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STATE
Governor presents
base defense check
SUMTER — A group devoted to
nghting any attempt to close Shaw Air
force Base got a $100,000 check
Thursday from state officials.
Gov. Mark Sanford and Comptroller
General Richard Eckstrom presented
the Sumter Base Defense Committee
with the funds, part of a state allocation
designed to aid the Beaufort,
Charleston, Columbia and Sumter
areas.
The Defense Department has
mandated a round of base closures for
2005, and top officials have said no base
is to be left out of consideration for
consolidation or closure.
Up to 25 percent of all military bases
could be involved in the effort to make
the military run more efficiently,
Pentagon officials have said.
The state money was appropriated by
the General Assembly from fiscal year
2003-04 general funds.
Bus crash kills driver,
injures 49 children
BLAIR — A school bus driver died
Thursday and dozens of children were
injured after a dump truck collided with
the bus in Fairfield County, according
to television news reports.
The driver’s name was not released.
The bus was traveling with students
from McCorey-Liston Elementary
School.
Several students were airlifted from
the scene. Three students were airlifted
to Palmetto Health Richland with
injuries and 46 students were taken to
Fairfield Memorial Hospital with minor
injuries, WIS-TV in Columbia
reported.
This was the first bus passenger
fatality since 1996 in South Carolina,
according to Education Department
Spokesman Jim Foster.
NATION
Education officials
warn of school spies
WASHINGTON — The Education
Department is advising school leaders
nationwide to watch for people spying
on their buildings or buses to help detect
any possibility of terrorism like the
deadly school siege in Russia.
The warning follows an analysis by
the FBI and the Homeland Security
Department of the siege that killed
nearly 340 people, many of them
students, in the city of Beslan last
month.
The advice is based on lessons learned
from the Russia siege. But there is no
specific information indicating a terrorist
.threat to any schools or universities in the
United States, said Deputy Education
Secretary Eugene Hickok.
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{Majority Leader Tom DeLay’s latest
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•drew widespread expressions of support
^from fellow Republicans.
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{Democratic leader, challenged the
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{committee attacked Connecticut Rep.
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^moderate, for recendy praising DeLay’s
^performance as leader.
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{lawmakers who volunteered support for
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{security in the heart of the Iraqi capital.
•Outside Baghdad, roadside bombings
•killed two more American soldiers.
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•radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr
loflFered to disarm his Mahdi Army militia
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Stewart
to begin
prison
sentence
ALDERSON, W.Va. — A sign at
the Dinner Bell restaurant just
outside town says it all: “Welcome
Martha. Welcome to Alderson.”
Martha is Martha Stewart and
beginning Friday the federal
woman’s prison camp in this town of
about 1,000 residents will be her
home for the next five months.
Dinner Bell manager Annette
Kellison said she is not so sure a 63
year-old woman deserves to be at
Alderson for a first offense. But “I’m
so glad she’s coming here.”
Stewart was sentenced to
Alderson after she and her former
stockbroker were convicted in March
of lying to federal investigators about
the fortuitously-timed sale of 3,928
shares of ImClone stock.
The famous and the felonious are
nothing new to the prison here,
which since opening in 1927 has
seen the likes of Billie Holiday,
Tokyo Rose, Axis Sally, and would
be presidential assassins Squeaky
Fromme and Sara Jane Moore.
Yet none has attracted as much
attention as Stewart. The media is in
force here and town residents are not
opposed to profiting from it.
Harold Massie declined to say
how much he is charging to allow
satellite trucks park in his field
outside the prison’s gates.
LOUIS LANZANO/AP PHOTO
Martha Stewart arrives for
sentencing at Manhattan
federal court, in New York
Friday July 16. She has
been designated federal
inmate No. 55170-054.
Neighbor Jef Harris is charging
about $100 a day to let one media
company rent his forklift.
“It’s a little out of hand,” said
Harris, who added he respects
Stewart and likes her products.
Along the wall on one of his
lumber company buildings, Harris
has tacked a 9-by-12-foot gray tarp
with the words “We love you
Martha” painted in white Martha
Stewart brand paint.
Harris and other residents don’t
expect to see Stewart when she
arrives at the 105-acre minimum
security camp along the Greenbrier
River. In fact, because of her
notoriety, residents don’t expect
Stewart will accompany other
inmates who volunteer to work
around town, cleaning trash from the
river banks and pulling weeds.
“It’s so sad she’s so gifted and
talented, but we won’t be able to
enjoy it because they won’t let her
into the community,” Kellison said.
Stewart’s security was made an
issue this week after the union that
represents corrections officers said
budget problems in the federal
Bureau of Prisons might make it
difficult to protect her. The Council
of Prison Locals says the number of
guards at the 1,000-inmate prison
has dropped in four years from 60 to
36.
Stones, Eurythmics
remake soundtrack
NEW YORK — What’s it all
about? Ask Rolling Stones
frontman Mick Jagger and
Eurythmics co-founder Dave
Stewart, who wrote and performed
the soundtrack to the upcoming
“Alfie” remake, and they’ll probably
say teamwork.
“We have been really good friends
for a long time now. We write songs
together very quickly, and we have a
lot of fun doing it,” Jagger told
Associated Press Television News
about his relationship with Stewart.
“We have written a lot of tunes. We
have written a lot of tunes that don’t
come out.”
The “Alfie” soundtrack will be in
stores Oct. 19. Songs on the album
include “Old Habits Die Hard,”
“Wicked Time” with teen soul star
JOSS Stone and rapper Nadz, and the
bluesy “Blind Leading the Blind.”
“I think the 'Blind Leading the
Blind’ fits into the movie best
becailse it is the most important one
in the most pivotal scene,” Jagger
said. “For that it has to work well.
And I think that that song works
best in that scene.”
The soundtrack also includes
Stone performing the Burt
Bacharach-Hal David classic
“Alfie.”
“She’s got a lovely voice,” Jagger
told APTN about 17-year-old
Stone. “She seems to have a lot
more fluidity than on her debut
album. She has a very fluid voice.
Seems to have gotten a lot better.”
“Alfie,” which opens Oct. 22, is a
remake of the 1966 classic of the
same name. Jude Law fills the tide
character’s philandering shoes, worn
by Michael Caine in the original.
Susan Sarandon and Marisa
Tomei also star.
Motley Crue star
heals after surgery
LOS ANGELES — Motley Crue
. guitarist Mick Mars was recovering
after undergoing hip replacement
surgery at a Los Angeles hospital, his
publicist said.
Mars, whose real name is Bob
Allen Deal, has been suffering from
a degenerative, rheumatic disease
called ankylosing spondylitis for
some time, publicist Katie McNeil
said Wednesday.
“The doctor was pleased with the
surgery,” McNeil said of the
procedure that took place Tuesday at
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. She
said doctors expect Mars to walk
with the help of a physical therapist
soon.
Doctors said the disease causes
ligaments and tendons to attach to
the bone. The affected area becomes
inflamed and some of the bone may
erode. There’s no cure, but the pain
can be minimized with anti
inflammatory drugs, and some of
those .afflicted have to undergo
surgery.
McNeil said Mars, an original
member of Motley Crue, was
looking forward to a full recovery so
he could possibly join the group for
a comeback tour. All original
members of the band haven’t
played together in six years, McNeil
said.
“The band has been talking of
possibly doing a reunion tour,”
McNeil said. “He would do it if the
tour happens.”
NBC inserts delay
after Dale Jr.’s slip
NEW YORK — NBC is adding a
5-second delay to its NASCAR
telecasts after Dale Earnhardt Jr.
used a vulgarity during a post-race
TV interview last weekend.
“We’re disappointed for our
viewers to have to do this, but the
delay provides a level of protection
against anything inapprppriate
going out over the air,” NBC Sports
chairman Dick Ebersol said
Thursday.
Earnhardt was docked 25 points
in the Nextel Cup standings and
fined $10,000 for his slip of the
tongue in an NBC interview after his
victory at Talladega Superspeedway,
dropping him to second place with
seven races left in the season. He will
appeal the point penalty.
Federal regulators have cracked
down on objectionable content on
TV and radio since Janet Jackson’s
“wardrobe malfunction” during her
halftime performance at the Super
Bowl. CBS was fined a record
$550,000 by the FCC for Jackson’s
breast-baring incident.
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Friday, October 8, 2004
“I think that most South Carolinians
will agree that being a dedicated
teacher has nothing to do with being
male or female, black or white,
Democrat or Republican, gay or
straight.”
ZACHERY SCOTT
STUDENT GOVERNMENT PRESIDENT, ON
A STATEMENT FROM U S. SENATE
CANDIDATE JIM DEMINT
RUB IT IN
JASON STEELMAN
Cathy Hoyle, message therapist at the Thomson Student Health Center, gives Fatura Green, second
year exercise science student, a massage Wednesday in front of the Russell House.
POLICE REPORT
These reports are taken directly from the USC
Polic# Department. v
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
OH Violent
© Nonviolent
MONDAY, OCT. 4
DO Sexual Assault, West Quad, 438
Main St.
The victim said the subject sexually
assaulted her in his room.
Reporting officer: S. Alexander
©Suspicious Activity, Computer
Garage, 1300 Blossom St.
A man in a dark hooded sweatshirt
and dark shorts relieved himself.
Reporting officer: M. Wheeler
©Assistance Rendered, LaBorde
Dorm, 615 Sumter St.
The subject fell out of bed and
injured herself She was transported to
the Baptist Hospital emergency room
by Richland County Emergency
Medical Service.
Reporting officer: J. Widdifield
Q Malicious injury of person
property, 700 block of Greene
Street
The subject threw a rock at the
victim’s car, shattering the rear
windshield and causing several
scratches on the trunk.
Reporting officer: J. Simmons
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 6
©Grand Larceny, Currefl College,
1305 Greene St.
An unidentified subject removed a
color projector worth $3,000.
Reporting officer: S. Alexander
©Fraud, Main Housing Lobby,
1215 Blossom St.
An unknown subject fraudulently
used the victim’s credit card to
withdraw more than $1,250.
Reporting officer: C. Gallman
COM G
UP@USC
FRIDAY
COCKFEST: Williams-Brice
Stadium, 8 p.m.
HOMECOMING PARADE:
Greene, Sumter and Pendleton
streets, 4 p.m.
SATURDAY
use FOOTBALL vs.
MISSISSIPPI: Williams-Brice
Stadium, 1 p.m.
GREAT GAMECOCK TAILGATE
PARTY: National Guard Armory,
BluffRoad, right after the game.
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SUNDAY
THE LOVE SONG OF i. ROBERT
OPPENHEIMER CLOSING DAY
Longstreet Theatre, 3 p.m., $14.
MONDAY
COLUMBUS DAY
TUESDAY
MINI MED SCHOOL: USC
School of Medicine, 7-8:30 p.m.
WEDNESDAY
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY
RELAY FOR LIFE MEETING: Russell
House, 6:30 p.m.
THURSDAY
FALL BREAK
use
BRIEFS
Green candidate
to discuss justice
Green Party presidential
candidate David Cobb will be in
Columbia on Tuesday to hold a
town hall meeting.
The event, sponsored by the
USC Green Party, will be at 7
p.m. in 151 Gambrell Hall.
Admission is free, and the
public is invited to comment and
ask questions about Green Party
politics and issues, Cobb’s
presidential bid, and the role of
grassroots democracy in a two
party system.
While in South Carolina,
Cobb will be campaigning with
Efia Nwangaza, the Green Party’s
U.S. Senate candidate.
Cobb’s appearance in
Columbia is part of his “Justice
Tour” of the Southeast, with
additional stops in Mississippi,
North Carolina and Virginia.
The Green Party celebrates its
first appearance on the S.C.
ballot.
More information is available
at: www.votecobb.org or
www.gp.org.
Lecture covers
centering prayer
USC will present its sixth
annual Joseph Cardinal Bernadin
Lectureship at 8 p.m. Nov. 12 at
St. Joseph’s Catholic Church.
The Rev. Thomas Keating,
founder of the Snowmass Inter
religious Conference, will deliver
the lecture, titled “Centering
Prayer as a Preparation for
Contemplative Prayer.” The*
lecture is free and open to the
public.
On Nov. 13, Keating will lead
a workshop titled “Centering
Prayer” from 9:30 a.m. - 3 p.m.
at the church. The cost to attend
the workshop, including lunch, is
$25 for the general public and
$ 10 for students.
Keating is the founder
Contemplative Outreach Ltd., an
international organization that
teaches centering prayer and the
contemplative tradition.
The lectureship was
established in 1999 in honor of
the Most Rev. Cardinal Joseph
Bernardin, a Columbia native
and USC alumnus. Bernardin,
who died in November 1996,
was a prolific writer and one of
the Roman Catholic Church’s
strongest advocates for social
involvement.
For more information or to
register for the workshop, contact
Hal French at 777-2178.
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