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"One does not simply walk into Mordor."
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THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 2009
—Boromir, The Lord of The Rings: The Fellowship of The Ring
FACT OF THE DAY
Sets were often built in two sizes to accommodate all races in The Lord of the Rings. From the furniture in the Prancing Pony to the vegetables in Bilbo's garden, every object in every scene had to be built twice to complete the illusion.
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KABUL — A controversial law that critics said legalized marital rape was unconstitutional and led toward the "Talibanization" of Afghanistan's legal system, according to a petition signed by dozens of Afghan ministers, lawmakers and officials.
The law, quietly passed and signed last month, has stirred international outcry over women's rights. The law said a husband could have sex with his wife every four days unless she was ill, and regulated when and for what reasons a wife might leave home.
INTERNATIONAL
1. Controversial Afghan marital law under attack
Following an international outcry, with President Barack Obama calling the law "abhorrent," President Hamid Karzai ordered its review.
2. Suspected U.S. missile kills three in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD — A suspected U.S. missile struck a car in a lawless northwest Pakistani tribal region Wednesday, intelligence officials
LAQUILA, Italy — Bells toiled across central italy on Wednesday as the first funerals got under way for victims of the country's devastating earthquake. The Vatican granted a dispensation so a funeral Mass for most of the 272 dead could be celebrated on Good Friday.
The strike was a less-than-subtle hint that the Obama administration won't give up a Bush-era tactic that Washington says has killed a string of al-Qaida operatives along Pakistan's border with Afghanistan, even if it strains already-shaky relations with Islamabad.
said, killing two insurgents and a civilian a day after the country again told visiting U.S. officials it opposed such attacks.
3. Funerals begin in Italy; Pope to visit area soon
As more bodies were pulled from the rubble, some of the 28,000 homeless spent another day lining up for food and water in camps that have sprouted up around the city. Pope Benedict XVI said he would visit the area soon.
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4. Hospital accused of dumping 150 patients
LOS ANGELES — A $1.6 million settlement has been reached with two Southern California hospitals accused of improperly discharging and dumping psychiatric patients on Skid Row in Los Angeles, the city attorney's office said Wednesday. The settlement also barred College Hospitals in the Orange County cities of Costa Mesa and Cerritos from transporting homeless psychiatric patients to downtown shelters, City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo's office said.
City officials alleged that over two years, as many as 150 patients from the two hospitals were dumped on Skid Row, an area on the east side of downtown where thousands of homeless people live.
5. Man accused of stealing plane from flight school
ST. LOUIS — Adam Dylan Leon was accused of stealing a single-engine Cessna 172 from his Ontario flight school Monday and flying erratically over three states
before landing more than seven hours later on a desolate stretch of highway in southern Missouri. Authorities said Leon didn't communicate with anyone and had no map or flight plan.
The FBI and Missouri State Highway Patrol said Leon told them he was trying to commit suicide, hoping U.S. fighter jets would shoot him down.
6. Biden welcomes troops home after 15-months
FORT BRAGG, N.C. — Vice President Joe Biden welcomed home soldiers after their 15-month deployment to Iraq, telling U.S. troops Wednesday that the war-torn nation is "a country where violence is replaced by progress."
"You did more than I suspect you even know," Biden told several thousand soldiers during a welcome home ceremony for the 18th Airborne Corps at Fort Bragg. "You went in the midst of what was an uncertain future for Iraq and you left a country where violence is replaced by progress."
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Rescue rehearsal
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Members of the U.S. Air Force pares- rescue team from the 920th Rescue Wing at Patrick Air Force Base fit several different types of flotation devices around a mock up Orion capsule on Wednesday in the U.S. Navy Trident Basis at Port Canaveral, Fla.
Deaths of immigrants on border rise 7 percent
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border have risen in the past six months despite a nearly 25 percent drop in arrests by the Border Patrol, according to patrol statistics.
der increased by nearly 7 percent between Oct. 1, 2008, and March 31, 2009, though apprehensions of people crossing illegally from Mexico into Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California decreased
The number of migrant deaths along the roughly 2,000-mile bor-
TUCSON, Ariz. — Illegal immigrant deaths along the U.S.-Mexico
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Migrant rights groups said the number of deaths directly correlated to increased enforcement along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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The rise in deaths was "the direct result of more agents, more fencing and more equipment" the Rev. Robin Hoover, founder of the Tucson-based Humane Borders, said Tuesday.
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The KU Libraries Book Sale will begin at 9 a.m. on the main floor in Watson Library.
The Kenneth A. Spencer Memorial Lecture will begin at 9:30 a.m. in The Commons in Spooner Hall.
The Senior Session lecture will begin at 10 a.m. in the 20/21 Gallery in the Spencer Museum of Art.
The 'From Tintin to Tin Town: The Spaces of Comics in Brussels' lecture will begin at 7 p.m.
The "Little Ideas That Made the Big Time: The Story Behind the Beaker" seminar will begin at 7 p.m. in the Continuing Education building.
The Geography Brownbag Series will begin at noon in 210 Lindley Hall.
The Unclassified Senate full senate meeting will begin at noon in Room 202 in the Ambier Student Recreation Fitness Center.
The Climate Change Book Discussion & Film will begin at 6 p.m. in the North & South Balcony Galleries in the Spencer Museum of Art.
SUA Tea Time will begin at 3 p.m. in the Lobby in the Kansas Union.
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The Representing the Client, Athlete and institution student group event will begin at 1 p.m. in Room 104 in Green Hall.
The University / Faculty Senate meeting will begin at 3:30 p.m. in 106 Green Hall.
The Ann Turnbill men's basketball Budig Lecture will begin at 4:30 p.m. in 150 JRP.
The "Grass, Cows, and the Directions of Life's History" lecture will begin at 4 p.m. in 103 Lindley Hall.
The "Investments Gone Bad: A Comparative Account of Banking Crises in Japan and the United States" lecture will begin at 4 p.m. in 501 Summerfield Hall.
The "A History of Teaching Drawing in America" lecture will begin at 5:30 p.m. in Room 211 in the Spencer Museum of Art.
One week from today is the last day to drop a class. Best not to wait until late next week, as there will be very long lines at the Registrar's Office. For details, visit their website at www.registrar.ku.edu.
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