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- Seven Questions with Bob Weir
- November 2, 2000
- By Michael Newman It’s well documented that the storied, thirty-year run of The Grateful Dead as a rock band came to an abrupt end with the death of Jerry Garcia in 1995. As a far reaching artistic and business enterprise the history of the Grateful Dead continues to be written
- Mir to be visible early Thursday evening in Lawrence
- November 2, 2000
- A local astronomer says he’ll be watching the Mir Space Station pass over Lawrence early Thursday evening.
- Fight back! Don’t buy PlayStation2
- November 2, 2000
- By Mike Antonucci/Knight Ridder Newspapers Don’t buy a PlayStation2. Every now and then, consumers get an exquisite opportunity to fight back against being taken for granted. And the launch of the PlayStation2 video-game console from Sony Corp. is exactly that.
- Dave Barry won’t stand for it
- November 2, 2000
- By Ron Berthel The photo on the dust jacket of “Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down” (Crown, 229 pages, $23) belies the book’s title.
- The language of Lingo
- Writer pens ‘new age’ science fantasy story
- November 2, 2000
- By Mitchell J. Near A Lawrence writer is putting a new twist on science fiction writing by using the genre to promote his ideas for solving societal woes.
- ‘Cat’ opens at Baker
- Teacher joins cast of student production
- November 2, 2000
- By Mitchell J. Near “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” certainly lives up to its name, as characters called Big Daddy, Maggie the Cat and Brick rage against one another and against society during the course of a sultry summer day and stormy night.
- The song remains insane
- The 11th Annual Bad Film Festival gets musical
- November 2, 2000
- By Dan Lybarger After decades of derision and obscurity, the big screen musical is definitely having a comeback. “Dancer in the Dark” was the big winner at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Director Baz Luhrmann’s “Moulin Rouge” is scheduled for release this spring, and even action film master John Woo has indicated his desire to make a tunefest.
- CD REVIEWS
- November 2, 2000
- By Geoff Harkness The Wallfloers - Breach, Limp Bizkit - Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water
- Healing with arts
- Woolery’s retablos will be featured Friday
- November 2, 2000
- By Jan Biles Artist Karen Woolery tries to bring some aspect of healing to her works. A nurse who recently moved with her family from New Mexico to Lawrence, Woolery creates retablos that typically feature saints and other religious themes.
- A Conversation with Bob Weir
- No grass growing under former Grateful Dead member’s feet
- November 2, 2000
- By Michael Newman It’s well documented that the storied, thirty-year run of The Grateful Dead as a rock band came to an abrupt end with the death of Jerry Garcia in 1995. As a far reaching artistic and business enterprise the history of the Grateful Dead continues to be written. Founding member Bob Weir certainly hasn’t let any grass grow under his feet. He’s been involved in multiple projects in the years since the Dead played their last show and last respects to Garcia.
- Mr. Smith goes to chat
- When Elliott Smith sits for an interview, it’s never an easy process
- November 2, 2000
- By Geoff Harkness Elliott Smith has never been the most candid musician on the block. Infamous for his reluctance to analyze himself or his music in the press, the singer-guitarist prefers to let the songs do the talking. And there’s a sonic stockpile waiting to be heard. Rather than focus on highlighting tracks from his fifth solo release, “Figure 8,” Smith is using the current leg of his latest tour to incorporate brand new material and older obscurities into the set-lists.
- House of Blues out of power
- November 2, 2000
- By Geoff Harkness On again, off again, on again, off again. Light switch metaphors come just a little too easy sometimes. After endless negotiations, the proposed Power and Light District in downtown Kansas City, Mo., has been relegated to the back burner once again.
- Seeking Asylum even without amplification
- Austin band speaks loudly even without amplification
- November 2, 2000
- By Geoff Harkness The Asylum Street Spankers just might be America’s greatest unknown band. Though mainstream success has eluded the Austin, Tex.-based outfit to date, the Spankers have quietly paved a way into the hearts and minds of music lovers across the country via a Kerouacian touring schedule that finds the group on the road six months out of every year.
- Planners turn back housing proposal
- November 2, 2000
- By Amber Stuever City and county planners disagreed with a plan to limit the number of unrelated people allowed to live in single-family houses in Lawrence.
- Professional group reports $3,100 theft
- Police investigate possible embezzlement
- November 2, 2000
- Members of a professional organization for social workers say their Lawrence-based treasurer may have embezzled funds.
- County treasurer candidates list donors
- November 2, 2000
- Both Douglas County Treasurer candidates have raised more than $2,000 for their campaigns.
- Libertarian candidate pushes message
- Chances of win in 3rd District congressional race slim, hopeful admits
- November 2, 2000
- By Mike Belt Chris Mina knows he has little chance of winning Kansas’ 3rd District congressional seat. But that isn’t going to stop him from at least getting out the message of the Libertarian Party.
- Bernice Francis
- November 2, 2000
- Bruce Sibley
- November 2, 2000
- County Commission Briefs
- November 2, 2000
- Job performance termed satisfactory Dredging bids sought for Lone Star Lake
- Business rule back-tracking contemplated
- County commission to discuss enforcement Nov. 13
- November 2, 2000
- By Joy Ludwig Douglas County commissioners Wednesday continued second-guessing aspects of their recently approved rural home-based business resolution.
- On the record
- November 2, 2000
- KDOT report details U.S. 59 upgrade need
- Transportation Department releases sections of environmental impact statement
- November 2, 2000
- By Kendrick Blackwood The Kansas Department of Transportation has released the first two parts of a federally required study of KDOT’s planned improvement of U.S. Highway 59. The environmental impact statement will detail the effects of the highway project on the surrounding land and people, said Marty Matthews, KDOT spokesman.
- Dozens killed in Angola plane crash
- November 2, 2000
- A charter plane burst into flames minutes after takeoff, crashing into a remote jungle in a key diamond-mining region, authorities said Wednesday.
- Space crew zooms toward station
- November 2, 2000
- Orbit by orbit, a capsule carrying American astronaut Bill Shepherd and two cosmonauts to the international space station closed in for a 240-mile-high linkup today that the world’s space agencies already are toasting.
- World Briefs
- November 2, 2000
- Yugoslavia re-admitted to General Assembly Officer injured in suspected IRA blast Reservists support soldier’s mutiny
- Halloween brings injuries, deaths
- November 2, 2000
- A 12-year-old boy was killed in a shooting over a Halloween egg fight, several women were burned when their costumes caught fire and several hundred revelers pelted police officers near a college campus.
- Ruling allows grad students to unionize
- November 2, 2000
- Graduate students who work as researchers and teaching assistants in the nation’s private universities have the same rights as other workers to form unions and negotiate working conditions, the National Labor Relations board ruled Wednesday.
- ‘Naked Chef’ specializes in stripped-down cuisine
- November 2, 2000
- Let’s get this out of the way up front: No, “The Naked Chef” is not really naked. In fact, the Naked Chef, a.k.a. Jamie Oliver, says he really hated the title when the producers of his BBC cooking show first came up with it as a way to describe his stripped-down style of cooking, with its emphasis on basic ingredients and straightforward preparation.
- ‘Jackie’ leads November sweeps
- Specials, stars generate colossal figures during ratings wars
- November 2, 2000
- Talk about laying your cards on the table. “Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis,” the CBS miniseries about the former first lady, makes it clear in the title how much territory will be covered.
- Rangers roll past Lightning
- November 2, 2000
- Theoren Fleury scored three times, twice on power plays in New York’s four-goal second period, as the Rangers beat Tampa Bay, 6-1, Wednesday night. Fleury, who scored one power-play goal last season, already has four in 11 games this season.
- Pippen suffers ankle sprain
- November 2, 2000
- Scottie Pippen hobbled around on his sore left ankle Wednesday, adding to the Portland Trail Blazers’ injury problems as they prepared to play 10 of their next 13 games on the road.
- PSU player expecting to walk again
- November 2, 2000
- Penn State defensive back Adam Taliaferro might be able to walk out of a rehabilitation center when discharged in about two months, his doctor said Wednesday.
- Wildcats searching for answers
- November 2, 2000
- For the first time in their collegiate careers, Kansas State football players are coping with something they haven’t had much experience with: losing. Kansas State’s 26-10 loss to Texas A&M marks the first time since 1996 that the Wildcats have lost two regular-season games.
- Bama’s DuBose to step down
- November 2, 2000
- The sight of Alabama players sitting on the turf in disbelief after a humiliating homecoming loss was just too much for one of the proudest programs in college football. Coach Mike DuBose will resign at the end of the season, bringing an end to four turbulent seasons.
- Two Lions, two Firebirds on second unit
- November 2, 2000
- Four city football players were named to the all-Sunflower League second team, selected by league coaches.
- Our Town
- November 2, 2000
- Stone to leave Cubs’ booth
- November 2, 2000
- Chicago Cubs announcer Steve Stone said Wednesday he will retire after 18 years with WGN-TV to help young athletes develop their skills.
- Brooks takes U.S. hockey post
- Coach of 1980 gold medalists will lead 2002 team
- November 2, 2000
- Herb Brooks isn’t looking for a “Miracle on Ice” just a gold medal in Salt Lake City. Brooks, who led the U.S. hockey team to the gold medal against huge odds in 1980, was introduced Wednesday as the head coach of Team USA for the 2002 Winter Games.
- Jayhawks bemoan lack of fans
- November 2, 2000
- By Andrew Hartsock Teams that complain about fan support are destined not to have much. Cognizant of that, Kansas University’s football team carefully chose its words when discussing the crowd turnout estimated generously at a season-low 26,000 fans for Saturday’s six-point loss to Texas Tech at Memorial Stadium.
- KU crushes All-Stars: Kansas 98, California All-Stars 80
- Twelve Jayhawks score in preseason pummeling
- November 2, 2000
- By Gary Bedore Chances are Kansas will have a successful basketball season if six players score in double figures every night. “I do like the fact we have a lot of guys who can put the ball in the basket,” KU coach Roy Williams said approvingly after the Jayhawks’ 98-80 share-the-wealth victory over the California All-Stars on Wednesday night at Allen Fieldhouse.
- Nation Briefs
- November 2, 2000
- Military explosive used on USS Cole Snow storm blankets upper Plains City council to recite Pledge DA’s husband sentenced to prison Recovered memory prompts lawsuit
- Congress quits budget battle
- Lame-duck session will approve spending bills
- November 2, 2000
- Congress on Wednesday laid the groundwork for a rare lame-duck session, postponing major spending and tax cut decisions until after next week’s election. The Senate voted to recess until Nov. 14.
- Cause sought in Taiwan jet crash
- November 2, 2000
- Families of Singapore Airlines crash victims began arriving in Taiwan early Thursday to retrieve their loved ones’ bodies as officials tried to determine what caused the plane to burst into flames during takeoff, killing 79 people at least 23 of them Americans.
- Israeli helicopters launch assault on Palestinian towns
- Report of cease-fire broadcast after violence reaches new level in Mideast
- November 2, 2000
- Israeli helicopters unleashed a major assault Wednesday night on the Palestinian towns of Jericho, Ramallah and Hebron after a day of fierce fighting in which five Palestinians and three Israeli soldiers were killed.
- Moore attacks Kline ads
- 3rd District hopeful counters saying incumbent uses fear
- November 2, 2000
- Democratic incumbent Dennis Moore launched an aggressive attack Wednesday on Republican Phill Kline, accusing him of waging a smear campaign in their race for the 3rd Congressional District seat. Moore sought to answer the suggestion from Republicans that he is soft on crime, despite three terms as Johnson County district attorney. He is especially upset that Republican groups are criticizing his work as a defense attorney.
- Kids count
- November 2, 2000
- It’s a bummer that kids can’t vote, but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be informed.
- Third and long shots
- November 2, 2000
- Al Gore and George W. Bush aren’t the only people running for president this year. Ralph Nader and Patrick Buchanan also are campaigning for the White House. Nader is the Green Party candidate; Buchanan is with the Reform Party.
- Test your sports knowledge
- November 2, 2000
- I think it’s time for a pop quiz to test your sports knowledge. This quiz even has a rule you will like: Cheating is allowed. If you don’t know the answer, no sweat. Look it up. Ask your mom or dad, your neighbor or your sports-crazed uncle.
- A minor contribution
- Teen-agers seem to take more active role in Democrats’ political campaigns
- November 2, 2000
- By Jim Baker If you think Generation Y is disengaged and doesn’t give a hoot about elections, you’re wrong. Lawrence high school students not only avidly follow both regional and national campaigns they volunteer for political candidates, too. They definitely have strong opinions about the main issues and the people running for office.
- Manson spookfest just satisfactory
- November 2, 2000
- By Michael Newman Big things could be expected from Marilyn Manson headlining the Halloween “Freaker’s Ball,” featuring five supporting metal bands at Kansas City International Raceway Tuesday night. The stage was big, the lights were big, the sound was big, yet the ideas were rather mid-sized.
- Hog-tying the knot on Fox’s ‘Surprise Wedding’
- Women desperate for a ring surprise their boyfriends on national television
- November 2, 2000
- The day of the shotgun wedding may be over, but the time of the camcorder surprise may be at hand. The biggest surprise on “Surprise Wedding” (7 p.m., Fox) is that there are men as well as women desperate to conclude a long-term dating relationship with wedding bells.
- Fed finds evidence of slowing economy
- Home sales and construction activity soften, central bank survey says; purchasing index slips
- November 2, 2000
- The U.S. economy grew at a moderate pace last month but many parts of the country reported evidence of slowing activity in such key sectors as retail sales and housing, the Federal Reserve said Wednesday.
- Discount stores to battle on Internet
- November 2, 2000
- When it comes to e-commerce, traditional discounters are no longer waiting idly in the wings. After several false starts, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world’s largest retailer, is making a play to be as much a powerhouse online as it is offline, reopening its renovated Web site this week.
- Farmland reports yearly loss
- Fertilizer woes add to ‘tough’ ag economy
- November 2, 2000
- By Mark Fagan Intermittent shutdowns at Farmland Industries’ Lawrence nitrogen plant helped drain earnings from the agricultural cooperative, which reported a loss Wednesday of $29.25 million for fiscal 2000.
- Firewood sales heat up
- Rising prices for natural gas, propane, help fuel hot market
- November 2, 2000
- By Mark Fagan Rising prices for natural gas and propane are stoking the competitive flames for area firewood merchants. Brian Chisham, who cut 200 cords of hardwood for this season, opened the bidding this year at $140 a cord, up from the $130 he charged a year ago. Last week he bumped the price to $150, because of red-hot demand.
- Principal’s child porn defense calls upon Kansas librarians
- November 2, 2000
- A federal judge is expected to rule this week on whether former principal Jeff Scott should be prosecuted for pictures of nude girls found in his desk at the Plainville grade school.
- Fire guts PSU nature program’s home
- November 2, 2000
- Ashes, soot and the stench of burned feathers and fur linger this week in the room that houses Nature Reach, an educational program at Pittsburg State University. A weekend fire traced to a multi-outlet power strip destroyed tens of thousands of dollars worth of equipment and about one-third of a collection of snakes, mammals, birds and other wildlife, Nature Reach officials said.
- Reparations?
- November 2, 2000
- Voucher facts
- November 2, 2000
- Majority rule?
- November 2, 2000
- Secular schools
- November 2, 2000
- Old Home Town - 25 and 40 years ago today
- November 2, 2000
- Birth rates fall below zero growth
- November 2, 2000
- By Jack Anderson and Douglas Cohn United Feature Syndicate Americans are having fewer and fewer children. The number of U.S. families without minor children in the household has risen steadily since 1960, when only about 43 percent of U.S. families had no minor children. In 1970, 44 percent of families had no minors at home, and 10 years later the figure had risen to 48 percent.
- Electoral College serves purpose
- November 2, 2000
- By George Will Washington Post Writers Group Political hypochondriacs again are urging Americans to fear and be offended by the system of choosing presidents by electoral votes. Criticism of this system recurs whenever a close contest poses the possibility that a candidate might win an electoral vote victory while receiving fewer popular votes than his opponent.
- Law and politics
- November 2, 2000
- Journal-World Editorial A statewide system of appointing judges would benefit courts and everyone who does business in them. The courts are no place for politics. Three Douglas County District Court judges will be listed on the general election ballot next week, but voters will be asked only whether the three should be retained in their appointed jobs.
- Vote-swapping draws rebuke from secretary of state
- November 2, 2000
- Secretary of State Ron Thornburgh said he will take legal action against anyone in Kansas who agrees to swap votes for president in next week’s election. Some Internet sites are urging Ralph Nader supporters in states where the race is close between Democrat Al Gore and Republican George W. Bush to vote for Gore on Tuesday.
- Free State tallies mock ballots
- Youths appear to be as divided as parents on presidential politics
- November 2, 2000
- By Tim Carpenter Erin Harrison is convinced Republican George W. Bush should be the next president. Matt Herbert counters that Democrat Al Gore is ready to step to the next level. Aimee Richardson can stomach neither. In fact, she says George and Al make her want to Ralph, as in hurling her support behind Green Party candidate Ralph Nader. “I don’t see a clear difference between Gore and Bush,” Richardson said.
- Drive to begin for statue funds
- Disagreement on location shouldn’t hurt effort, backer says
- November 2, 2000
- By Kendrick Blackwood Equipped with nonprofit status, promotional material and a mission, the Douglas County Memorial of Honor Foundation is ready to start raising the $250,000 needed to erect a statue in Lawrence.
- ARTS NOTES
- November 2, 2000
- KU misfires on flashy play
- Axtell pays price for missed connections on behind-the-back pass
- November 2, 2000
- Kansas senior Luke Axtell drew some pine-time in the second half after making an unsuccessful behind-the-back pass to teammate Kenny Gregory.
- Briefs
- November 2, 2000
- Capitol Federal earnings up USA Today widens lead over Wall Street Journal Tire problems drive down sales for Ford Covad chief resigns
- Date with the ‘Angels’
- Former music video director tackles new career in ‘Charlie’s Angels’
- November 2, 2000
- By Jon Niccum “We never wanted to make ‘Othello,’” says McG, director of the adventure-comedy flick “Charlie’s Angels.” “We wanted to make a film that didn’t take itself too seriously, that just sort of exploded off the screen and tapped into the pleasure center of your brain.”
- Angels never sleep
- November 2, 2000
- By Jon Niccum I don’t remember much kung fu fighting in the original TV show “Charlie’s Angels.” I don’t remember many elaborate dance sequences or scenes involving the angels leaping out of planes without parachutes. I don’t remember a booming techno soundtrack or bullet-time camera moves. But I also don’t remember the show being very good, either.
- ‘Bagger Vance’ is a double bogey
- Robert Redford’s golfing fable is sanitized and dull
- November 2, 2000
- By Loey Lockerby Finally, a movie for people who think the Golf Channel is too exciting. Robert Redford once again uses a slow-moving sports activity as a metaphor for life, this time adapting Steven Pressfield’s “Bhagavad-Gita”-inspired 1996 novel, about a man’s search for himself on the golf course.
- Agencies at odds over Missouri flows
- November 2, 2000
- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has told its rival agency the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that it wants to delay making any changes in the flow of the Missouri River.
- Killer up for parole, again
- 42-year-old LV Luarks was convicted in 1981 murder
- November 2, 2000
- By Joel Mathis A convicted murderer twice released from prison and twice sent back is once again up for parole. LV Luarks Jr., now 41, was convicted of second-degree murder for the August 1981 death of Terry L. Brown, 25.
- Area Briefs
- November 2, 2000
- Assault hospitalizes Ottawa octogenarians 34-year-old Olathean killed in truck accident Scholarship nominees to be honored at KU Public reception to honor longtime public employee
- Missing boy froze to death
- Toddler walked away from father’s car while dad was gone
- November 2, 2000
- An autopsy found that a 2-year-old boy froze to death after leaving his father’s pickup truck and wandering into the Utah woods by himself, authorities said Wednesday.
- Ship ballast water contamination shown
- November 2, 2000
- Hordes of microorganisms, including viruses and other germs that may harm people or marine life, sail into U.S. ports from abroad every year in the ballast water that keeps ships stable, a study says.
- Haskell men, women to open basketball seasons tonight
- November 2, 2000
- By Chuck Woodling Ready or not, the men’s and women’s basketball programs at Haskell Indian Nations University will embark on the next level starting tonight. When the Indians play host to McPherson College the women at 5:30 p.m. and the men at 7:30 p.m. at Coffin Complex, HINU will be playing a full NAIA schedule for the first time.
- Third-party leaders sound off
- Nader, Buchanan differ on ‘mainstream’ issues
- November 2, 2000
- Third party presidential candidates Ralph Nader and Pat Buchanan have been campaigning nonstop on issues the leading candidates seldom address. For Nader, the Green Party nominee, those issues include corporate government influence and universal health care.
- Husband, wife differ over accepting wedding invitation
- November 2, 2000
- Briefly
- November 2, 2000
- Habitat for Humanity looking to raise funds French photojournalist covering Lawrence elections Yugoslavian leader to speak at KU Police investigate report of rape in Lawrence
- Denise DeLatte
- November 2, 2000
- National Briefs
- November 2, 2000
- Marine base water possibly contaminated Ex-‘Officer Friendly’ pleads to molestation Officer killed by shotgun blast Farrakhan undergoes cancer surgery
- News Briefs
- November 2, 2000
- 500,000,000 blinds recalled Sweepstakes on trial for fraud Blacklisted Hollywood writer dies Appalachian Trail protected
- Phillies, Dodgers name new managers
- Phils tap Bowa, L.A. picks Tracy; Manuel honored for leading White Sox to Central crown
- November 2, 2000
- Jerry Manuel, who led a young Chicago White Sox squad to the best record in the AL, was voted The Associated Press Manager of the Year on Wednesday. Manuel, in just his third year as a major league manager, received 27 votes in nationwide balloting by writers and broadcasters. Dusty Baker, who led the San Francisco Giants to the best record in baseball, was second with 23.
- Shootout over Bush, Gore
- November 2, 2000
- By Sandy Grady Philadelphia Daily News They’re out there stalking the misty woodlands in their orange vests, toting shotguns and trying to make a seductive, rattling sound like a sexed-up gobbler. Forget the World Series or Super Bowl. In these western Pennsylvania hills, those are trifles compared to opening of turkey-hunting season.
- Movie listings
- November 2, 2000
- Nellie Ashworth
- November 2, 2000
- Belva Schwartz
- November 2, 2000
- Newspapers pull Doonesbury
- Comic strip’s character accuses Bush of cocaine abuse
- November 2, 2000
- At least two newspapers pulled Wednesday’s installment of Garry Trudeau’s “Doonesbury” comic strip over a panel in which a character accuses George W. Bush of cocaine abuse. One of those newspapers will also pull today’s edition, an editor said.
- Pierce paces Boston in opener
- November 2, 2000
- Paul Pierce was lucky to be on a basketball court Wednesday. His 28 points, though that was skill. The Celtics forward returned from an offseason stabbing to score 20 of his 28 points in the first half and lead Boston to a 103-83 victory over the Detroit Pistons.
- Collison’s aim: Stay in game
- Kansas sophomore forward hoping to cut down on foul trouble
- November 2, 2000
- By Jason Franchuk A year older and a year wiser, Nick Collison still is learning how to keep his hands from getting him into trouble. Collison, Kansas University’s 6-foot-91/2 sophomore forward, knew coming into this season that to increase his playing time he would have to stay out of foul trouble.
- High school baseball coaches to take over U-16 Legion teams
- Hill, Petry to direct Bandits, Mavericks
- November 2, 2000
- By Robert Sinclair The Lawrence Amateur Baseball Assn. has announced it will hire the city’s two high school coaches to direct its 16-under American Legion teams, the Bandits and Mavericks. The move, which has been in the works for weeks, is expected to pay off for the players, the summer teams and the Lawrence High and Free State High programs.
- KBI investigates regulator
- Commission director on paid leave pending outcome
- November 2, 2000
- By Mark Fagan The top regulator for the state’s real estate industry is on paid leave while being investigated by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation. Sue Baxter, director of the Kansas Real Estate Commission in Topeka, was placed on leave from the $48,100-a-year job Oct. 23, said Jerry Reece, the commission’s chairman. The commission made the decision after the KBI launched its probe.
- Forbes Field gets $35 million economic shot
- Aircraft upgrade project to involve National Guard wing, Raytheon Aerospace and Rockwell Collins
- November 2, 2000
- Civic and business leaders see a $35 million aircraft upgrade project at Forbes Field as an economic shot in the arm. Officials of the U.S. Air Force’s 190th Air Refueling Wing see it as a vote of confidence in the unit’s mission and its future.
- Miami to upend ailing Hokies
- Nebraska heavy favorite over Kansas
- November 2, 2000
- Calvin Williams
- November 2, 2000
- Cota respects decision
- Ex-Tar Heel says Williams made right move by staying at Kansas
- November 2, 2000
- By Robert Sinclair Former University of North Carolina guard Ed Cota wasn’t disappointed to see his alma mater shunned by Kansas University coach Roy Williams during the summer. In fact, just the opposite. “No, not at all,” Cota said of Williams, who considered taking the UNC job before deciding to remain at KU.
- Sideline
- November 2, 2000
- McCarney priority for new AD Ripken, Orioles agree to deal Super Bowls sites decided Huskers halt Jayhawks
- White House celebrates 200 years
- November 2, 2000
- With a salute from fifes and drums and bugles, President Clinton led Wednesday’s celebration of President John Adams’ arrival at the White House exactly two centuries earlier and invoked Adams’ famous prayer for “the best of blessings on this house.”
- Daily Ticker
- November 2, 2000
- Amazon.com extends services to Japan
- Online retailer faces competition with book sellers
- November 2, 2000
- Amazon.com Inc. extended its online empire Wednesday to Japan, one of the world’s most book-loving nations, but razor-thin margins and an already glutted market make the venture a risky one, analysts say.
- Briefcase
- November 2, 2000
- Democrats claim victory on bankruptcy bill Norfolk plans to expand business with new plant WorldCom announces separation plan Dow, Nasdaq drop
- Housing effort expands
- Cohousing movement files for rezoning
- November 2, 2000
- By Kendrick Blackwood A year after their first meeting, supporters of a housing concept termed “cohousing” appear to be building steam in their effort to create an old-fashioned neighborhood in Lawrence. The group has grown to 10 households who have filed for rezoning of the 3.2-acre property they’ve purchased on the southeast corner of 12th and Delaware streets.
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- November 2, 2000
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- November 2, 2000
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- November 2, 2000
- National Briefs
- November 2, 2000
- 20 men, boys implicated in rape Freight train crash is fatal for crew member Weather warnings coming to Internet
- Area Briefs
- November 2, 2000
- Ground to be broken on new fire station Nursery school to have fall festival Saturday
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