Democratic propaganda lacks credibility
Within the first few minutes of "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism," most of the film's credibility is shot.
Within the first few minutes of "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism," most of the film's credibility is shot.
Throw "Rahomon" and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" into a blender, hit puree and what do you get?: "Hero," the 2002 offering from Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou (best known for beautifully-crafted character pieces such as "Raise the Red Lantern," "Shanghai Triad" and "The Road Home").
The Master of R&B has struck again, yet true fans will be disappointed in Kelly's latest effort Happy People/U Saved Me.
After breaking up with good friend and musical collaborator Scott Stapp, the former singer of Creed, guitarist Mark Tremonti was depressed, but his jam sessions with Creed drummer Scott Phillips seem to have perked him up and given him hope, which has turned into Alter Bridge.
Live albums are dangerous. So much money is invested into production before it can even be recorded and then there are so many variables.
Babies are cute -- no doubt about it. But when they become the sugary-sweet, smarty-pants protagonists of a plotless movie, that's when I draw the line. I have to admit, I've never seen the original "Baby Geniuses."
Does "Anacondas" incorporate an intricate plot with stellar acting and dynamic special effects? No, but there are some really big snakes.
It is amazing that an actor like Ben Kingsley, who is both talented and respected, can jump from Oscar-nominated performances to movies that make you wish you had waited for video.
IU Football's first home game is this Saturday, Sept. 4. To get in the spirit of things, Weekend asked our staff and a Hoosier football player to give their picks for great tailgating songs.
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Pat Siddons began and ended his journalistic career at the Indiana Daily Student, where he went from cub reporter to publisher. At Ernie Pyle Hall, his legacy remains that of a friendly, grandfatherly mentor to an entire generation of IDSers from the 1980s, said Kevin Corcoran, an IU alum and former IDS reporter.
University students may be unaware they are operating under a new code of rights and responsibilities. The Code of Student Rights, Responsibilities and Conduct, known more casually as the code of ethics, underwent its first revision since December 1996. The changes went into effect at the beginning of the fall semester.
NEW YORK -- On the side of the New York Public Library, in a place thousands of New Yorkers pass each day, there is a monument dedicated to out-of-nowhere 1940 Republican nominee Wendell Willkie. "I believe in America because in it we are free -- free to choose our government, to speak our minds, to serve our different religions," it says, quoting Willkie.
NEW YORK -- If Monday night was all about national security and Sept. 11, the Republican National Convention certainly took a shift toward domestic issues Tuesday, featuring first lady Laura Bush, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and U.S. Secretary of Education and IU alumnus Rod Paige.
NEW YORK -- With the general elections only 62 days away, politicians are heating up their campaigns and keeping college students in sight. Tuesday saw the arrival of Indiana Republican gubernatorial candidate Mitch Daniels to the Republican National Convention. Daniels had the opportunity to speak at the convention but didn't pursue it. He said doesn't make that much of a difference.
If a student wants to charge books to a bursar account, the IU Bookstore is still the only option. Negotiations between IU and competing textbook store T.I.S. Bookstore to offer the student payment option in stores have been unsuccessful.
Thirty years ago is a hot-button for politics this year. What someone did or didn't do during the Vietnam War. What someone said or didn't say at an anti-war rally. What someone did or did not smoke in a college dormitory. As for Indiana politics, there isn't much relevance to the recent news that Democratic Gov. Joe Kernan and Republican challenger Mitch Daniels, both vying for the Indiana governor's mansion this fall, smoked pot in their youth.
New changes made by the George W. Bush administration to the regulations in the Fair Labor Standards Act are affecting workers all across the nation, and IU employees are no exception. The FLSA establishes minimum wage, overtime pay, record keeping and child labor standards affecting full-time and part-time workers in the private sector as well as in federal, state and local governments.
FAW, Iraq -- The status of Iraq's crucial oil exports was mired in confusion Tuesday, with government and industry officials giving contradictory statements about whether oil was flowing or whether there were even oil tankers at the main offshore terminal near Faw. Two top officials with the state-run South Oil Co. said Tuesday that oil shipments from southern Iraq -- which account for 90 percent of the country's exports -- remained halted after weekend attacks on pipelines and oil fields.
MOSCOW -- A woman strapped with explosives blew herself up outside a busy Moscow subway station Tuesday night, killing at least 10 people and wounding more than 50 in the second terrorist attack to hit Russia in a week, officials said. Seven days earlier, almost to the hour, two Russian jetliners crashed within minutes of each other in what officials determined were terrorist bombings.