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Court voids prenup of mail-order bride CHARLESTON — The state Court of Appeals has ruled unenforceable a prenuptial agreement signed by a Ukrainian mail-order bride who married a South Carolina man who has run for governor. The court sided Monday with Nataliya Bilousova, who was married to William Holler, a York businessman who twice during the 1990s launched Democratic gubernatorial bids. NATION Bolton’s supporters push for U.N. seat WASHINGTON — Majority Republicans pushed for swift confirmation of sharp-tongued John Bolton as U.N. ambassador Tuesday in a rancorous committee session. The Senate’s top Democrat raised the possibility of trying to block the nomination when it reaches the full Senate. Bolton got a crucial boost when a pivotal Republican senator who had expressed reservations said he would support the nomination reluctantly. Aij- Force addresses religious harassment AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. — Less than two years after it was plunged into a rape scandal, the US Air Force Academy is scrambling to address complaints that evangelical Christians wield so much influence at the school that religious harassment has become pervasive. The 4,300-student school recently started requiring staff members and cadets to take a 50 minute religious-tolerance class. WORLD Woman lit candles before fatal Paris fire PARIS — A night watchman’s girlfriend has acknowledged that she could have accidentally started a deadly Paris hotel fire last week after lighting candles for a tryst in the breakfast room, authorities said Tuesday, while the death toll from the blaze rose to 24. The woman told criminal investigators that she “could be” at the origin of the fire that started shortly after 2 a.m. Friday in the second-floor breakfast room of the overcrowded budget hotel, police and the prosecutor’s office said. Japanese shrine visit stirs Chinese anger TOKYO — Inflaming already tense relations with China, Japanese lawmakers said Tuesday they plan to visit a shrine that critics say glorifies their country’s militarist past, and a Tokyo court ruled against Chinese victims of Japanese wartime atrocities. Anti-Japanese demonstrations involving tens of thousands of sometimes-violent protesters have erupted in several Chinese cities in recent weeks over a government approved Japanese textbook that critics say whitewashes the country’s militaristic atrocities. BRIEFS FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Rapper unveils exclusive timepiece NEW YORK — Rapper Jay-Z and watchmaker Audemars Piguet announced Tuesday the creation of a limited-edition timepiece. A series of 100 watches will retail for between $23,500 and $69,500. “I chose to partner with Audemars Piguet based on the quality and integrity of the brand,” Jay-Z said in a statement. “It’s a perfect marriage.” The 35-year-old rap mogul has lately been a trendsetter of high style. On the song “What More Can I Say,” he raps, “I don’t wear jerseys, I’m 30-plus. Give me a crisp pair of jeans ... The watches were co GREGORY BULL/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Jay-Z holds a limited edition Audemars Piguet watch made to commemorate his ten years in the music industry Tuesday. designed by Jay-Z, whose real name is Shawn Carter. They are to commemorate his 10 th anniversary in the music industry, with a portion of the proceeds to benefit the Shawn Carter Scholarship Fund. TV co-stars marry in seaside service SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Sophia Bush and Chad Michael Murray, co-stars of the TV series “One Tree Hill,” have tied the knot. They were married Saturday in a seaside ceremony at the Hotel Casa Del Mar in Santa Monica, Bush’s publicist, Sarah Fuller, said Monday. Bush, 22, and Murray, 23, met in 2003 while filming the WB series. Bush plays feisty cheerleader Brooke Davis and Murray plays Lucas Scott, a brooding intellectual struggling to find peace. They became engaged last year. Murray has said he proposed while they were in A HE T “The only people who carry canes are people who should be in shows.” Wednesday, April 20,2005 B0BBV G,ST _// 1 / EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES PROGRAMS EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT ON SIGNS BANNING OBJECTS SUCH __ AS CANES IN THE RUSSELL HOUSE t I HOARD OF THE RINGS •NICK ESARES/THE GAMECOCK Class rings are ready to be passed out Tuesday at the USC ring ceremony on the Horseshoe. I Australia, where he was finishing work on the “House of Wax” movie. “I had a bunch of roses and I put lights down on a tennis court that spelled something out for her,” he said at the time, declining to say what the message read. ‘Pains’ star Thicke to tie knot again LOS ANGELES — “Growing Pains” father Alan Thicke is headed to the altar again. Thicke, 58, will wed his longtime girlfriend, Tanya Callau, in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, on May 7, his publicist said Monday. It will be the third marriage for Thicke, who played TV dad Jason Seaver on ABC’s “Growing Pains,” which ran from 1985 to 1992. “I’ll be on my third honeymoon, so I’m more of an authority than I care to be,” Thicke joked in a statement. Thicke had a cameo in the 2004 film “Childstar” and is producing and writing a television pilot called “Second Honeymoon.” Company honors NASA engineers HOUSTON — A group of engineers was honored Tuesday for concocting a plan using plastic bags, cardboard and duct tape to save Apollo 13’s astronauts after their spacecraft was crippled by an explosion 35 years ago. Astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert would have died without the engineers’ quick thinking, said John Schneiter, president of GlobalSpec, the New York company that presented the award. Sunday marked the 35th anniversary of the spacecraft’s return to Earth after their aborted moon mission. It was crippled by the explosion of an overheated oxygen tank, raising concerns that the carbon dioxide the astronauts expelled from their lungs as they breathed would eventually kill them. Two of Apollo’s three fuel cells, a primary source of power, also were lost. Engineers advising the astronauts from the ground figured out a way to provide them oxygen for the trip home. “It was clearly a show stopper in this flight,” Haise said Tuesday. “I’m very appreciative and thankful because otherwise, I wouldn’t be here with you today.” Engineers who solved the problem, astronauts from the Apollo program and others gathered for Tuesday’s ceremony at Space Center Houston, an educational complex next to the Johnson Space Center. The awards presentation took place in a theater that includes the podium from which President John F. Kennedy urged the nation in 1962 to send men to the Moon. About 56 hours into the voyage, Swigert had made the famous call to mission control: I “Houston, we’ve had a problem.” Engineers on the ground had to figure out a solution, and then tell the astronauts how to make the fix. “They had to make it right the first time,” Schneiter said. “It had to work, and son of a gun, it did.” Ed Smylie, who oversaw NASA’s crew systems division in 1970 and is now an aerospace consultant, was glad the engineering side of the mission was being recognized. “The guys in the front room are the ones who are in the front lines and get a lot of attention,” he said. “Those of us who are in the back room don’t get a lot of attention.” Smylie said he was at home watching television when he learned there was a problem aboard Apollo 13. Within minutes, he was at the space center trying to come up with a solution. The astronauts had moved to the lunar module from the command module to conserve power for the emergency return to Earth. They had lithium hydroxide canisters to cleanse their spacecraft of carbon dioxide, but some of the backup square canisters were not compatible with the round openings in the lunar module. “This was equivalent to being on a sinking ship,” Schneiter said. “In this case, you are on a ship that was mortally wounded, and you were simply not going to be able to breathe in a couple of days.” COMING UP@USC TODAY Coramae L. Phillips IV | Graduate Cello Recital: 6 p.m. School of Music 206. USC Jazz Combos: 7:30 p.m. School of Music 206. THURSDAY Sarah Maureen Jackson Junior Cello Recital: 5 p.m. School of Music 206. USC Left Bank Big Band: 7:30 p.m. School of Music • 206. FRIDAY Online Teaching Interest Group: noon, Computer Services 312. “Cheating with Technology and How to Stop | It”: 1:30 p.m. Computer Services 320. Julie Ann Neuberger Graduate Piano Recital: 4:30 p.m. School of Music 206. SATURDAY Lomazov Piano Studio Recital: 7:30 p.m. School of Music 206. ~ I ' use BRIEFS Rwandan genocide * topic of screening ▼ USC’s African Studies Program will show “Hotel Rwanda” at 7 p.m. Thursday in Calicott Oil as part of an event to mark the 11th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide. The event will feature a short presentation by Bill Spink, a third-year * international studies student who lived in Rwanda for three years. For more information, contact African Studies Coordinator Ron Atkinson at 777-6619. Book association | to hold conference USC will play host to the first conference of the Southeast Association of Book Arts May 19-21. Some of the nation’s most celebrated book artists will be on hand 5:30-7:30 p.m. May 21 at McMaster Gallery. The free event will feature an exhibit of book arts. Many of the books will be for sale, and refreshments will be served. McKissick Museum will play host to a reception at 5:30 p.m. Thursday featuring S.C. Honors College students’ work from this semester’s “The Art of the Book” class. * ^ 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 H Violent © Nonviolent SATURDAY, APRIL 16 ©Disorderly Conduct/Trespass After Notice Bates West, 1405 Whaley St. Reporting officers D. Adams and C. Taylor responded because John Williams refused to sign in at the desk. The officers took Williams down to the lobby to sign in, but Williams began causing a disturbance directed toward Taylor. Adams took Williams outside and told him to leave the property or he would be arrested. Taylor again informed Williams of his trespass notice and walked him to his car. As the officers returned to their vehicles, Adams observed Williams across the parking lot engaged in a fight with the RA who made the complaint. ©Theft from Coin-Operated Machine Nursing Building, 1621 College St. : While doing property checks, reporting officer A. Mitchell observed someone had broken a vending machine’s front window with a rock. Q Harassment Bates West, 1405 Whaley St. The victim said she has received harassing remarks from John Williams during the last several months. Williams called the victim on a cell phone from outside her dorm. The victim said she is afraid of Williams and his friends. Williams was arrested on the same day for disorderly conduct and trespass after notice in an unrelated incident. Reporting officer: D. Adams. SUNDAY, APRIL 17 ®Theft from Coin-Operated Machine Business Administration Building, 1705 College St. Someone used a pencil ] sharpener to break out the front glass on a vending machine and removed $50-$70 in small bills and coins. Reporting officer: J. Widdifield. ■ Armed Robbery Computer Services Garage, 501 Sumter St. A subject described as a black male, about 21, ran up to the / victims, pulled out a black (• revolver and demanded they give '• him everything they had. The * subject got into an older-model red vehicle, drove south on ! Sumter Street and made a right ** turn onto Whaley Street. The ’> subject took a wallet (estimated value: $5), a cell phone (estimated value: $160), one Bank of America credit card and $120 cash. Reporting officer: S. Alexander. I Bf Cultural Fact: Q I * Paid for by /71/D .uiiiuaj qiqSiu »qi Ul uipdgppppAui oqM A/doud jtpqi svm Brought to you py 'ys IQQUDBB Student Activity Fee y hi mump qiuy pun jjqjjg p>ttm jo wqsnn d n joopq y