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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
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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.
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