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Republicans focusing on admonished New Jersey senator

By Alyson Brodsy and Laurence Arnold · Wednesday, July 31,2002 11:11 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- In publicly admonishing Sen. Robert Torricelli, the Senate Ethics Committee gave Republicans a new weapon in their campaign to oust the freshman New Jersey Democrat this fall -- and, potentially, to regain control of the Senate.

Bring on the L.U.V.

By Seth Forster · Wednesday, July 31,2002 11:01 p.m.

Want a surefire way to guarantee everyone's heard of your band? Try naming it after a word everyone knows.

Police gear up for Ku Klux Klan gathering

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, July 31,2002 10:11 p.m.

OSCEOLA, Ind. -- Authorities from two counties are hoping for a peaceful weekend at a private farm hosting a white pride-themed festival in northern Indiana.

State officials narrow routes for I-69

By Alyson Brodsy and Kimberly Hefling · Wednesday, July 31,2002 10:07 p.m.

EVANSVILLE -- The route that environmentalists have backed for the Interstate 69 extension between Indianapolis and Evansville is not among the five that state officials said Wednesday they preferred.

New budgets approved by city council

By Joe Aamidor · Wednesday, July 31,2002 10:02 p.m.

The Bloomington City Council preliminarily approved the budgets for both the police and fire departments. After the Council discussed the budgets, it passed an ordinance to set the salaries for the departments for 2003. The police department asked for more money in 2003 than in 2002, mostly for two main expenses.

Male neosoul singers struggling

By Alyson Brodsy and Nekesa Moody · Wednesday, July 31,2002 9:51 p.m.

NEW YORK -- This year's Grammy Awards celebrated a new generation of women singing sweet soul music that hearkens back to the heydey of the '60s and '70s. Alicia Keys and India.Arie snagged 13 nominations between them, and Keys walked away with five trophies.

President's niece suspect in Yale Web site hackings

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, July 31,2002 9:38 p.m.

Four of the 18 suspect log-ins to a secure Web site at Yale University from Princeton University computers were not made by school officials but by Princeton students and an applicant to both Ivy League colleges, Princeton has determined.

Bomb blast kills 7 at Hebrew University

By Alyson Brodsy and Greg Myre · Wednesday, July 31,2002 9:36 p.m.

JERUSALEM -- A bomb hidden in a bag ripped through a busy cafeteria at Hebrew University, killing seven people Wednesday as it shattered the academic peace and left behind pools of blood in one of the few places where young Jews and Arabs still mixed freely.

HPER involved in health care evaluation

By Jackie Corgan · Wednesday, July 31,2002 9:35 p.m.

Aimed at the Amish, Mennonites and other groups, a federal pilot program to improve healthcare and health education in the Washington County, Ind. area involves a joint effort between Hoosier Uplands and IU's School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation.

Life with laptops at IU 'dynamic'

By Takashi Nakamichi · Wednesday, July 31,2002 9:33 p.m.

Ph.D. student Eric Ban sat at his dark Dell laptop in the Education Library and hovered the mouse-pointer over a printer icon. "I can send wireless to that printer -- anything I want," Ban said, gesturing at the library's printer.

Students see, learn about stars

By Ryota Kashiwa · Wednesday, July 31,2002 9:27 p.m.

A summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program, funded by a $200,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), recently concluded, giving undergraduate students an opportunity to see the work of professional researchers in the field of astronomy. According to a recent press release, the IU College of Arts and Sciences and IU's Research and University Graduate School also supported the program.

Girls Gone Wild?

By J.P. Benitez and JP Benitez · Wednesday, July 31,2002 9:15 p.m.

Upon purchasing Girls Gone Wild: Gone Wild on Campus, I expected to see some familiar faces. I was prepared for good times, and of course, some going wild. But what I received was appalling. First and foremost, the girls on the video were only truly going wild for a small portion of the tape. The majority of the time was filled with clips of girls hesitantly thinking about going wild, girls going silly and girls teetering on the verge of going crazy. "Wild" would not be the word I'd use to describe any of the "going" whatsoever.

Weekend Previews

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, July 31,2002 9:12 p.m.

The NASCAR series invades Indianapolis beginning Friday through Sunday. The Craftsman trucks race at Indianapolis Raceway Park (IRP) at 8 p.m. on Friday, with the Busch Series cars following at 7 p.m. on Saturday.

A cynic is born every minute

By J. Chris Carmichael · Wednesday, July 31,2002 9:10 p.m.

For all their idealism, the baby-boomers sure didn't leave much of a world for us to inherit. Their dreams, however beautiful, were fated to end with their youth. So, despite years of incessant whining, there is nothing to make me believe that democracy and harmony will soon burgeon in the world's most turbulent regions or that bi-partisan grooviness will ever be achieved here in the U.S., the great paradigm of democracy.

Around The Game

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, July 31,2002 9:08 p.m.

Baseball, Football, Auto Racing and Basketball briefs.

Sparks' Leslie makes WNBA's first dunk

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, July 31,2002 9:02 p.m.

LOS ANGELES -- Lisa Leslie went where no one else in the WNBA has gone before -- above the rim for a dunk.

It's almost time

By Yahya Chami · Wednesday, July 31,2002 8:59 p.m.

We can make it. The wait is almost over. Real football is less then a month away. No longer do we have to watch the development league in Europe or the arena brand of the game.

IUSA accused of discrimination, witholding funding

By -Meghan Dwyer · Wednesday, July 31,2002 12 a.m.

Students for Justice in Palestine are claiming IU Student Association executives have mishandled its application to receive money from the Grass Roots Initiative Fund (GRIF), composed of IUSA credit card revenue interest totalling close to $10,000 annually.

IU student remembered

By Ryota Kashiwa · Tuesday, July 30,2002 8:57 p.m.

Meaghan Ann Buis was one girl, but she was always in a huddle with people extremely close to her. People touched by Buis became not only her good friends, but great friends.

Bloomington company bought for $3 billion

By Jackie Corgan · Tuesday, July 30,2002 7:55 p.m.

Cook Group Incorporated, a Bloomington-based group of medical device companies, has agreed to a $3 billion acquisition offer from Guidant Corporation based in Indianapolis. Guidant, a world-class company in the development and design of cardiovascular medical products, will now take over the 40-year-old company.

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