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-1 I Samuel Clemens writes the pseudonym Mark Twain for the first time. 1982: "Late Night with David Letterman” premieres on NBC. Extended. Forecast Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Ai§- “*a_ HI: 43 ^ \\ HI: 63 = HI: 57 HI: 45 HI: 56 \j L0:43 VJ LO:32 L0:39 L0:45 L0:31 State I Primary oath might deter possible voters An effort by the state Democratic Party to keep Republican voters from interfer ing with results of Tuesday’s pres idential primary may hurt turnout, some political observers say. Only voters who sign an oath that reads ’’I consider myself to be a Democrat” will be allowed to vote in the state’s presidential primary Tuesday. Republicans didn't require a similar pledge in their last presi dential primary in 2000. Mentally-ill homeless to receive help soon The state Mental Health Department has received a $1.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to provide assis tance for homeless people with mental illnesses. About $750,000 will be used for rental assistance for 29 people in the Columbia area and more than $500,000 will be used to help 36 peo ple in rural counties of Aiken, Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell and Orangeburg. Nation Bush orders look into intelligence failures WASHINGTON - President Bush, under mounting political pressure, will sign an executive order to establish a full-blown in vestigation of U.S. intelligence fail ures in Iraq, a senior White House official said Sunday. The investigation will look at what the United States believed it knew before the war against Saddam Hussein’s regime and what has been determined since the invasion. NASA seeks a solution to Spirit malfunctions LOS ANGELES - NASA said Sunday its Spirit rover was a week away from rolling on Mars again and that the software problem vex ing the spacecraft may trouble both it and its twin, Opportunity, for the duration of their double barreled mission. Engineers deleted more files from Spirit’s flash memory but held off from reformatting it complete ly until Monday - giving them more time to diagnose ongoing problems, mission manager Mark Adler said. NASA originally planned to per form the task Saturday. World Mass resignations in Iranian Parliament TEHRAN, IRAN - More than one-third of Iran’s lawmakers re signed in protest Sunday over dis puted elections. The parliamentary speaker charged ruling clerics with tram pling on the rights of his country men. Speaker Mahdi Karroubi ap pealed to Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to help resolve the crisis caused by the disqualification of thousands of liberal candidates from the Feb. 20 vnfp Some 124 lawmakers in the 290 seat Majlis, or parliament, re signed Sunday as a gesture in tended to force the clerical hier archy to reinstate the disqualified candidates. Palestinians dispute West Bank barrier JERUSALEM - A top Palestinian official told a visiting U.S. envoy Saturday that Palestinians were angered over Washington’s opposition to an in ternational court hearing on the Israeli barrier to seal off the West Bank. Israel also staged another raid early Sunday. Palestinian Cabinet Minister Saeb Erekat told State Department official David Satterfield that Palestinian lead ers were upset with a U.S. posi tion that the International Court of Justice should not consider the legality of the Israeli-built barri er. Israel says the barrier is crucial to stopping suicide bombers (&RIEFS FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS WIRE Monday BLACK HISTORY MONTH EXHIBIT BEGINS: South Caroliniana Library, Second Floor. STUDY ABROAD INFORMATION SESSION: Business Administration Building 634,4 p.m. NATIONAL STUDENT EXCHANGE INFORMATION SESSION: Russell House 304,5 p.m. WOMENMATTER RALLY FOR THE PRIMARY: South Carolina State Museum, Vista Room, Refreshments 6:45 p.m., Event 7 p.m. -9 p.m. INTEREST MEETING, ALPHA PHI OMEGA COED SERVICE FRATERNITY: Towers classroom, 7:30 pmi. LAST DAY TO APPLY FOR MAY GRADUATION Tuesday WEST QUAD INFORMATION FAIR: Russell House 1st Floor, 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. DECLARE YOURSELF CAMPAIGN: Davis Field, 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. CAROLINA CREW INFORMATION MEETING: Russell House Third Floor Lobby, 8 p.m. Wednesday WEST QUAD INFORMATION FAIR: Russell House 1st Floor, 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. EPIDEMIOLOGY SEMINAR: "ETIOLOGIC PROFILES FOR HORMONE RECEPTOR-DEFINED BREAST CANCER IN THE , SHANGHAI BREAST CANCER STUDY”: Dr. Swan Adams, Health Sciences Building 103, 12:30 p.m. NATIONAL STUDENT EXCHANGE INFORMATION SESSION: Russell House 304,5 p.m. use STUDENT COMPOSERS CONCERT: School of Music Recital Hall 206,7:30 p.m. FINANCIAL AID INFORMATION SESSION: Law Center 335,10 a.m. -11 a.m. Thursday COLLOQUIUM: David B. Hitchcock of the University of Florida, LeConte College 210A, Lecture 2 p.m., Refreshments 3 p.m. ENGINEERING AND HIGH TECH FAIR: Strom Thurmond Wellness and Fitness Center, 3 p.m. STUDENT ORGANIZATION RENEWAL AND TREASURER'S WORKSHOP: Russell House 322/326,3:30 p.m. STUDY ABROAD INFORMATION SESSION: Business Administration Building 634,4 p.m. APPLICATIONS DUE FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE LEADERSHIP TEAM: http://www.sa.sc.edu Friday CAROLINA STUDENT JUDICIAL COUNCIL APPLICATIONS DUE: http://www.cjsc.org Grammy awards scheduled to air Sunday NEW YORK - Performances by rapper 50 Cent, the Foo Fighters, Chick Corea, and a tribute to Luther Vandross featuring Celine Dion, Alicia Keys and Richard Marx, have been added to the Grammy Awards telecast. The 46th Annual Grammy Awards will air live on CBS from the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Sunday. Beyonce Knowles, Jay-Z, OutKast and Pharrell Williams lead with six Grammy nominations each. Previously announced per formers include the White Stripes, Sting with Sean Paul, Justin Tlmberlake, Martina McBride, Christina Aguilera, the Black Eyed Peas and a funk tribute segment with Robert Randolph & the Family Band, Earth, Wind & Fire, OutKast, George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic. Hilary Duff, Kurt Bllng, Faith Hill, B.B. King. Brian McKnlght, Carlos Santana, and Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith will be among the award presenters, the Recording Academy announced. Ray Charles honored for life achievements LOS ANGELES - At 73, Grammy-winning singer Ray Charles is still humbled by the praise he has received throughout his career, especially from fellow artists. Charles recently was presented with the President's Merit Award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. "Music is my life, professional ly, for nearly 60 years. To be rec ognized by the academy is still the highest honor,” Charles said. This month, Los Angeles Mayor Jim Hahn is expected to declare Charles the city's "cultural trea sure" as part of black heritage month. Charles, an original inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, won his first Grammy in 1960 for "Let the Good Times Roll.” In 1987, he received the academy's award for lifetime achievement. In all, Charles has won 13 Grammy awards. He had hip surgery late last year and plans to begin touring again in March. Snoop Dogg lawsuit thrown out by judge LOS ANGELES — A judge has dismissed a lawsuit accusing rap star Snoop Dogg of including a message left on his answering ma chine in a song without permis sion. The lawsuit was filed last March in Los Angeles Superior Court on behalf of a man who kept his name secret because of safety concerns. The man claimed his one minute message appeared in a song released as part of the 2002 al bum "Paid the Cost to be Tha Boss.” The message, left under the name Jim Bob, expressed the caller's support for Snoop Dogg in his rivalry with rap music pro ducer Marion ‘’Suge” Knight, the lawsuit said. The plaintiff sought a monetary award from Snoop Dogg, whose real name is Calvin Broadus, and other defendants, including Capitol Records. Spring training raises money for children KANSAS CITY, MO. - Country singer Garth Brooks was invited Friday as a non-roster player to the Kansas City Royals' spring training camp that opens Feb. 20 in Surprise, Ariz. Brooks' visit is designed to pro mote his charity, Teammates for Kids. He has a .027 average in 39 at-bats over three previous spring training camps. With the help of 67 baseball players, Brooks started Teammates for Kids in 1999 to ' raise money for children's chari ties around the world. Today, there are more than 450 professional baseball, hockey and football players participating in Touchem All (the baseball divi sion), Top Shelf (the hockey divi sion) and Touchdown Teammates (the football divi sion). In the last five years, the ath letes' contributions have helped generate over $37 million for chil dren in the United States, Canada and 41 other countries. BRIEFS FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS WIRE PHOTO COURTESY OF KRT CAMPU^| Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake perform during halftime at™ the Super Bowl. USC.Briefly USC hosts geriatric health care convention The Third Annual Geriatrics Symposium for Primary Care Physicians will be held Saturday. The symposium is for primary care physicians, pharmacists, nurse practitioners and others in terested in the healthcare of the elderly. Physicians may attend for $125, non-physicians for $80, and residents/students for $50. For more information or for tickets, call 434-4211. New computer viruses detected by McAfee Network Associates (McAfee) warns about two new viruses that might now be on campus, W32/Mydoom@MM and W32/Dummaru.y@MM. Read about them at: http://vil.nai.com/vil/con tent/alert.htm. McAfee software can be updated manually to im mediately protect against this threat. Other virus software, such as Norton AntiVirus, should be updated also. Sign up early to live in new residence hall Housing will provide a West Quad Information Fair from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday to make information available regarding the new resi dence hall. Applications for West Quad housing are due by Friday, Feb. 20. For more information, call university housing at 777-4283 or visit www.housing.sc.edu/uh westquad.asp. African-American literature promoted The 2nd annual African American Read-In, “’The Power of Words: Make Your Presence Felt,” will be held Saturday 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The read-in is intended to promote the read ing of African-American liter ature among high school and college students and will take place in the Daniel Management Center of the Business Administration* building. The featured work the event is Nathan McCall's "Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America” and will include a workshop on the book as well as other con temporary literature and an />pen-mic session. Also, stu dents can compete in an essay contest for a cash prize. ' -*-r- 7— ‘ ‘ — “ ' ~“r " ~' r 1 r ~ _ Police.Report 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 © Nonviolent Wednesday, Jan. 28 © MALICIOUS INJURY TO PERSONAL PROPERTY, S-6 LOT, 1405 WHALEY ST. The complainant said someone damaged his motorcycle by putting cracks on the right and left side fairings, pushing back the top right mirror, scratching the top right throttle and causing an unknown fluid to leak from the bottom of the motorcycle. Estimated damage: $900. Reporting officer: Morant. ® AUTO BREAK-IN, LARCENY OF PURSE, N-l LOT, 701 ASSEMBLY ST. The victim said someone shattered her rear passenger's side window and took a black Banana Republic purse, a black snakesf in purse, a Visa credit card, one book of checks and $70 cash. The victim said her bank notified her of a $60 check being cashed at an unknown location out of the jurisdiction. Estimated value: $220. Reporting officer: Morant. Thursday, Jan. 29 d> MALICIOUS INJURY TO REAL PROPERTY, ROGER CENTER FOR THE ARTS, 815 ASSEMBLY ST. The complainant said that between Jan. 28 and Jan. 29 someone entered the handicapped balcony. A "Coda Console’* used for music and sound was being held there. The subject(l) pushed several buttons on the console causing the computer connected to the system to shut down. The complainant has not been able to restore the computer. A white male with dark hair and a white ^k female probably in their 20s ™ were seen in the room at one point, but the complainant is not sure they are connected to the incident. Estimated damage: $2,000. Reporting officer: Morant. O minor in possession of BEER, CAROLINA COLISEUM, 600 ASSEMBLY ST. The reporting officer observed that Travis Pietrusia, who is under 21, was in possession of four draft beers. Reporting officer; M.L. Goading. V