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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 2009
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"An interesting thing about golf is that no matter how badly you play, it is always possible to get worse."
— Chi-Chi Rodriguez
FACT OF THE DAY
In 1926 the fad of building miniature golf courses on Manhattan roof tops was in full swing and by the end of that year there were nearly 150 successful courses.
— neatorama.com
DAILY KU INFO
KU1nfo
The KU men's basketball program has been to the NCAA championship game twice this decade. Both games came down to a last-second 3-point shot by KU to take the game into overtime. One went in (2008), the other did not (2003).
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NEWS NEAR & FAR
INTERNATIONAL 1.Israeli leader praises recent Iranian protests
ROME — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has praised the courage of Iranian protesters and called Tehran the greatest threat to peace.
Netanyahu spoke Tuesday at a joint news conference with Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi on his first European trip since taking office.
Berlusconi said both leaders agreed that Iran shouldn't be allowed to develop nuclear weapons.
2.Right-to-die decision marks moral shift in Korea
SEOUL, South Korea — Doctors removed a life-supporting respirator from a comatose woman at the center of a landmark right-to-die
The 76-year-old patient, identified only by her surname, Kim, was still breathing several hours later, hospital officials said. She will continue to be fed fluids and nutritional supplements since a court order only authorized the removal of the respirator, hospital chief Park Chang-il said.
Kim has been in a vegetative state since suffering brain damage in February 2008. Her family sued to force doctors to take her off the respirator, saying she opposed keeping people alive with machines when there was no chance of revival.
case on Tuesday as her family and two judges looked on.
The Supreme Court, upholding lower court rulings, granted the request last month, saying that continued medical treatment on such patients can "tarnish people's dignity."
NATIONAL
3. American professor killed in Africa after leaving car
NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania — Police say an American man has been shot dead as he left his car in the capital of the West African nation of Mauritania.
The verdict — the first of its kind in South Korea — heralded a profound shift in the country's attitudes toward death.
Witness Bilal Ould Mohamed says he saw at least two young men rush up to the middle-aged man and shoot him several times in the head and face.
4.D.C. railcar in collision was outdated, officials say
Associated Press
But the Metrorail transit system kept the trains running despite warnings in 2006, said Debbie Hersman of the National Transportation Safety Board.
Mohamed and other neighbors identified the man and said he was a U.S. professor teaching at a center specializing in computer science in Nouakchott.
Mayor Adrian Fenty announced Tuesday that seven had died in the crash. Earlier, the District of Columbia Fire Department Web site announced that three bodies had been found in addition to the six fatalities reported Monday.
WASHINGTON — The subway train that plowed into another, killing seven people in the nation's capital, was part of an aging fleet that federal officials had sought to phase out because of safety concerns, an investigator said Tuesday.
The rush-hour crash sent more than 70 people to hospitals.
Fenty said two victims were
Hersman said investigators expected to recover recorders from the train that was struck.
hospitalized in critical condition.
The crash was the worst in the history of Metrorail.
5. DNA test refutes man's claim as kidnapped child
KALKASKA, Mich. — A Michigan man who believed he was a toddler kidnapped in New York in 1955 said he was "stunned" to learn DNA testing disproved his suspicion and that he's still seeking his true identity.
John Barnes had said he believed the test administered by the FBI would confirm he was Stephen Damman, who disappeared at age 2 from outside an East Meadow. N.Y., market while his mother shopmed.
But the test results released last week showed there was no way he
6. Four bodies discovered in a Kansas City home
could be the kidnapped child.
The case had raised the hopes of the toddler's father, Jerry Damman. Damman, 78, had said he hoped for a resolution after five decades of silence.
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Three adults and a toddler were found dead at a Kansas City, Kan. home Monday and authorities were conducting a homicide investigation, police said.
The bodies were found about 4:45 p.m. according to a brief news release from the police department.
WDAF-TV and KSHB-TV in Kansas City,Mo.,reported that the victims were a 3-year-old girl,her mother another woman and an elderly man who owned the house.
Associated Press
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ON THE RECORD
On Friday, June 19, the KU Public Safety office reported two red and blue banners with the image of a Jayhawk had been taken from the east side of the Kansas Union.
Also on Friday, a canvas painting of Robert Ellsworth valued at $10,000 was reported stolen from Ellsworth Hall.
On Monday, June 22, two camcorders, several laptops and a clock were reported stolen from the Art and Design Building.
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INDEX
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Entertainment ... P.9
Opinion ... P.13
Classifieds ... P.17
Sports ... P.19