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State Senate OKs new bill to fly POW-MIA flag The POW-MIA flag would fly each year onipublic buildings un der a bill passed by the Senate Tuesday. The flag has the white silhou ette of a prisoner of war on a black background and the inscription, “You are not forgotten.” It would fly or be displayed on “POW/MIA Recognition Day” in September each year at state buildings, except the Statehouse, if flags are provided. Other flags at public buildings, except the Statehouse, would be flown at half staff at least until noon on that day. * Court upholds ruling on abortion plates The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a ruling that South Carolina’s anti-abortion li cense plates are unconstitution al. A three-judge panel unani mously ruled Monday that the plates, which J)ear the slogan “Choose Life” violate the First Amendment by giving anti-abor tion advocates a forum to express their beliefs without giving abor tion rights supporters a similar fo rum. Nation Cable industry offers free blocking tools WASHINGTON - The cable tele vision industry said Tuesday il will provide free equipment to al low subscribers to block unwanted channels, a reaction to efforts or Capitol Hill to curb indecent pro gramming. The offer is directed to about half the nation’s 70.5 million cable subscribers who don’t have cable boxes that can be programmed tc block certain channels or pro grams. The companies agreeing tc the plan include the 10 largest ir the country and reach 85 percent of all cable subscribers. Black pastors oppose same-sex marriages ATLANTA - More than twc dozen black pastors added theii voice to the critics of same-ses marriage, attempting to distance the civil rights struggle from the gay rights movement and defend ing marriage as a union betweer a man and a woman. Thirty pastors rallied late Monday with their supporters ai an Atlanta-area church where they signed a declaration outlin ing their beliefs on marriage anc religion. The declaration is meant te pressure state representatives tc approve a constitutional ban or gay marriages, which will be con sidered again by the Georgie House of Representatives as soor as this week. World Israeli threats loom over Hamas militants GAZA CITY, GAZA STRIP - Israel threatened to kill the entire lead ership of the Islamic militant group Hamas after assassinating its founder and hinted Tuesday that Yasser Arafat could wind up on the hit list in the future. The accelerated strikes at Hamas are part of an attempt to score a decisive victory ahead oi an Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. Israel does not want to be seen as being driven out of the strip by militants, who already are claiming victory. U.S. special forces stiffen al-Qaida hunt ON THE AFGHAN BORDER - Using bulldozers to slice bunkers and a helicopter landing pad out of a mountainside, U.S. special op erations forces dug in Tuesday or a peak overlooking Pakistan — fortifying the area for the intensi fying battle against al-Qaida and Taliban forces. Special operations forces—whc include Green Berets, Navy SEALs, and CIA operatives—ar« playing a secretive but leading role in the battle against al-Qaids and Taliban suspects believed tc be hiding out in the mountains oi Pakistan’s tribal areas. BRIEFS FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS WIR£ ] n ry - lUvJ First automobile sold. Kennedy half dollar is- — sued. ~~ rrtv t\_ Extended.Forecast . Today | r ► V HI: 69 LO: 48 Thursday n> Y HI: 76 9 LO: 49 Friday = HI: 75 LO: 52 Saturday r HI: 76 LO: 52 non '/j —=» Sunday ,^ 7 HI: 79 LO: 51 >iiOH Today “CAROLINA DAY AT THE STATEHOUSE": S.C. Statehouse, 10 a.m. EDUCATION RECRUITMENT DAY: Carolina Coliseum, 10 a.m.-12 p.m., 1-5 p.m. EPIDEMIOLOGY SEMINAR, “CHRONOEPIDEMIOLOGY": Bill Hrushesky of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Health Sciences Building 103, 12:30 p.m. ADAM ESTES, SID TYNER AND JENNIFER FORET CONCERTO RECITAL: School of Music 206,6 p.m. BRIAN MCNAMARA JUNIOR GUITAR REdTAL: School of Music 206,7 p.m. use SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FEATURING VADIM GLUZMNA: Koger Center for the Arts, Gonzalez Hall, 7:30 p.m. ORPHAN FILM SYMPOSIUM: Russell House Theater, 8 p.m. BEST CLASS FOOD DRIVE: USC Law School. Thursday SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN THE ACADEMIC ARENA: Computer Services 309,9 a.m.-12 p.m. ORPHAN FILM SYMPOSIUM: Russell House Theater, 9 a.m.-10 p.m. COLLOQUIUM: Michael Daniels of the University of Florida, LeConte 210A, 2 p.m., Refreshments 3 p.m. COLLOQUIUM, “COSMIC RAY MUON RADIOGRAPHY”: Jones Physical Science Center 409, Refreshments 3:45 p.m., Colloquium 4 p.m. CLASS OF 2004 SOCIAL HOUR: Salty Nut Cafe, 4-7 p.m. RAPHAEL RADA VOCAL RECITAL: School of Music 206,4:30 p.m. THE MUSE’S WHISPER: WRITING WITH ZELDA: McKissick Museum, 2nd floor, 5:30-6:30 p.m. CHRISTOPHER BERG GUITAR RECITAL: School of Music 206, 7:30 p.m. BEST CUSS FOOD DRIVE: USC Law School. Friday ORPHAN FILM SYMPOSIUM: Russell House Theater, 9 a.m.-10 p.m. SEMINAR, “SOME NEW ASPECTS OF MOLECULAR ENGINEERING OF HEME PROTEINS TO MANIPULATE THEIR FUNCTIONS: LIGAND BINDING, CATALYSIS AND INTERPROTEIN RECOGNITION”: Isao Morishima of Kyoto University, Japan, Jones Physical Science Center 712, Refreshments 3:45 p.m., Seminar 4 p.m. BEST CUSS FOOD DRIVE: USC Law School. Saturday JOURNEY INTO SELF: LESSONS FROM ZELDA: McKissick Museum, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Thornton says he never cheated on Jolie , onrl NEW YORK - Billy Bob Thornton says he and ex-wife Angelina Jolie had “a great relationship” but dif ferent ideas about how they want ed to live their lives. “It was a great relationship,” Thornton tells GQ magazine in its April issue. “For the time we were together, we loved each other and we did it all the way. We didn’t leave any stone unturned. But we had different ideas about how we wanted to live our lives — that’s all it was.” The couple married in May 2000. They divorced in 2003. On whether he cheated on Jolie, Thornton told the magazine: “No, no, no. That was the rumor but that was never it.” Jolie is now a U.N. goodwill am bassador and proud mom of Maddox, whom she adopted from Cambodia. Her new film, “Taking Lives,” opened in theaters Friday. Thornton plays Davy Crockett in “The Alamo,” which opens April 9. Lachey, Simpson star in ABC variety show NEW YORK - Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson will star in “The Nick & Jessica Variety Hour,” scheduled to air April 11 -on ABC. The special will feature a series of sketches and musical perfor mances, the network said. Guests will include Jewel, Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds, Kenny | Rogers, baseball hall of famer Johnny Bench, Mr. T and The ; Muppets stars Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy. ' Lachey and Edmonds will sing a duet of Stevie Wonder’s “For Once in My Life,” and Simpson and Jewel will sing “Who Will Save Your Soul.” Breakup was not an inspriration to Usher NEW YORK - Although his lat est album is titled “Confessions” and features songs about a painful breakup and infidelity, Usher swears that it’s not a re flection on his recent split with TLC member Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas. “This album is not specifically PHOTO COURTESY KRT CAMPUS' »>H* • Angelina Jolie plays an FBI profiler in “Taking Lives" with Ethan Hawke. ■“"Wi?*"*., ' <>0l(l about us,” Usher said. “It isn’t an autobiography about my life. (Although) I did pull from some of my personal experiences from my life.” In a bitter radio interview, Chilli accused Usher of being un faithful. Now the seemingly per sonal tone of Usher’s disc has tongues wagging—especially the song “Confessions,” about a man who gets another woman preg nant. “Confessions,” Usher’s fourth album, came out Tuesday. The al bum already has spawned the No. 1 hit single, “Yeah!” Tribeca Film Festival opens with ‘Helen’ NEW YORK - “Raising Helen,” starring Kate Hudson and John Corbett, will premiere on opening night of the Tribeca Film Festival. The movie features Hudson as a modeling agency assistant who must raise her sister’s three chil dren after her sister and brother in-law die in a car accident. Corbett plays a pastor who helps her and ends up falling in love with her. The film’s director, Garry Marshall is expected to attend the May 1 premiere, along with sever al cast members. “Raising Helen” ■ ’ »d opens in theaters May 28. “This is a terrific film to open the third annual Tribeca Film Festival,” festival co-founder Jane 'r-? Rosenthal said. “It is a movie that not> is uplifting and funny, involves * New York and was partially filmed in New York. It will be a great -<•-«« start to a great third year.” Rosenthal and her business partner, Robert De Niro, created 1 the Tribeca Film Festival to help lower Manhattan recover from the * Sept. 11,2001 terrorist attacks. UMjj vn BRIEFS FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS WIRE '~C3 rtort USC. Briefly Strides for Strength race begins Sunday The Columbia Chapter of Hadassah will be holding the 8th annual Strides for Strength 5K race Sunday starting at 2 p.m. The race begins and ends at the Columbia Jewish Community Center, 4540 Trenholm Road. Registration is $18 beforehand and $20 the day of the race, and online registration can be com pleted at www.strictlyrunning.com. The race begins at 2 p.m., but late reg istration/packet pickup is at 12:30 p.m. A one-mile fitness walk will take place at 2:15 p.m. For more information, contact Lisa Arnold at 919-0442 or Lori Lapin at 699-5077. Media professionals to lecture at USC Fox News correspondent and USC alumnae Rita Cosby is among a number of journalism and mass media professionals scheduled to present at “I-Comm Week: Information, Communications and Ethics-Implications for a Global Society” Monday through April 2. The events, sponsored by USC’s College of Mass Communications and Information Studies, include a lectures by Rita Cosby, George Boyd of The New York Times and Stephen Almagno of the University of Pittsburgh as well as presenta tions on “Making an Effective Super Bowl Ad” and “Ethics in Contemporary Society.” For more information, contact Lee Bugay at 413-8419 or LeeBugay@aol.com. **vn JiOl Local Baptist church to hold nightly revival — f|-TR| The Convent Baptist Church, ■ 787 Convent Church Road, will hold revival services Sunday' through March 31 at 7 p.m. i Dinner will be served at 6 p.m. each night. The event includes presentations by guest speaker_, Rob White as well as musical guests Levon Stack, Purpose and Scott Clark, among others. For j? - more information, call 894-3959. i » ( i Police.Report | These reports are taken directly from the USC Police Department i 1 Each number on the map stands for a crime corresponding with numbered descriptions in the list below. DAY CRIMES (6a.m.-6 p.m.) □ Violent O Nonviolent NIGHT CRIMES (6 p.m.-6a.m.) ■ Violent £ Nonviolent CRIMES AT UNKNOWN HOURS □ Violent 0 Nonviolent Saturday, March 20 □ SIMPLE ASSAULT, COLONIAL CENTER, 801 LINCOLN ST. The victim said Christy Truss grabbed her right arm and shoved her with both hands. The victim has bruises where she indicated Truss pushed her. Reporting officer: S. Alexander. Q ATTEMPTED CAR JACKING, BULL STREET GARAGE, 611 BULL ST. The victim said two unknown males approached his vehicle and struck the driver’s window with a black semi-automatic weapon, motioning for him to get out. Reporting officer S. Alexander gave chase. Ci, LARCENY OF MEDICINE, 507 LINCOLN ST. The victim t said someone took approximately 55 Adderall tablets from him. The medication was prescribed to the victim. Estimated value: $25. Reporting officer: M. Denard. Sunday, March 21 O HOUSING VIOLATION, MCBRYDEQUADRANGLE B, 613 MARION ST. Reporting officer J.M. Simmons responded to a fire alarm and entered the subjects’ room. There was a strong odor of marijuana smoke and a large multi-colored water bong in plain view. There appeared to be fresh resin in the wire filter of the device. Subjects Donald I 1 i •I I I Taylor and Hutton Raszgwiski ! did not return to the room after the alarm was reset. (D MALICIOUS INJURY TO REAL PROPERTY, MCBRYDE QUADRANGLE E, 618 SUMTER ST. The complainant said someone broke out the window to the lounge by throwing a bedpost through , the window. Estimated damage: $200. Reporting officer: D.W. Friels.