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State LaBelle to perform at S.C. State University ORANGEBURG, S.C. - Singer Patti LaBelle will perform as part of the inauguration activities for South Carolina State University President Andrew Hugine. The Grammy award-winning artist will perform at the histori cally black college Friday night, and Hugine will be formally inau gurated Saturday. Proceeds from the concert will benefit the Alumni Heritage Endowed Scholarship Fund. 5 Beaufort missionaries leave embattled Haiti BEAUFORT, S.C. — Five Beaufort missionaries were among those evacuated as order in the impov erished country of Haiti unraveled. Missionaries Marsha Peets, Billy Locke, Carmen Marflack, Read Lewin and Tony Bush were doing medical work with 40 other missionaries in St. Louis du Nord, a northwestern coastal village. The group left Feb. 14 and had planned to stay until Feb. 28 as part of the Northwest Haiti Christian Mission. When word spread about an im minent rebel attack on Port-de Paix, the timetable was sped up and the crew flew out Monday. Nation J.K. Rowling, creators of Google join Forbes list NEW YORK - “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling and the founders of the Google search en gine have landed on Forbes mag azine's annual list of billionaires. - Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is No. 1 for the 10th straight year, but investor Warren Buffett is nip ping at his heels. Gates’ net worth .is now estimated at $46.6 billion. Newcomers to the list included Rowling and Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page. All three debuted at No. 552 with $1 billion each. House approves unborn rights in murder cases WASHINGTON - The House vot ed Thursday to treat attacks on a pregnant woman as separate crimes aqainst both her and the fetus she is carrying. Critics say it would undermine abortion rights by giving fetuses new fed eral legal status. , The White House and President Bush’s conservative supporters actively backed the passage of the Unborn Victims of Violence Act. Following enactment of the law banning “partial birth” abortions last year, the bill is this year’s prime measure dealing with the unborn. British historians might have found Darwin’s ship LONDON - British maritime historians said Thursday they may have located the Beagle, the ■ship that took Charles Darwin on the voyages of discovery and where he began formulating his theory of natural selection. Using radar technology, histo rians found what they believe is •the 90-foot Beagle, 18 feet beneath the mud of marshes in Essex • county, east of London. The findings are to be re , vealed in a British Broadcasting Corp. documentary over the weekend. Researchers used a census list ing crewmen’s families living on the Beagle as well as old maps to help trace the vessel to an area of the marsh near Potton Island. The Beagle, a 10-gun naval fighting ship, was launched at the Woolwich Royal Dockyard on the River Thames in 1820. Afghan leader declares end of Taliban fighting KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday declared the Taliban defeated, suggesting much of the violence in his country is caused by criminals rather than guerrilla holdouts. But neither Karzai nor Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who appeared together at a news con ference at the Afghan presiden tial palace, offered any specific 'hope that the U.S.-led coalition 'would capture al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden soon, despite a fresh offensive in neighboring Pakistan. BRIEFS FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS WIRE t wjky in istory 1827: First Mardi Gras cele Ition takes place in New Orleans, La. 1967: Pink Floyd releases its first single, “Arnold Layne.” Extended.Forecast Today LO 35 Saturday HI: 59 LO: 38 Sunday HI: 67 LO: 52 Monday HI: 69 LO: 53 Tuesday HI: 68 U LO: 52 Today \ THEATRE SOUTH CAROLINA PRESENTS TROJAN WOMEN: Drayton Hall, 8 p.m. SEMINAR, “PROTEOMICS APPROACHES TO IDENTIFY PROTEIN TARGETS OF REACTIVE INTERMEDIATES"LDr. Daniel Liebler of Vanderbilt School of Medicine, Jones Physical Science Center 6, Refreshments 3:45 p.m., Seminar 4 p.m. ALGERNON SYDNEY SULLIVAN AND OUTSTANDING SENIOR AWARD APPLICATIONS DUE: Russell House 115,4 p.m. FRISSON: ARTISTS RESPOND TO ART: Columbia Museum of Art, 6:30-7:30 p.m. LATE NIGHT CAROLINA: Russell House, 2nd floor, 10 p.m.-2 a.m. Saturday THEATRE SOUTH CAROLINA PRESENTS TROJAN WOMEN: Drayton Hall, 8 p.m. FIDLER 5K: Blatt P.E. Center, 7:30 a.m. AFRICAN-AMERICAN ARTISTS FILM SERIES, “JACOB LAWRENCE: THE GLORY OF EXPRESSION”: Columbia Museum of Art, 11-11:30 a.m. Sunday THEATRE SOUTH CAROLINA PRESENTS TROJAN WOMEN: Drayton Hall, 8 p.m. Monday i use SPRING CLEANING CLOTHING DRIVE: Russell House, Greene Street, 10 a.m.-12 p.m. GALLERY TALK, “THE HUMAN CONDITION”: Curt LaCross, McMaster Gallery, 10 a.m. STUDY ABROAD INFORMATION SESSION: Business Administration Building 634,4 p.m. DOCUMENTARY PRESENTATION AND DISCUSSION, “WALKING TO KUWAIT”: Law School Auditorium, 7 p.m. MARGARET CHO: Roger Center, 8 p.m. SAFE SPRING BREAK WEEK SOUTHERN INTERSCHOLASTIC PRESS ASSOCIATION CONVENTION AND COMPETITION: Adam’s Mark Hotel. SEMESTER MIDPOINT Tuesday use SPRING CLEANING CLOTHING DRIVE: Russell House, Greene Street, 10 a.m.-12 p.m. DR. SUESS’BIRTHDAY (1904) SOUTHERN INTERSCHOLASTIC PRESS ASSOCIATION CONVENTION AND COMPETITION: Adam’s Mark Hotel. SAFE SPRING BREAK WEEK Wednesday SEMINAR, “LEUKEMIA IN THE UKRAINE: STUDYING THE EFFECTS FROM THE CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT": Dr. Arthur Michalek of the University of Buffalo, Health Sciences Building 103,12:30 p.m. LECTURE, “STUDENTS CREATING NEW KNOWLEDGE”: GambreU Hall 152,3:30 p.m. SAFE SPRING BREAK WEEK Thursday COLLOQUIUM, “MODELING THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN TWO CORRELATED SURVIVAL OUTCOMES": Amita K. Manatunga of Emory University, LeConte 210A, Lecture 2 p.m., Refreshments 3 p.m. YWCA OF THE MIDLANDS 90TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION: YWCA of the Midlands, 6-8 p.m. MEET AND GREET WITH TAMEIKA ISAAC DEVINE: Russell House 322/326,7 p.m. STUDY ABROAD INFORMATION SESSION: Business Administration Building 634,4 I P-m. V Kidman enters U.N. for upcomingfilm role UNITED NATIONS - Nicole Kidman slipped into the inter preters’ booth at the U.N. Security Council to prepare for her next movie role. In March, Kidman and co-star Sean Penn begin filming “The Interpreter," a thriller about a U.N. translator who overhears a conversation that could cost her her life. The outside of the United Nations has appeared in numer ous movies, but Hollywood had been unsuccessful in getting per mission to film inside for many years until director Sydney Pollack asked U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan last month. Annan agreed in principle, and the presidents of the General Assembly and the Security Council then gave a green light for “The Interpreter” to be filmed in side the United Nations. LaBelle, Simpson set to perform at ‘VH1 Divas’ NEW YORK - Patti LaBelle and Jessica Simpson will perform at the “VH1 Divas” special, live from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on April 18. Additional performers, presen ters and special guests will be an nounced as they are confirmed, VH1 announced. The “Divas” specials raise funds for the VH1 Save the Music Foundation, a nonprofit organiza tion that works to restore instru mental music programs in public schools and raise awareness of music education Affleck, Lopez wedding cut from ‘Jersey Girl’ NEW YORK - A wedding scene with Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez has been scrapped from director Kevin Smith’s upcoming “Jersey Girl,” according to Us Weekly magazine. “I didn’t know if (it was right) to leave it in,” Smith is quoted as saying in the March 8 issue. “People might forget they’re watching a picture, like, ‘Wait, didn’t these two NOT get mar ried?”’ Affleck and Lopez were sup posed to have married last September, but abruptly post poned their lavish plans “due to the excessive media attention sur rounding our wedding.” They have since ended their engage ment. Jolie set to carry Olympic torch for Athens Games ATHENS, GREECE - Angelina Jolie will carry the Olympic torch during one of the final stages of the relay for the Athens Games. Jolie, 28, has agreed to run a stage of the Olympic torch relay on the day before the start of the Aug. 13-29 Olympics, Athens or ganizers said Tuesday. A goodwill ambassador for the U.N. refugee agency since 2001, Jolie won a supporting-actress Oscar for 1999’s “Girl, Interrupted.” Nike starts ad campaign with celebrity switch-ups PORTLAND, ORE. - Andre Agassi on the baseball mound? Marion Jones as a gymnast? It all makes perfect sense in Nike’s new ad campaign, “What if?” The TV ads feature star ath letes playing sports outside their specialties: Randy Johnson at a bowling alley, Lance Armstrong in a boxing ring and Serena Williams on the beach playing vol leyball. “Our belief is that a passionate athlete’s drive to win would trans late into success in any sport,” said Nancy Monsarrat, director of Nike’s U.S. Advertising for the Beaverton company. BRIEFS FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS WIRE PHUIUbrtOlML i nt V3«ivicuuur\ Nicole Kidman receives the Oscar for Best Actress at the 75th Annual Academy Awards in 2003. USC. Briefly COSM council to show “Walking in Kuwait” The College of Science and Mathematics Alumni Council is presenting “Walking to Kuwait” Monday at 7 p.m. in the Law School Auditorium. “Walking to Kuwait” includes an audiovisual presentation with on-scene inter views and discussion of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Focusing on the eco-terrorism on the coastal habitats of the Persian Gulf shoreline; reactions of the 40 member scientific field team; and the brotherhood developed by the diverse team members, the docu mentary will be followed by a pan el discussion by members of the field team. For more information, contact Ann Cameron at 777-9201. Event to recognize Columbia leader Savvy is sponsoring “Meet and Greet with Tameika Isaac Devine,” an event featuring the first black Columbia council woman and partner in the first all black female law firm. The program takes place Thursday in Russell House Room 322/326 at 7 p.m. McMaster featuring stoneware exhibition McMaster Gallery in the Department of Art is featuring “The Human Condition,” an exhi bition of surreal life-size stoneware sculptural wall pieces by Curt LaCross. LaCross cur rently lives in Michigan and is a noted ceramic sculptor. The public is invited to attend a gallery talk by LaCross on Monday at 10 a.m. in McMaster Gallery. For more in formation, contact Mana Hewitt, gallery director, at (803) 777-7480 or mana@sc.edu. YWCA to celebrate opening of facility The YWCA of the Midlands will celebrate its 90th anniversary and the opening of its new facility at 1510 Barnwell St. Thursday from 6-8 p.m. The Columbia YWCA has served girls and women since 1914, and local businesses and commu nity members are invited to attend the celebration. For more infor mation, contact Dorthea Lewis at (803) 252-2151. Police.Report These reports are taken directly from the USC Police Department * 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 O Nonviolent V Wednesday, Feb. 25 ® MALICIOUS INJURY TO PERSONAL PROPERTY, BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION BUILDING METER LOT, 917 BARNWELL ST. The complainant said someone broke out the passenger’s-side front window of the victim’s vehicle. Estimated damage: $50. Reporting officer: S. Alexander. e AUTO BREAK-IN, PETIT LARCENY, S-6 PARKING LOT, 1423 WHALEY ST. The victim said someone broke out the driver’s-side window of his vehicle, entered and removed a NBSC checkbook and a social security card. Estimated value: $1. Reporting officer: D.W. Friels. ® LARCENY OF BIKE SEAT, COLUMBIA HALL, 918 BARNWELL ST. The complainant said that someone took a black bike seat that was secured at the bike rack. Estimated value: $30. Reporting officer: C. Taylor. WWW. dailygamecock. com Because news still happens on Tuesdays and Thursdays. * I