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STATE BRIEFS Afghan refugees relocated to Columbia COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) Shakila Khojazada and her two sons were greeted with balloons, flowers and her new host family’s smiles this weekend after an arduous three-day journey here from Afghanistan. The Khojazadas are just one of 100 families who will make a similar journey to South Carolina this year thanks to a Lutheran resettlement program that pairs refugee families with congregations from a variety of denominations. Exhaustion filled the faces of, Khojazada, 28, and her sons, Sameer, 14, and Sear, 8, but beneath their weariness was a sense of relief when they saw their new friends from Spring Valley Presbyterian Church. “She’s so happy to be here because her children can go to school, and she’s so happy to see the love that is expressed here,” said Farah Naz, one of two local interpreters assisting members of Spring Valley Presbyterian Church as they greeted the Khojazada family. Lutheran Family Services expanded its resettlement program this year, partnering with a variety of denominations to help families like the Khojazadas. PACT scores to be released on Tuesday COLUMBIA, S.C.(AP)-The third-annual Palmetto Achievement Challenge Test scores will be released Tuesday, but the results have never meant so much as they do this year. The scores will be the sole indicator used to rate elementary and middle schools from excellent to unsatisfactory when the first report card is released this fall. Educators, parents and students have been waiting for the scores since April, when more than 300,000 answered multiple-choice questions, completed charts and diagrams, wrote essays and applied mathematics concepts to real world situations on the state’s standardized test. With the stakes so high, it’s no wonder parents and educators nervously await the results, especially after nearly 40 percent of those who took the PACT across the state in 2000 failed the math standards and about a third failed the English-language arts standards. Schools will be graded on a curve for a few years as students and teachers adjust to higher standards needed to achieve the state’s goal of being ranked in the top half of the nation by 2010. Poor performing schools qualify for special assistance, including teacher specialists and homework centers, though the state Education Superintendent Inez Tenenbaum has warned there isn’t enough money for every school this year. Teachers and parents of students who fail the exam must create an academic assistance plan. IT HAPPENED NEWS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED SOUTHERN GOVERNORS APPROVE ENERGY POLICY: Vice President Dick Cheney won’t hear many discouraging words or dissenting voices from Southern governors when he promotes the Bush administration’s energy policy on Monday. While governors are often at odds with Washington on some policy matters, the members of the Southern Governors’ Association speak with virtually one bipartisan voice on a policy that promotes more domestic production of oil, gas, coal and other energy. NAr ION BR 3FS Candidates for NYC mayor may face runoff NEW YORK (AP) - A third poll within a week suggests mayoral hopefuls Mark Green and Fernando Ferrer may be headed for a runoff in the Democratic primary. The Daily News/New York 1 poll found that 27 percent of likely voters supported Green, the city’s public advocate, while 26 percent chose Ferrer, the Bronx borough president. The poll, published in Sunday’s Daily News, had a margin of error of four percentage points. Two polls released last week also found that Green and Ferrer were locked in the lead among likely Democratic voters. If no candidate gets 40 percent of the vote in Tuesday’s Democratic primary, the top two finishers will have a runoff on Sept. 25. According to the Daily News/New York 1 poll, Green and Ferrer would face a statistical tie if a Democratic runoff were held. Green would get 42 percent, and Ferrer would get 39 percent, with 19 percent saying they weren’t sure. Shampoo hairstylist dies of aneurysm LOS ANGELES (AP) - Gene Shacove, a hairstylist to the stars who inspired the movie “’Shampoo,” died Wednesday of a thoracic aneurysm followed by kidney failure. He was 72. Shacove styled the hair of celebrities such as George Hamilton, Jill St. John, Lucille Ball and Marlene Dietrich. He continued to work several days a week up until his death. He set a trend with his loose, tousled haircuts for St. John and Joey Heatherton, fellow salon owner Allen Edwards said. But it was his eventful love life that inspired the 1975 comedy Shampoo, starring friend Warren Beatty and written by another friend, Robert Towne. Although married several times, he was more often single. IT HAPPENED NEWS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED SECURITY GUARD KILLS 4 CO WORKERS: Joseph Ferguson, a disgruntled security guard, shot and killed four former co workers in Sacramento after he was fired from his job. Ferguson is still at large. WORLD BRIEFS 5 killed, 10 injured in land mine explosions SRINAGAR, INDIA (AP) - Islamic guerrillas killed five soldiers and wounded another 10 people, including five civilians, in two separate land mine explosions in the troubled Jammu-Kashmir state Sunday, police said. A powerful land mine blast rippecLthrough two army vehicles near Angralla, 185 miles south of Srinagar, the state’s summer capital. One of the vehicles fell into a gorge, killing five soldiers and seriously injuring one, police said. In Srinagar, a land mine blew up near a residential neighborhood. Four soldiers patrolling the area and five residents were wounded, an official said, speaking on customary condition of anonymity. TheJ’akistan-based Hezb-ul Mujahedeen group claimed Responsibility for the attack near Angralla. Saleem Hashmi, the group’s spokesman, claimed the blast had killed nine soldiers. Hashmi’s organization is among more than a dozen separatist groups in the northern Indian state. Rebels are fighting for an independent Kashmir or for the predominantly Muslim region to join Islamic Pakistan, India’s western neighbor. Human rights groups estimate 60,000 people have been killed since the insurgency erupted 12 years ago. IT HAPPENED NEWS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED CHESS GRANDMASTER CLAIMS BOBBY FISCHER IS PLAYING AGAIN: A British chess grandmaster is convinced that Bobby Fischer, one of the game’s most legendary and elusive figures, is playing again — anonymously on the Internet. “I am 99 percent sure that I have been playing against the chess legend,” Nigel Short told The Sunday Telegraph. CLOSING TIME Children play at the child-care center facing closing at USC. More on this story in Wednesday’s issue, photo by michelle williams. Your words could be here... if you wrote for The Gamecock. Come see us in RH 333. %'■ i:;;V ? ' . • X&g/f : : 'V' >. V- r . BARNES & NOBLE KIOSK UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA MEDICAL BOOKSTORE 6439 Gamers Ferry Road Building One UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA BOOKSTORE The Russell House 1400 Greene Street .. Limited time offer. Credit approval and activation of service on 1- or 2-year contract required for eligible Cingular calling plans. 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