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State
Cleanup projects to
remove munitions
Clay and sand now cover old
bombs and artillery shells once
used for military training during
World War II, but the dirt does lit
tle to blunt the danger the muni
tions pose.
South Carolina has 206 sites for
merly used by the military.
Cleanup projects have been pro
posed or started at 39 sites, ac
cording to federal reports. But the
federal government provides lit
tle money for the work, and the
cleanup is slow.
Experts say injuries from un
exploded ordnance could increase
as new homes and roads are built
on former ranges.
Authorities look for
suspect in fatal fire
GREENVILLE, S.C.— Authorities
are looking for a bright orange and
yellow truck seen leaving a motel
last month about the same time a
fire that killed six people started.
A witness told Greenville
County deputies he saw the truck,
driven by a man with short blond
hair, leaving the Comfort Inn at
about the same time the fire alarm
went off the morning of Jan. 25,
Sheriffs Sgt. Shea Smith said.
The truck appears to be a GMC
or Chevrolet made between 1977
and 1979, deputies said.
Investigators don’t know if the
man had any connection to the
fire, Shea said.
Authorities have said the fire
appeared to be intentionally set
and are awaiting results from a
special federal team before mak
ing a final determination.
Nation
Identical technology
used in terror bombs
WASHINGTON - Identical tech
nology appears to have been used
to create terror bombs that have
struck targets in different parts of
the world, including against U.S.
troops in Iraq, the head of the
House Homeland Security
Committee said Sunday.
Rep. Christopher Cox, R-Calif.,
said the findings, from a new in
telligence operation working out
of the FBI Laboratory in Quantico,
Va., has given the government the
capability to take the initiative to
prevent attacks.
River channel closed
to extend crew hunt
NEW ORLEANS - The entrance
to the Mississippi River was
closed to oceangoing vessels — in
cluding cruise ships carrying
thousands of passengers — for a
second day Sunday while teams
searched for the five-member crew
of a supply boat that sank after col
liding with a container ship.
The 178-foot offshore supply
boat Lee III sank early Saturday
and blocked the Southwest Pass,
seven miles south of Pilottown, the
only channel into the river that
can be used by oceangoing vessels.
World
Suicide bomber kills
8 bus passengers
JERUSALEM - A Palestinian
suicide bomber blew himself up
on a crowded Jerusalem bus
Sunday, killing eight passengers
one day before the world court
was to begin hearings on Israel’s
disputed West Bank barrier.
Israeli officials said the suicide
bombing — the 110th in more than
three years of violence — proved
the need to continue building the
barrier to keep out future
bombers.
Iran admits nuclear
black market deals
TEHRAN, IRAN - Iran publicly
acknowledged for the first time
Sunday that it once bought nucle
ar equipment from middlemen on
the Asian subcontinent, lending
credence to a recent report that de
tailed black-market nuclear deals
between a Pakistani scientist and
Iran and Libya.
Foreign Ministry spokesman
Hamid Reza Asefi did not go into
details, but repeated Tehran’s
claims that its efforts to acquire
nuclear technology were strictly
energy-related and it never in
tended for weapons development.
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Scotland announce they have suc
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mammal, a sheep named Dolly.
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SG ELECTIONS BEGIN:
http://vip.sc.edu, 9 a.m.
RING WEEK: Russell House, 1st
floor, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
GRADUATION FAIR: Russell
House Bookstore, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
STUDY ABROAD INFORMATION
SESSION: Business
Administration Building 634,4
p.m.
APPLICATIONS FOR
HOMECOMING COMMISSION
DUE: Russell House 227
LAST DAY TO DROP A COURSE
OR WITHDRAW WITHOUT A
GRADE OF “WF” BEING
RECORDED
Tuesday
RING WEEK: Russell House, 1st
floor, 10a.m.-3p.m.
“WRITING AT WORK”
WORKSHOP: 1600 Hampton St.
Annex, 9 a.m.-12 p.m.
SG ELECTIONS END:
http://vip.sc.edu, 5 p.m.
“A TRIBUTE TO AFRICAN
AMERICAN MUSIC HERITAGE”
CONCERT: St. Peter’s Catholic
| Church, 7 p.m.
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Wednesday
“WRITING AT WORK”
WORKSHOP: 1600 Hampton St.
Annex, 9 a.m.-12 p.m.
RING WEEK: Russell House, 1st
floor, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
GRADUATION FAIR: Russell
House Bookstore, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
AFRICAN-AMERICAN ARTISTS
FILM SERIES, “JACOB
LAWRENCE: THE GLORY OF
EXPRESSION”: Columbia
Museum of Art, 11-11:30 a.m.
EPIDEMIOLOGY SEMINAR,
“STATISTICAL AND
EPIDEMIOLOGIC ISSUES IN
PARKINSON’S DISEASE”: Dr.
Barbara Tilley of MUSC, Health
Sciences Building 103,12:30 p.m.
WORKSHOP, “WAKING UP FROM
‘POWERPOINT-INDUCED SLEEP’:
EFFECTIVE USE OF POWERPOINT
FOR TEACHING”: Thomas Cooper
Library, Multimedia Classroom
3,2-3:30 p.m.
COMPUTER MUSIC CONCERT:
School of Music 206, Recital Hall,
7:30 p.m.
ASH WEDNESDAY
Thursday
“WRITING AT WORK”
WORKSHOP: 1600 Hampton St.
Annex, 9 a.m.-12 p.m.
*City ’ star Davis scores with show’s clothes 9
LOS ANGELES - Kristin Davis of
“Sex and the City” will always
have the show in her heart—and
in her closet.
Davis played eternal optimist
Charlotte York on the HBO series,
which ended Sunday after six sea
sons. The actress said keeping
most of the clothes was part of the
deal.
“I have a lot of quintessential
‘Charlotte’ pieces,” Davis told AP
Radio recently.
Davis said the series, about four
women living in Manhattan, dra
matically changed her life.
“What it’s like to walk around
in the world is completely differ
ent, in a way that has taken some
getting used to, but is really in
credibly flattering, especially
now that we’re going and people
are so sad and kind of adorable
about it, and it just makes you so
thankful to have been a part of
it,” she said.
‘Translation’ far from
lost to Writers Guild
LOS ANGELES - “Lost in
Translation” and “American
Splendor” took top screenwriting
honors Saturday from the Writers
Guild Of America.
Sofia Coppola's “Lost in
Translation,” about two lonely
Americans who strike up an un
likely friendship in Tokyo, was
named best original screenplay.
She also directed the film, which
stars Bill Murray.
Best adapted screenplay honors
went to Robert Pulclnl and Shari
Springer Berman for “American
Splendor,” which is based on the
underground comic books that de
tail the life of Harvey Pekar and a
novel Pekar wrote with his wife,
Joyce Brabner.
The 56th annual awards were
presented in simultaneous cere
monies in New York and Los
Angeles.
Spokesman rebukes
Harry tabloid column
LONDON - A royal spokesman
came to the defense of Prince Harry
in a letter published Friday after a
tabloid columnist called Prince
Charles’ younger son a “national
disgrace.”
The Daily Express’ Carol Sarler
devoted several hundred words in
her column Wednesday to roast
ing Prince Harry, who has been
traveling and working in
Australia and Africa since he fin
ished his education at Eton in
June.
Two years ago, Prince Harry
was widely reported to have in
dulged in underage drinking and
smoking marijuana.
Friday’s Daily Express pub
lished a letter from Paddy
Harverson, Prince Charles’ press
secretary, calling the Sarler col
umn “grossly unfair and ill-in
formed.” The paper simply print
ed the letter, without comment.
Johnson lends magic
to learning centers
MIAMI — Even though Magic
Johnson’s basketball career is
over, he’s still providing assists.
Through his foundation, the
Hall of Fame player helped do
nate $200,000 in computer equip
ment to the Mattie Koonce
Learning Center in Overtown,
one of Miami’s poorest neighbor
hoods.
It’s the 12th Magic Johnson HP
Inventor Center to open in an in
ner-city community in the past
three years.
Another opens next week in
Seattle and nine more are planned
by July 1.
The center includes two dozen
desktop computers, digital cam
eras, printers, a server and other
accessories donated by Hewlett
Packard Co.
Johnson, whose playing career
was cut short in November 1991
when he tested positive for the
virus that causes AIDS, won five
NBA titles with the Los Angeles
Lakers.
Singer Church earns
control of trust fund
LONDON - Charlotte Church.
the bright-eyed Welsh soprano
who has sung for two U.S. presi
dents, the pope and Queen
Elizabeth II, turned 18 on
Saturday, meaning she now has
control of her $30 million trust
fund.
Church — whose bursts of re
belliousness, family spats and a
now-discarded boyfriend have be
come a tabloid soap opera — will
now come face to face with the
difficult transition from child
prodigy to adult star.
Church’s last album of new ma
terial appeared in 2001 and there
is no set date for a new one.
She said she wants to leave be
hind the light classical musical ^
that endeared her to millions and J
forge a pop career.
Her next album will include
“some rocky stuff, some soulful ■
songs and some electric — it’s re
ally mixed,” Church told Britain’s
Daily Mirror.
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USC.Briefly
Museum to hold
response program
The Columbia Museum of Art will
sponsor “Frisson: Artists
Respond to Art” in partnership .
with Syndicated Soul Productions
on Friday. The program features
high-energy poetry readings in
the galleries in response to
artwork in the museum’s
collection. Refreshments and a
cash bar will follow the program.
Admission is free.
Oratorical contest to
begin Wednesday
Carolina Debate and the Darla
Moore School of Business are
sponsoring the William and
Marion Langfan Constitutional
Oratorical Contest for full-time
undergraduate and graduate
students. The topic will be
announced 48 hours before
preliminary rounds, Monday at 3
p.m., and the same topic will be
used in the final round.
Preliminary rounds will take
place on Wednesday at 4 p.m.,
and the final round will be at 7
p.m. For further requirements,
competition locations and prize
information, visit
http://www.cla.sc.edU/ENGL/F
aculty/Berube/Debate/Langfan.
htm.
Community center to
hold golf tourney
The Columbia Jewish
Community Center will be
holding a golf tournament
Sunday, March 21 at the Golf
Club of South Carolina at
Crickentree. The event runs
from 11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and ;
costs $100 per player, which ■
covers the cart, greens fee,
lunch, prizes, snacks and awards
presentation. For more
information, contact Leigh
McElroy, CJCC program
director, at 787-2023 or Bruce
Filler, tournament chairman, at
788-2416.
Police.Report
These reports are taken directly from the USC Police Department
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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
B Violent
© Nonviolent
Tuesday, Feb. 17
® HARASSMENT, SOUTH
QUAD, 500 SUMTER ST.
Reporting officer L.M.
Branham received
information from the
complainant of harassing
phone calls and e-mails from
Joseph Crawford. The
complainant received this
information from a
confidential source.
Thursday, Feb. 19
Q DISREGARDING TRAFFIC
LIGHT, SIMPLE POSSESSION
OF MARIJUANA, OPEN
CONTAINER IN MOTOR
VEHICLE, FAILURE TO
SURRENDER SUSPENDED
LICENSE, VIOLATION OF
tV
DRIVER’S LICENSE/PERMIT,
POSSESSION OF COCAINE,
300 BLOCK ASSEMBLY ST.
Reporting officer G. J. Kerwin
initiated a traffic stop on
Darreun Miller because he ran
a red light while traveling
southbound on Assembly
Street at the intersection of
Assembly and Blossom streets.
Miller stepped out of his
vehicle on his own. As Kerwin
approached Miller, Kerwin
noticed he was chewing a dark
substance. Miller was ordered
to spit out the substance
because it had the smell of
marijuana. A check was run on
the subject’s vehicle license as
well, and it came back
suspended. Miller was arrested
for simple possession of
marijuana and made an
c
excited utterance that it was
marijuana. Upon inventory of
the subject’s car, a small clear
plastic bag was found
containing a white substance
believed to be marijuana. The
substance was field tested and
was revealed to be cocaine.
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