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STATE
Antique printing plates
discovered in City Hall
CHARLESTON — Charleston city
employees have discovered steel plates
used to print bills toward the end of the
War of 1812.
The plates were found in an old safe in
City Hall by employees who were
preparing the building for a major
renovation.
The discovery has created a buzz at
museums from Columbia to
Washington.
White powder found
in school district mail
AIKEN — The FBI is investigating a
white powder that was found by an
employee sorting mail at the Aiken
County school district office.
The office building will be vacated
for the rest of the week while FBI
analysts determine what the substance
is.
None of the workers in the building
has reported feeling sick.
The powder was in a letter addressed
to schools Superintendent Linda
Eldridge, school board chairman John
B-^dley said. It was postmarked Augusta,
Ga., and had no return address.
NATION
2004 election costs
more than $4 billion
WASHINGTON — The price of
democracy in 2004: $4 billion, and
that’s not even counting all the ballots,
poll workers and election lawyers.
Add the expenses borne by states
and local government, to be
determined later, and the price tag
rises anywhere from hundreds of
millions of dollars to possibly upward
of $1 billion more.
Congressional and presidential
candidates alone devoted at least $1.8
billion to their primary and general
election campaigns.
Army adds benefits
to entice new recruits
DAYTON, Ohio — Free hunting and
fishing licenses. More chances to get
signing bonuses. Pink T-shirts for
women.
The Army National Guard, which
has fallen short of recruiting goals
during the prolonged fighting in Iraq,
is trying new marketing beyond the
traditional enticement of college
tuition aid.
Guard officials around the country
blame concerns about the Iraq war,
Pentagon orders that keep some soldiers
from leaving active duty and going into
thfe Guard, and turnover among
recruiters, some of whom have been
sent overseas.
WORLD
N. Korea, Iran reply
to U.N. nuclear chief
UNITED NATIONS — Challenged by
the U.N. nuclear chief to prove their
atomic programs are peaceful, North
Korea said it would scrap its “nuclear
deterrence” if the United States ended
its hostile policy and Iran said
negotiations with three European
countries may “bring fruit.”
But North Korea’s deputy U.N.
ambassador Kim Chang Guk on
Monday totally rejected the
International Atomic Energy Agency.
Iran’s deputy U.N. ambassador
Mehdi Danesh-Yazdi stressed that
Tehran “is determined to pursue its
inalienable rights to develop nuclear
energy for peaceful purposes.”
Israel destroys home
of teen suicide bomber
NABLUS, West Bank — Israeli
troops on Tuesday demolished the
homes of a teen suicide bomber and two
men who dispatched him to a crowded
Tel Aviv market where he killed three
Israelis and wounded 32.
The relatively muted response came
after Israel pledged to show restraint in
the wake of Yasser Arafat’s illness.
BRIEFS FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rehnquist
missing
court for
treatment
WASHINGTON — The Supreme
\ Court meets this week with just eight
^ members, as its notoriously tenacious
leader undergoes chemotherapy and
radiation treatment for an apparently
serious type of thyroid cancer.
Chief Justice William H.
Rehnquist backtracked from an
earlier plan to return to work
Monday. Instead, he issued a
statement from home about the
treatment.
The election eve disclosure by
the 80-year-old justice underscores
the near certainty that the next
president will make at least one
appointment to the Supreme Court
and probably more.
Rehnquist did not say what type
of thyroid cancer he has, how far it
has progressed or the prognosis.
Dr. Leonard Wartofsky, a
thyroid cancer expert at Washington
Hospital Center, said the combined
chemotherapy-radiation indicates he
has anaplastic thyroid cancer, a fast
growing form that is almost always
fatal.
He said Rehnquist, a longtime
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J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Chief Justice William H.
Rehnquist’s extended leave
during cancer treatments
may foreshadow retirement.
smoker, will likely be exhausted by his
treatment. Patients with anaplastic
thyroid cancer often have four to six
weeks of daily visits for radiation, and
multiple rounds of chemotherapy
that can span several months, he said.
“You’re also facing the psyche of
the individual who is getting hit with
the fact that they’re at the end of
their life. They have maybe three
months or six months. Would you
want to continue working if that’s all
you have left in your life?” he asked.
Rehnquist’s statement made no
mention of leaving the court. It was
a more somber announcement than
the one a week ago, when he first
made public that he had been
hospitalized for cancer treatment
but said he planned to be back at
work in a week.
Boxer Ali’s drawings
receive highest bid
LONDON — A small leather
bound volume in which Muhammad
DAY
Wednesday, November 5, 2004
“The people we vote for are
the ones that are going to
decide our future.”
KRISTINA SCHLUETER
SECOND-YEAR ACCOUNTING
STUDENT ABOUT THE ELECTION
SMILE FOR THE PEN
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JASON STEELMAN/THE GAMECOCK
“Uncle Ron" Chapiesky, left, sketches Curtis Burnside, a
fourth-year chemical engineering student as part of the
election night party on the second floor of the Russel House
Tuesday night.
Ali drew pictures of himself fighting
archrival Joe Frazier has sold for
$30,000 at auction.
It was the most expensive item at
an auction organized by Tatler
magazine that raised a total of
$225,000 for a south London
charity for the homeless, Sotheby’s
auction house said Tuesday.
Tatler sent 24 1-inch-high books
bound in leather to celebrities from
the worlds of arts, sport and politics
and asked them to fill the pages with
whatever they liked.
South African casino tycoon
Sol Kerzner bought the Ali
volume, which was somewhat
bigger than the others as Ali has
Parkinson’s disease, and paid
another $17,000 for British artist
David Hockney’s effort, nine
sketches of his native Yorkshire, at
Monday’s auction.
AH fought Frazier in three brutal
fights, losing the first but outlasting
Frazier in the others.
The second most expensive lot,
at $23,000, was former Beatle Paul
McCartney’s book, which
contained the handwritten lyrics to
“Hey Jude.”
Tatler provided an acrylic
bound volume for the vegetarian
McCartney.
Third was author J.K. Rowling’s
offering, which included pictures of
young wizard Harry Potter’s
broomstick and wire-rimmed
spectacles, at $20,000.
Indie films gamering
more interest, funds
ASHEVILLE, N.C. — More
interest in plot- and character
driven movies means times are good
for independent films, says Oscar
winning director Ron Howard.
“There’s an ever-expanding
interest in stories, thank. God,” said
Howard, who will appear at the
Asheville Film Festival this
weekend. “More and more, there
are compelling financial reasons,
the artistic reasons have always been
there, to make films that target a
smaller audience base.”
The Asheville festival runs
Thursday through Sunday.
Howard, who won a best-director
Oscar in 2002 for “A Beautiful
Mind,” will be in town to attend
the Spotlight Celebration Awards
Dinner on Saturday night. His
father, longtime character actor
Ranee Howard, will receive a
lifetime achievement award.
Finding money for independent
films has also gotten better, though
financing any movie, independent
or otherwise, is never easy, said
Howard, who shared the best
picture Oscar for “A Beautiful
Mind” with producing partner
Brian Grazer, in a phone interview
Monday.
“It’s always a high-wire act to
get an independent film made,” the
50-year-old director said. “Always.
But there was a time when it was
really trying to hit a bull’s-eye on a
dartboard a long way away. And
now, it’s a little more fair. ... In the
last 10, 15 years, there’s the
beginnings of a kind of economic
structure.”
Brandy searching
for new record label
NEW YORK — Brandy is
looking for a new record label.
Brandy, 25, split from her
longtime label, Atlantic Records,
her publicist, Courtney Barnes,
announced Monday.
The departure came after
relatively disappointing sales of her
last album, “Afrodisiac.” Although
the album generated the moderate
hit “Talk About Our Love” with
Kanye West, it disappeared quickly
from the charts.
It was a departure from her
previous three albums, all of which
sold at least 1 million copies.
Barnes says Brandy is looking
at other labels and also plans to be
co-executive producer of a
comedy series for Fox television
next year.
D.C. sniper defense
fights death penalty
RICHMOND, Va.— John Allen
Muhammad’s lawyers argued
before the state Supreme Court on
Tuesday that the convicted sniper
cannot be sentenced to death under
a Virginia law because he did not
pull the trigger in the October
2002 killing spree.
Muhammad was sentenced to
death .after being convicted of two
counts of capital murder last year in
the shooting of Dean Harold
Meyers near Manassas.
Prosecutors had argued that
Muhammad and cohort Lee Boyd
Malvo formed a sniper team and
were thus equally culpable.
Defense lawyer Peter
Greenspun contended that
Virginia law allows the death
penalty only for the triggerman in
such cases, and that Muhammad
should receive a life sentence
instead.
Justice Donald Lemons
challenged Greenspun’s argument,
likening the sniper killings to a
previous murder case in which two
defendants were deemed eligible J
for the death penalty, one for i
smashing the victim’s head with a j;
rock, the other for holding the
victim down.
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
% Nonviolent
CRIMES AT
UNKNOWN
HOURS
□ Violent
© Nonviolent
MONDAY, OCT 18
(I, Malicious Damage to Real
Property, USC Campus
Officer N. Dehaai observed graffiti
in black paint at the following
locations: “high voltage” generator at
Northeast Energy Building, Carolina
Shuttle stop at the Nursing Building,
two light poles in front of the
Humanities Office Building, the
Pickens Street pedestrian bridge and
the Gambrell Hall loading area.
WEDNESDAY, OCT 20
©Larceny of Laptop, Russell
House Post Office, 1400 Greene St.
The victim said her parents sent
her a laptop, but all she received was a
printer. A FedEx investigation
revealed that she had signed for the
printer, but someone else had signed
for the laptop.
Reporting officer: B. Timbers
MONDAY
(3)Suspicious Activity, Woodrow,
1415 Greene St.
The complainant said a man
walked into her room after knocking.
When he saw her he said he was
looking for someone else and left the
area. The subject was wearing a blue
hat with “Polo" written in white and a
striped golf shirt.
Reporting officer: R. Baker
@ Larceny of Laptop, Woodrow,
1415 Greene St.
Someone stole a Dell laptop worth
$1,500 and a power strip.
Reporting officer: R. Baker
TUESDAY
\
© Disorderly Conduct, Bates West,
Simple Possession of Marijuana,
1405 Whaley St. ,
Reporting officer J. Simmons I
responded to a complaint that the 1
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BASKETBALL SNEAK PREVIEW:
Basketball Practice Facility, 5-7
p.m.
MICHAEL LEE LAMB, SENIOR
TRUMPET: School of Music, room
206,7:30 p.m.
THURSDAY
BRITTNEE SIEMON DMA VOCAL
RECITAL: School of Music, room
206,4:30 p.m.
USC JAZZ COMBOS: School of
Music, room 206, 7:30 p.m.
SEMESTER ROOM CHANGE
BEGINS: 8 a m.
FRIDAY
CAROLINA RALLY: Colonial
Center, 6-9 p.m.
USC VOLLEYBALL vs. LSU:
Basketball Practice Facility, 7 p.m.
SATURDAY
USC FOOTBALL vs. ARKANSAS:
Williams-Brice Stadium, 12:30
p.m.
SUNDAY
USC VOLLEYBALL vs.
ARKANSAS: Basketball Practice
Facility, 1:30 p.m.
USC STRENGTH MEET: Strom
Thurmond Wellness & Fitness
Center, 2-4 p.m
Habitat for Humanity begins
this week
use
BRIEFS
WUSC vinyl fair
set for Saturday
WUSC-FM will be holding
its first vinyl fair Saturday from
1-6 p.m. in Russell House room
322.
The fair will be selling
approximately 3,000 pieces of
vinyl and 200 CDs.
A $10 entrance fee covers the
price of a WUSC tote bag and
vinyl and CD selections.
For more information contact
Rachal Hatton at 777-5468 or
Marti Hause at 777-7172.
Literary journal
seeking writers
The Lettered Olive is
accepting poetry and prose
submissions (limited to five
is orr 5,000 word of prose)
* Nov. 30.
Ijssions can be e-mailed
Pgwm.sc.edu.
Hard copies can be sent to
227 Russell House, SG 263
Columbia, SC 29208.
Prizes of $75 and $25 will be
awarded for die best prose and
poetry.
Auditions planned
for ‘Monologues’
Auditions and an interest
meeting for “The Vagina
Monologues” will be held Nov. 13
at 1 p.m. on the third floor lobby
of the Russell House. All interested
in being a part of the production
and activities are encouraged to
attend. For more information, e
mail Gabrielle Sinclair at
pregenius42(*>yahoo.com.
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