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THIS WEEK m USC
TODAY
Men's lacrosse vs.
Davidson College: 7 p.m.
Blatt Field
THURSDAY
Lindsey Tripp junior
viola recital: 7:30 p.m.
School of Music 206
USC band clinic:
through Sunday at the
Roger Center
Rufus
the colored
hull terrier
victorious in
Best in Show
at Westminster
BenlMier
TKEASSCCKTED KFUES
NEW YORK - A
colored bull terrier called
Rufus used his head
Tuesday night to become
America's top dog.
The tan-and-white
mix won Best in Show at
the Westminster Kennel
Club, beating out six
strong contenders and
drawing a rousing cation
from the sellout crowd
Madison Square Garden.
Rufus' selling point?
His head — perfectly
shaped like an egg.
"The classic profile of
a colored bull terrier,"
judge James Reynolds
said
Rufus was the first dog
in his breed to win at the
nation's most prestigious
show. Handler Kathy Kirk
said die was "ready to pass
out" from the pressure,
but her nearly 6-year
old dog that she playfully
calls "Puppyhead" seemed
to take it all in stride.
He stacked in style —
holding his pose for the
judge — and wagged his
tail when he won. Latei,
he'll surely "hucldebuck"
— that's how Kirk
describes how he jumps
up and bangs his behind
into a door.
At a show that drew
2,62 2 entries in 165
breeds and varieties,
Rufus really earned this
victory.
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Walker: Rock Ranger
Ktti Baufiet /THEQUEEOCK
Butch Walker, former singer and guitarist of Marvelous 3, performs Monday night in the
Russell House Ballroom. Carolina Preductions sponsored the event.
State
Doctor pleads guilty
in presmption case
A doctor accused of
writing illegal steroid
prescriptions to football
players and bodybuilders
has agreed to change his
plea to guilty according to
court documents.
Alternative medicine
physician James Shortt will
plead guilty to one count
of conspiracy to distribute
anabolic steroids and hurran
growth hormone, according
to papers filed Monday in
federal court in Columbia
In exchange, prosecutors
will drop 42 similar counts
against the West Columbia
doctor.
Shortt faces up to five
years in prison and a
$250,000 fine, and has been
free on bond since he was
last September.
The indictment didn't
specify who received the
drugs Shortt prescribed.
Nation
Intelligence identifies
Sept. 11 timeline flaw
Pie-Sept 11 intelligence
conducted by a secret
military unit identified
terrorist ringleader
Mohamed Atta 13 different
times^ a congressman said
Tuesiy.
During a Capitol Hill
news conference, Rep. Curt
Weldon, R-Pa., said the
unit — code-named "Able
Danger" — also identified
"a problem" in Yemen two
weeks before the attack on
theUSS Cole.
'It knew the problem
was £ied into the port of
Aden and involved a U.S.
platform, but the ship
commander was not made
aware of it, Weldon said.
Since August, Weldon,
vice chairman of the House
Armed Services Committee,
has pushed Congress and the
Pentagon to investigate the
workings of Able Danger.
World
Christian groups meet
to fix religious issues
PORTO A LE G RE. Brazil —
Leaders and envoys from
across Christianity opened
their most ambitious
gathering in nearly a
decade Tuesday with a
host of troubles on their
agenda — from the faith's
many internal rifts to easing
discord with Islam, even as
it deepens over cartoons
depicting the Prophet
Muhammad.
The World Council
of Churches meeting,
its biggest since 1996,
will seek to clarify new
priorities for a membership
that covers more than 500
million followers: mainline
Protestant denominations,
Anglicans and Orthodox
churches. The Roman
Catholic Church, which
counts more than 1 billion
faithful, is not a full WCC
member.
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CRIME REPORT
SATURDAY, FEB. 11
Lanteny of cell phone,
$:z$ pm.
Russell House,
1400 Greene St.
The victim, 22, said an
unknown person removed
his cell phone from a
table in the food court
Estimated value: $ZOO
Reporting ajfker:
M.J. Winningtov
SUNDAY, FEB. 12
Information,
qsqo pm.
South Quad,
500 Sumter St.
The complainant, 21,
said her ex-boyfriend has
repeatedly called and left
several messages on her
room phone..
Reporting ojfkers-.
W Guyov, J. Widdifield
MONDAY, FEB. 13
Information; Injured
eraployee, 2syop.ro.
719 Devine St.
While sealing a roof,
Jimmie Livingston, 53,
started to slide down the
roof. Brian Jeffcoat; 39,
tried to stop him. Both
men fell to the ground.
They were transported ^
to the emergency room
of Richland Memorial.
Reporting officer. M.J.
Winnington
Laroeny of hood
orroment, 12:15 a,yn'
Bull Street Parking
Garage, dll Bull St
The complainant, 19,
said unknown subjects)
removed, without
permission, a hood
ornament silver in color
from a black, S-type
Jaguar. j
Eitrmatedvake: $2$0 *
Reporting offuexr:
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Butch Walkers plays
power pop for fans
at Russell House
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If Butch Walker is
anything, he is expressive.
Whlker rocked out the
Russell House Ballroom
on Monday.
Gyrating, flailing,
throwing guitars and
falling, he nearly gave
himself whiplash.
"I'm in love with hirt^"
said 20-year-old Columbia
native Brittany Greer.
Mark Philipp, a third
year computer science
student; aid Walker always
puts on a good show. "I
didn't think he'd break the
ice with these people, but
he did," Philipp said
It took a series of
violent threats, butWhlker
managed to get his heavily
pierced population of
concert-goers to dance.
"Can I get a hell yeah!,'"
sere amed Walker into the
mic as students tore up the
dance floor.
After jumping from the
stage Id the floor, Whlker
pounded out a guitar solo.
'"This is my third show,"
Philipp said. "He always
gets down with people and
plays a solo. But that uas
the first time I've seen him
make them dance."
Walker, a Southern boy
got his start in a grunge ^
band. He was signed and
later dumped by a major
label. Several years passed
before Wblker reinvented
himself as a singer, song
writer and producer.
Walker has had a strong
fan following throughout
his career. Philipp said
he first heard Walker in
1995.
"A friend let me listen
to a Marvelous 3 CD," he
said. "Even after the band
broke up and he went
single, I still followed
him." 4
William Hodge, a
second-year law student,
said he's been a fan for
years.
"I knew him when he
was the Marvelous 3,
when I was 17 or 16,"
Hodge said. "He came
and played at Magnolia's
in Spartanburg. We always
went and saw him there.
I've seen him almost every
time he's been in South
Carolina."
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