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— "Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots"
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"Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots" was given a perfect score by many acclaimed game-reviewing companies and was chosen as 2008's best game of the year by many of them as well.
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1. Officials send planes to bring citizens back home
BEIJING — Mexican officials angry about China's decision to quarantine more than 70 Mexicans over swine flu fears sent a plane Monday to the communist country to bring its citizens back home. China sent its own plane to retrieve Chinese nationals stranded in Mexico.
"I think it's unfair that because we have been honest and transparent with the world some countries and places are taking repressive and discriminatory measures because of ignorance and disinformation," Calderon said.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon complained of a backlash against Mexicans abroad, and sent the chartered plane on Monday morning to fly to several cities and pick up Mexicans who wanted to leave China.
China's Foreign Ministry denied Mexicans were singled out.
ROME — A peeved Premier Silvio Berlusconi has demanded a public apology from his wife, who announced she was seeking a divorce from the billionaire media magna because she was
2. Billionaire demands a public apology from wife
Going on the counterattack, the 72-year-old, perma-tanned conservative premier, who in recent years has had hair transplants and plastic surgery around the eyes, appeared more intent on saving his wounded pride than his foundering marriage.
3. Two janitors arrested in attempted sabotage case
fed up with his roving eye for younger women.
"Veronica will have to publicly apologize to me. And I don't know if that will be enough," the Corriere della Sera daily on Monday quoted Berlusconi as saying in a long chat with its editor-in-chief.
MUMBAI, India — Two janitors were arrested in the attempted sabotage of the helicopter of an Indian billionaire, a senior police official said Monday, describing the tampering as part of an internal dispute at the company that maintained the aircraft.
Mumbai's Joint Commissioner of Police Rakesh Maria said two employees of Airworks, the company that maintained the chopper, sabotaged the gear box on April 23. Maria told reporters the tampering was not motivated by corporate rivalry, but was part of a dispute between Airworks employees and management dating back to 1995.
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4. Jailed medical student charged with pulling gun
WARWICK, R.I. — A medical student jailed in Boston on suspicion of killing a masseuse he met on Craigslist was charged Monday in Rhode Island with pulling a gun on a stripper in a hotel.
An arrest warrant issued Monday accuses Philip Markoff of assault and weapons violations. Authorities previously said Markoff, 23, was the suspect in the April 16 robbery attempt at a Holiday Inn Express at Warwick
"He will be brought to justice," Attorney General Patrick Lynch said at a news conference.
An exotic dancer from Las Vegas who offered lap dances told Rhode Island authorities that she was bound with cord and held at gunpoint by a man she met through Craigslist, a classified advertising Web site. She said her assailant fled when her husband came up to the hotel room.
5. Father commits suicide after killing his wife, sons
LAKELAND, Fla. — A 34-year-old father who shot and killed his wife and two young sons fell over a bicycle and missed another son before killing himself on the front lawn of their house, authorities said Monday.
The surviving 13-year-old boy escaped through the garage as his father fired a rifle at him, the Polk County Sheriff's Department said.
Investigators said Troy Ryan Bellar fatally shot his wife, Wendy Bellar, 31, and their 5-month-old and 8-year-old sons before killing himself late Sunday in Lakeland, between Tampa and Orlando. They said they had not found any suicide note and a motive for the killings remained unclear.
6. Storms cause damage across southern states
NEW ORLEANS — A tornado injured three people and damaged nearly two dozen homes Monday in southern Louisiana, a day after severe thunderstorms across the Southeast killed one person.
The National Weather Service said the tornado was 50 to 100 yards wide when it itre through the area about 140 miles northwest of New Orleans.
Heavy rain caused flooding Monday in areas including West Virginia, where nearly 2 inches of rain in western states of the state made roads impassable, washed out bridges, shut down schools, flooded basements and knocked out power to thousands.
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Cynthia Woods, McCollum Hall maintenance worker
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TUESDAY MAY 5, 2009
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A loose fitting funny pack, oval spectacles, and a persistent drive is all Cynthia Woods needs to get the job done — along with a few cleaning supplies.
"I'm a shy person," Woods said. "I just like to keep the students happy and keep everything clean."
"She's a nice woman," Subbankar Halder, India, freshman said. "She always greets everybody."
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mrothman@kansan.com
Woods, a maintenance worker in McCollum Hall, doesn't say much, but enjoys her job.
Cleaning up after someone else's mess can be a daunting task, but working in a college residence hall lies on a whole other level.
Whether it's the vomit of a post-party experience or debris left behind by a careless passerby, Woods must endure countless adolescent antics week after week.
"It's really difficult to keep cleaning the same stuff," Halder said. "She doesn't say, 'It's too hard, I'll do it another day.'"
Yet Woods sees the opportunity to work at KU in a different light.
"You get to meet a lot of people." Woods said.
As a mother of two and a grandmother of four, Woods enjoys a family reunion every few years and long conversations with her daughter.
"You're moving around, so there's more exercise," she said.
She will never have much to say, but when students need a spotless residence hall and a friendly face, the case is closed.
"We talk a lot on the phone every day after work because we're close," Woods said. "I also like to go to my son's cage fight. He's an amateur UFC fighter."
Woods has worked at the University since 1976 after being transferred from Topeka, her hometown.
jobs on campus. Contrary to what others may think, Woods enjoys her maintenance work more than her past office jobs.
"I think I've been doing a pretty good job," Woods said. "I've been working for 35 years. That should say enough about my work."
Before her cleaning duties began in 2003, she worked in many office
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The Fundraiser Featuring Mark Mangino will begin at 5:30 p.m. in the Anderson Family Football Complex.
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ON CAMPUS
A 22-year-old KU student reported a theft of a wallet in the 700 block of New Hampshire at a loss of $30 Sunday.
A 20-year-old KU student reported a battery in the 1700 block of W.24th Street Saturday.
A 45-year-old KU Med Center employee reported criminal damage to a vehicle in the 1000 block of N. 3rd Street at a loss of $200 Sunday.
A 19-year-old KU student reported a battery in the 1100 block of Ohio Street Saturday.
A 30-year-old KU student reported criminal trespass in the 2500 block of Redbud Lane Sunday.
A 23-year-old KU employee reported criminal damage to a vehicle in the 900 block of Alabama Street at a loss of $100 Saturday.
A 21-year-old KU student reported criminal damage for four slashed tires in the 900 block of Alabama Street at a loss of $250 Saturday.
A 38-year-old KU employee reported a burglary and theft of a motorcycle in the 800 block of Alabama Street at a loss of $2500 Saturday.
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Monday's article "Jayhawks nose out No. 9 Sooners" misidentified the photo credit. Elizabeth Nalewak is from The Oklahoma Daily.
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Monday's story "Leaving a lasting legacy" incorrectly identified which university Chancellor Robert Hemenway attended as an undergraduate student. Hemenway was an undergraduate student at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
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