks any coherent argument and does nothing to make a case against Gen. Pace’s appointment to the Poling Chair.


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The educator crunch

IU and Ivy Tech Community College came to an agreement last week on a new credit transfer deal. Credit transfer programs already exist for nursing, criminal justice and six liberal arts degrees. The new deal added elementary education to the list, allowing Ivy Tech students who have earned an associate’s degree in elementary education to be able to transfer those credits to IU.


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For the love of the holiday

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Like Christmas, Valentine’s Day has always been a holiday that I have not gotten into. I have never been one of those girls in good enough graces to have a boyfriend this time of the year, so I have traditionally felt that the candy hearts and roses did not pertain to me.


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Satisfication

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This past week was the week my semester began. You know, the holy-shit-I-have-two-papers-and-a-quiz week when, no matter how interesting that class sounded, you wish you had taken 12 credit hours.



Hoosiers lose by 13 to Illinois

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IU was defeated 65-52 by No. 22 Illinois Sunday afternoon in Bloomington. This year's Hoosiers have now lost more games than any other team in the program’s 109-year history. For more information, visit the Basketblog


President Barack Obama holds a town hall style meeting about the economic stimulus package at Concord Community High School on Monday in Elkhart, Ind.

Obama: Stimulus bill 'major milestone'

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President Barack Obama said Saturday that newly passed $787 billion economic stimulus legislation marks a "major milestone on our road to recovery."



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House passes Obama's economic stimulus bill

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Handing the new administration a big win, the House Friday passed President Barack Obama's $787 billion plan to resuscitate the economy. The bill was passed 246-183 with no Republican help.






Firefighters spray water on a fire on Clarence Center Road involving an airplane and a home Thursday. New York state police say a 50-passenger commuter plane has crashed into a home in suburban Buffalo. There was no immediate information on injuries. State Trooper John Manthey says the plane hit a house in Clarence at about 10:10 p.m. Thursday.

Fiery plane crash near Buffalo kills 50 people

A commuter plane dropped out of the sky without warning and nose-dived into a suburban Buffalo house in a fiery crash that killed all 49 people aboard and one person in the home.


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