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Cyclone leaves 154 dead

By Alyson Brodsy and Elliott Sylvester · Friday, March 12,2004 12:18 a.m.

ANTALAHA, Madagascar -- A ferry missing after being caught in a cyclone off the Indian Ocean island of Madagascar sank with all but two of its 113 passengers and crew trapped inside, port authorities said Thursday.

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Hungarians honor independence

By Rami Chami · Friday, March 12,2004 12:16 a.m.

Students, professors and members of the Bloomington community were among those who gathered yesterday to celebrate Hungary's Independence Day, which was held Thursday in the University Club Room at the Indiana Memorial Union. Participants were treated to poetry readings by students in the Hungarian Studies program.

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House bill to appropriate extra $1,000 to Pell Grant recipients

By Brittany Hite · Thursday, March 11,2004 12:53 a.m.

Two Republican lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives recently introduced a bill that would increase the amount of federal Pell Grants for low-income students who take challenging classes in high school. The bill would provide $1,000 more in Pell Grants in the first and second years of college to 36,000 students who meet the requirements. Students would have to maintain a 3.0 GPA while in college to continue receiving the funding.

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Teen sniper sentenced to life in prison

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, March 10,2004 11:10 p.m.

CHESAPEAKE, Va. -- Lee Boyd Malvo, the young man who teamed up with John Allen Muhammad to terrorize the Washington, D.C. area in a sniper spree that left 10 people dead, was formally sentenced Wednesday to life in prison without parole. Malvo, 19, was sentenced a day after Muhammad was given the death penalty by a judge in nearby Prince William County. The judge in Muhammad's case could have reduced the sentence to life in prison, but Malvo's judge had no other option than life without parole, which the jury recommended.

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Iran plans to resume uranium enrichment

By Alyson Brodsy and Ali Akbar Dareini · Wednesday, March 10,2004 11:09 p.m.

TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran said Wednesday it would resume uranium enrichment and warned it may quit cooperating with the International Atomic Energy Agency, which it accused of kowtowing to Washington, D.C., at a crucial meeting in Vienna, Austria.

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U.S. forces to intervene in Haiti

By Alyson Brodsy and Paisley Dodds · Wednesday, March 10,2004 11:08 p.m.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Gerard Latortue, a former U.N. official chosen to lead Haiti out of political turmoil, returned from the United States Wednesday to begin the arduous task of building a government. Loyalists of the former president said they wouldn't accept him.

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Around The Nation

By Alyson Brodsy · Tuesday, March 9,2004 11:23 p.m.

Greyhound bus rolls over on Utah desert highway GREEN RIVER, Utah -- A Greyhound bus rolled onto its side Tuesday on a desert stretch of Interstate 70, injuring 28 passengers and the driver and five seriously, authorities said. The bus driver told the Utah Highway Patrol he either blacked out or fell asleep.

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Washington sniper sentenced to death

By Alyson Brodsy and Matthew Barakat · Tuesday, March 9,2004 11:17 p.m.

MANASSAS, Va. -- A judge rejected John Allen Muhammad's insistence of innocence and sentenced him to death Tuesday, saying his actions in the Washington, D.C.-area sniper shootings leaving 10 people dead were "so vile that they were almost beyond comprehension."

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Around The Nation

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, March 8,2004 11:44 p.m.

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. -- John Kerry is determined not to lose Florida's 27 electoral votes in a swamp of recounts and recriminations this fall, vowing to mount an early legal challenge in any district that might repeat the problems that bedeviled Democratic supporters in 2000.

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Iraqi council signs interim constitution

By Alyson Brodsy and Hamza Hendawi · Monday, March 8,2004 11:43 p.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraqi leaders put aside their disagreements during the signing of a landmark interim constitution Monday, heaping praise on the U.S.-backed document amid patriotic songs and Quranic verses urging unity. But sectarian differences resurfaced as soon as the event ended.

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Marines shoot, kill gunman

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, March 8,2004 11:40 p.m.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- U.S. Marines shot and killed a gunman during an outbreak of gunfire at a weekend demonstration by Haitians celebrating the ousting of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a spokesman said Monday. The gunfire occurred during an anti-Aristide march Sunday, prompting the Marines to return fire in the first armed action of their week-old mission to stabilize Haiti.

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Alumnus speaks on Georgia's future

By Charlie Cszrom and Charlie Szrom · Monday, March 8,2004 1:01 a.m.

New Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili faces a variety of problems as he tries to forge a new path for his small Caucasus country, Richard Miles, IU alumnus and the U.S. ambassador to the Republic of Georgia, said in his lecture Friday in the Walnut Room of the Indiana Memorial Union.

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14 killed in refugee camp raid

By Alyson Brodsy and Ibrahim Barzak · Sunday, March 7,2004 11:27 p.m.

BUREIJ REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip -- Israeli troops carried out their deadliest raid in Gaza in 17 months Sunday, part of a surge of bloodshed ahead of a possible Israeli withdrawal from the coastal strip.

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3 missing in boating tragedy

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, March 7,2004 11:25 p.m.

BALTIMORE, Md. -- Divers searched the Baltimore, Md., harbor Sunday for the bodies of three people missing after a water taxi capsized with 25 people aboard. A woman was killed, and two others, including an 8-year-old girl, were critically injured.

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