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Soldier honored with medal for heroism ROEBUCK — One of the first South Carolina soldiers to die dur ing the war in Iraq has been hon ored with a medal of heroism. The U.S. Marine Corps pre sented Marine Pvt. Nolen Ryan Hutchings’ mother, Carolyn Hutchings, with the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal, The medal is presented to marines for acts of heroism, meri torious achievement and service. Hutchings was one of several Marines killed March 23,2003 near the city of Nasiriyah in southern Iraq amid a chaotic battle with Iraqi forces. Death row inmate wants life sentence An inmate scheduled to die Friday by lethal injection for killing an Aiken County conve nience store clerk is asking the governor to spare his life. Lawyers for Jerry Me Wee want Gov. Mark Sanford to commute McWee’s death sentence to life without parole because they say his co-defendant struck a plea bar gain that may have kept him from the death chamber. Nation Sharon seeks U.S. support for risky plan WASHINGTON — Prime Minister Ariel Sharon does not expect the Bush administration to recognize Israel’s proposed West Bank set tlement bloc as part of a deal to pull out of Gaza, but foresees gen eral U.S. support for some Jewish settlement there, an Israeli official said Tuesday as Sharon arrived to seek U.S. backing for his high stakes plan. Sharon, who meets Wednesday’s with President Bush, is seeking U.S. guarantees for his proposal to withdraw from the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank in exchange for expanding five large West Bank blocs settled by Israelis. Rare original copy of ‘Hamlet’ to be sold BOSTON - A rare edition of William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” could fetch well over $1 million when it is auctioned at Christie’s in New York. Christie’s has estimated its worth between $1.5 and $2 million. The nearly 400-year-old book is one of 19 copies of the 1611 print ing known to exist, and is the only one remaining in private hands. It was owned by Mary Hyde, Viscountess Eccles, a renowned New Jersey book collector and English literature scholar best known for her extensive Samuel Johnson collection. World U.S. troops deployed outside of holy city NAJAF, IRAQ — A 2,500-strong U.S. force, backed by tanks and ar tillery, pushed to the outskirts of the Shiite holy city of Najaf Tuesday for a showdown with a radical cleric. The standoff in the south came as a U.S. military helicopter went down near Fallujah in the west. Three soldiers were wounded and a Marine helping secure the site was killed by mortars, the military said. The string of kidnappings that has coincided with violence around Fallujah and in the south this month continued. A French journalist was reported abducted, and four Italians working as pri vate guards were missing and feared kidnapped. Authorities arrest 3 in assassination plot BUDAPEST, HUNGARY - Hungarian authorities arrested three Arabs who were plotting to assassinate visiting Israeli President Moshe Katsav, his office said Tuesday. The suspects planned to target Katsav in a bombing, officials at the Israeli Embassy said. Katsav was informed of the plot as he met with Hungarian President Ferenc Madl in Budapest, said Moshe Mizrahi, a senior official in Katsav’s office. BRIEFS FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS WIRE in istory 1865: John Wilkes Booth President Abraham Lincoln in Ford’s Theatre. 1939: John Steinbeck’s novel “The Grapes of Wrath” is pub lished. Extended.Forecast Thursday HI: 72 LO: 46 Friday HI: 74 LO: 49 Saturday « HI: 80 LO: 50 Sunday HI: 84 A LO: 56 ' Today EPIDEMIOLOGY SEMINAR, “EFFECTS OF DIABETES ON HEALTH AND LIFE EXPECTANCY: USING DYNAMIC MICRO SIMULATION TO ESTIMATE DIFFERENCES BY EDUCATION, SEX AND RACE": Dr. Jim Laditka of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Health Sciences Building 103, 12:30 p.m. “HEARING THE ECHOES OF BROWN: EQUAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY AND THE SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL FINANCING LITIGATION”: Stephen G. Morrison, Law School Auditorium, 12:30 p.m. LAUREN MECCIA SAXOPHONE RECITAL: School of Music 206,6 p.m. WAR OF THE WINGS, WING EATING CONTEST: Davis Field, 6 8 p.m. ISLAMIC AWARENESS WEEK, “STEREOTYPES IN RELIGIONS MULTIFAITH PANEL": Gambrell Hall 153,7-9p.m. LYNN KOMPASS FACULTY PIANO/VOCAL RECITAL: School of Music 206,8 p.m. Thursday ISLAMIC AWARENESS WEEK, DAWAH AND CALLIGRAPHY TABLES: 1400 Greene St., 10 a.m. 2 p.m. COLLOQUIUM, "TIME REVERSAL AND THE SECOND LAW: FORWARD INTO THE PAST II”: Jones Physical Science Center 409, Refreshments 3:45 p.m., Colloquium 4 p.m. STUDY ABROAD INFORMATION SESSION: Business Administration Building, Sixth floor, 4 p.m. ADAM BOOTH COMPOSITION RECITAL: School of Music 206, 4:30 p.m. BEN LIGON AND FRIENDS CONCERT: School of Music 206, 7:30 p.m. ISLAMIC AWARENESS WEEK, "MEDIA MISREPRESENTATION OF ISLAM”: Sabrina Kidwai, Business Administration Building 005,7-8 p.m. use AWARDS DAY Friday use STRING QUARTET WORKSHOP: School of Music 206,8 a.m.-6 p.m. ISLAMIC AWARENESS WEEK, WEEKLY CONGREGATIONAL PRAYER: Masjid al-Muslimin, 1 3 p.m. SEMINAR, “SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY APPLIED TO THE ASSEMBLY OF NANOSTRUCTURES AND TO THEIR SUBSEQUENT MANIPULATION”: Karen L. Wooley of Washington University, Jones Physical Science Center 006, Refreshments 3:45 p.m., Seminar 4 p.m. VICTOR CORREA-CRUZ LECTURE RECITAL: School of Music 206, 4:30 p.m. JOSHUA REECE PIANO RECITAL: School of Music 206,6 p.m. ISLAMIC AWARENESS WEEK, “THE MUSLIM JESUS” AND “THE ISLAMIC CONTRIBUTION TO CIVILIZATIONS”: Ali Shehata and Rashid Naim, Business Administration Building 005,7-9 p.m. ROBERT POWELL SENIOR TROMBONE RECITAL: School of Music 206,7:30 p.m. Saturday TRADITIONAL CRAFT WORKSHOP, BASIC TATTING: McKissick Museum, 9 a.m.-12 p.m. JULIE-ANN NEUBERGER PIANO RECITAL: School of Music 206, 6:30 p.m. use STRING QUARTET WORKSHOP PERFORMANCE: School of Music 206,8 p.m. Affleck goes to bat for Red Sox Foundation BOSTON - Ben Affleck put on his master of ceremonies hat and tried his hand at Spanish at an auction to benefit The Red Sox Foundation. About 22 members of the Red Sox attended Tuesday’s auction, including Pedro Martinez, Curt Schilling and Nomar Garciaparra. The players joined Affleck, a loyal Red Sox fan, and “Saturday Night Live” cast member Seth Meyers, a surprise guest, on stage for some improvisational banter. Organizers sold four items, rais ing between $12,000 and $15,000. Items auctioned included four World Series tickets, the opportu nity to throw out the first pitch at Fenway Park and front-row tickets to the next concert held at Fenway. The final tally for ticket sales and donations to the fund-raiser, which also included a luncheon, was more than $400,000, in addi tion to the sale of the auction items. Proceeds will benefit The Red Sox Foundation, an organization that supports children’s health, ed ucation, recreation and urban so cial programs. ‘Kill Bill 2’ doubles thrill for Thurman NEW YORK - Uma Thurman is glad “Kill Bill” turned out to be two installments. Vol. 1 of the ac tion flick was released in October; Vol. 2 opens Friday. The model-turned-actress wouldn’t tell Newsday whether director Quentin Tarantino planned it that way all along, but the footage always felt like two movies to her. “The first film was like a giant dance number,” she said. “This one is much more focused.” Thurman sees plenty of action as an assassin out for revenge against a hit man who tried to kill her, and she credits Tarantino with letting her play the part. “He’s certainly given me really incredibly physical, very freeing parts,” Thurman said of Tarantino, who also cast her in his 1994 “Pulp Fiction.” “Quentin’s work is kind of a genre unto itself,” she said. “And it’s an amazing thing to be intrin sically a part of that.” Brides opt for drag over wedding gowns LOS ANGELES — Screen brides Nla Vardalos and Toni Collette are going undercover as drag queens. Vardalos, who wrote and starred in 2002’s surprise blockbuster “My Big Fat Greek Wedding,” and Collette, whose breakout role came with the 1994 Australian hit “Muriel’s Wedding,” team up as pals on the run in “Connie and Carla,” opening Friday. “We certainly realized the com parison between our lives, the two wedding girls in this movie,” Vardalos, 41, said. “For both of us, those films kind of changed our lives,” said Collette, 31, an Academy Award nominee for supporting actress for “The Sixth Sense.” “I was kind of cata pulted into flying around the world doing publicity, and so was she.” Written by Vardalos, “Connie and Carla” is the tale of two musi cal-theater performers (Vardalos and Collette) who witness a mob killing in Chicago and hit the road to stay ahead of gangsters. They end up in Los Angeles, where they pose as drag queens and become stars at a gay club. McGregor planning motorcycle odyssey LONDON - Ewan McGregor is getting ready to travel from London to New York, but there will be no first-class comfort for the down-to-earth Scot. McGregor and fellow actor Charley Boorman plan to set out this week on a motorcycle journey across Europe, Asia and North America that will get them to New York City by about July. “It’s such an obvious route,” McGregor said. “It’s just straight across — you just go from London to New York, going east. I’m sur prised more people don’t do it.” Spurred by a desire for adven ture and a hankering for the open road, the “Moulin Rouge!” star and Boorman hatched a plan for a riding holiday that grew from a trip through Spain to a 20,000-mile odyssey across three continents, from the highways of Western Europe to Russia’s rutted roads and the grassy tracks of the Mongolian steppe. A cameraman will accompany them on a third bike, and a film crew will meet them every week or so to record footage for a series. McEntire to receive CMT Visionary award NASHVILLE, TENN. - It seems a little thing, but it left a big im pression on Reba McEntire. Nearly 20 years ago, McEntire was staying at a Holiday Inn in the Northeast when the video for her hit song “Whoever’s In New England” came on HBO. “In between movies they played music videos, and right after mine they played one by Aretha Franklin,” she said. “I was floored by that, to even be in the same breath as Aretha Franklin.” McEntire went on to become one of country music’s most suc cessful singers, as well as an ac tress and author. On April 21, she’ll receive Country Music Television’s Johnny Cash Visionary Award. The award — renamed this year in honor of Cash, who died Sept. 12 — will be presented dur ing CMT’s Flame Worthy Video Music Awards show. Hosted by Dolly Parton, the fan-voted awards show airs live from Nashville at 8 p.m. EDT. “I’m very honored,” McEntire said. “To be put in that category is a huge honor.” BRIEFS FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS WIRE PHOTO SPECIAL TO THE GAMECOCK Ben Affleck helped The Red Sox Foundation raise more than $400,000 at their auction. USC.Briefly Fall parking renewal deadline May 31 Reserved parking space re newal deadlines are approach ing. Spaces must be renewed by April 30 for the summer and May 31 for the fall. Failure to renew by this date will result in the loss of the space. Those interested in obtaining a space can sign up for the lottery drawing. The dead line is July 9. For more information, contact Parking Services at 777-5160. Moe’s Southwest Grill opens Thursday Moe’s Southwest Grill will be opening Thursday at 625 S. Main St. The 11th Moe’s in South Carolina, Moe’s Southwest Grill is based in Atlanta and currently operates 123 stores nationwide. The restaurant serves fresh Southwest/Mexican food. For more information, visit the com pany’s Web site at http://www.moes.com. Police.Report Each number on the map stands for a crime corresponding with numbered descriptions in the list below. DAY CRIMES (6a.m.-6p.m.) □ Violent O Nonviolent NIGHT CRIMES (6 p.m.-6a.m.) ■ Violent • Nonviolent CRIMES AT UNKNOWN HOURS E3 Violent Q Nonviolent Sunday, April 11 ® LARCENY OF PENDANT, 520 LINCOLN ST. The victim said that between April 9 and April 11 someone took a tanzanite pendant and a prescription bottle containing an unknown quantity of prescription medicatibn. The victim said her room was unsecured. Estimated value: $220. Reporting officer: M. Denard. Monday, April 12 ® LARCENY OF COCA-COLA, LAW SCHOOL, “EXPRESS CAF£," 1112 GREENE ST. The complainant said that between April 8 and April 12 someone took 80 20-oz. bottles of Coca Cola products. The complainant said the cooler the drinks were in was secured. Estimated value: $87. Reporting officer: J.D. Rosier. (§ SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY, HUMANITIES OFFICE, CANTEEN AREA, 1620 COLLEGE ST. The complainant said that between April 8 and April 12 someone ( entered the canteen area but that nothing was missing or disturbed. Reporting officer: C. Taylor. f S3 I —