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Southern Illinois University drafted a new plagiarism policy in 2007 after facing scrutiny for several high profile copying controversies, but now the school has another awkward problem: It appears the policy plagiarizes part of a document created by Indiana University in 2005.
New York may have had its Soup Nazi, immortalized in a few "Seinfeld" episodes, but Indiana had the Cone Nazi:
Elinor May Everett Stingley, who served up ice cream and admonishments to locals and celebrities alike during her half-century as the strict "Cone Lady" at a park-side ice cream shop, has died at age 101.
Everyone should have a mission in life:
John Dillinger was not a killer—at least among the wax figures of 1930s gangsters, fake tommy guns and "Most Wanted" posters in a Hammond museum.
Even Richard Lugar falls under the spell of the Goracle:
Though some lawmakers tangled with Gore on his last visit to Capitol Hill, none did on the Foreign Relations Committee yesterday. Dick Lugar (Ind.), the ranking Republican, agreed that there will be "an almost existential impact" from the climate changes Gore described.
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Who'da thunk it? The IU Student Association is pushing for legislation that would produce an almost-conservative plan for getting folks to spend money and boost the economy:
The bill will provide a “sales tax holiday” at the beginning each school semester and will take the sales tax off school items such as supplies, textbooks, computers and clothing for three full days.
Omigod, it's the cops! Where'll I hide? I know, the closet:
My sister says everybody in Indianapolis is talking about the bus stop bandits. On Thursday, at least four high school students were victimized at four separate bus stops and robbed of MP3 players and cell phones and probably even their lunch money. Now, two 13-year-old middle school brothers have been attacked at their bus stop. It doesn't even seem to be the same set of attackers -- the dirtbags are copying each other in this lowest-of-the-low crimes:
Mark Souder is being a pouty, whiny Republican obstructionist again. Just because a few fat-cat TV station owners are complaining about the extra expense of sending out dual signals for four months, Souder is refusing to go along with the unanimous vote of the Senate in delaying the Feb. 17 switchover to digital (mandated by Congress) until June 12:
Harrison Square is in trouble. The baseball field is moving right along, but there are growing doubts about the condos and the hotel and the shops. Boy, if we could just turn the corner and get that thing finished. Then the tourists would come and the money would flow and the downtown renaissance would begin. Well, maybe. Let's consider Indianapolis, where sports promoters have been more successful in getting projects off the ground:
Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard says he isn't making a power grab, but others aren't so sure. Senate Bill 482, one of those limited-jurisdiction pieces of legislation that invite immediate suspicion, would eliminate townships and give the mayor control of many county government functions:
Opponents question the wisdom of putting too much power into the hands of a single office.
