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China: North Korea agrees to push nuke talks

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, April 22,2004 12:38 a.m.

BEIJING -- North Korea's leader told Chinese officials he is committed to ending a nuclear dispute through dialogue, China said Wednesday, in what observers saw as a sign of progress in resolving the standoff. After top-level meetings in Beijing, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il agreed to continue six-nation talks over defusing the crisis, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.

Suicide bombers' rush hour attack leaves 68 dead

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, April 22,2004 12:37 a.m.

BASRA, Iraq -- Five suicide attackers detonated car bombs against police buildings during rush hour Wednesday in the British-controlled southern Iraqi city Basra, killing 68 people, including 16 children burned to death in their passing school buses. Meanwhile, an agreement aimed at bringing peace to Fallujah, Iraq, met troubles only a day after its implementation. U.S Marines backed by warplanes and helicopter gunships battled insurgents, killing 20.

4 killed in Saudi car bombing

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, April 22,2004 12:36 a.m.

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- A suicide bomber attacked a security police building in the Saudi capital Wednesday, killing at least four other people and wounding 148, just days after the United States warned of a terrorist attack. Facades were torn off buildings revealing rooms still ablaze. Cars parked nearby were smashed by debris. Clouds of dust and black smoke rose from the seven-story building and settled over the neighborhood.

Indiana ranks third in rate of growth for food stamp use

By Alyson Brodsy and Mark Jewell · Thursday, April 22,2004 12:32 a.m.

INDIANAPOLIS -- The ranks of Indiana residents receiving food stamps grew at the third-fastest rate in the nation the past four years -- a finding released Wednesday some advocates for the poor consider a cause for optimism. While the growth is a symptom of Indiana's recent economic struggles, it also indicates Indiana's social service agencies are succeeding in signing up many eligible food stamp recipients who did not apply in the past, advocates say.

Around The State

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, April 22,2004 12:31 a.m.

Racing Commission pospones decision in simulcast debate INDIANAPOLIS -- The state Horse Racing Commission postponed a decision Wednesday over whether to cut off simulcasts of Kentucky thoroughbred races in Indiana unless all betting parlors are allowed to televise them. Instead, the commission asked the Indiana Department of Gaming Research to study all sides of the ongoing dispute and analyze the economic impacts involved for both states and their pari-mutuel industries.

Commerical dysfunction

By Alyson Brodsy and Mike Malik · Thursday, April 22,2004 12:31 a.m.

Notice anything different on TV lately? No, not the conservative backlash restricting the airwaves as a result of the now infamous Super Bowl halftime incident. Quite the opposite, in fact.

Nader to speak in Bloomington, Indianapolis Saturday

By Allison Ricket · Thursday, April 22,2004 12:28 a.m.

While some Bloomington students are participating in the Little 500 insanity, the greater Indianapolis community will be celebrating Take Back the Earth Day with Ralph Nader at 5 p.m. Saturday. After Nader headlines Saturday's events at IU-Purdue University Indianapolis, he will be addressing the students of IU.

Helicopter crash kills patient

By Alyson Brodsy and Kimberly Hefling · Thursday, April 22,2004 12:27 a.m.

LYNNVILLE, Ind. -- A paramedic hurt when a medical helicopter crashed on a remote southwestern Indiana hillside used his cell phone to call for help and then waved a flashlight to signal their whereabouts. The crash some 20 miles northeast of Evansville killed the heart patient on board the flight from Huntingburg to an Evansville hospital.

Jordan River Forum

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, April 22,2004 12:23 a.m.

Disappointment with front page news I am writing in regard to the headline story published Tuesday in your paper discussing the situation occurring the past weekend at Delta Tau Delta fraternity. I am forced to question the purpose and intentions of this article and the deemed necessity that it appear as front page news.

Sisters strike back

By Alyson Brodsy and Melanie Sims · Thursday, April 22,2004 12:20 a.m.

I was going to write about Team Major Taylor, but somebody told me: "wait until after the team wins." So, I'm taking the advice. (Knock on wood.) But just because I'm putting the cycling story on hold doesn't mean I can't write about biking shorts.

Starsky and Mao

By Alyson Brodsy and Paul Musgrave · Thursday, April 22,2004 12:14 a.m.

SHANGHAI -- Nobody in China is interested in politics. They're either too busy getting rich or staying alive to worry about the government, at least in any serious sense. Well, a few people are interested in politics -- intellectuals, political prisoners, some students. Oh, and the Communist Party. The Party is very interested in politics. Or at least in keeping the rest of the population uninterested.

Tarantino's grindhouse glory gleams

By John Barnett · Thursday, April 22,2004 12 a.m.

By now, it should be carved in stone that Quentin Tarantino is the penultimate writer/director in the eyes and minds of the current 20-something generation. After four brilliant films in 12 years, Tarantino is the epitome of quality above quantity.

A match made in hip-hop

By -Brandon Tucker · Thursday, April 22,2004 12 a.m.

It's no secret that about 99 percent of all popular music in America is influenced by African-Americans. It's also no secret that white people are damn good at exploiting it and calling it their own, while making truckloads of money off it.

Rock coverage

By Ryan Whirty and Ryan Wirty · Thursday, April 22,2004 12 a.m.

Virtually every musician who has ever strummed a guitar or banged on some drums started out playing other people's music. The biggest names of every type of American popular music -- blues, jazz, country, R&B, rock 'n' roll, soul, funk, metal, hip-hop -- formed their own sound by covering the music which inspired them.

Alt-country well represented on new collection

By Ryan Whirty and Ryan Wirty · Thursday, April 22,2004 12 a.m.

In 1995, Peter Blackstock and Grant Alden started publishing No Depression, a bi-monthly magazine devoted to alternative country music, a genre which can trace its roots back to Gram Parsons' hugely influential albums of the early 1970s (or even earlier, to late-'60s Byrds stuff) but remains decidedly indefinable.

CREATION VS IMITATION

By Jess Huffman · Thursday, April 22,2004 12 a.m.

Different people have different ways of expressing themselves. When it comes to music, some try to create and communicate a unique style to their audience. Others admire the work of others, recreate it and put their own personal touch on it. Original bands and cover bands will always defend their own method and possibly bash the other, but they can both be argued as forms of musical expression.

Hip-hop to 'Watch' out for

By Adam Van Osdol and Adam VanOsdol · Thursday, April 22,2004 12 a.m.

Dilated Peoples still work the angles sharp and precise. With the no-nonsense lyrics of Rakaa Iriscience and Evidence, and with DJ Babu on the cut, the Expansion Team has crafted an album which is hip-hop in its truest form.

Bertolucci's 'Dreamers' ride the New Wave

By by Isaac Edwards and Isaac Edwards · Thursday, April 22,2004 12 a.m.

Sex. Cinema. Politics. Pure Bertolucci. Opening to critical acclaim and controversy, such things synonymous with the name Bertolucci, Italian director and auteur Bernardo Bertolucci has crafted his finest return to form with the new film "The Dreamers."

Corporal 'Punish'-ment

By Neal Taflinger · Thursday, April 22,2004 12 a.m.

Marvel Comics has gotten a lot of mileage out of a simple premise: Vietnam special operations vet Frank Castle comes home only to see his family gunned down in a gangland firefight. He experiences a psychotic break, dons a skull t-shirt and begins laying waste to criminals, hoodlums and anyone who looks at him sideways. Easy enough, right?

Tarantino to 'Kill' audiences with latest

By -Alec Toombs · Thursday, April 22,2004 12 a.m.

Those of you out there who hated "Kill Bill: Vol. 1" (being an unabashed snobbish asshole, I refer to you as the culturally retarded), take solace. Quentin Tarantino, in his infinite wisdom, has created a captivating capper to this epic grindhouse saga which even you'll love.