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"Aww, but I wanted to go to the Tachi Station to pick up some power converters."
— Luke Skywalker
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In the original editing of "Star Wars: A New Hope," Han shot first.
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NEWS NEAR & FAR
INTERNATIONAL 1. Pope to address crowd for open-air mass event
LUANDA, Angola — Hundreds of thousands of Angolans have gathered for an open-air mass that is the last major event of Pope Benedict XVI's first African pilgrimage.
Officials expect 500,000 people while state television says it could be 3 million.
Portuguese news agency LUSA reported at least two people were killed in a stampede at a stadium before the pope addressed young people there Saturday.
2. Missing Egyptian coffin discovered in the U.S.
CAIRO — Egypt will soon file an official request with U.S. authorities to return a 3,000-year old wooden coffin illegally smuggled out of the country more than a century ago, the country's top archaeologist said Sunday.
In a statement, Zahi Hawass said the nearly 5-foot-long coffin
was taken from Egypt in 1884 after it was stolen from a tomb in Luxor, an ancient pharaonic capital in southern Egypt.
Hawass says the ornamented coffin belonged to Pharaoh Ames of the 21st Dynasty, which ruled over Egypt from 1081-931 B.C.
3. Gang fights stir up impending biker war
SYDNEY — Warring bikers brawled through Australia's largest airport Sunday, beating one suspected gang member to death and brandishing metal poles "like swords" as they rampaged through the main domestic terminal in front of terrified travelers.
Police Detective Inspector Peter Williams said said one man died in a hospital from head injuries after the brawl, which appeared to bear out warnings of an impending biker war in Sydney.
Police said a group of suspected gang members were ambushed as they disembarked from an airplane.
NATIONAL
4. Man pays $35 million to visit space second time
NATIONAL
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Recession or no, billionaire Charles Simonyi couldn't pass up another shot at space, even if it meant shelling out $35 million more.
Besides, it may be one of the last times the Russian government allows tourists to hitch a ride to the international space station.
A computer genius who helped build Microsoft, Simonyi (sih-MOHN'-ee) will become the world's first two-time space tourist when he leaves Earth behind Thursday. He'll be accompanied by two professional astronauts who will be going up for a six-month stint at the space station.
His own trip will last under two weeks, and it will be his last.
ST. PAUL, Minn. — The two candidates locked in a lengthy fight over a Senate seat from Minnesota are getting their own
5. Two Senate candidates acquire own bobblehead
bobblehead doll.
That's just one bobblehead doll, but with two faces — one for Republican Norm Coleman and one for Democrat Al Franken.
It's more than four months since Election Day and a Minnesota court is still considering Coleman's lawsuit to overturn the results of a recount that gave a narrow lead to Franken.
6. New horror film causes stir at actual residence
SOUTHINGTON, Conn. — "A Haunting in Connecticut," opens on Friday, but curious fans are already making a beeline for the Connecticut home that inspired the movie.
"it's just been really, really stressful," said Susan Trotta-Smith, who bought the home 10 years ago with her husband and doesn't believe the house is haunted.The movie, starring Virginia Madsen and Kyle Gallner and released by Lionsgate, is loosely based on stories that revolved around the house in the 1980s.
Associated Press
What do you think? BY ALICIA BANISTER
ALEX KOEP
Edina, Minn., senior
"March Madness. It's fun to lay around and watch basketball for seven hours a day."
KRISTIN CONNOY
KRISTIN CONNOY
Bloomington, Minn., junior
"Laying on the beach and tanning:"
WHAT IS THE BEST PART OF SPRING BREAK?
LIZ HUGHES
Omana, Neb., senior "Not going to school and hanging out with my friends in warm weather."
ANDREW BOOS
ANDREW BOUS Olathe senior "Watching basketball and drinking beer."
of an office machine business being used "as a shelf for empty plastic bottles and other useless objects."
The committee planning the city's 400th anniversary celebrations later this year had been searching for the location of the 150-pound steel tube from 1960, the Santa Fe New Mexican reported in Friday editions.
ODD NEWS Missing city time capsule rediscovered, never buried
The New Mexican said one of its reporters in 1964 discovered the unfilled tube in a back room
SANTA FE, N.M. — The mystery surrounding the buried location of a time capsule marking Santa Fe's 350th anniversary more than four decades ago has been solved: It was never underground.
Mayor Leo Murphy told the paper in the story more than 40 years ago that the project was abandoned because he was too busy trying to pay for bills incurred from the city's 350th
anniversary.
"Those were days of confusion, days of chaos," he had told the New Mexican. "I was more interested in getting some friends to sign a note with me to cover the deficit the celebration ran up than I was in what happened to the capsule."
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ON CAMPUS
The New Staff Orientation will begin at 8 a.m. in 204 JRP Hall.
"The Devil in the Mix": Selling One's Soul at the (Disciplinary) Crossroads* workshop will begin at noon in 135 Budig Hall.
The "Blackboard Strategies and Tools" workshop will begin at 1:30 p.m. in 6 Budig Hall.
The Linguistics Colloquy will begin at 3:30 p.m. in 206 Blake Hall.
The "How to Write a Successful Grant Proposal" panel discussion with KU Faculty will begin at 3:30 p.m. in the Conference Hall in Hall Center.
The "Plecnik in Prague: Religion and Modern Art in Central Europe, 1910-1935" lecture will begin at 7 p.m. in the Malott Room in the Kansas Union.
The free film screening of DJ Spooky's "Rebirth of a Nation" will begin at 8 p.m. in Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
JOBS Kansan to begin hiring for summer, fall jobs
The University Daily Kansan is hiring for Summer and Fall 2009.
Applications for editor-in-chief and business manager will be due at jobs.ku.edu by Tuesday, March 31. Hiring for other positions will take place after this hiring is complete.
If you're interested in applying, interviews will be conducted April 6. Please direct any questions to bhawley@ kansan.com.
ODD NEWS Man accused of shooting daughter on holiday
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A 59-year-old man is accused of shooting his daughter when she emptied his gin bottle after seeing him drunk on St. Patrick's Day.
Prosecutors on Thursday charged William James Smith with first-degree domestic assault and armed criminal action.
Associated Press
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