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Abduction suspect apprehended

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, Aug. 1,2004 9:16 p.m.

The Monroe County police arrested 53-year-old Jimmy Edwards last week in connection with the attempted abduction of a 23-year-old female social worker near Lake Monroe July 26. Edwards was preliminarily charged with attempted murder, criminal confinement, battery and being a habitual offender. According to Monroe County Police, the social worker was visiting the lake with an autistic teenage boy. On their way back to her car parked on Monroe Dam Road, she saw a man she didn't know standing by his convertible with its hood up. Claiming car trouble, the man asked the social worker to turn on his ignition while he checked his engine.

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Children show off their talents

By Jenica Schultz · Sunday, Aug. 1,2004 9:15 p.m.

The Youth Theatre Ensemble of the Bloomington Playwrights Project presented its production of Stephen Sondheim's "Into the Woods" this weekend with an energy and enthusiasm that only children can produce. The musical was adapted by Musical Theatre International to better suit children, removing the adult content and shortening the play to a length that was more manageable for young performers. Despite the shortening of the show, all of the songs from the original production remained intact.

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IUPUI student still missing

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, Aug. 1,2004 9:14 p.m.

INDIANAPOLIS -- Friends and relatives did not find much in their search Saturday for a missing IU-Purdue University of Indianapolis student, but they say the effort was still productive. Molly Dattilo, 23, has been missing for about three weeks, and police say they have no clues and no evidence to suspect foul play. Celestra Hoffman, Dattilo's sister, organized an impromptu search Saturday of a two-mile radius of her sister's apartment in Indianapolis.

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Around The Game

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, Aug. 1,2004 9:12 p.m.

Men's soccer earns preseason No. 1 ranking College Soccer News, which recently ranked the IU men's soccer incoming recruiting class at No. 14, has released its annual preseason rankings for the upcoming season. The defending national champion Hoosiers sit atop the rankings, earning the publication's preseason No. 1. The team the Hoosiers defeated in last year's College Cup for the championship, St. John's, is ranked No. 2.

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The Value of (Big) Words

By Bill Meehan · Sunday, Aug. 1,2004 9:11 p.m.

From the perspective of a character on the sports beat at a major magazine, novelist Richard Ford said that being a sportswriter is more like being a salesman than being a real writer. "In so many ways," wrote Ford in The Sportswriter, "words are just our currency, our medium of exchange with our readers, and there is very little that is ever genuinely creative to it at all."

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Football players earn preseason honors

By Justin Lev · Sunday, Aug. 1,2004 9:09 p.m.

Numerous national sports publications have recently honored eight IU football players for their individual effort last year and for their potential success in the upcoming season as well. Six Hoosiers were named to the 2004 Street and Smith's All-American Team Honorable Mention, which included sophomore running back BenJarvus Green-Ellis, senior wide receiver Courtney Roby, senior defensive lineman Jodie Clemons, junior offensive lineman Isaac Sowells, senior offensive lineman Chris Jahnke and senior safety Herana-Daze Jones. Clemons was also honored by being named to the 2004 Street and Smith's All-Big Ten Team.

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Top positions receive salary increases

By Karen Green · Thursday, July 29,2004 2:48 a.m.

In the wake of a 2.5 percent pay increase for IU support staff, several top IU administrators received pay increases July 1, bringing a record number of salaries above the $200,000 mark. Bill Stephan, vice president for university relations and corporate partnerships, told The Associated Press that market factors played a significant role in the pay increases. Stephan said a big factor was staying competitive with offers from other universities and the private sector.

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Kerry seals Democratic nomination

By Tony Sams · Thursday, July 29,2004 2:48 a.m.

BOSTON -- Invoking emotional images of hope and optimism for ordinary Americans while using his skills as a former trial lawyer to sell Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. John Kerry, John Edwards accepted his party's nomination for the vice presidency Wednesday night.

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Kerry to deliver acceptance speech tonight

By Tony Sams · Thursday, July 29,2004 2:26 a.m.

BOSTON -- Presidential hopeful John Kerry will deliver his acceptance speech tonight as the final day of the Democratic National Convention at the FleetCenter in Boston concludes. The junior senator from Massachusetts is scheduled to deliver his speech in primetime.

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Powell begins Middle East tour in Egypt

By Abdullah AlShihri and George Gedda · Thursday, July 29,2004 2:12 a.m.

CAIRO, Egypt -- Touching on two sensitive Mideast issues, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell repeated Wednesday calls for reform in the Palestinian leadership and urged pressure on Sudan to stop violence blamed on ethnic cleansing.

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Suicide bombing kills 68 in Iraq

By Abdullah AlShihri and Hadi Awad · Thursday, July 29,2004 2:12 a.m.

BAQOUBA, Iraq -- A suicide car bomb exploded on a busy downtown boulevard in Baqouba Wednesday, reducing a bus full of passengers to a charred wreck, ripping through nearby shops and killing at least 68 Iraqis in one of the deadliest single insurgent attacks since the U.S. invasion.

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Help a brother out

By Doug Evans · Thursday, July 29,2004 12:31 a.m.

Recently, I happened to stumble across some rejected Ann Landers letters, notes that she did not deem worthy enough of her reply. Let's just say I found them on the side of the road somewhere.

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The pro-spin zone

By John Barnett · Thursday, July 29,2004 12:12 a.m.

Note: Fear not. It is not my intention to turn the IDS Weekend into a heated political forum, but an election year such as this makes it hard not to throw certain issues out in every forum possible.

NO SHORT FUSE ON THIS "BREAKER!"

By Karen Yancey · Thursday, July 29,2004 12 a.m.

Are you ready for some danceable punk and tear-it-up rock 'n' roll? Breaker! Breaker! is a trio of punk rockers from Brooklyn that writes energetic songs with uncomplicated, un-textured sounds.

'De-Lovely' de-lightful, but depressing

By Alyson Brodsy and Tony Sams · Thursday, July 29,2004 12 a.m.

With a flawless, let's-nominate-him-for-something performance by Kevin Kline, and an ingenious framing structure which features the best songs of composer Cole Porter, I have to ask why this movie had to make me so damned depressed.

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By John Barnett · Thursday, July 29,2004 12 a.m.

Note: Fear not. It is not my intention to turn the IDS Weekend into a heated political forum, but an election year such as this makes it hard not to throw certain issues out in every forum possible.

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