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STATE
Sanford prepares
third State address
Gov. Mark Sanford will have an
opportunity to talk about his
accomplishments midway through his
first term and what he wants to do in the
next two years when he gives his third
State of the State address on Wednesday.
Sanford said he plans to talk about
government accountability, the
economy, education and quality of life.
Sanford said he’s most proud of
provoking a different sense of thinking
to make state government run more
efficiently.
“Before you can actually change
anything, you’ve got to be able to
change attitudes,” Sanford said Tuesday
while sitting on a sofa in his office, feet
propped up on the coffee table.
Bill would increase
cockfighting penalty
People involved with cockfighting
could face strict penalties under a House
bill proposed on Tuesday.
The measure would make
cockfighting a felony, punishable by a
$5,000 fine or five years in prison,
parallel to laws against dogfighting.
For more than 100 years,
cockfighting has been a misdemeanor,
carrying a $100 fine or up to 30 days in
jail. But prosecutors say it’s not enough
to deter participation in the sport in
which two roosters wear steel blades on
their legs and fight to the death.
NATION
Police search river
for deli owner’s body
DALLAS — Police searching for a
kidnapped Dallas restaurateur scoured a
river and its banks Tuesday, a day after
Adding bloodstained clothes in woods
based on information from a suspect
who said Oscar J. Sanchez was killed.
Police said they were told where to
search for Sanchez’s body by Jose
Alberto Felix, a 28-year-old out-of-work
teacher who was arrested over the
weekend in Chicago as he tried to board
a flight to Guadalajara, Mexico.
Another suspect, Edgar Acevedo, 24,
already had fled to Guadalajara from
Chicago, authorities said. Dallas police
and the FBI were expected to file a
request that Mexican authorities help
find Acevedo, who is a Mexican citizen.
Police said the search would resume
Wednesday.
Former priest faces
molestation charges
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A former
priest, one of the most notorious figures
from the Boston Archdiocese sex scandal
went on trial Tuesday on charges that he
raped a boy in the 1980s, with a
prosecutor telling jurors that the
clergyman once warned the accuser: “If
you tell, no one will believe you.”
The lawyer for defrocked priest Paul
Shanley responded by saying the accuser
made up the allegations to get in on
multimillion-dollar settlements for
victims in the scandal.
WORLD
Indonesia raises tally
of missing persons
JAKARTA, Indonesia — With
workers still finding bodies under mud
caked rubble a month after a tsunami,
Indonesia’s Health Ministry revised its
casualty count Tuesday, lowering
confirmed deaths to 96,000 but raising
the number of missing, and presumed
dead, to 132,000.
Officials conceded a precise total
would never be known, and the ministry
said its death count now included only
buried bodies and excluded any missing.
People still missing after a year will be
declared dead, it said.
Temple stampede
develops into rioting
WAI, India — An accident that
crushed several people inside a Hindu
temple grew into a bigger tragedy
Tuesday when angry pilgrims outside
learned of the deaths and set fire to
shops along a crowded walkway,
triggering a stampede that killed more
than 200 people, police said.
An estimated 300,000 people had
gathered for a festival in and around the
hilltop Mandra Devi temple in western
India near the small town of Wai, about
150 miles south of Bombay.
^BRIEFS FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
British news
says Combs
might bid on
stage group
LONDON — Hip-hop mogul Sean
“P. Diddy” Combs could be a
surprise bidder for part of Andrew
Lloyd Webber’s theater group,
British media reported.
Combs’ New York-based Bad
Boy Worldwide Entertainment
Group wouldn’t comment on the
reports. Lloyd Webber, creator of
“Cats,” “The Phantom of the
Opera” and “Evita,” was coy about
whether there had been an approach
from Combs.
Lloyd Webber is sole owner of
the Really Useful Group (RUG), a
London-based company that
manages the rights for his shows and
retains 50 percent of the Really
Useful Theatres company, which
owns 11 theaters throughout
London’s famed West End
entertainment district.
Following several media reports
on a possible sale of assets, Lloyd
Webber’s office confirmed last
week that he had received an
inquiry “in relation to the
acquisition of some parts of his
businesses.” The statement added
that the process was “in its
formative stages and no decisions
have yet been made.”
British media had generally
described the possible sale as
concerning the whole group, and
said the Clear Channel media
corporation was the likely buyer.
But newspapers on Monday
reported that Combs’ Bad Boy
Worldwide Entertainment Group
could make a separate bid, focusing
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Sean ‘P. Diddy’ Combs
arrives for the 62nd Annual
Golden Globe Awards in this
Jan. 16 photograph in
Beverly Hills, Calif.
on four of RUG’s century-old
theaters in London.
Nobel Prize winner
says no to stamp
VIENNA, Austria — Elffiede
Jelinek, the reclusive winner of the
2004 Nobel Prize in literature, has
turned' down an offer by Austria’s
post office to feature her image on a
stamp.
Jelinek told postal officials she
sought “no personal honors” and
was uncomfortable with the idea of
her face on a stamp, the newspaper
Die Presse said Sunday. The $1.30
stamp would have featured her
likeness and a reference to the Nobel
Prize.
She didn’t attend the Dec. 10
Nobel festivities in Stockholm,
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Sweden, because of what she
describes as “a social phobia.” She
received the award in a small
ceremony at the residence of the
Swedish ambassador in Vienna.
Jelinek, 57, was the first
literature laureate not to attend the
Stockholm prize ceremony and the
banquet since British-born
Australian Patrick White in 1973.
Her most famous novel, “The
Piano Teacher,” was adapted into a
2001 film that starred Isabelle
Huppert.
Performers to hold
concert for Selena
HOUSTON — A three-hour
concert to mark the 10 th
anniversary of the death of Tejano
singing star Selena has been set for
Houston’s Reliant Stadium this
spring.
Several performers, including
Gloria Estefan and Thalia, are to
participate in the event, to be
broadcast live April 7 by the
Univision Network.
“We can hardly believe it has
been so long since she left us, but
we are excited to help celebrate her
life and her spirit,” said Houston
Mayor Bill White.
Other performers who have
signed on include Pepe Aguilar,
Carlos Vives, Banda El Recodo,
Alicia Villarreal; Aleks Syntek,
Lucero, Ana Gabriel, Intocable and
the Kumbia Kings.
Houston was the site of Selena’s
final concert. She played at the
Astrodome in February 1995 to
more than 60,000 fens as part of the
Houston Livestock Show and
Rodeo.
The following month, the 23
year-old singer was fatally shot at a
Corpus Christi motel. The former
president of her fen club, Yolanda
Saldivar, was convicted of the
slaying and is serving a life prison
term.
Testimony opens
in HMO scam trial
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Fired
HealthSouth CEO Richard
Scrushy made millions off a seven
year scheme to overstate earnings
by about $2.7 billion as investors
large and small suffered, a
prosecutor told jurors Tuesday as
testimony opened in Srrushy’s
corporate fraud trial.
A Scmshy lawyer countered that
the fraud at HealthSouth Corp. was
the work of a tightly knit group of
executives, known as “the family,”
who purposely kept Scrushy in the
dark.
“This was no ordinary family.
This was a family that operated as a
unit on their own,” defense attorney
Jim Parkman said.
U.S. Attorney Alice Martin said
Scrushy, 52, sold about $150
million worth of his own
HealthSouth stock as subordinates
created false financial statements to
make it seem the rehabilitation giant
was meeting analysts’ expectations,
boosting company shares.
The government also charged
that Scrushy spent more than $200
million on such luxuries as
waterfront mansions, opulent cars,
VIRTUOSITY
EMILY WAGGONER/THE GAMECOCK
Dawson Nichols plays one of 23characters in “Virtual
Solitaire,” a one-man show at the Booker T. Washington
Lab Theater. The show resume^Thursday.
a racing boat, bronze statues, a 21 -
carat diamond ring and a $3.2
million airplane.
All the while, Scrushy was
getting private reports to show him
the company’s true financial
condition and not telling investors
what was going on, Martin said.
“The evidence will show that
Richard Scrushy as chief executive
officer gave phony numbers to the
public,” said Martin, calling
Scrushy “a very hands-on leader”
who picked his top aides and later
tried to sway their statements to
federal agents once an investigation
began.
The defense conceded that a
fraud occurred. But Parkman
blamed it on a group of overly
ambitious executives who hid the
misstatements from Scrushy, whom
he portrayed as an everyman CEO
who did his best.
“How could it get by Richard
Scrushy? You know how? This
group controlled the numbers,”
Parkman said.
But HealthSouth’s first chief
financial officer, Aaron Beam,
testified that Scrushy was very
familiar with the company’s
finances and received weekly
reports detailing everything from
revenues to how many patients
were treated at HealthSouth sites.
Blake deal limited
Bakley’s baby time
In her quest to marry Robert
Blake, Bonny Lee Bakley signed
agreements with the actor that
stripped her of all rights to his assets
apd limited her contacts with their
$aby, her former attorney testified
Tuesday.
? Cary Goldstein said he refused
. tD sign off on the child custody pact
land a prenuptial agreement, and
Jtfgcd Bakley not to accept them.
“In my career I have never seen
an agreement ... that is as abusive
and controlling as this,” Goldstein
tjd jurors in Blake’s murder trial.
\ ' The prosecution offered the
testimony to support its contention
that Blake’s obsession with keeping
tfje baby away from Bakley led him
9 kill her.
* Earlier Tuesday, two police
J^tectives testified that Bakley filed
a child-stealing report against Blake
before they were married but
withdrew it three days later and
police dropped the case.
Goldstein said he first met
Bakley in May 2000 when she was
seeking to establish Blake as the
father. However, when the child
was born a month later, Bakley
named the girl Christian Shannon
Jtando. Bakley had alleged at
-various times that Christian
jjlrando, son of the late actor
Marlon Brando, was the girl’s
Either.
In October, when the baby was
5 months old, Goldstein said,
Bakley came to him with a copy of a
child custody agreement drawn up
for Blake. It provided she would be
allowed to see her baby only during
visits overseen by a court-approved
monitor, and included provisions to
keep her from allowing her family
“or convicted felons” from being on
Blake’s property.
COMING
UP@USC
TODAY
FLASHLIGHT ONLINE
WORKSHOP: 2-3:30 p.m. Computer
Services 321
THURSDAY
"INQUIRY EXPO: HOW TO
SUCCESSFULLY INCORPORATE
ACTION, RESEARCH, AND INQUIRY
BASED INSTRUCTION": 3:30 - 7
p.m. Koger Center
“WHAT’S IN YOUR IPOD? DISC
DRIVE NANOTECHNOLOGY”: , 3:45
p.m. Jones Physical Science Center
409
2 AUTHORS, BOOK SIGNING,
RARE PUNT SALE: 7-9:30 p.m.
Riverbanks Zoo and Gardens
WUSC NEW DJ INTEREST
MEETING: 8 p.m. Russell House
322/326
FRIDAY
SPRING 2005 SEMINAR
SERIES, “CHEMICAL APPROACHES
TO STUDYING PROTEIN TYROSINE
PHOSPHATASES": 3:45 p.m. Jones
Physical Science Center 006
STUDENT ORGANIZATION
BUDGETS DUE: noon, Russell House
227
LATE NIGHT CAROLINA: 10 p.m.
Russell House second-floor lobby
SATURDAY
OFF THE STAGE & ONTO THE
WALL: THE EVOLUTION OF A
BALLET: Through March 19,
McKissick Museum, 8:30 a.m.-5
p.m. Monday through Friday, 11
a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday
USC BRIEFS
McKissick offers
printmaking class
Students are invited to the
McKissick Museum on Tuesdays
and Thursdays through March 17
between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. to
create their own works of art.
Students can make a simple print
in 10 minutes, regardless of skill
or knowledge level. The
opportunity is offered in
conjunction with the exhibition
“Off the Stage & Onto the Wall:
The Evolution of a Ballet.” The ■ I
exhibition features a suite of
screen prints produced by the \
USC art students under the
direction of faculty members
Mary Robinson and Gene Speer.
Opera to perform
‘Merry Wives’
Opera at USC will perform
Otto Nicolai’s comedic adaptation \
of Shakespeare’s “The Merry Wives
of Windsor” Feb. 4 and 6.
Curtain times are 7:30 p.m.
Friday and 3 p.m. Sunday at
Keenan Theatre on Pinebelt Road
in Columbia. Student tickets are $5.
The Gamecock
needs reporters
Students interested in writing
for News or The Mix are invited to •
contact Jon Turner at
gamecocknews@gwm.sc.edu or
Jennifer Freeman at
gamecockfeatures@gwm.sc.edu..
POLICE REPORT
:ach number on
he map stands
or a crime
:orresponding
vith numbered
Jescriptions in
he list below.
DAY CRIMES
6a.m.-6p.m.)
□ Violent
9 Nonviolent
MIGHT CRIMES
'6 p.m.-6 a.m.)
■ Violent
0 Nonviolent
CRIMES AT
UNKNOWN
HOURS
□ Violent
9 Nonviolent
THURSDAY, JAN. 20
©Malicious Injury to Real Property,
1405 Wheat, Bates West/USC
Housing Shop
An unknown person lobbed a
frozen water bottle from one of the
building’s upper floors. The projectile
hit a USC Housing car parked outside
causing an estimated $500 in damage.
Reporting Officer: J.M.H.
Harrelson.
SATURDAY JAN. 22
©Malicious Injury to Real Property,
1621 College St., Nursing
Officer J. Alexander responded
when an unknown person broke out
the front glass panel of a vending
machine using a “medium”-length
piece of wood. No inventory appeared
missing and the currency panel was
damaged but unopened.
©Malicious Injury to Real Property,
w 2 Greene St., Law School
Canteen
The same occurrence as above 1
Snorted by officer C. Taylor. I
Malicious Injury to Real Property, i
315 Main St., Swearingen Canteen i
A vending machine was found with 1
t^ glass shattered. The amount taken
remains unknown pending an !
inventory. Seventy-five dollars was
relieved from the currency panel,
tlfficer A. Mitchell found a metal pipe
at the scene.
©Malicious Injury to Real Property,
Petit Larceny, 817 Henderson St.,
Gambrell Canteen
On a routine patrol, officer C.
Taylor found a vending machine
sRowing damage to the left side and
forced entry. Between $75 and $100
•W been removed. No other damage
^■5 noted.
SUNDAY, JAN. 23
j) Grand Larceny of a Motor Vehicle,
loliseum Lot 1, Blossom Street
An unknown person by unknown
neans stole a secured 1981 Oldsmobile
rom student parking. The two-door
Dutlass had primer-gray paint and 20
nch chrome spinner rims. Evidence of
breed entry was found at the scene.
Reporting Officer: C Knoche.
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