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- The ‘real’ Lemony Snicket reveals dark tales
- December 24, 2004
- Lemony Snicket is a real person … more or less. As anyone who has read his celebrated tales will deduce, the author-narrator is a wizard with language and uses this skill to relay his obsession with dark, twisted themes.
- ‘Life Aquatic’ nearly sunk by hipster attitude
- December 24, 2004
- I picture Wes Anderson when he was a kid getting a Rubik’s Cube for Christmas. He’d twist it into all sorts of colorful patterns, unique in their design, and he’d snicker at his own cleverness. He’d show a few of his friends, and maybe they’d laugh, too.
- Virginia survives Loyola scare
- December 24, 2004
- Virginia’s standouts weren’t around, so sophomore J.R. Reynolds stepped up in overtime.
- Next ‘Apprentice’ will pit street vs. book smarts
- December 24, 2004
- Move over, Mosaic. Out of the way, Apex. Here come Magna and Networth, the latest squads to do Donald Trump’s bidding on the third go-round of NBC’s “The Apprentice.”
- People
- December 24, 2004
- ¢ Stiller shocked by Streisand’s role as ‘Fockers’ mom ¢ Murray stays confident in Speedo swimwear ¢ Penn and Teller make pitch for holiday blood donations ¢ Birthday: Ryan Seacrest
- Journal makes prof’s fishy find official
- December 24, 2004
- An Emporia State University professor has discovered a new species of catfish — a find made official when it was published in the December issue of a scientific journal.
- Big Priority
- Jayhawk athletes regularly undergo surprise drug tests
- December 24, 2004
- The phone call comes at a cruel time for a college student. Sometimes it comes before the sun while the Kansas University athlete is asleep, his or her body trying to shake off the previous day’s wretched combination of classes, weight training, practice and studying. The woman on the other end leaves rigid instructions. You’re taking a drug test today. Be here in the next two hours. No exceptions.
- Calendar
- December 24, 2004
- Kansas high school basketball scores from Dec. 23
- December 24, 2004
- Horoscopes
- December 24, 2004
- Blazers excited by first bowl trip
- Hawaii making third straight appearance, but UAB says novelty works in its favor
- December 24, 2004
- Alabama-Birmingham is making its first postseason appearance. Hawaii is playing in its third straight hometown bowl game. The Blazers say that gives them an edge in today’s Hawaii Bowl.
- Photo: Dodger Drew
- December 24, 2004
- Luna’s orbit about to end
- December 24, 2004
- For the last 12 years, the New York City band Luna has been one of indie rock’s most reliable institutions, recording seven solid albums of sophisticated dream-pop while remaining a strong live act.
- Local briefs
- December 24, 2004
- ¢ Police talk to student who sent death threat ¢ Guardsmen who enlist eligible for bonus ¢ KU student cited for window peeping ¢ Tree pick-up scheduled ¢ County confirms six cases of whooping cough ¢ Scientists to study state’s water levels
- Moore still feeling effects of attack
- December 24, 2004
- Steve Moore says he has been forever changed by Todd Bertuzzi’s blind-sided punch to his head in an NHL game last season.
- Stone marks grave of baby thrown in river
- December 24, 2004
- It’s been nearly 30 years since two men seining for bait near the Delaware River found a garbage bag containing the decomposed body of an infant girl.
- Jayhawks scatter for break
- December 24, 2004
- Santa Claus’ travels will not include Tomsk, Russia, late tonight, and not just because his reindeer might claim animal cruelty with forecasters predicting lows of 16 degrees below zero.
- Barns of the Big 12
- December 24, 2004
- The start of the Big 12 Conference basketball season is just around the corner. What better time, then, to take a look at the basketball arenas around the league?
- Goal-oriented
- An annual report card might be a good way to help the public understand the work their state universities are doing
- December 24, 2004
- It’s good to have goals. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln issued a report card on itself this week based on its progress toward several self-imposed goals. What a great way to show the public a university is working to improve its performance.
- Real signature a necessary act of respect
- December 24, 2004
- “By decreasing the amount of time a single executive, manager or VIP signs his name by just 15 minutes a day, a signature machine can pay for itself in just a short time.” — advertisement for a machine that does 3,000 autographs a day “without writer’s cramp.”
- Bush performance
- December 24, 2004
- South is priority
- December 24, 2004
- Black voters turn to Bush
- December 24, 2004
- In a basketball game, a 2-point basket can be the difference between winning and losing. In the presidential race, the 2-point increase in support among black voters nationwide played a huge role in the re-election of President Bush.
- Not in school
- December 24, 2004
- Drug caution
- December 24, 2004
- Not a menace
- December 24, 2004
- Reports indicate ‘healthy’ economy
- Manufacturing rebounds as consumer spending, housing market cool
- December 24, 2004
- America’s consumers came off a buying binge and were somewhat less jolly spenders in November. New-home sales, meanwhile, cooled from a record high, while demand for big-ticket manufactured goods rebounded.
- Lawrence stores embrace last-minute shoppers
- Christmas Eve expected to be busier than usual
- December 24, 2004
- Waited to the last minute to shop this holiday season? Get in line. “Our data shows that when Christmas Eve falls on a Friday, as it does this year, that day is even more crazed than usual,” said Michael Manchisi, senior vice president of MasterCard International.
- Wall Street finishes holiday week with new multi-year highs
- December 24, 2004
- Investors filled with holiday cheer sent Wall Street’s major indexes to new multi-year highs Thursday, extending the stock market’s winning steak despite a plummeting dollar and signs of weaker consumer spending.
- Commodities
- December 24, 2004
- Briefcase
- December 24, 2004
- ¢ Door problems drive recall of GM minivans ¢ Stockholders approve $2 billion AMC deal ¢ Attorney collects $3 million from bank
- Palestinians flock to local polls
- Hamas, Fatah candidates face off in landmark election
- December 24, 2004
- Thousands of voters overwhelmed polling stations Thursday in scattered West Bank towns and villages as Palestinians enthusiastically voted in their first local elections in nearly three decades.
- Growing U.S. influence a concern, Putin says
- December 24, 2004
- President Vladimir Putin said Thursday he valued his partnership with President Bush but voiced suspicion that the United States might be behind what the Kremlin saw as efforts to isolate Russia — and even destabilize it.
- Briefly - World
- December 24, 2004
- ¢ Cargo ship with supplies heads to space station ¢ Ex-prime minister dies ¢ Japan announces first human bird-flu case ¢ Police question suspect in ‘Scream’ art theft ¢ Castro walks in public for first time since fall ¢ New governor backs U.S. territory status
- Report: Fire truck had faulty brakes
- Driver killed in September wreck
- December 24, 2004
- A fire truck involved in an accident that killed a veteran Kansas City firefighter had faulty brakes, according to a police report.
- A critic’s Christmas, from bad to verse
- December 24, 2004
- I don’t know why the 24th of December so fills me with rhyme. If doggerel were criminal, I know I’d be doing time.
- Arts Note
- December 24, 2004
- ¢ ‘Listen Up’ stars answer people’s choice
- Best Bets
- December 24, 2004
- Judge helps kids dance their way to a better life
- December 24, 2004
- Judge Herbert Barall is bent over doing “monkey knees” as he calls out encouragement to his young students, “That’s it! That’s it!”
- Wannstedt takes Pitt coaching job
- Former Dolphins coach returning to his alma mater
- December 24, 2004
- Former Miami Dolphins coach Dave Wannstedt accepted the coaching job at alma mater Pittsburgh on Thursday, a week after he turned the Panthers down and said he wasn’t ready to coach again.
- Landfill could provide heating fuel
- Study will test collection of methane gas from garbage
- December 24, 2004
- Once you get beyond the stench, the gases emitted by the Johnson County Landfill actually could be a good thing.
- Teen charged in apartment shooting
- Suspect faces four counts of attempted second-degree murder
- December 24, 2004
- The man accused of opening fire on four people at a northwest Lawrence apartment complex earlier this week was charged Thursday with four counts of attempted second-degree murder.
- Plumbers, homeless shelters see burst of business during cold snap
- December 24, 2004
- So this is what winter feels like. After enjoying the benefits of a relatively warm fall, Lawrence residents were feeling the effects of a chill that swept into town on Tuesday, the winter solstice, and has hung around since.
- Resumed blasting rekindles concerns
- December 24, 2004
- As Lawrence city officials are working on a new set of regulations to cover blasting activities in the city, construction crews began blasting away again Wednesday in West Lawrence.
- Woman accused of kidnapping, murder waives hearing
- December 24, 2004
- A woman accused of killing an expectant mother and cutting the baby from her womb waived her right to a preliminary hearing in Kansas on Thursday and is being moved to federal custody in Missouri.
- Suns win 10th straight
- December 24, 2004
- Amare Stoudemire had 30 points, 11 rebounds and five steals — and Shawn Marion scored 29 points — to lead the Phoenix Suns to their season-best 10th consecutive victory, 109-102 over the Memphis Grizzlies on Thursday night.
- Judge rules O’Neal can play Saturday
- December 24, 2004
- Indiana’s Jermaine O’Neal can play against Detroit on Christmas after a federal judge upheld an arbitrator’s decision to reduce the forward’s suspension for fighting with fans during the Nov. 19 Pacers-Pistons brawl.
- Solid second half lifts OU past SMS
- December 24, 2004
- Oklahoma coach Kelvin Sampson pointed out that Taj Gray was on a full scholarship even though he essentially played only one half Thursday night against Southwest Missouri State.
- Governor likely to sign death penalty fix
- Sebelius promised to support capital punishment while running for office
- December 24, 2004
- Gov. Kathleen Sebelius said she probably would sign legislation to fix a flaw in the state’s death penalty law that led the Kansas Supreme Court to strike it down as unconstitutional.
- Democrat wins hand recount
- December 24, 2004
- Democrat Christine Gregoire won the Washington governor’s race by 130 votes out of 2.9 million ballots cast, according to final recount results announced Thursday from Seattle’s King County, the last of the state’s 39 counties to report.
- Record snowfall hampers travel
- December 24, 2004
- A sloppy storm dumped more than a year’s worth of snow on parts of the Midwest and made a mess of holiday travel and last-minute Christmas shopping Thursday.
- Former governor guilty of corruption
- December 24, 2004
- Six months after being driven from office by scandal, former Gov. John G. Rowland pleaded guilty to a corruption charge Thursday, admitting he traded his office for more than $100,000 in flights to Las Vegas, Vermont vacations and repairs to his vacation cottage.
- Education Department slashes Pell Grant program
- December 24, 2004
- The Department of Education on Thursday announced a new formula for calculating eligibility for college financial aid, a move that will eliminate federal Pell Grant scholarships for an estimated 80,000 to 90,000 low-income students and force a modest scaling back of other types of state and federal assistance to broader categories of undergraduates.
- Briefly - Nation
- December 24, 2004
- ¢ Bush to renominate 20 judicial candidates ¢ Two convicted in deadly immigrant scheme ¢ Cancer research reveals clues about gray hair ¢ Bowling alley to return Arafat’s investment
- Troops home for holidays
- Soldiers rush to greet families after 10 months
- December 24, 2004
- There was a joyous rush. Then hugs and kisses. “It’s good to be home and it’s great to see my boy again,” said U.S. Army Reserve Sgt. James Pilch II, of Lawrence, after planting a kiss on his 9-year-old son, Carter.
- Fighting rages as Iraqis return to city
- Rumsfeld pays surprise visit to troops
- December 24, 2004
- U.S. Marine infantrymen fought with insurgents in Fallujah on Thursday as warplanes and tanks bombarded guerrilla positions in the heaviest fighting here in weeks.
- FDA urges caution in prescribing painkillers
- December 24, 2004
- Federal regulators on Thursday urged doctors to think twice before prescribing several popular and controversial painkillers to their patients with histories of heart trouble.
- Woodling: Maybe it’s time to do away with AP poll
- December 24, 2004
- Late last summer, someone in the Associated Press Kansas City bureau called and said it was the Journal-World’s turn to provide a voter for the weekly AP football poll.
- Bearcats’ QB puts hurt on Marshall
- December 24, 2004
- Gino Guidugli’s swollen right hand hurt every time he threw a pass. The broken bones and bitterly cold weather combined to make for a difficult night.
- Eagles tap ex-KU aide
- December 24, 2004
- Jay Johnson, a former Kansas University assistant football coach, has been named offensive coordinator at Southern Mississippi.
- Lawrence Datebook
- December 24, 2004
- On the Record
- December 24, 2004
- David Allen Kennedy
- December 24, 2004
- Effie Lila Hess
- December 24, 2004
- James Wiking Nordhem Stevens
- December 24, 2004
- 1 of 3 winning Powerball tickets sold in Omaha
- December 24, 2004
- One of three winning Powerball tickets was sold at an Omaha convenience store only three hours before Wednesday’s drawing.
- Area agencies, offices announce holiday hours
- December 24, 2004
- Christmas is Saturday, but for many people in the work force, the holiday begins today. All area city and county government offices will be closed today, as will city halls in Baldwin, Eudora and DeSoto. In Ottawa and McLouth, city halls will be closed today and Monday. County courts will be closed today.
- U.S. military: Suicide bomber wore Iraqi security uniform
- December 24, 2004
- The suicide bomber believed to have blown himself up this week in a U.S. military dining tent near Mosul, killing more than 20 people, was probably wearing an Iraqi military uniform, the U.S. military said Thursday.
- John Michael ‘Mike’ Eugett
- December 24, 2004
- Donald Churchbaugh
- December 24, 2004
- Health plan could put Sebelius on national stage
- Democrat has been called a ‘rising star’
- December 24, 2004
- Being a Democratic governor in a reliably Republican state already has brought Gov. Kathleen Sebelius a little national attention, and she could raise her profile by tackling difficult health care issues.
- This Weekend’s Highlights
- December 24, 2004
- Board games utilize DVDs
- December 24, 2004
- Family game night may be designed to pry kids away from the TV one night a week. But several new games on the market may draw them back to its addictive glow as an essential part of play.
- ‘Aviator’ flies at flawless pace with solid characters
- December 24, 2004
- I have seen all but one of the scheduled biopics that are opening for this year’s winter Oscar rush, but I have serious doubts that there will be a more engaging and exciting biography this year than “The Aviator,” Martin Scorsese’s breathless take on Howard Hughes’ glory years.
- Religion without the politics
- December 24, 2004
- I don’t know the name of the hymn. I’ve never been good at remembering titles or melodies. All I know is that when I was driving back to Dallas from Fort Worth a few Saturday afternoons ago, religion started to make sense again.
- Bad-ish Santa
- Cannabis Claus Chris Hartman doubles as pro-hemp humorist and holiday helper
- December 24, 2004
- It’s just days before Christmas and Santa has been spotted near Centennial Park. Horns honk and children gawk at the jolly man in the plush red suit as he waves to passing cars. With his thick, smoke-stained beard and bulbous tummy, this street-side Santa looks like an archetypal St. Nick, built tough to withstand hordes of lap-sitting cherubs.
- 6Sports video: Lights on at Lisher house
- December 24, 2004
- For Free State High football coach Bob Lisher, holiday lighting is not just a hobby, it’s a tradition.
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