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STATE
Monorail company
scales back S.C. plans
CHARLESTON — Futrex Inc. and
the Charleston Area Regional
Transportation Authority are
asking the federal government for
another chance to develop a
monorail system.
A $35 million prototype Futrex
had proposed building between
Charleston International Airport
and the North Charleston
Convention Center never was
started. Instead of employing the
anticipated 1,000 people at the
former Navy Base, Futrex employs
two.
Three sites proposed
for veteran cemetery
SPARTANBURG — Federal
officials have narrowed their choice
to three sites for a new veterans
cemetery in South Carolina.
The state’s newest national
cemetery will be built on sites in
Union or Newberry counties or on
Fort Jackson in Richland County,
according to the U.S. Department
of Veterans Affairs.
The agency is currently
performing an environmental
impact study on all three sites.
NATION
Court-martial begins
for Navy SEAL today
SAN DIEGO — The court-martial
of a Navy SEAL lieutenant accused
of abusing a prisoner in Iraq is a
case full of secrets—even the
defendant’s name is classified.
The SEAL is accused of
punching an Iraqi detainee in the
arm and allowing his men to abuse
the prisoner, who later died during
CIA interrogation at Baghdad’s
Abu Ghraib prison.
He faces a trial set to begin
Monday on charges of assault,
dereliction of duty and conduct
unbecoming of an officer.
Lawmakers rush vote
to keep Schiavo alive
WASHINGTON — The Senate
passed a bill that could prolong
Terri Schiavo’s life while a federal
court considers her case.
House Republicans, stymied by
Democrats, scrambled to bring
enough lawmakers back to the
Capitol for an emergency vote
early Monday.
GOP leaders planned a House
vote just past midnight, hours after
tHe Senate approved the bill by
voice vote. President Bush rushed
back from Texas for a chance to
sign the measure.
WORLD
13 wounded in attack
on American convoy
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq and
Jordan engaged in a tit-for-tat
withdrawal of ambassadors Sunday
in a growing dispute over Shiite
Muslim claims that Jordan is
failing to block terrorists from
entering Iraq, while U.S. forces
killed 24 insurgents in a clash
south of Baghdad.
An American convoy was
traveling through the Salman Pak
area, 20 miles southeast of
Baghdad, when it was attacked,
U.S. officials said. Six soldiers and
seven militants were wounded.
Quakes, landslides
shake Japanese isles
FUKUOKA, Japan — A powerful
earthquake jolted southern
Japanese islands on Sunday, killing
an elderly woman, injuring 400
people and triggering landslides.
In a region still jittery from the
devastating Indian Ocean quake
and tsunami, authorities evacuated
half the residents of a tiny island
near the epicenter and warned of a
tsunami but later canceled the
alert.
BRIEFS FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
‘Ring T hits
box office,
reigns over
competition
LOS ANGELES — Naomi Watts
ran rings around the
competition as her horror
sequel “The Ring 2” took in
$36 million to debut as the top
weekend movie.
The movie’s take was more
than double the $15 million
that the original surprise horror
hit grossed at its 2002 opening.
“Robots,” the previous
weekend’s No. 1 movie, slipped
to second place with $21.8
million, lifting its 10-day total
to $66.9 million, according to
studio estimates Sunday.
Disney’s family hit “The
Pacifier” held up well in third
place with $12.5 million,
pushing its three-week total to
$72.3 million.
But with those two child
friendly flicks remaining strong
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rachel Keller (Naomi Watts)
tries to protect her son Aidan
(David Dorfman) from the
vengeful Samara in
Dreamworks’ new film, “The
Ring Two."
draws, Disney’s new family
movie “Ice Princess” had a
tough time finding a toehold.
“Ice Princess,” starring Michelle
Trachtenberg as a science geek
who abandons the physics
classroom to pursue a new
dream as a figure skater,
premiered at No. 4 with $7
million.
Trailers for “Ice Princess”
ran before “The Pacifier,” so
audiences who caught that
movie may be encouraged to
see “Ice Princess” during spring
break or over the Easter
holiday, said Chuck Viane,
Disney head of distribution.
“It’s a double-edged sword.
It helps you and it hurts you a
little,” Viane said.
For thrill seekers, “The Ring
2,” offers Watts returning to
her role as a journalist and
single mom trying to save
herself and her son from the
curse of a killer videotape,
whose viewers die horrible
deaths within a week.
The original, based on a
Japanese hit, became a word-of
mouth surprise success, holding
strong as it steadily climbed to a
$129 million total domestic
gross. The sequel is expected to
mirror the pattern of other
horror hits, which open big,
but take steep drops.
“Sequels just don’t play the
same way. You have to expect a
good drop,” said Jim Tharp,
head of distribution for
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DreamWorks, which released
both “Ring” flicks. “Obviously,
we would hope to get that
$100 million club, but we
don’t do any of those
projections this early in the
game.”
Woody Allen's “Melinda and
Melinda” which stars Radha
Mitchell in dual roles in a
comic and tragic retelling of
the same story opened strongly
with $74,048 on three screens
at one New York City theater.
The film, which co-stars Will
Ferrell, Chloe Sevigny and
Amanda Peet, gradually expands
into nationwide release
through April 8.
X-rated magazines
enter Jackson trial
SANTA MARIA, Calif. —
Michael Jackson’s child
molestation trial has started to
look like an X-rated show,
complete with lurid magazine
covers of topless women
projected on a large screen in
the courtroom.
The prosecution intended
from_ the outset to haul
Jackson’s reading materials
before jurors, implying that he
used the magazines to arouse
young boys.
But Jackson is on trial for
allegedly molesting a teenage
boy, not for his taste in
magazines.
“They want the jury to get
the sense of Michael Jackson as
a pervert who doesn’t live by
the rules and is obsessed with
sex,” said Laurie Levenson, a
former prosecutor and
professor at Loyola University
Law School. “But this could
backfire.”
Jackson’s lawyer, Thomas
Mesereau Jr., might cast it as a
desperate ploy to distract from
sometimes-contradictory
testimony by the accuser,
Levenson said. And jurors
might question why a battalion
of deputies had to scour
Jackson’s enormous library for
books that his accuser might
never have seen.
The exhibits that have been
splashed on the screen in
recent days include
commercially available
magazines such as “Barely
Legal” and “Penthouse.”
The boy and his brother
said they saw this type of
magazine when they were in
Jackson’s bedroom. In one
case, they said, they found the
publications on their own
while poking through
Jackson’s belongings.
Now, the prosecution is
having a hard time showing
that Jackson and the boy
handled the magazine together
an important premise of the
case.
(Jn rriday, the defense
noted that only one magazine
submitted in court has a single
fingerprint each from Jackson
and his accuser. And that
magazine was shown to the boy
on the witness stand during
grand jury hearings and was
not tested for prints until after
the grand jury returned an
indictment.
Prosecutors insist the boy
did not put his fingerprint on
it at the grand jury. But fans of
the television show “CSI” and
there are some on the jury
might wonder why the tests
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were not done earlier.
Meanwhile, the pile of smut
grows larger.
One by one, sheriff’s
deputies who raided Jackson’s
estate in November 2003 have
paraded into court, each
identifying some item they
found a magazine, a videotape,
a DVD, an art book and
describing them as being found
on Jackson’s bedroom floor, at
the edge of his Jacuzzi tub, or
in his office where some
magazines were hidden in
cabinets or stored in boxes.
Some legal experts question
whether the focus on Jackson’s
magazines can bolster the
narrative the prosecution had
been telling that the boy, a
young cancer survivor, sought
the company of the pop star he
idolized, only to have that trust
shattered by a pedophile.
it sounds UKe a distraction,
but as a trial strategy you can’t
keep the jury distracted
forever,” said Los Angeles
attorney Steve Cron, who has
tried molestation cases. “It may
be that stronger points of
(District Attorney Tom)
Sneddon’s case are yet to come,
but it’s always hard to overcome
a weak accuser.”
During grueling cross
examination by Mesereau, the
now 15-year-old boy and his
brother said they found a
briefcase full of sexually
oriented magazines while
poking around Jackson’s
bedroom.
They also said the singer
masturbated the boy at least
twice, maybe four or five times,
before the family left
Neverland.
COMING
UP@USC
TODAY
Marc A. Holton Senior
Saxophone Recital: 6 p.m.
School of Music 206.
Euphonium/Tuba Recital: 7:30
p.m. School of Music 206.
TUESDAY
Graduate Vocal Ensemble: 6
p.m. School of Music 206.
USC Symphony Orchestra: 7:30
p.m. Koger Center
WEDNESDAY
Craig N. Buying Clarinet
Recital: 4:30 p.m. School of
Music 206
Former defense secretary
William S. Cohen will discuss
America's Role in a Global Society: >
8 p.m. Koger Center
THURSDAY
The Charles W. Knowlton
Lecture will feature Professor G.
Edward White of the University
of Virginia : 3 p.m. Law
Center
FRIDAY
Alan Michael Rudell Graduate
Piano Recital: 7:30 p.m. School
of Music 206
USC BRIEFS <
Alumni group calls
backers to capital
The Carolina Alumni
Association invites all USC
alumni, faculty and staff
members and friends to
“Carolina Day at the State
House 2005” Wednesday at
the Capital City Club and the
S.C. State House. Registration
begins at 9:30 a.m., advocate
training will take place at 10
a.m. and State House visits
will begin at 10:30 a.m. USC
President Andrew Sorensen
will speak at lunch at noon.
The event is free. Register at
http://www.caroIinaalumni.or
g/advocacy/.
Professor emeritus
to give WWn talk
The African-American
Studies Program will feature
John Hope Franklin in the
Eighth Annual Robert Smalls
Lecture.
The lecture topic is “Days
of Infamy: Personal
Reflections on World War II,”
and will take place 7 p.m.
Thursday in the Belk
Auditorium of the Moore
School of Business. Franklin is
the James B. Duke Professor
Emeritus of History, and for
seven years was a legal history
professor at the Duke
University School of Law. ^
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
MARCH 17
O Jones Physical Science Center,
Room 706,712 Main St.
Flood Damage, Information
Reporting officer T. Brewster
responded to the incident location
in reference to flood damage. The
mechanical room above room 706
was leaking where asbestos is
present. Environmental services
responded and shut off the water
supply.
#Bates House, Room 4096, 1423
Whaley St.
Disorderly Conduct/ Minor in
Possession of Beer
Reporting Officers R.B. Baker
and K. Adams responded to a
call of a party with loud noise in
room 4096. When the officers
arrived on the scene, the dorm
room door opened and the
officers observed several subjects
in possession of beer. The
officers asked the subjects for
identification. The first subject,
Joseph Slye, then started using
profanity toward the officers.
He smelled strongly-of alcohol
and appeared unsteady.
Slye was arrested for
disorderly conduct and minor in
possession of beer.
A second subject, James
Inyangetor, had beer in a book
bag. He admitted that the beer
was his and that he was a minor.
^ Coliseum Parking Lot 1, 900
Blossom St.
Indecent Exposure
Reporting Officer C. Knoche
responded to a call of indecent
exposure.
Upon arrival the officer made
contact with the subject, Steven
Golden, who was driving out of
the parking lot. A traffic stop was
initiated, and Golden pulled into
the Coliseum parking lot 2.
©Bomb Threat
Coliseum, 1000 Blossom St.
Reporting Officers J.M.
Simmons and L.J. Welch were
dispatched in reference to a
possible bomb threat.
©Gambreil Hall, 817 Henderson St.
Assistance Rendered
Reporting Officer J.M.
Simmons responded to
Gambreil Hall and made contact
with the victim, who had a cut
on the left side of his face and
appeared extremely disoriented.
First Responders and Richland
County EMS responded to the
scene.
The victim said that he lost J
the following items: a USC ID, a ®
VISA debit card, a Bank of
America VISA credit card and a
Verizon cell phone. The victim
said he could not remember
what happened to the items due
to his extreme intoxication the
night before.
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