2A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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MONDAY, JANUARY 31, 2005
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your questions about KU and life as a student. Check out KU online Web site at kinfo.libku.edu; call it 864-3540 or visit in person at kiu.com
Are there clinics for emergency or regular health care?
Yes, emergency clinics are First Med, 2323 Ridge Ct, (785) 865-5300; Prompt Care, 3511 Clinton & Kasold, 838-1850; Health Care Access (for folks with limited income), 192D Moodie, (785) 841-5760. Hours are: First Med, M-Sa 8am-8pm; Su 1-5pm; Prompt Care, M-F-Mabam; Sat-Sun 11-4pm; Health Care Access; MTRF 8am-5pm; W 8am-8:30pm; no weekends; closed lunch (nonn-1pm daily).
Free election breaks 'barrier of fear'
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraqis embraced democracy in large numbers yesterday, standing in long lines to vote in defiance of mortar attacks, suicide bombers and boycott calls. The elderly, the young and women in veils cast ballots in Iraq's first free election in a half-century.
"We broke a barrier of fear," said Mijm Towirish an election official said.
crash of a British military plane drove home that chaos in Iraq isn't over yet
Uncertain Sunni turnout, a string of insurgent attacks that killed 44 and the
"I am doing this because I love my country, and I love the sons of my nation," said Shamal Hekeib, 53, who walked with his wife 20 minutes to a polling station near his Baghdad home.
"We are Arabs, we are not scared and we are not cowards," Hekeib said.
With helicopters flying low and gunfire close by, at least 200 voters stood calmly in line at midday outside one polling station in the heart of Baghdad.
Inside, the tight security included at least four body searches, and a ban on lighters, cell phone batteries, cigarette packs and even pens.
One election volunteer escorted a blind man back to his home after he cast his vote. A woman too frail to walk by herself arrived on a cart pushed by a young relative. Entire families showed up in their finest clothes.
But for the country's minority Sunni Arabs, who held a privileged position under Saddam Hussein, the day was
No more than 400 people voted in Saddam's hometown of Tikrit, and in the heavily Sunni northern Baghdad neighborhood of Azamiyah, where Saddam made his last known public appearance in early April 2003, the four polling places never even opened.
not as welcome.
Iraqi election officials said it might take 10 days to determine the vote's winner and said they had no firm estimate of turnout among the 14 million eligible voters.
Learning the spin
Laetitia Petiot, a teaching assistant in the French department, and Tom Krippes, Chicago, III., freshman, perform the sombrero spin during the Ballroom Dance Club practice Friday night in Hashinger Hall's dance room on the fourth floor. Practice is held every Friday from 7 to 9 p.m. in Hashinger Hall and on Sundays from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Kansas Union Ballroom.
CAMPUS
Political speaker,writer to bring conservative view
Ann Coulter, conservative political commentator and best-selling author, will lecture in the Lied Center on March 29 for the Vickers Memorial Lecture Series.
The series' purpose is to discuss political subjects
COULTER
from a conservative perspective, said Toni Dixon, director of communications for the School of Business.
The Vickers family selected Coulter for the series.
"One of the key points is that they wanted to bring in another point of view for students," Dixon said.
NATION
Coulter is a lawyer and has appeared on numerous talk shows. She also wrote The New York Times best-seller "Slander: Liberal Lies about the American Right." Coulter will be the 37th speaker to present the series since it began in 1969. The lecture is free and open to students.
— Jason Shaad
Jackson denounces media; leaks 'disgusting and false'
SANTA MARIA, Calif. — The child molestation case against Michael Jackson is finally ready for a trial that promises to be like no other.
Jury selection begins Monday, with Jackson expected to appear, in a case that has become a symbol of the American obsession with celebrity.
Early Saturday, Jackson issued a court-approved video statement on his Web site, calling recent media leaks in the case "disgusting and false" and predicting he would be acquitted.
"Please keep an open mind and let me have my day in court," Jackson said, looking directly into the camera. "I deserve a fair trial like every other American citizen. I will be acquitted and vindicated when the truth is told."
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Swedish twins celebrate long and healthful lives
WORLD
them, but Sweden's oldest twins had never seen anything like this before.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — They have lived for 200 years between
Holding up a birthday cake and two bouquets of flowers, Siri Ingvarsson and Gunhild Gaellstedt seemed bewildered by the media attention and the photographers huddled around them in the living room of Gaellstedt's apartment.
"Why do they need five photographers?" Gaellstedt asked. "Do they not think we'll stick on the film?"
Turning 100 yesterday "isn't that big of a deal," Ingvarsson said. "Not much different from turning 99."
Still, Ingvarsson and Gaellstedt — who walk without any assistance and do all their daily chores themselves
did their best to answer questions they've grown tired of. No, they repeated time and again, they don't have a secret formula for long life.
"We like to joke and say it's because we lived only on turnip back in 1914," Gaellstedt said. "That's all we had to eat during the world war. The first one, that is."
Aside from when they gave birth they each had one child - Gaellstedt is the only one who has ever been hospitalized. She broke her thigh bone two years ago, but recovered quickly, she said.
ON THE RECORD
- The Associated Press
A 19-year-old KU student reported to Lawrence Police that a computer valued at $1850, a wireless internet card valued at $50 and $850 in other items were stolen between noon and 1:45 p.m., Jan. 26 from the 4700 block of 27th Street.
Alcoholic Beverage Control arrested a 19-year-old KU student for purchase and consumption of alcohol at 10:45 p.m., Jan. 27 at the 1800 block of Naismith Drive.
KU Public Safety Office arrested a 19-year-old male for operating under the influence and driving with a suspended license on Jan. 28 in Parking Lot 100, west of Stephenson Scholarship Hall.
ON CAMPUS
The Center for Russian and East European Studies will sponsor a lecture by Gen. Ervin J. Rokke, President of National Defense University, on "U.S. Security Challenges and the Implications for Intelligence" from 3:30-5 p.m. today at the Jayhawk Room in the Kansas Union. Call Ray Finch at 864-4248 for more information.
Laura Hobson Herlihy of the Center of Latin American Studies will give the lecture "Neither Black nor Indian: The Construction of Race and Ethnicity in the Honduran Moskitia" at 3:30 p.m. today in the Hall Center for the Humanities. Call 864-4798 for more information.
Illustrator Joe Thiel will give a Hallmark Symposium lecture at 6 p.m. today in the Spencer Museum of Art. Call 864-4710 for more information.
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