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THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 2002
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it's time for spring cleaning!
Put the clothes you don't wear to good use.
Donate them to the Into the Streets Week Clothing Drive
Just drop off your clothes in the drop boxes in the residence halls, scholarship halls, fraternities, and sororities from 9am-4pm on Wednesday, April 3 Sponsored by the Center for Community Outreach in conjunction with AURH, ASHC, PHA, & IFC Call 864-4073 or email cco@ukans.edu for more information
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The University of Kansas The Hall Center for the Humanities Visiting Interdisciplinary Scholars Program
Justice, Human Rights and the International Order A Series of Free Public Lectures. Spring 2002
All lectures to be held in Alderson Auditorium. Kansas Union at 7:30 pm
Tuesday, March 26
Brian Barry. Salzman Professor of Political Science and of Philosophy, Columbia University "Reflections on Multiculturalism"
Wednesday, April 10
Henry Shue. Professor of Ethics and Public Life, Cornell University "Climate Change, Sustainable Development and International Justice"
Thursday, May 2
Thursday, May 2 Michael Walzer. Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton "Cultural Rights and the Limits of Toleration"
Co-sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the KU Center for Research, the Madison and Lila Self Graduate Fellowship Program, and the Department of Philosophy.
For more information call 864-4798.
www.hatlicenterku.edu
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Follow the Hawks as they make their way through the NCAA Tournament. We will feature every game on Direct TV.
Check out our "March Mania" bracket contest-winners get one free pizza a month for a year.
WEATHER FORECAST
TODAY
Mostly cloudy with a slight chance for rain.
TOMORROW
47 30 Partly cloudy and cooler.
FRIDAY
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51 33 Partly cloudy and cool.
LEWIS
BY THOMAS AND MOZLEY
COMMENTARY
DVD swings, doesn't connect
By Donovan Atkinson Jayplay writer
With the arrival of DVDs, consumers have experienced the added bonus of extra features and the ability to skip to favorite scenes in a movie. Coming to stores in April is a new type of DVD that focuses entirely on the extra features capabilities and contains nothing but favorite scenes. FlixMix, a splinter company of Universal Studios, will release Ultimate Fights, a compilation of the "best" movie fight scenes.
The DVD is the second in a series focusing on the "best" moments in movies. The series was started with Boogeymen, a compilation of the best scenes from horror films. Ultimate Fights is a similar collection of the best fight scenes from movies such as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
and Legend of Drunken Master.
The idea of a compilation DVD is a fairly new one. Because FlixMix has been able to secure licenses from about 20 different companies, viewers get to see more than just scenes from movies made by Universal Studios. Ultimate Fights contains scenes from movies as recent as Gladiator and Snatch, but also classics, such as Scarface.
While the quality of the selected films is high, if you haven't seen the films all the way through, the whole experience is rather lackluster. The editors of Ultimate Fights have essentially eliminated all context for the fight scenes, which makes plot-driven fights from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Gladiator seem uninspired and meaningless.
The DVD does include some interesting special features. Viewers are able to make a "Top Five" list of their favorite scenes and watch them in succession. Viewers can also use the soundtrack mixing option to customize the music they hear during the fight-
Another standout feature is the "FlixFacts" option. While the scene plays, trivia and facts about the movie or actors pop up, which can actually make the scene more interesting by providing a context for the fight.
The concept of a compilation DVD is interesting, but Ultimate Fights still needs some work. A DVD of nothing but special features and out-of-context scenes can only hold interest for so long.
Ultimate Fights will be available in stores in April at a retail price of $19.98.
Contact Atkinson at datkinson@kansan.com.
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1 Island off Java
5 Artist Picasso
10 Ms. Fitzgerald
14 Actress Moran
15 Austrian psychiatrist
16 Polite address
17 With prudence
19 Not taken in by
20 Glossy fabric
21 Kaline and Jolson
22 Precipitation
23 Kitchen utensils
25 Spotting
27 Killers in the family
31 Actress Anderson
32 Sentimental drivel
33 Barked like a peke
38 Chekhov or Bruckner
40 Tango team
42 Make fun of
43 Put on pounds
45 Uncoath clod
47 Small coin
48 Like Custer at the Little Bighorn
51 Teaching session
55 Hot tubs
56 Zounds!
57 Young boy
59 Completely
63 Johnson of "Laugh-In"
64 Opening remarks
66 New York nine
67 Stop, look and look?
68 Occupation
69 Editor's note
70 IBM feature from 1981
71 Tennis units
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1 Flower plots
2 Pavarotti solo
3 Tilt
4 Beginning
5 Deutsche mark fraction
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All rights reserved.
03/14/02
6 Ready when you ___!
7 carotene
8 Calmed
9 Extended trip
10 Atlanta school
11 Hawaiian island
12 Ovid's tongue
13 Surrounded by
18 Stand on hind legs
26 Edinburgh man
26 Exam for jrs.
27 Banner
28 Gossip Barrett
29 Against
30 Dubuque man
34 Bases for statues
35 Duo
36 Salinger heroine
37 Ownership document
39 Delion's nickname
41 Musical piece
44 Two-sided belief
46 Extensive enterprises
Solutions to yesterday's puzzle.
49 Parcels of land
50 Scourge
51 Cloth
connections
52 White heron
53 Picture border
54 That is (to say)
Lat.
58 No longer quick
60 Dust Bowl migrant
61 Bivouac shelter
62 Raw minerals
63 Buddy
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