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TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 2006
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Ann Murray, center, holds a doll made to look like President Bush with flaming pants on Monday during a demonstration outside Bramlage Coliseum at Kansas State University in Manhattan. The president spoke on the global fight against terrorism as part of the Landon Lecture series.
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In his speech, which was part of K-State's Landon Lecture series, Bush also said his values guided his decisions as a president. These values came from Texas, Bush said, and were something Kansans had as well.
Col. Lee Staab agreed with Bush. The Hays native said Bush shared the values of strong conviction and leading by example that
people in the Heartland have.
Staab sat with the 800 other military personnel from Fort Riley, where he has been stationed for seven months. Staab had been stationed in Germany.
Bush also talked about his strategy for Iraq. He said the invasion was necessary because Saddam Hussein was a threat, and now a president must stop threats.
"There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that the world is a safer and better place with the removal
of Saddam Hussein," Bush said
Bush said the plan now was to continue to hunt terrorists and train Iraqi security forces. He said he hoped to decrease the amount of U.S. forces from 165,000 to 138,000 this year, based on advice from ground commanders.
Democracy in Iraq will lead to peace, and our generation - the students in the audience - will be part of history. Bush said.
'Da Vinci Code' opens film festival
PEOPLE
Edited by Gabriella Souza
PARIS — Case cracked:
"The Da Vinci Code" will be the opening-night movie at the Cannes Film Festival in May, organizers said.
Based on Dan Brown's esoteric thriller about codebreaking and conspiracy, the film will debut at the Riviera festival and in French theaters on May 17, the festival said Saturday.
The rest of the world will have to wait two days, until May 19.
The adaptation by Oscar-winning director Ron Howard ("A Beautiful Mind") has an international cast led by Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou.
Like the novel, the movie is set largely in France:The story line opens with the murder of the curator of the Louvre Museum in Paris.
Early this month, the Louvre said the movie's producers were trying to decide between the museum and the Cannes festival as a site for the European premiere. The movie will not be in the running for prizes at Cannes.
Hong Kong's Wong Kar-wai, director of "In the Mood for Love," presides over this year's jury at the
festival, which runs May 17-28.
Organizers at the glitzy festival try to strike a balance between crowd-pleasers and critically acclaimed films, and between Hollywood blockbusters and art house flicks.
The Associated Press
DiMaggio items for sale in New York
NEWYORK - More than 1,000 items of Joe DiMaggio memorabilia, including his 1947 Most Valuable Player Award plaque and a signed photo of Marilyn Monroe, will be auctioned in May, Hunt Auctions Inc. announced Monday.
The sale also includes DiMaggio's record-breaking 45th consecutive hit baseball from his 56-game streak in 1941 and a set of World Series rings from 1936 to 1996 presented to DiMaggio by the Yankees.
DiMaggio, called "the greatest all-around player I ever saw" by Ted Williams, played for the Yankees from 1936 to 1942 and from 1946 to 1951.
The auction will take place May 19-20 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in Times Square.
He played in 13 All-Star games and won three MVP awards. He died in 1999.
A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital in Hollywood, Fla.
The Associated Press Even after Cannes, Braff still a 'scrub'
PASADENA, Calif. — His colleagues at "Scrubs" wouldn't let Zach Braff get a big head after the success of his movie, "Garden State."
"I was at Sundance feeling very proud of myself," Braff said Sunday, "and the very first thing I had to do when I came back was a scene where I was wearing a full clown suit and having children hit me with balloons."
And that, snickered executive producer Bill Lawrence, didn't even make it on the show.
By design, the medical spoof is getting siller and siller in its fifth season. Lawrence said.
For one of Tuesday's episodes, producers dug a trench to film an elaborate scene where Braff's character rides a scooter into a puddle and then pops out of another, nearby puddle.
"Twenty-one seconds, $70,000," Lawrence said. "Thank you, NBC. It made us laugh."
The Associated Press