Oleanna explores sex harassment at Hancher Auditorium
Education continues to probe sexual harassment as a professor and student clash in Mamet's Oleanna. Jim Frangione plays the unsure professor and Monica Koskey stars as the probing student in a national touring company production.
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David Mamet
Hancher Auditorium
Jim Frangione
Monica Koskey
Mamet
Theater review ponders blame in provocative Mamet play
The reviewer weighs whether the professor is a villain or a victim of misinterpretation in Mamet's drama. The dialogue raises whether the female student's revenge reveals truth or power, highlighting how words and actions can be misinterpreted in professional relationships and the price of misconduct.
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Mamet
Yukhead
Budget group blasts Republican contract with voters
The Concord Coalition, a bipartisan deficit reduction group, charged that the Republican contract with voters is campaign puffery and would add about 175 billion dollars to the national debt. It criticized both House and Senate versions as costly with vague offsets.
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Budget Group
DES Moines
Puffery
Concord Coalition
America
Paul Tsongas
Warren Rudman
Congress
Senate
House
Coalition
Iowa
Statehouse
Journalists and health officials share ideas
Journalists and public health officials met at the University of Iowa to discuss collaboration for clearer health risk reporting. Panelists from the Midwest urged asking lay questions, contextualizing facts, and sourcing information directly, citing past water outage coverage as a model for transparent communication.
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John Kenyon
Johnson County
Iowa City
University of Iowa
Midwest
Randy Evans
The
Des Moines Register
Evans
Register
Des Moines
Tim Burkhardt
Health and Environment Digest
Man accused of trying to kill ex girlfriend in Nebraska
In Nebraska police say Brian Anderson led officers to a remote wooded area where Laura Kucera lay wounded but alive after he dropped her at a restaurant. The 19 year old Wakefield resident was treated at Marian Health Center in Sioux City with gunshot wounds while Anderson faces kidnapping false imprisonment and firearm charges.
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Omaha
Neb
Brian Anderson
Nebraska
Anderson
Laura Kucera
Wakefield
Macy
Sioux City
Don Anderson
Dixon County
Dean Chase
Kucera
Marian Health Care Center
Chase
Mary Kucera
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