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Look for these stories in Tuesday's online edition:
NEWS On-campus
group sponsors alcohol
free events for the under
21 crowd.
SPORTS Look for a
Gamecock football
update following Lou
Holtz’s news conference.
STATE
Research agency pays
employees top salaries
The top 10 employees of the
South Carolina Research Authority
were paid nearly $10 million last
year. That included more than
$276,000 in pay for Research
Authority President Larry Druffel.
The agency is supposed to bring
high-paying research jobs to South
Carolina. The agency says a study
shows its pay is low compared with
what executives earn at similar
operations elsewhere. Legislators
have previously asked that the state
Legislative Audit Council review
the authority. State Representative
Roland Smith of Langley says pay
was one of the concerns prompting
calls for the review.
Archived letters link
woman to Thurmond
The letters are worded carefully
and lack anything personal, but
they show the link between the late
U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond and his
long-secret biracial daughter, Essie
Mae Washington Williams.
For all their businesslike tone,
the letters show Thurmond took an
interest in Williams’ life and the
lives of her children, his
grandchildren.
Reporters from The _State
newspaper uncovered the records,
most from the 1970s, 1980s, and
1990s, in Thurmond’s archives at
Clemson University, which contain
about 8 million pages of the late
senator’s letters and other
documents.
NATION
Troubled US Airways
files for bankruptcy
ARLINGTON, Va. — US Airways
Group Inc., the nation’s seventh
largest airline, filed for bankruptcy
protection Sunday for the second rime
in two years. The company’s president
vowed to continue restructuring the
airline into a low-cost carrier during
the bankruptcy process.
The Chapter 11 filing in U.S.
Bankruptcy Court in Alexandria
came after US Airways was unable to
obtain $800 million in annual cost
cuts from its workers’ unions that the
airline said it needed to stay afloat.
Last Monday, a deeply divided
pilots union refused to allow its
membership to vote on a company
proposal that would have cut pay
by 20 percent and retirement plan
contributions by 50 percent.
WORLD
S. Korean officials say
cloud wasn’t nuclear
SEOUL, South Korea — A huge
mushroom cloud that reportedly
billowed up from North Korea was
not caused by a nuclear explosion,
South Korean and U.S. officials said
Sunday, but they said the cause was
a mystery.
The South Korean news agency
Yonhap reported Sunday that a
mammoth explosion in North Korea
produced a mushroom cloud more
than 2 miles across Thursday. It said
the blast was stronger than an April
explosion that killed 160 people and
injured an estimated 1,300 at a
North Korean railway station when
a train carrying oil and chemicals
apparently hit power lines.
“There was no indication that was
a nuclear event of any kind,” Powell
said of Thursday’s incident. “Exactly
what it was, we’re not sure.”
Dozens die in surge
of Baghdad violence
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Insurgents
hammered central Baghdad on
Sunday with one of their most intense
mortar and rocket barrages ever in
the heart of the capital, heralding a
day of violence that killed nearly 60
people nationwide as security
appeared to spiral out of control.
At least 37 people were killed in
Baghdad alone. Many of them died
when a U.S. helicopter fired on a
disabled U.S. Bradley fighting
vehicle as Iraqis swarmed around it,
cheering, throwing stones and
waving the black and yellow
sunburst banner of Iraq’s most
feared terror organization.
BRIEFS FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS
DeNiro
defends
Italian
film roles
VENICE, Italy — Robert De Niro
dismissed accusations that his
Mafia roles have smeared the
image of Itaiian-Americans,
arguing that he plays realistic
characters including many who
could not be construed as
stereotypes.
De Niro’s defense Friday
came after the Order Sons of
Italy in America, a fraternal
organization of Americans of
Italian heritage, wrote a letter to
the Italian government, urging it
to cancel its plan to award the
actor honorary citizenship. The
government rejected that
request, and is expected to
confer the honor next month.
“The characters that I played
are real, they are real. So they
have as much right to be
portrayed as any other
characters,” De Niro said,
during promotion Friday of the
animated feature “Shark Tale.”
He added, “There are other
characters that I’ve played other
than those ones that have been
called stereotypes or whatever.”
Jeffrey Katzenberg, the
producer of “Shark Tale,” came
to the actor’s defense. “The
interesting thing is that the
people who’ve said this, not one
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Robert De Niro arrives at
Venice’s St. Mark’s Square
for the screening of his latest
movie “Shark Tale.”
of them has seen the movie.”
De Niro, whose paternal
grandparents were born in Italy,
expressed delight at the Italian
citizenship honor.
“I am part Italian, I’m not all
Italian. I’m part Dutch, I’m part
French, I’m part German, I’m
part Irish. But my name is
Italian,” he said. “And I
probably identify more with my
Italian side than with my other
parts. ... Italy is such a great,
wonderful country. I’m very
proud and honored to be asked
to be a citizen.”
De Niro has appeared as an
Italian-American mobster in
“Goodfellas” and “The
Godfather Part II.” In “Analyze
This” and “Analyze That,” he
performed a comedic send up of
the mafia tough-guy persona.
n s everyining you
■ want to do when you’re
a little kid: play in the
sewer, eat lots of pizza
and kick lots of ass.”
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ESPN GameDay co-host Kirk Herbstreit signs a fan Saturday on the State Fairgrounds.
“Shark Tale” was
premiering in a special
screening at Venice’s St.
Mark’s Square on Friday night.
The cartoon movie is a sea
based tale about Mafia sharks,
with De Niro providing the
voice-over for finned mob boss
Don Lino. Other voice-overs
for the movie include Will
Smith, Renee Zellweger,
Angelina Jolie, Jack Black and
Martin Scorsese
P. Diddy to form
new TV girl band
NEW YORK — P. Diddy is
back to “Making the Band” —
this time, with all women.
For three seasons, P. Diddy,
a.k.a. Sean Combs, developed
the now-disbanded hip-hop
ensemble Da Band in the
show s second incarnation.
During the first season of
“Making the Band 2,” Puffy
and his Bad Boy Entertainment
team searched the country to
construct the music group
while the second and third
seasons chronicled Da Band on
the road and in the studio. But
Da Band received da ax at the
end of the third season when
P. Diddy disbanded the group.
“We watched P. Diddy work
magic with his last group Da
Band, who despite their issues
working together, still managed
to take their very first album
gold,” said MTV Series
Entertainment Executive Vice
President Lois Curren. “We
can’t wait to see what he has in
store for us as he forms a girl
group in a whole new music
genre.”
This won’t be P. Diddy’s
first time crafting an all-girl
pop group. He was the
mastermind behind Dream, a
pop quartet who sang the hit
“He Loves Me Not.”
COMING
UP@USC
TODAY
BROTHERS OF NUBIAN
DESCENT SAME-SEX DISCUSSION
FORUM: Russell House Ballroom,
7 p.m.
TUESDAY
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
GRADUATION FAIR: Russell House
Bookstore, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
WEDNESDAY
CAREER FAIR BLITZ: Carolina
Coliseum 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
use WOMEN’S SOCCER vs.
CLEMSON: Stone Stadium, 7 p.m.
VOLUNTEER FAIR: Greene Street,
11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY WORKPLACE
WORKSHOP: Computer Services
309, 8:45 a.m. to noon.
QUANTUM REFERENCE FRAMES
LECTURE: Jones Physical Science
Center 409, 4 p.m.
THURSDAY
ROSH HASHANAH
FRIDAY
use VOLLEYBALL vs. SOUTHERN
CALIFORNIA: Basketball Practice
Facility, 7 p.m.
use BRIEFS
Forum to focus
on homosexuality
The Brothers of Nubian
Descent will offer a forum at 7
p.m. in the Russell House
Ballroom.
The forum, “How can the
CTiristian community embrace
Homosexuality,” will feature a
discussion with local preachers
and members of the Bisexual,
Gay, Lesbian and Straight
Alliance. Refreshments will be
served afterward.
YWCA program
offers career advice
The YWCA is offering a
symposium called “Women
and Career” as part of a new
quarterly symposium program.
The event will take place
Sept. 22, 1:30-5 p.m., at the
YWCA at 1510. Barnwell St.
Ann Caulkins, president and
publisher of The State, will
give a presentation, “If I’d
Known Then What I Know
Now.”
The second half of the
program, “Juggling Family &
Career,” will be co-facilitated
by Tre Taylor, on-air
personality and promotions
director for WLXC, 98.5 KISS
FM and Pam Roberts,
litigation partner of Nelson
Mullins Riley & Scarborough.
To register for the
symposium, call the YWCA at
252-2151.
Journal to hold
interest meeting
The Lettered Olive student
literary journal will hold an
interest meeting Wednesday at
7 p.m. in the USC Studio for
Book Arts on the first floor of
McBryde building AB.
POLICE REPORT
♦
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
0 Nonviolent
CRIMES AT
UNKNOWN
HOURS
□ Violent
© Nonviolent
THURSDAY, SEPT. 9
©Grand Larceny of Laptop, East
Quad Room 434B, 1400 Blossom
St.
A grey IBM laptop was
removed from the unsecured
location. Estimated value is
$4,000
Reporting officer: P. Morant
©Information Report, Engineering
building sidewalk, 300 Main St.
A suspect, possibly homeless,
wearing dark clothes became
irritated and cursed at the victim
after the victim said he had no
money to give him.
Reporting officer: P. Jones
©Suspicious Activity, B.A.
Building Room 571, 1701 College
St.
The complainant walked
through the shut door to his office
to find someone looking through
his files. The suspect said he was
looking for a phone. Then he ran
out of the door.
Reporting officer: N. Dehaai
Information, North side of
Leconte, 1523 Greene St.
(4)Two subjects with brown hair
and wearing Carolina T-shirts
were stopping females and asking
if they could take their pictures.
Reporting officer: Wheeler
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