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State
$700,000 for bowl game
' angers some Democrats
House Republican leaders
have set aside $700,000 to help
start a proposed college football
bowl game, angering some
Democrats Wjho say the money
would be better spent on educa
tion or health care in the budget
crunch.
House Minority Leader James
Smith, D-Columbia, said he was
shocked to learn of the planned
contribution to the Palmetto Bowl
in next year’s $5.3 billion state bud
get.
The bowl game would be played
at The Citadel.
Police agencies to begin
giving out free gun locks
Police agencies will be giving
out free gun locks this month as
part of a government program to
. reduce gun violence.
The South Carolina campaign
was kicked off with a news con
ference at the State House on
Thursday and is sponsored by the
U.S. attorney’s office and Project
-j. ChildSafe along with more than
200 local police agencies.
The project will distribute
256,500 free gdn locks through
March 15.
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3 American Muslims
convicted of conspiracy
! ALEXANDRIA, VA. - Thr$e
American Muslims accused of un
{ dergoing paramilitary training in
hopes of joining up with the
Taliban were convicted Thursday
j of conspiring to support terrorism.
Prosecutors said the three were
part of a “Virginia jihad network”
that used paintball games in 2000
1 and 2001 to train for holy war
around the globe. After the Sept.
, 11, 2001, attacks, the group al
• legedly focused efforts on defend
> ing the Taliban.
> The three will face sentencing
! in June.
i Bush concession to help
Mexicans entering U.S.
WASHINGTON - Millions of
visa-carrying Mexicans who make
short visits to America and stay
close to the border won’t have to
be fingerprinted and pho
tographed to get into the country.
The move, a concession to
Mexican President Vicente Fox,
comes on the eve of his visit to
President Bush’s ranch in
Crawford, Texas.
As part of the US-VISIT pro
gram started in January, for
eigners from certain countries
traveling on visas and entering at
115 major airports and 14 seaports
are fingerprinted and pho
tographed.
World •
German court overturns
only 9-11 conviction
KARLSRUHE, GERMANY - A
German court Thursday over
turned the world’s only conviction
for the September 11 attacks and
ordered a retrial for a Moroccan
found guilty last year of aiding the
Hamburg cell of suicide hijackers.
Mounir el Motassadeq’s con
viction on more than 3,000 counts
of accessory to murder and mem
bership in a terrorist organization
was flawed because the lower
court failed to properly consider
the absence of evidence from a key
witness who is in U.S. cus. jdy, the
Federal Criminal Court ruled.
Israeli forces raid town
to find secret tunnels
GAZA CITY, GAZA STRIP -
Israeli forces raided the southern
Gaza towt»' of Rafah early
?Thursday; killing a 14-year-old
jboy, bulldozing houses and dam
‘ aging the water and electricity net
works, Palestinian officials said.
The Israeli army said it was
searching for secret tunnels
Palestinian militants use to smug
gle weapons across the border
with Egypt. Military sources said
the soldiers were attacked by mil
itants shooting rifles and throw
ing hand grenades.
The raid followed an Israeli he
licopter attack on a car driving
through, the northern Gaza Strip
on Wednesday afternoon that
killed three Hamas militants.
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1900: American Hall of Fame
punded.
L963: Country singer Patsy
Cline dies in a plane crash at age
30.
Extended. Forecast
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Vi* Sunday
Q. HI: 72
LO: 41
Monday
HI: 62
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Tuesday
HI: 62
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Today
IMAGING AND IMAGINING
NANOSCIENCE & ENGINEERING
CONFERENCE: Adam’s Mark
Hotel, 8:30 a.m.-6 p.m.
LECTURE, “COMPUTATIONAL
MAPS IN THE VISUAL CORTEX’’:
James A. Bednar of the
University of Texas at Austin,
Swearingen Engineering Center
1A03, Faculty Lounge, 3:30-4:30
p.m.
SAFE SPRING BREAK WEEK
Saturday
TRADITIONAL CRAFT
WORKSHOP: SPLIT-OAK BASKET
MAKING: McKissick Museum, 9
a.m.-4 p.m.
IMAGING AND IMAGINING
NANOSCIENCE & ENGINEERING
CONFERENCE: Adam’s Mark
Hotel, 8:30 a.m.-7 p.m.
“A TISKET, A TASKET, A LITERARY
BASKET FUND-RAISER:
Richland County Public Library,
Main Library, Bostick
Auditorium, 7 p.m.
TIBETAN NEW YEAR
CELEBRATION: Big Apple, 7 p.m.
CITY DAY: Finlay Park.
Sunday
IMAGING AND IMAGINING
NANOSCIENCE & ENGINEERING
CONFERENCE: Adam’s Mark
Hotel, 8:30 a.m.-l p.m.
YOUTH ART CELEBRATION:
Columbia Museum of Art, 2 p.m.
SPRING BREAK BEGINS
Monday
FREE LEGAL CLINIC, SOUTH
CAROLINA BAR PRO BONO
PROGRAM: Round Top Baptist
Church, 120 Round Top Ct.,
Blythewood, 6:30-8 p.m.
SPRING BREAK-NO CUSSES
Tuesday
SPRING BREAK-NO CUSSES
Wednesday
SPRING BREAK-NO CUSSES
Thursday
SPRING BREAK-NO CUSSES
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Stiller, Wilson reinvent ‘Starsky & Hutch ’
They could have played Ponch
and John or Crockett and Tubbs
or even Lenny and Squiggy — and
they probably will some day.
For now, you can sit back and
watch the sporadically amusing,
comfortably numbing familiarity
of Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson
bouncing off each other in
“Starsky& Hutch.”
It’s not so much a movie ver
sion of the 1970s buddy-cop TV
show as it is “Zoolander” with
guns. Here, as in that 2001 movie
about dimwitted male models,
Stiller plays the uptight guy who
takes himself way too seriously
and Wilson plays the easygoing
guy who everyone likes.
That these off-screen friends
have established such an easy on
screen camaraderie is a good thing
and a bad thing. They’re obviously
comfortable with each other and
they can be fun to watch, though
the script amounts to little more
than a series of sketches, loosely
held together by the grooves of a
chicka-chicka-wa-wa soundtrack
and the growls of Starsky’s Gran
Torino engine.
Hawke says marriage to
Thurman got ‘beaten up’
NEW YORK - Ethan Hawke says
that after five years of marriage,
his love with Uma Thurman got
“beaten up.”
“It is very difficult for any cou
ple who are married if both people
have — are very ambitious,” he
said. “I don’t know if it’s just too
hard to be married to a woman
that wants to be a movie star. I
know that she has that right to
want that.”
Being famous has made the
breakup itself even harder, too,
Hawke says.
“While I’m sitting here, my
marriage is not working.
Everybody knows it,” the 33-year
old actor says. “You know, you
hate to have your grandfather
read about it... that’s what makes
you feel ashamed, you know.... It’s
like, this is our marriage ... and
now there’s all these other voices
in the room.”
He and Thurman, 33, have a
daughter, Maya Ray, and a son,
Levon. They’ve co-starred in the
movies “Gattaca” and “Tape.”
DaimlerChrysler reduces
Dion’s role in promotions
AUBURN HILLS, MICH. -
DaimlerChrysler AG says it’s re
ducing Celine Dion’s role in the ad
vertising for its Chrysler unit.
The singer has a three-year, $14
million contract with Chrysler.
She appeared in a widely used ad
campaign last year.
“We’re just moving into an ex
citing new direction,” Chrysler
spokesman David Barnas said.
“I’m not at all saying she wasn’t a
good fit.”
Dion will appear in a new series
of Chrysler public service ads
aimed at promoting child safety.
Shooting began Monday for the
ads, which will debut March 25
with the joint sponsorship of the
National Safety Council. They
won’t mention Chrysler by name.
The 2002 contract with Dion in
cluded Chrysler sponsorship of
her nightly show at Caesar’s
Palace Cas Vegas. Barnas said that
will continue.
Springer to campaign for
Ohio legislature hopefuls
CINCINNATI — Talk-show host
Jerry Springer plans to move back
to Cincinnati in April or May to
help campaign for Democrats in
the state, a spokesman said.
Springer, 60, a former
Cincinnati mayor who ran unsuc
cessfully for Ohio governor in
1982, wants to help Democrats get
elected this November to the Ohio
Senate and House, spokesman
Dale Butland said by telephone
from Columbus.
Springer has been regularly
speaking around Ohio in recent
months and has said he is open to
possibly running for governor in
2006.
Spielberg tours facility
in support of ‘List’ DVD
BURBANK, CALIF. - Director
and filmmaker Steven Spielberg re
cently got reacquainted with some
of the Jews whose survival he de
picted in the Oscar-winning
“Schindler’s List.”
To mark the film’s DVD release
next Tuesday, Spielberg and cast
members including Ben Kingsley
and Ralph Fiennes toured the
Survivors of the Shoah Visual
History Foundation, the
Holocaust-education facility
Spielberg created after completing
“Schindler’s List.”
Accompanying them were five
Holocaust survivors who were
among 1,100 Jews saved by
German industrialist Oskar
Schindler, played by Liam Neeson
in the 1993 film, which won seven
Academy Awards, including best
picture and director.
The foundation plans to make
some 120,000 hours of .videotaped
interviews available for viewing
at universities and other research
centers around the world.
BRIEFS FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS WIRE
PHOTO COURTESY OF KRT CAMPUS
Ben Stiller, left, and Owen Wilson star In Warner Bros. Pictures’
“Starsky & Hutch.” The pair starred In “Meet the Parents.”
USC. Briefly
Einstein Bros, will
stay open over break
During spring break, all
residence hall cafeterias will be
closed except Einstein Bros.
Bagels, which will be open
Monday - Friday, March 12 from
7:30am-2pm. Einstein Bros.
Bagels is located on the 2nd floor
of the Russell House and serves
bagels, coffee, bagel sandwiches,
soup, chips and other foods.
‘Bagle’ e-mail worm
threatens system
A large number of e-mails are
coming into the USC system with
the newest variant of an e-mail
worm (Bagle.J). There is not cur
rently a McAfee f)AT update
which reliably removes this virus.
The message looks like it is
coming from an officiid USC
source and instructs the user to
open an attached ZIP file in order
to scan his or her computer. If
the file is opened, the computer
immediately becomes infected
with the worm and begins
spreading it to others.
USC Computer Services is
taking steps to remove this worm
but because of the sophisticated
nature of the worm, anti-virus
vendors are having trouble
eliminating the threat.
For more information, visit
http://vil.nai.eom/vil/content/v
_101071.htm.
Friends of Richland
to hold fund-raiser
The Friends of the Richland
County Public Library will hold
the 11th annual “A Tisket, a
Tasket, A Literary Basket” fund
raiser at 7 p.m. on Saturday in
the Main Library’s Bostick
Auditorium. Tickets are $30 or
$25 for Friends of RCPL
members, and the event features
a silent auction offering about
100 baskets filled with items such
as books, gift certificates, event
tickets and gift items. For
additional information, call (803)
929-3475.
Journalism job fair
offers opportunities
A print journalism job fair fea
turing representatives of major
South Carolina and North
Carolina newspapers will be held
Thursday, March 18 in the
Carolina Coliseum. Sophomores,
juniors, seniors and graduate stu
dents are invited to attend and be
interviewed by various newspa
pers. To participate in the job fair,
sign up outside rooms 4004 and
3008 in the Coliseum.
Police.Report
3
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
(6 a.m.-6 p.m.)
□ Violent
O Nonviolent
NIGHT CRIMES
(6 p.m.-6 a.m.)
■ Violent
• Nonviolent
CRIMES AT
UNKNOWN
HOURS
0 Violent
© Nonviolent
Tuesday, March 2
® LARCENY OF BOOKBAG,
MCBRYDE QUADRANGLE,
BUILDING B, 1311 BLOSSOM
ST. The complainant said that
between March 1 and March 2
someone took his bookbag and
contents without his
permission. Four textbooks
were inside the bookbag.
Estimated value: $250.
Reporting officer: T. Brewster.
Wednesday, March 3
©LARCENY OF CELL PHONE,
SUMTER AND WHEAT STREETS
The complainant said
someone took his Nokia cell
phone. Estimated value: $80.
Reporting officer: T. Brewster.
® LARCENY OF BICYCLE,
LARCENY OF BIKE LOCK,
BLATTP.E. CENTER, 1328
WHEAT ST. The victim said
someone took his bicycle,
which was locked to a bike
rack. Estimated value: $710.
Reporting officer: J.M.
Simmons.
o SIMPLE POSSESSION OF
MARIJUANA, OPEN
CONTAINER, IMPROPER LEFT
TURN, 1400 GREENE ST.
While on foot patrol, reporting
officer J.L. Meador saw a Ford
Explorer bearing a New
Jersey tag make an illegal left
turn from Bull Street onto
Greene Street. Meador
stopped the vehicle with a
flashlight and approached it,
observing a strong smell of
marijuana around the vehicle.
While running the tag, officer
R.B. Baker saw two cigar
papers containing a substance
believed to be marijuana in an
open ashtray. William
Hawkes said they were just
roaches. All three subjects,
including Derrick Dixon and
Jason Franklin, were told to
exit the vehicle. Upon search
of the vehicle, a 32-oz. bottle of
King Cobra Malt Liquor was
found under the driver’s seat
and a small bag with .07 grams
of marijuana was found under
the driver’s-side rear
passenger seat. A blue and
black razor was also found in
the front passenger’s-side
seat.
H MALICIOUS INJURY TO
REAL PROPERTY, BATES
HOUSE, 1423 WHALEY ST. The
complainant said someone
threw a metal object through a
window. Estimated damage:
$500. Reporting officer: G.
Kerwin.
o SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY,
CLIFF APARTMENTS, 1321
WHALEY ST. The complainant
said he found a USC work van
with the driver’s door open. It
was unknown if anything was
removed. Reporting officer: G.
Kerwin.
© LARCENY OF BIKE RACK,
PENDLETON STREET GARAGE,
LEVEL 6B, 1501 PENDLETON
ST. The victim said that
between March 1 and March 3
someone took a bike rack from
the top of her vehicle.
Estimated value: $125.
Reporting officer: J.M.
Simmons.
Thursday, March 4
o RECKLESS DRIVING,
MINOR IN POSSESSION OF
BEER, 1400 BLOCK GREENE
ST. Reporting officer G.
Kerwin observed Ashley Moy
driving recklessly westbound
on Greene Street at the 1400
block. Moy was observed to
be driving erratically
because she almost hit
another motorist. She was
pulled over by Kerwin at the
intersection of Greene and
Main streets. Kerwin
approached the vehicle from
the passenger’s-side and
noticed the smell of alcohol
about Moy. Kerwin also
noticed scratches on her face.
Moy was asked if she had
been drinking, and she
admitted to drinking
approximately three beers.
She also said there was beer
in the car. Moy was placed
under arrest for minor in
possession of alcohol,
o DISORDERLY CONDUCT,
ALTERED DRIVER’S LICENSE,
1322 GREENE ST. Reporting
officer J.L. Meador saw
Jonathan Decolaines
urinating on a recycling bin.
Upon approach, Meador could
smell an odor of alcohol about
Decolaines, who said he did
not have an ID. When
searched, he produced a fake
driver’s license and a real
driver’s license. He also
admitted to drinking alcohol.
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