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- People
- March 27, 2004
- • Cruz, Cruise drift apart • Simon Cowell gets flippant • ‘CSI' heads for New York • Attention all wiseguys
- Briefly
- March 27, 2004
- • KU debate team competes in Sweet 16 • KSU drive hits pay dirt in Douglas County • Walk to raise money for senior citizen meals • Breakfast to benefit epilepsy research
- Briefly
- March 27, 2004
- • FDA approves oral HIV test • Hamas issues new calls to avenge leader's killing • Commander: U.S. stepping up anti-terror efforts in Africa • Intelligence report charges Iran with nuclear cover-up
- Around and about
- March 27, 2004
- Falsetto hitmaker joins ‘Sopranos’ hit men
- Frankie Valli to appear in at least four episodes of HBO mob drama
- March 27, 2004
- For the better part of two decades, Frankie Valli rode the pop charts as a hitmaker with such songs as “Sherry,” “Walk Like a Man,” “Rag Doll” and the theme song from “Grease.”
- Weekend TV fare hits the mother lode
- March 27, 2004
- Looks like the Stork Club has become the movie kingdom's hottest invite. “Hollywood Baby Boom” (6 p.m. today, E!) explores Tinsel Town's latest trend: motherhood. Actresses such as Gwyneth Paltrow, Debra Messing, Courteney Cox, Sarah Jessica Parker, Reese Witherspoon, Kelly Ripa, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Denise Richards have made wearing maternity clothes fashionable again.
- Bush supporters among Nader campaign donors
- March 27, 2004
- Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader is getting a little help from his friends — and from President Bush's friends.
- Ruling protects abortion records
- March 27, 2004
- A federal appeals court Friday upheld a lower court decision that blocks the government from obtaining abortion records from a Chicago hospital.
- Caribbean leaders shun new Haiti government
- March 27, 2004
- The 15-nation Caribbean Community does not plan to recognize Haiti's new U.S.-backed interim government, senior Caribbean officials said Friday.
- Biosciences initiative moves forward
- Senate tentatively OKs measure with compromise on stem-cell research
- March 27, 2004
- The Kansas Senate voiced approval Friday of a bill to put $500 million behind the state's fledgling bioscience industry, but the debate over stem-cell research continues. The measure would divert the funds over the next 15 years into bioscience research and development and establish an 11-member bioscience authority to work with state universities, recruit top scholars and build facilities. Supporters say the effort would create thousands of new jobs.
- Rocket club takes off
- March 27, 2004
- Turns out it was rocket science. But it still managed to look like simple fun this week in Watson Park as members of the Cordley Elementary Rocket Club attracted about 300 people to watch launching exhibitions Tuesday and Friday.
- Margareta Villegas
- March 27, 2004
- Hazel I. Mock
- March 27, 2004
- Spend your spring weekend inside or out
- March 27, 2004
- From nature walks and barn dances to plays and concerts, weekend activities offer a little something for everyone. If you're looking for an art fix, paintings and vividly colored sculptures by Lawrence artist Barry Coffin begin their run today at the Nova Cyber Cafe, 745 N.H. The artist will attend a reception from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.
- House likes Kassebaum school plan
- Representatives send $155 million proposal to Senate
- March 27, 2004
- House Democrats and moderate Republicans combined forces Friday to pass a bill raising sales and income taxes to fund a $155 million package for public schools.
- Senate advances version of concealed-carry bill
- March 27, 2004
- Senators approved a bill Friday night that would allow Kansans to carry concealed weapons, including at the Statehouse.
- Wichita revisits horror of BTK serial killings
- March 27, 2004
- More than two decades after the BTK strangler sent his last letter, a new communiqué from the serial killer whose “bind, torture and kill” crimes terrorized Kansas' largest city in the 1970s has shattered the city's sense of security and stoked fears the killer could strike again.
- Against violence
- March 27, 2004
- Tax and spend
- March 27, 2004
- Natural beauty
- March 27, 2004
- Killing a case of self-defense
- March 27, 2004
- The killing of Hamas leader and practicing terrorist Sheik Ahmed Yassin was not an “assassination,” as it was described in most press reports, nor an “unlawful killing,” as British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw incorrectly labeled it. Rather, it was an act of self-defense in the midst of war and as such was fully justified.
- Jurors to dissect case of west Lawrence attack
- Defendant accused of wielding knife, sexually assaulting 28-year-old in apartment
- March 27, 2004
- Jury deliberations began Friday for a man accused of sexually assaulting a woman and threatening her with a knife after an early-morning break-in at her apartment.
- Jordanian may be Madrid mastermind
- March 27, 2004
- Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian linked to al-Qaida and suspected of heading a terrorist network in Iraq, is now believed to have been the brains behind the deadly Madrid railway attacks, a French private investigator said Friday.
- UAB’s ‘hell’ hath no fury
- Kansas shreds press, rolls into Elite Eight
- March 27, 2004
- Alabama-Birmingham didn't exactly put Kansas University through 40 minutes of hell Friday night. It was more like 40 minutes of hilarity for the No. 4-seeded Jayhawks, who shredded UAB's vaunted press in racing to a 100-74 victory over the No. 9-seeded Blazers — KU's most lopsided win in 23 Sweet 16 appearances.
- Woodling: Post-UK Syndrome benefits Jayhawks
- March 27, 2004
- All love between Kansas University and Kentucky in the wide, wide world of men's basketball is long lost. Two of the game's most distinguished and tradition-rich programs basically have avoided each other on a regular basis over the years. Kansas and Kentucky, for instance, have met only twice since 1990 — once in the Great Eight, a defunct manufactured-for-television preseason event, and once in the NCAA Tournament.
- Kelly, Sutherland share TPC lead
- Woods survives cut but trails by nine entering third round
- March 27, 2004
- Tiger Woods needed only three holes to take the suspense out of making his 120th consecutive cut Friday at The Players Championship.
- Braves add Reitsma; Tigers sign Urbina
- March 27, 2004
- The Atlanta Braves added bullpen insurance in right-hander Chris Reitsma.
- Duhon’s grit lifts Duke
- Injured guard doesn’t score, but his moxie powers Devils past Illini
- March 27, 2004
- Chris Duhon may be hurting, but he's doing just fine. So are the Duke Blue Devils.
- Xavier too hot for UT
- ‘Horns fall as Musketeers keep rolling
- March 27, 2004
- Romain Sato stood near midcourt, holding up one finger and acknowledging the Xavier fans.
- Baylor feeling great
- Bears winning despite school’s woes
- March 27, 2004
- The Baylor women's basketball squad sat down before the season to discuss the tragedy and scandal surrounding the school's other basketball team.
- Alabama basking in success
- Tide on a roll, but UConn elite foe
- March 27, 2004
- Mark Gottfried never got this far in the NCAA Tournament as a terrific player on some good Alabama teams.
- Cowboys’ eyes on Nelson
- March 27, 2004
- Just the mere mention of Jameer Nelson's enormous tattoo brings a smile from John Lucas.
- Jayhawks fall short
- March 27, 2004
- Kansas University's baseball team had the potential tying run 90 feet away, but couldn't push it across in a 3-2 loss Friday afternoon at Nebraska.
- George struggles in K.C. win
- Starter can’t clinch final spot in Royals rotation
- March 27, 2004
- Chris George had a chance Friday to help his chances at earning a spot in the Kansas City rotation, but instead had a poor showing in the Royals' 8-7 victory over a Milwaukee split squad.
- Remembering Leo
- Center to offer support to needy
- March 27, 2004
- Leo Beuerman's dream has come true. Beuerman, a disabled but fiercely independent man whose life story was made famous in the 1969 Academy Award-nominated film “Leo Beuerman,” hoped someday he could somehow make a difference in people's lives.
- Pakistan’s city of culture whirls with fervor of Islamic mystics
- March 27, 2004
- Whirling in a ritual reverie, the Sufi drummer looks toward the sky and knocks out a feverish beat. The bearded men in bright traditional robes dance and shout around him — each frantically following his own path to enlightenment. It is midnight in Lahore, Pakistan's city of culture and mysticism, and hundreds of Muslim men have packed the dingy courtyard outside the ramshackle Baba Shah Jamal shrine for the weekly ritual.
- Pope puts candidates on road to sainthood
- March 27, 2004
- An Italian priest forced to quit a political post because of Fascist violence, an Italian nun and two Spaniards are among the latest faithful put on the road to sainthood by Pope John Paul II.
- Engagements
- March 27, 2004
- Anniversaries
- March 27, 2004
- Homes sales continue to slide
- March 27, 2004
- Douglas County home sales fell below 2003 levels for the second straight month in February, according to a new report. Across the county, home sales in February were down 25 percent from a year ago, the Douglas County Appraiser's Office said, and at their lowest level since February 2000.
- North Lawrence bar tries smokeless route
- Co-owner hopes to draw on location, unique decor
- March 27, 2004
- The no-smoking policy at a new Lawrence bar is not a fleeting fancy. But a pair of rickshaws hauling bar patrons over the Kansas River bridge may be.
- State unemployment rate drops despite job losses
- February numbers continue trend of ‘stagnant’ labor market in Kansas
- March 27, 2004
- Even though the state shed 3,500 jobs last month, its unemployment rate fell slightly in February, state officials said Friday. According to preliminary data from the Department of Human Resources, unemployment dropped to 5.2 percent, down from 5.3 percent in January. The rate declined, despite the lost jobs, because the number of people seeking employment dropped, as did the total number of people in the workplace.
- OPEC members wavering on output cut
- March 27, 2004
- OPEC's plan to cut its oil production target by 4 percent appears to be unraveling, as group members ignore their self-imposed quotas to take advantage of high crude prices and meet the surging demand for oil in China and the United States.
- Suspect in arsons appears in court
- Douglas County charges may not come immediately
- March 27, 2004
- The former Kansas University student suspected of being a serial arsonist made his first appearance Friday in Johnson County District Court, where he is charged with setting two fires in Olathe. Though more charges are likely to be filed against him in coming weeks, it could be a while before he is charged in Douglas County, prosecutors said.
- Senate moves on transportation
- Variety of means would fund highway projects
- March 27, 2004
- The Senate approved a bill late Friday night to use bonds, federal funds and sales tax revenues to protect transportation projects from being canceled.
- On the record
- March 27, 2004
- Jackets win game, lose standout
- Elder leaves victory over Wolf Pack because of ankle sprain; status uncertain
- March 27, 2004
- Admittedly, Georgia Tech men's basketball coach Paul Hewitt knows next to nothing about Kansas University, his next opponent. It wouldn't be fair to call him unprepared, though. Superstitious, yes, but not unprepared.
- Miles has ball breaking press
- March 27, 2004
- He was the last one off the court after Friday's game, half-jogging, half-skipping, soaking in the love being showered on him.
- Langford: KU playing its best ball
- March 27, 2004
- Kansas University's first 100-point game of the 2003-04 men's basketball season doubles as the Jayhawks' best game of the entire year.
- Celtics move into eighth in East
- March 27, 2004
- Paul Pierce wanted the ball, and the short-handed New Jersey Nets couldn't stop him.
- Horoscopes
- March 27, 2004
- Faith forum
- March 27, 2004
- Why is Lent important to Christians?
- Explore treatment for attention deficit disorder
- March 27, 2004
- What kind of treatment is available for attention deficit disorder?
- Schools use spring break for needed repairs
- Air conditioning installed at Sunset Hill, Hillcrest and East Heights elementaries, LHS gymnasium
- March 27, 2004
- Students have been absent from the hallways and classrooms of Lawrence schools this week while on spring break, but the buildings have been anything but quiet. The school district has been busy taking care of repairs and upgrades that Tom Bracciano, the school district's director of operations and facility planning, said couldn't wait until summer.
- Briefly
- March 27, 2004
- • KU graduate tapped as Maryland regent • Former Clinton aide to speak Monday at KU
- Briefly
- March 27, 2004
- • Bush calls for expansion of quick Internet access • Kerry reveals proposal to cut corporate taxes
- Military news
- March 27, 2004
- 4-H news
- March 27, 2004
- KU among Elite again
- Jayhawks advance to record third straight round of eight
- March 27, 2004
- Paul Gregory is getting used to this. His Jayhawks lifted the Kansas University junior to within 40 minutes of a third consecutive Final Four by shredding the University of Alabama-Birmingham, 100-74, Friday night in the NCAA regionals at the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis.
- Businesses take star-studded prank in stride
- Calls claim bevy of high-powered actors in Lawrence to film new movie
- March 27, 2004
- Hmmm, maybe that guy you saw sipping a latte at the Starbucks downtown really was Tom Cruise. Movie stars like coffee, too, you know.
- Rice ready to talk about 9-11 — but not under oath
- Security adviser won’t testify publicly before commission
- March 27, 2004
- Condoleezza Rice says the Bush administration has a good story to tell about fighting terrorism, and she's pouring it out in television appearances, interviews and newspaper articles. The one place she won't talk is in public, under oath, before the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
- Rising star?
- March 27, 2004
- The spotlight is starting to fall on the next generation of an old Kansas political family. In just his second year in the Kansas Legislature, Rep. Bill Kassebaum, R-Burdick, is showing signs that he's inherited some of his family's political acumen.
- Bush apparently not swayed by facts
- March 27, 2004
- I find myself imagining a news conference that never happened. It's early in 2001 and the new president takes a few questions from the media.
- Pledge concern
- March 27, 2004
- GOP seeks to declassify earlier Clarke testimony
- March 27, 2004
- Leading congressional Republicans announced plans Friday to seek declassification of 2-year-old testimony from Richard Clarke, hoping to show discrepancies between his recent criticisms of the Bush administration's terrorism policies with flattering statements he made as a White House aide.
- Thousands protest tribal offensive
- March 27, 2004
- Thousands of people on Friday took to the streets of Rawalpindi and other Pakistani cities to protest the government's offensive against suspected Islamic militants in tribal areas near the border with Afghanistan.
- Restraining order stops payments to banker found guilty of fraud
- Wittig co-conspirator paid $325,000 after 2003 conviction
- March 27, 2004
- A business partner of a former Topeka banker convicted in a loan conspiracy case has been ordered to stop making direct or indirect payments to him.
- Clinton, Bush anti-terror policies alike
- March 27, 2004
- For all the sniping over efforts by the Bush and Clinton administrations to thwart terrorism, information from this week's hearings into the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks suggests that the two administrations were pursuing roughly the same policies until the terror strikes occurred.
- Daily ticker
- March 27, 2004
- Lawrence briefs
- March 27, 2004
- • Two KU students competing for fellowship • Program to teach history of Jayhawk • Sierra Club sets wetlands cleanup • Art competition open to high school students
- Briefly
- March 27, 2004
- • Prime minister announces resignation • Patrols heightened after deadly clashes • Study: Circumcision protects against AIDS • Three suspects detained in bomb threats
- Briefly
- March 27, 2004
- • Wind-driven fire spreads to several buildings • Bishop gets probation for deadly hit-and-run • Navy pilot ejects as jet catches fire • FBI computer overhaul nearly complete
- Prenatal portrait studios draw FDA safety warning
- March 27, 2004
- Shelly Bunker's due date is months away, but last week in an upscale shopping mall office, tucked among the hair salons and art galleries, she watched her baby boy appear to smile, yawn and wave from inside her womb.
- China tests larger diplomatic role
- Beijing officials offer statements on Taiwan elections, Japan island dispute
- March 27, 2004
- Flexing its political muscle over territories it claims as its own, China has gone on the offensive, warning archrival Taiwan about its bitter presidential election, entering Hong Kong's debate over democracy, and upbraiding Japan over an island dispute.
- Weddings
- March 27, 2004
- Step into fashion with socks
- March 27, 2004
- Once upon a time, socks sought merely to create warmth, or perhaps to match a favorite sweater.
- Briefcase
- March 27, 2004
- • Fighting hinders jurors in corporate scandal case • Consumers slow pace of spending in February • Boeing shareholders to discuss merger rules • SBC declares dividend
- Scoreboard mix-up has young Self in a fix
- March 27, 2004
- Tyler Self simply wouldn't stand for it.
- Misses hurt Blazers’ press
- Coach says players got ‘caught up’ in tourney hoopla
- March 27, 2004
- No coach ever would say his team choked, and that goes double for UAB boss Mike Anderson.
- People and places
- March 27, 2004
- Religion briefs
- March 27, 2004
- Club news
- March 27, 2004
- Society calendar
- March 27, 2004
- Firefight, raid leave 13 dead
- March 27, 2004
- U.S. troops and guerrillas armed with mortars and rocket-propelled grenades battled for hours Friday in the alleyways of Fallujah, killing a Marine and at least five Iraqis, including an ABC News cameraman. Near Tikrit, four members of the U.S.-trained Iraqi Civil Defense Corps and three suspected rebels died during a raid by Iraqi security forces and U.S. soldiers, the U.S. military said. Twenty-one suspected guerrillas were captured in the raid north of Baghdad.
- Around and about
- March 27, 2004
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