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Thursday October 26,2000
HOROSCOPES
Today's Birthday (Oct. 26). Your plans could lead to success, but keep them private for a white. Let worries motivate you, not slow you down in November. You're lucky at finding valuables in December. Give a little at home in February, and you'll get more in return. You outweigh the competition in May. Don't pay too much, even for a good thing, in June. By July you should be ready for a cruise on the love boat. If you don't have a mate, you may find one there. You and a few good friends take new territory in September.
Aries (March 21-April 19) — Today is a 6.
Aries (March 21-April 19) — Today is a b.
A team effort could run into difficulties, soon.
You haven't budgeted enough for all the expenses.
The good news is you and your buddies aren't out of ideas yet.
Taurus (April 20-May 20) --- Today is a 6.
You may be carrying more than your share of the burden. That's what it feels like, anyway.
Maybe you ought to release your iron grip on the job. Maybe somebody else could do it as well as you — almost. It's worth a try.
Gemini (May 21-June 21) — Today is a 7.
Gemini (May 21-June 21) — Today is a 7.
Your best time for romance today is early. As the day goes on, you get busier. Tonight you may be swamped! The good news is you'll get a lot done.
The bad news is snuggle time's rare till next Sunday!
Cancer [June 22-July 22] — Today is a 7.
If you want to make a date for tonight, good luck. You may feel like you've run an obstacle course by the time you get there. It might be worth it, though. You choose.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is a 6.
Home is where you'd like to be, snuggled up with a good book. Somebody may have other plans for your time. Your sweetheart might have a surprise in store. Don't ignore a person who's close, or the surprise won't be a happy one.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is a 6.
Learning a new routine may make you like easier, eventually. Right now, it's just making things more complicated. Don't fight it; that will just make the whole process take longer.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is a 7.
If you can't decide what to buy, wait. It'll get easier. Somebody else might want to make the decision for you. Besides, you need to find out what your sweetheart thinks. That might not be what you expect. Don't rush into anything.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is a 6.
A slight difference of opinion could escalate into an issue if you're not careful. Knowing what you want will make life easier. That should be clear by tonight. You may not get all of it, but you'll have a place to start negotiating from.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is a 6.
You're about to be tested on something you're learning. Your doubts about your abilities don't help one bit. Instead of worrying, study. Get a good friend to be your coach.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is a 5.
A friend's great scheme to make a million still has a few rough spots. You might not know about a few details, too. Better move slowly on that one if money's involved — especially if it's your money.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is a 6.
Your dream and somebody else's reality are on a collision course. Don't try to explain; the other person is having trouble hearing you. Be patient. This may take a while. You come from two different worlds.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is a 5.
Travel's not a good idea, especially by water.
Can you start your cruise later, say, next spring?
Getting a package out might even be hard. Insure everything for twice its worth. That way if it doesn't get there, you make a profit.
Notes: Horoscopes have no basis in scientific fact and should be read for entertainment purposes only.
Dracula: The Music and Film, will be presented by the Lied Center New Direction Series at 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 2, in the Lied Center.
Series to showcase Dracula film, score
entertainment briefs
Keyboardist Philip Glass and the Kronos Quartet will perform the original score, written
Glass was asked to compose the music for
score, written by Glass. In
use with the re-release of Universal's Dracula starring Bela Lugosi. Originally, the film had no music and few sound effects. It instead relied heavily on Lugosi's distinctive Hungarian accent. Glass composed the score for the Kronos Quartet, an ensemble that has been hailed as "classical music's own Fab Four" by Rolling Stone magazine.
The ensemble, formed in 1973; consists of two violinists, a violist, and a cellist.
"No one has done more for
either the cause of new music of the revitalization of the chamber format than Kronos," said Billboard magazine. "In fact, no one has done more to transform the idea of what any 'classical' ensemble can be than Kronos, in either content, intent or impact."
Composer Phillip Glass has performed at the Lied Center on three previous occasions. Glass, is a renowned composer and recipient of an Academy Award nomination, LA.Critics Award, Golden Globe Award nomination and Grammery Award Nomination for Best Score. He won a Golden Globe Award for Best Score in 1999 for his work on The Truman Show.
During the film's showing, the musicians will be visible on stage behind the video screen because of special lighting. A post-performance Artists' Talk-Back also will take place with Glass and the Kronos Quartet.
Tickets for the show are available for $27 and $22 for the public, and $13.50 and $11 for students. They can be purchased through the Lied Center Box Office at 864-2787 or through any Tickmaster outlet.
Katie Nelson
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Couple constructs their own caskets
WINFIELD — Like many retired couples, Artis and Alice Bohannan share interests in projects around the house. In this case, it's woodworking.
He does the heavy work, the cutting and fitting and sanding. She puts on the finishing touches of cloth, padding and cushions.
But the Winfield couple aren't making furniture at least not this time. But you can do that, too.
Arlis Bohann, who turned 85 last week, had already been building his own houses for years. He turned to wood-working after a bad back forced him to retire from his mechanic's job at 62.
Since then, he's filled his home with handmade oak furniture.
Her husband said he had been inside his casket while he was building it. But now that it's finished, he said, "I think I wait."
The casket exteriores took Arlis Bohannan about 18 months to complete. The interior work on his casket is also finished, but his wife still is completing the detail work on hers.
So when he saw that he could build caskets for much less than the cost of buying them, it just seemed natural to do so.
"It took nearly two decades to make the authorities accept that he was in fact
People assumed dead must prove existence
LUCKNOW, India — Lal Behari threw leaflets into the state legislature, ran in parliamentary elections, staged a kidnapping and got himself arrested — all to prove he was, in fact, alive.
For 18 years, Behari battled the courts, government and his relatives to show he was not dead. But government authorities would not take his physical presence as evidence enough.
Behari was declared officially alive by the district magistrate of his hometown, Azamgarh, in 1994.
While fighting his case, Behari found at least 100 other people in the region were in the same predicament. He established the "Uttar Pradesh Association of the Dead" in 1980, and the group appealed to the Allahabad High Court and the National Human Rights Commission for help.
Sixteen other cases were redressed by state authorities acting under the court's order. But several dozen people still are fighting to prove they are alive.
alive and that his land could not be taken away, treating him as dead," the Human Rights Commission said in a report on Behari's case.
Man stuck in library sent to slammer
LAS CRUCES, N.M. — A man who got himself trapped inside a library has been booked — after calling 911 — for breaking and entering.
Gregory Roberts, 43, was arrested shortly after 2 a.m. Tuesday, when he called police from a pay phone in the foyer of the Branigan Library, said police Sgt. Jett Cano.
Officers found his shoeprints on broken glass where he allegedly gained entry by kicking in a windowpane, and Roberts apparently cut his hands while handling glass shards, Cano said.
Wandering inside the library, Roberts got trapped between the outer and inner doors of the foyer, Cano said. He couldn't go back in, and he couldn't go back
"We couldn't determine what in the world he was doing in there because he invoked his right to an attorney and wouldn't talk to us," Cano said.
"Sometimes late-night studying just doesn't pay," Cano said.
Now Roberts is behind another door — a jail door. A Dona Ana County magistrate imposed a $10,000 bond.
Texas-size skyscraper mav impede air path
DALLAS — The world's next record-breaking building may rise a bit too high, federal airline officials say.
A Texas-size skyscraper — proposed to reach 1,659 feet — could impede the flight path to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.
"It's up there," said Bruce Beard, senior obstruction evaluation specialist for the Federal Aviation Administration. "On a clear day, you could probably see it from almost any place in the metro area."
The FAA, with power to nix Texas construction taller than 200 feet because of
thick air traffic, would have to clear the multibillion dollar project before Maharshi Global Development Fund of New York could proceed.
The project, proposed for a northwestern suburb of Dallas, would surpass the twin Petronas Towers in Malaysia which, at 1,483 feet, beat Chicago's Sears Tower and New York City's World Trade Center for world's tallest building title.
The Dallas skyline's high point is Bank of America Plaza, which stands at 920 feet.
Woman writes lines after lying to police
AKRON, Ohio — It was an elementary approach to crime and punishment.
Jamie L. Vannostran, 22, got off light
obstruction of justice after writing
to the judge, Mr. Clemente, on Aug. 25.
"It was stupid," said Vannostran, arrested Sept. 22 when the father of her three children — wanted by police — was found hiding in her attic:
Municipal Court Judge Lynne Callahan sentenced Vannostroi to 15 hours of community service, reduced by recommissioning for Brian Zwag then assumed the lines.
"Maye I sent her a message, and she won't lie to police again." Zwaiad said.
Behind every tattoo, piercing is a story
ROSEMONT, Ill. — To paraphrase rock singer Rod Stewart: When it comes to the tattooed or pierced, every picture, hole, brand, implant and stretched piece of skin tells a story.
According to industry professionals attending The 6th Annual Inklin' Lincoln Tattoo Jamboree in Rosemont, having one's own tale to tell is a big reason behind the modern success of an art form at least as old as the mummies of Egypt.
With the world ever-more homogenized, suburbanized and vinyl-sided, people who use their bodies as a canvas say their markings help make them unique. *
"They're the only thing no one can ever take away from me," said body piercer Nathan Bauer.
Denise Bryan, a nurse and grandmother, was also among those showing off her body art.
"I liked how it turned out and how it felt." Bryan said of her first tattoo, a hockey
Oddities
themed engraving done three years ago. She now sports more than 50 tattoos, each a personal hieroglyph.
Foul language found in Toy Story 2 DVDs
LOS ANGELES — Some copies of Disney's new Toy Story 2 DVD have turned up with the Rrated movie High Fidelity co-peated into them.
The tainted DVDs were found at Costco stores, which pulled about 1,000 copies of the movie from its shelves last week after the retailer and Disney received about eight consumer complaints. Daily Variety reported Tuesday.
Disney's Buena Vista Home Entertainment blamed the problem on the studio's manufacturer, Technicolor Videocassette, Inc. The studio said less than 1 percent of the Toy Story 2 DVDs were merged with High Fidelity, which includes profanity.
"We are confident that the defective product has been isolated and removed from store shelves," Disney said.
Frier goes for gold at McDonald's games
NILES, Mich. — Call her queen,
Roberta Morrison, 42, has won best
McDonald's french frier in the Great
Lakes states.
The mother of three will go for the gold at the International Crew Olympics in Chicago.
The Great Lakes team will compete against five others, including those from Canada, Japan and Mexico, for the title of best McDonald's crew members in the world.
"It feels like Christmas." Morrison said. World champions get a four-day trip to Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla.
McDonald's representative Cindy Butter said Morrison had no trouble answering a judge's questions about such issues as the thawing time for frozen potatoes and the ideal temperature for frying fries. She was stumped when asked the number of small French fries helpings that McDonald's turns out from 100 pounds of potatoes — 420.
Contestants were judged on personally, cleanliness and knowledge of their jobs. The judges did not actually taste the contestants' fries.
The Associated Press
delta delta delta & phi delta theta present their fall philanthropy Haunted House
thursday, october 26 & friday, october 27 kids age 12 & under: 6:30pm-8:30pm students & adults: 9pm-11pm located at the phi delta theta fraternity house
$3 per person
& at wescoe beach
benefits children cancer research & the ALS foundation
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1 College of Liberal Arts Senator (over 60 hours in the CLAS)
2 Handmaker Senator (under 60 hours in the CLAS)
3 Low Senator
1 Law Senator
Applications are now available in the Student Senate office (410 Kansas Union) and will be due on Friday, November 3rd by 5:00 p.m. If you have questions, or other concerns, please call Nim Fuchs in the Student Senate office (884-3710)
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