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Tuesday, January 25, 1994
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WEIRD: Love can cause serious injury, even death
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—In July, thieves with a blow torch broke into an unmarked tractor-trailer parked at an Orlando, Fla., motel and stole bags containing 400,000 quarters while a guard slept in the truck's cab. Authorities said the loot was so heavy that it would be difficult even for two full-sized cars to carry it off.
-Damon Washington, 25, was arrested in November in San Francisco and charged with shoplifting cassette tape at a record store. After an investigation, police said that Washington had just escaped from a medical prison facility and that he needed some tapes to play in the car while riding to his home near Los Angeles.
-In August, Darby Johnson, 24, was arrested in Chippewa Falls, Wis., while sitting nude in a Laundromat with a newspaper over his helm. He told police he owned only two sets of clothes and that to wash them separately would require two trips to the Laundromat.
"The Salt Lake Tribune reported in December that police officer N.S. Hall recently had arrested two men for engaging in sex in a car in Ogden, Utah, and had taken them to the police station. Due to a miscommunication at the station, the men were locked up in the same cell, and immediately began having sex again."
-On Jan. 1, the government of Pakistan, under the direction of the prime minister, Benazir Bhutto, opened a police station in Islamabad funded entirely by women, to deal only with crimes committed against females.
In July, a 17-year-old boy, sitting alone on some steps in Manchester, N.H., was approached by a police officer on patrol who stopped to chat. According to the officer, the boy evaded several questions and then began coughing violently. As the officer rubbed his back to ease the cough, the boy finally spit out about $200 worth of cocaine that he had swallowed when he saw the officer approaching.
THE WEIRDO-AMERICAN COMMUNITY
-In October, a Los Angeles jury convicted James Ambrose McGrath of 18 armed robberies and weapons violations for a string of nine area bank robberies totaling almost $1 million. McGrath said his primary motive was "to warn the United States that Japan is planning a sneak thermonuclear attack against us." In January, McGrath was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
LEAST JUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDE
-In November, Carmen Friedwald-Hill, 26, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in Frederick, Md., for shooting her boyfriend, Ryan Gesner, to death. She shot him in the stomach during an argument over who loved the other more.
Kerrigan-Harding saga draws in TV movie offers
By Frazier Moore The Associated Press
Who could ever forget that vision from 1992—the devoted mother, legally blind, her nose pressed against the TV screen to catch even a blurry glimpse of her daughter on the ice just yards away.
Like Brenda Kerrigan rinkside in Albertville, France, viewers have been glued to the tube since the brutal attack on Olympic figure skater Nancy Kerrigan two weeks ago.
You don't have to know a triple axel from Axl Rose to be following this saga. It's the perfect TV story. Beauty in motion, plus sportsmanship turned squailid. Violence. Tragedy. Intrigue. Even comic relief.
It's going to make a heckuva TV movie. Especially when you fold in the genre's favorite ingredient: woman as victim. For in this tale you have not one, but two — namely, Kerrigan, the victim of a thug with a billyclub, and her archrival, Tonya Harding, arguably a victim of life.
A week ago, 20 Kerrigan scripts had piled up at one network. Kerrigan's agent reportedly was sifting through at least three dozen offers for the rights to her life.
But whatever comes of it all will be just an encore. Already, "Nancy and Tonya — Live!" is TV's most compelling series. It will continue at least until next month's Winter Olympics,
where Kerrigan may get to wage her ultimate showdown with Harding.
And unlike the Nancy- and Tonya adaptations to come, no viewer knows how this original will turn out.
TV wasted no time claiming the story. A tape of Kerrigan moments after her Jan. 6 attack was scooped up by ABC News. The images of a face wrenched in pain and the wails of "Why? Why?" instantly became video mythology.
"You don't have to know a triple axel from Axl Rose to be following this saga. It's the perfect TV story."
In the days since, TV has stayed on the story,
both watching it and helping it unfold.
During an interview on "Dateline NBC" last week, anchor Jane Pauley asked Kerrigan if she thought the attack had been meant for her, or if she had been a random target.
No kidding.
"Anything's possible," Kerrigan said.
The next night, NBC's "Now" broke details of a Kerrigan hit allegedly cooked up by associates of Harding, notably her elephantine bodyguard (casting tip: John Candy).
"If it's true, you couldn't make up a story."
Luckow, now a New York-based filmmaker who heres teaches skating at Man
this," said correspondent Bill Lagattuta on CBS "Eye to Eye" the night after that.
Then on January 16, "60 Minutes" aired excerpts from an eight-year-old film portrait of Harding. It was made as a Yale senior project by Sandra Luckow, a native of Portland, Ore., who as a youngster, like Harding, took skating lessons from Diane Rawlinson, now Harding's coach.
hattan's Central Park rink, said she had never before sought an audience for this early work
"But with all the negative publicity about Tonya Harding, I wanted people to see the human being behind the story," she said.
Surely no one who saw that footage on "60 Minutes" could have failed to ache for the plucky young skater, then 15 and already troubled. Perhaps the most revealing moments were spent with Harding's mother, a picture of addled rage who chose to be interviewed with a parrot on her shoulder (casting tip: Ann-Margret, with an Emmy guaranteed).
Then on Wednesday, the day Harding's exhusband was arrested, "Now" aired an update.
"Even though she hasn't been charged in the Kerrigan plot," said correspondent Chris Hansen, "she's been tainted."
Kerrigan, by contrast, seems purer by the day. She's America's Sweetheart (even as she knocks a hockey player out of her path in a Campbell's soup commercial that, in the aftermath of the assault against her, no longer seems funny). And with her price tag for product endorsements soaring — by one estimate, fivefold since the attack — a gold medal might be, financially, only gliding the lily.
Meanwhile, Harding, who has been brash enough to speak longingly of "dollar signs" and her own dreams of endorsements, will get zilch, experts agree.
On "Dateline NBC" this week, Olympic skater JoJo Starbuck spoke in Harding's behalf, reminding viewers that she is innocent until proven guilty.
Save your breath. It's TV, where perception is all.
Tonya Harding already has been cast as the loser in this real-life miniseries. Suspense, and plenty of it, lies in how much she loses, and how much Nancy Kerrigan wins.
Stay tuned. The show must go on.
Study Abroad With The University of Kansas 1994 Summer Abroad Visit a Study Abroad table
Advanced German In Holzkirchen/Munich, Germany
Advanced German In holland May 31-July 26 Visitsto Koln, Würzburg, Nürnberg, Rothenburg, and Salzburg. Nine hours of credit in German including literature, conversation, political, cultural and social perspectives, while living with a German family. $2,575.
Visit a Study Abroad table at the Kansas Union for information and applications.
January 26,27 and 31 9:00 am-3:00 pm
French Language and Culture In Paris, France
June 17-July 30
Visits to Normandy, Brittany, and Touraine, then four weeks in Paris. Six hour
credit for intermediate or advancedlevel French grammar, reading, composition,
conversation, culture, and phonetics. $3,200.
Intermediate German In Eutin, Germany
*May 31;July 26*
Lawrence's Sister City. Visits to Hamburg, Lübeck, Kiel, Berlin, Mainz, and München.
Receive up to nine undergraduate hours in German language, culture,
conversation, and grammar while living with a German family. $2,575.
Italian Language and Culture in Florence, Italy
*June 6-July 1 and/or July 4-July 29
Sixten credit hours in Italian language and culture, including cooking.
$2,200 (for a one month session) and $3,480 (for a two month session).
Spanish Language June 10-August 5 Begin with a two weektour of Madrid and other cities in central, western, and southern Spain Settle in the heart of Barcelona for four weeks of intensive study while living with a Spanish family. Seven hours credit in Spanish grammar, conversation, composition, poetry, and culture. $3,100.
Europe In Transition" In Copenhagen, Denmark
*June 4-July 28*
Six hours of credit from the following courses: The European Community, European Conflict and Security Issues, East-West Business Relations, Modern Danish Culture, and Danish language instruction. Three-day study/tour of Denmark. Optional study/tour to Moscow, St. Petersburg, and one of the Baltic states. $3,950
Humanities In Great Britain
*June 24 July 31*
*Stay in London, Edinburgh, York, Exeter, Bath, Oxford, and Stratford-on-Avon
Six to nine hours of junior-senior credit in British literature, history,
and arthistory. $3,200.
Intermediate Spanish In Guadalajara, Mexico
June 6 July 29*
Seven undergraduate credits in Spanish language, grammar, and composition, and Mexican culture and literature. Six graduate credits in Mexican history. $875(undergraduate)and$500(graduates)for each workshop. Alfare, lodging, and books are estimated at $1,600.
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Architecture in Paris, France for Architects
"June 17-July 30"
Includes building tours, lectures, and seminars by prominent French and U.S. architects. Lodging at the Gite Université, Paris, travel to such cities as Lille, Bordesley, Lyon, and Marseilles.
Approximately $3,500 plus some meals and personal expenses.
The London School of Economics, England June27 July15 and on July 18-August 5. Thies to six credit hourseconomics,business,and politics. $2,050 (for one term)and $3,450 (for bothterms).
Broaden Your Horizons!
Social Welfare in Asunción, Paraguay
"May 20-June 19"
Field experience with Paraguayan social agencies, Spanish language and Paraguayan history and culture are the topics of study. Students live with families while in Asunción. Excursions throughout Paraguay and Brazil. Two hours Spanish credit and two hours Social Welfare credit. $1,525
"The program costs do not include airfare, personal travel and expenses, books, or passports. Room and Board vary according to the program. All fees are estimated and subject to change. Students are accepted on a rolling basis. Early application is encouraged."
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