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State
Senate OKs new bill
to fly POW-MIA flag
The POW-MIA flag would fly
each year onipublic buildings un
der a bill passed by the Senate
Tuesday.
The flag has the white silhou
ette of a prisoner of war on a black
background and the inscription,
“You are not forgotten.”
It would fly or be displayed on
“POW/MIA Recognition Day” in
September each year at state
buildings, except the Statehouse,
if flags are provided. Other flags
at public buildings, except the
Statehouse, would be flown at half
staff at least until noon on that
day. *
Court upholds ruling
on abortion plates
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals has upheld a ruling that
South Carolina’s anti-abortion li
cense plates are unconstitution
al.
A three-judge panel unani
mously ruled Monday that the
plates, which J)ear the slogan
“Choose Life” violate the First
Amendment by giving anti-abor
tion advocates a forum to express
their beliefs without giving abor
tion rights supporters a similar fo
rum.
Nation
Cable industry offers
free blocking tools
WASHINGTON - The cable tele
vision industry said Tuesday il
will provide free equipment to al
low subscribers to block unwanted
channels, a reaction to efforts or
Capitol Hill to curb indecent pro
gramming.
The offer is directed to about
half the nation’s 70.5 million cable
subscribers who don’t have cable
boxes that can be programmed tc
block certain channels or pro
grams. The companies agreeing tc
the plan include the 10 largest ir
the country and reach 85 percent
of all cable subscribers.
Black pastors oppose
same-sex marriages
ATLANTA - More than twc
dozen black pastors added theii
voice to the critics of same-ses
marriage, attempting to distance
the civil rights struggle from the
gay rights movement and defend
ing marriage as a union betweer
a man and a woman.
Thirty pastors rallied late
Monday with their supporters ai
an Atlanta-area church where
they signed a declaration outlin
ing their beliefs on marriage anc
religion.
The declaration is meant te
pressure state representatives tc
approve a constitutional ban or
gay marriages, which will be con
sidered again by the Georgie
House of Representatives as soor
as this week.
World
Israeli threats loom
over Hamas militants
GAZA CITY, GAZA STRIP - Israel
threatened to kill the entire lead
ership of the Islamic militant
group Hamas after assassinating
its founder and hinted Tuesday
that Yasser Arafat could wind up
on the hit list in the future.
The accelerated strikes at
Hamas are part of an attempt to
score a decisive victory ahead oi
an Israeli withdrawal from the
Gaza Strip. Israel does not want to
be seen as being driven out of the
strip by militants, who already are
claiming victory.
U.S. special forces
stiffen al-Qaida hunt
ON THE AFGHAN BORDER -
Using bulldozers to slice bunkers
and a helicopter landing pad out
of a mountainside, U.S. special op
erations forces dug in Tuesday or
a peak overlooking Pakistan —
fortifying the area for the intensi
fying battle against al-Qaida and
Taliban forces.
Special operations forces—whc
include Green Berets, Navy
SEALs, and CIA operatives—ar«
playing a secretive but leading
role in the battle against al-Qaids
and Taliban suspects believed tc
be hiding out in the mountains oi
Pakistan’s tribal areas.
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“CAROLINA DAY AT THE
STATEHOUSE": S.C. Statehouse,
10 a.m.
EDUCATION RECRUITMENT DAY:
Carolina Coliseum, 10 a.m.-12
p.m., 1-5 p.m.
EPIDEMIOLOGY SEMINAR,
“CHRONOEPIDEMIOLOGY": Bill
Hrushesky of the Department of
Epidemiology and Biostatistics,
Health Sciences Building 103,
12:30 p.m.
ADAM ESTES, SID TYNER AND
JENNIFER FORET CONCERTO
RECITAL: School of Music 206,6
p.m.
BRIAN MCNAMARA JUNIOR
GUITAR REdTAL: School of
Music 206,7 p.m.
use SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
FEATURING VADIM GLUZMNA:
Koger Center for the Arts,
Gonzalez Hall, 7:30 p.m.
ORPHAN FILM SYMPOSIUM:
Russell House Theater, 8 p.m.
BEST CLASS FOOD DRIVE: USC
Law School.
Thursday
SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN THE
ACADEMIC ARENA: Computer
Services 309,9 a.m.-12 p.m.
ORPHAN FILM SYMPOSIUM:
Russell House Theater, 9 a.m.-10
p.m.
COLLOQUIUM: Michael Daniels
of the University of Florida,
LeConte 210A, 2 p.m.,
Refreshments 3 p.m.
COLLOQUIUM, “COSMIC RAY
MUON RADIOGRAPHY”: Jones
Physical Science Center 409,
Refreshments 3:45 p.m.,
Colloquium 4 p.m.
CLASS OF 2004 SOCIAL HOUR:
Salty Nut Cafe, 4-7 p.m.
RAPHAEL RADA VOCAL RECITAL:
School of Music 206,4:30 p.m.
THE MUSE’S WHISPER: WRITING
WITH ZELDA: McKissick
Museum, 2nd floor, 5:30-6:30 p.m.
CHRISTOPHER BERG GUITAR
RECITAL: School of Music 206,
7:30 p.m.
BEST CUSS FOOD DRIVE: USC
Law School.
Friday
ORPHAN FILM SYMPOSIUM:
Russell House Theater, 9 a.m.-10
p.m.
SEMINAR, “SOME NEW ASPECTS
OF MOLECULAR ENGINEERING
OF HEME PROTEINS TO
MANIPULATE THEIR FUNCTIONS:
LIGAND BINDING, CATALYSIS
AND INTERPROTEIN
RECOGNITION”: Isao Morishima
of Kyoto University, Japan,
Jones Physical Science Center
712, Refreshments 3:45 p.m.,
Seminar 4 p.m.
BEST CUSS FOOD DRIVE: USC
Law School.
Saturday
JOURNEY INTO SELF: LESSONS
FROM ZELDA: McKissick
Museum, 9 a.m.-6 p.m.
Thornton says he never cheated on Jolie
, onrl
NEW YORK - Billy Bob Thornton
says he and ex-wife Angelina Jolie
had “a great relationship” but dif
ferent ideas about how they want
ed to live their lives.
“It was a great relationship,”
Thornton tells GQ magazine in its
April issue. “For the time we were
together, we loved each other and
we did it all the way. We didn’t
leave any stone unturned. But we
had different ideas about how we
wanted to live our lives — that’s
all it was.”
The couple married in May
2000. They divorced in 2003.
On whether he cheated on Jolie,
Thornton told the magazine: “No,
no, no. That was the rumor but
that was never it.”
Jolie is now a U.N. goodwill am
bassador and proud mom of
Maddox, whom she adopted from
Cambodia. Her new film, “Taking
Lives,” opened in theaters Friday.
Thornton plays Davy Crockett
in “The Alamo,” which opens
April 9.
Lachey, Simpson star
in ABC variety show
NEW YORK - Nick Lachey and
Jessica Simpson will star in “The
Nick & Jessica Variety Hour,”
scheduled to air April 11 -on
ABC.
The special will feature a series
of sketches and musical perfor
mances, the network said. Guests
will include Jewel, Kenneth
“Babyface” Edmonds, Kenny
| Rogers, baseball hall of famer
Johnny Bench, Mr. T and The
; Muppets stars Kermit the Frog and
Miss Piggy.
' Lachey and Edmonds will sing
a duet of Stevie Wonder’s “For
Once in My Life,” and Simpson
and Jewel will sing “Who Will
Save Your Soul.”
Breakup was not an
inspriration to Usher
NEW YORK - Although his lat
est album is titled “Confessions”
and features songs about a
painful breakup and infidelity,
Usher swears that it’s not a re
flection on his recent split with
TLC member Rozonda “Chilli”
Thomas.
“This album is not specifically
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about us,” Usher said. “It isn’t an
autobiography about my life.
(Although) I did pull from some of
my personal experiences from my
life.”
In a bitter radio interview,
Chilli accused Usher of being un
faithful. Now the seemingly per
sonal tone of Usher’s disc has
tongues wagging—especially the
song “Confessions,” about a man
who gets another woman preg
nant.
“Confessions,” Usher’s fourth
album, came out Tuesday. The al
bum already has spawned the No.
1 hit single, “Yeah!”
Tribeca Film Festival
opens with ‘Helen’
NEW YORK - “Raising Helen,”
starring Kate Hudson and John
Corbett, will premiere on opening
night of the Tribeca Film Festival.
The movie features Hudson as a
modeling agency assistant who
must raise her sister’s three chil
dren after her sister and brother
in-law die in a car accident. Corbett
plays a pastor who helps her and
ends up falling in love with her.
The film’s director, Garry
Marshall is expected to attend the
May 1 premiere, along with sever
al cast members. “Raising Helen” ■ ’ »d
opens in theaters May 28.
“This is a terrific film to open
the third annual Tribeca Film
Festival,” festival co-founder Jane 'r-?
Rosenthal said. “It is a movie that not>
is uplifting and funny, involves *
New York and was partially filmed
in New York. It will be a great -<•-««
start to a great third year.”
Rosenthal and her business
partner, Robert De Niro, created 1
the Tribeca Film Festival to help
lower Manhattan recover from the *
Sept. 11,2001 terrorist attacks.
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Strides for Strength
race begins Sunday
The Columbia Chapter of
Hadassah will be holding the 8th
annual Strides for Strength 5K
race Sunday starting at 2 p.m.
The race begins and ends at the
Columbia Jewish Community
Center, 4540 Trenholm Road.
Registration is $18 beforehand
and $20 the day of the race, and
online registration can be com
pleted at
www.strictlyrunning.com. The
race begins at 2 p.m., but late reg
istration/packet pickup is at
12:30 p.m. A one-mile fitness walk
will take place at 2:15 p.m. For
more information, contact Lisa
Arnold at 919-0442 or Lori Lapin
at 699-5077.
Media professionals
to lecture at USC
Fox News correspondent and
USC alumnae Rita Cosby is among
a number of journalism and mass
media professionals scheduled to
present at “I-Comm Week:
Information, Communications and
Ethics-Implications for a Global
Society” Monday through April 2.
The events, sponsored by USC’s
College of Mass Communications
and Information Studies, include
a lectures by Rita Cosby, George
Boyd of The New York Times and
Stephen Almagno of the University
of Pittsburgh as well as presenta
tions on “Making an Effective
Super Bowl Ad” and “Ethics in
Contemporary Society.” For more
information, contact Lee Bugay at
413-8419 or LeeBugay@aol.com.
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Local Baptist church
to hold nightly revival —
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The Convent Baptist Church, ■
787 Convent Church Road, will
hold revival services Sunday'
through March 31 at 7 p.m. i
Dinner will be served at 6 p.m.
each night. The event includes
presentations by guest speaker_,
Rob White as well as musical
guests Levon Stack, Purpose and
Scott Clark, among others. For j? -
more information, call 894-3959. i
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Police.Report
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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
□ Violent
0 Nonviolent
Saturday, March 20
□ SIMPLE ASSAULT,
COLONIAL CENTER, 801
LINCOLN ST. The victim said
Christy Truss grabbed her
right arm and shoved her with
both hands. The victim has
bruises where she indicated
Truss pushed her. Reporting
officer: S. Alexander.
Q ATTEMPTED CAR JACKING,
BULL STREET GARAGE, 611
BULL ST. The victim said two
unknown males approached
his vehicle and struck the
driver’s window with a black
semi-automatic weapon,
motioning for him to get out.
Reporting officer S. Alexander
gave chase.
Ci, LARCENY OF MEDICINE,
507 LINCOLN ST. The victim
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said someone took
approximately 55 Adderall
tablets from him. The
medication was prescribed to
the victim. Estimated value:
$25. Reporting officer: M.
Denard.
Sunday, March 21
O HOUSING VIOLATION,
MCBRYDEQUADRANGLE B,
613 MARION ST. Reporting
officer J.M. Simmons
responded to a fire alarm and
entered the subjects’ room.
There was a strong odor of
marijuana smoke and a large
multi-colored water bong in
plain view. There appeared to
be fresh resin in the wire filter
of the device. Subjects Donald
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did not return to the room
after the alarm was reset.
(D MALICIOUS INJURY TO
REAL PROPERTY, MCBRYDE
QUADRANGLE E, 618 SUMTER
ST. The complainant said
someone broke out the
window to the lounge by
throwing a bedpost through ,
the window. Estimated
damage: $200. Reporting
officer: D.W. Friels.