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■ PHOTO SPECIAL TO THE GAMECOCK The toy consists of a rubber bail that’s thrown out of and caught in a curved tube. Accuthrow CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Hicks brought Accuthrow to the store, he changed his mind. “I’ve been in toys for 15 years,” he said. “I’ve seen a lot of items that were sort of hot, but didn’t sell well. Accuthrow is simple to learn but challenging once you start. I still sell these every day — it’s one of my best-selling toys.” Hicks’ invention is a dream come true for him. Having his in vention called “the next hula hoop” is a fitting title in his opin ion. His invention has allowed him to be self-employed, a benefit he said is worth all the costs of op eration. Simplicity is key to Accuthrow, and it is the driving force behind its inventor. “You have to have the drive to succeed. I’ve had it all my life, but I just didn’t know how to use it,” Hicks said. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com 1 McCutchen CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 building was renovated,” he said, gesturing to the kitchen. “This is now a classroom.” Antun has served every U.S. president since Ronald Reagan, as well as the pope. He has owned eight restaurants and was the offi cial caterer for the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and the governor’s mansion in New York before he came to study at USC in 1995. /Xfter earning his doctorate, he stayed on to teach in the College of Hospitality, Retail and Sports Management and founded USC’s Culinary Institute in 2001. According to organizers, each participating student will experi ence the restaurant industry as front-of-the house manager run ning the dining room and back-of the-house manager running the kitchen. Danielle Camp, a fourth-year hotel, tourism and retail manage ment student, worked as front-of the-house manager Wednesday. She said the high-profile cus tomers attracted by the restaurant can be intimidating at times. “It’s a little scary,” Camp said. “You never know quite who is who, and you don’t want to mess up on someone important.” Jason Spears, a fourth-year HTRM student, worked as a wait er. “I think it’s pretty neat. I like the house, I like working in here,” Spears said, though he admitted things got “pretty hectic.” Chet Tucker, a fifth-year HTRM student, said he had fun working at McCutchen House. “It’s a good experience, and it kind of gives us some insight into running a restaurant,” Tucker • said. “It’s a lot of fim working with Antunand Jules.” Comments on this story? E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com STATE Snow, record cold force closings COLUMBIA (AP) - Snow fell across much of South Carolina early Thursday morning, forcing the closing of schools and state offices in many areas. The National Weather Service reported nine inches of snow in Clover near the South Carolina-North Carolina border by 6 a.m. Other amounts ranged from just a dusting in the western parts of the state to up to seven inches in Fairfield and Lancaster counties. Schools were closed in more than a dozen counties. Some individual school dis tricts are also closed in Anderson and Florence coun ties, while districts in the Midlands and points south closed early. The snow caused big prob- ~ lems around Columbia. Forecasters originally called for a dusting, but by 9 a.m., two to three inches of snow had fallen in Richland County, forcing school offi cials to send children home. NATION, ' CIA hunts al-Qaida cells, sympathizers WASHINGTON (AP) - The CIA is hunting down al-Qaida country by country, cell by cell, the agency’s spymaster said Thursday in a rare pub lic statement. “Now, with al-Qaida ' flushed from its central haven, we are in a long and perilous phase of hunt and pursuit of its cells and sympathizers,” said Jim Pavitt, the CIA’s deputy director of operations. Pavitt directs the agency’s clandestine service, which manages spy networks to gath er information and conducts covert operations. He spoke to national security lawyers and reporters in Washington. Pavitt said the danger of . new attacks remains high. “As we move and adjust, so do our enemies. They adapt. They regroup,” he said, noting recent terrorist strikes believed . linked to al-Qaida in North Africa, Yemen and Indonesia. The overall number of peo ple in al-Qaida remains small, Pavitt said, but their ruthless ness make them dangerous. WORLD Inspectors to give Iraq report Monday UNITED NATIONS (AP) - . U.N. weapons inspectors will deliver their long-awaited as ' sessment 6f Iraq’s compliance over the past two months, in speeches, not formal reports, and won’t present samples tak en during their search, the top inspector said Thursday. “It’s an update, not a sepa rate formal report but my speech will be written and available to the council,” Hans Blix told The Associated Press after meeting his board of di rectors at U.N. headquarters. Blix, who heads the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission, will brief the council on Monday along with his counterpart, Mohamed ElBaradei of .the International Atomic Energy Agency. Monday’s report to the coun cil will be crucial for the United States' decision whether to press for military action against Iraq. Under U.N Security Council Resolution 1441, Iraq could be found in “material breach” if it doesn’t disarm. Sanford CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 much as $1 billion short of meet ing more than $5 billion in spend ing needs in the fiscal year that begins July 1. Sanford told legis lators that restructuring govern ment should be viewed as an op portunity created by hard times. “He’s our leader. Let’s get be hind him;” said Sen. Gerald Malloy, D-Hartsville. “I thought it was a sobering .speech,” said Senate President Pro Tern Glenn McConnell, R Charleston. But the speech fell flat for some. “I thought it was a good * speech if he was still on the cam 1 paign trail,” said Rep. John Scott, D-Columbia. Sanford repeated stump talk, urging lawmakers to decrease statewide elected offices and to consider having governors and ■ tei lant governors run on a sin gle ticket. Some of the Budget and Control Board’s functions also should be moved under a new Cabinet-level administrative of fice, Sanford said. Taken together, Sanford’s pro posals represent a substantial consolidation of power under the governor’s office “under the aegis of streamlining government,” -aid Winthrop University politi 1 cal science professor Scott Huffmon. That could be tough to get through a Legislature that tries to keep power for itself, he said. But the governor lacks power to make change where it’s needed most, particularly at the Public Safety Department and its Division of Motor Vehicles. Sanford said he can’t fire the peo ple who run those operations and that reduces accountability. Legislators also need to send him a campaign finance reform package. Sanford noted that Gov. Jim Hodges, the Democrat he de feated in the Nov. 5 election, had vetoed a previous campaign fi nance bill. “If given the chance, I’ll sign it,” Sanford said. Sanford singled out some state employees who could lose jobs if his proposals succeed: lobbyists who work to sway legislators to al locate money to their agencies. Those employees cost the state $1.9 million a year and taxpayers can no longer afford that practice, he said. He also said that since tak ing office, he had eliminated the $80,000-a-year director job at the Governor’s Mansion. Sanford vowed to meet regular ly with legislators and residents outside of the State House and set aside one evening each month for folks to drop by his office. He also touched on one of the state’s biggest budget problems: increased Medicaid spending. Support is growing in the Legislature to raise cigarette taxes to cover the increases. But Sanford and 66 members of the General Assembly have signed Americans for Tax Reform pledges not to raise taxes. A recent survey showed people were willing to support legislators and the governor if they didn’t keep their promise. “Unfortunately, the polls do not change my mind, nor do they re lease me from my pledge,” Sanford said. 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