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The Daily Iowan

The independent newspaper of the University of Iowa community since 1868

The Daily Iowan

The independent newspaper of the University of Iowa community since 1868

The Daily Iowan

Arts Brief: A literary dream

DI ARTS STAFF March 3, 2009

Yiyun Li is living the dream, as far as most writers are concerned. After publishing only one collection of short stories, 2005’s A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, she signed a two-book deal with Random...

CD reviews: Neko Case album lacks verve, The Prodigy gives an adrenaline rush

DI ARTS STAFF March 3, 2009

Case album lacks verve Neko Case: Middle Cyclone Neko Case’s Middle Cyclone is her first solo release since 2006’s critically acclaimed Fox Confessor Brings the Blood. Like all the greatest country...

U2 Stretching horizons in new album

RACHAEL LANDER March 3, 2009

***** out of ***** U2 lead singer Bono’s pleasing sex voice has returned with more force than ever. The band’s latest album, No Line on the Horizon, is everything fans have been drooling in anticipation...

Imagining

BEAU ELLIOT March 3, 2009

Imagine, if you can, a world in which financial guru Warren Buffett compares the financial markets to an STD. Well, OK, that’s not exactly imagining the way John Lennon imagined imagining. I’m...

How to fight a Depression – not a drop at a time

In recent months, it has become almost a reflex for Republicans to dismiss President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal as a dismal failure of the Democrats — a “jihad against private enterprise”...

The Czech-Slovak Museum needs flood repairs

DI EDITORIAL BOARD March 3, 2009

Tales of the Cedar Rapids flood have shifted from horror stories of the disaster itself to drawn-out epics of trudging through recovery purgatory. Accompanying anecdotes of struggling with the destruction,...

Point-counterpoint: Which Iowa wrestling team is better — 2008 or 2009?

DI SPORTS STAFF March 3, 2009

2008 Is it really fair to compare the two teams? Last year’s wrestling team actually won both the Big Ten and NCAA championships. This year’s squad has yet to do either, and by default, it is the...

Women’s track finding some bright spots

JAKE KRZECZOWSKI March 3, 2009

Finishing last at the Big Ten indoor championships is not what Iowa women’s track and field head coach Layne Anderson expected when his squad left for Bloomington, Ind., on Feb. 26. But with a team...

Several medal for Iowa at men’s track Big Tens

ZACH SMITH March 3, 2009

Despite a ninth-place finish at the Big Ten indoor championships last weekend at Penn State’s Ashenfelter Multisport Facility, the Iowa men’s track and field team managed to put several athletes on...

Young men’s swimmers see a very bright future

JON LINDER March 3, 2009

The Iowa men’s swimming and diving team took home ninth place at the Big Ten championships over this past weekend in West Lafayette, Ind., with a team score of 144. Sophomore swimmer Conor Dwyer led...

Hawks men’s basketball still seeking improvement

CHARLIE KAUTZ March 3, 2009

Iowa head coach Todd Lickliter isn’t losing his patience. He admitted Monday he didn’t have very much to begin with. Now in his 23rd month leading the Hawkeye basketball program, Lickliter’s calendar...

Obama troop plan has some skeptics

AMANDA McCLURE March 3, 2009

Contending that Iraq’s future is its own responsibility, President Obama pledged an 18-month timetable for troop withdrawal last week, but he will leave potentially 50,000 soldiers in Iraq for up to...

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