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KU atmospheric science students Jack McEnaney and Hannah Arredondo
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21. 2011
Wednesday
Partly cloudy with winds out of the NW at 10 to 15mph with gusts up to 20mph.
Thursday
HI: 71
A few clouds in the morning then
clearing up in the afternoon. Wind:
out of the NW at 5 to 10 mph.
LO: 46
Does anyone still own a windbreaker?
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HI: 71
LO: 47
Friday Clear skies with winds out of the S to SE at 5 to 10mph.
Flip-flops are appropriate.
A perfect day. Hope you don't have class.
Saturday
HI: 71 Clear skies with winds out of the W to NW at 5 to 10mph.
LO: 47
Great gameday weather, but it's a bye-week.
For the first time ever, KU has a sixth-generation Jiahawk in its last year's freshman class. That means there is a student on campus whose great-great-grandmother was also a KU student.
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VERACRUZ, MEXICO
The legislature of Mexico's Veracruz state approved a law intended to end terrorism charges filed against a man and a woman who allegedly caused a panic by tweeting rumors of purported drug cartel shootouts.
The legislation passed Tuesday creates' a disturbance of the peace charge so prosecutors can revise the indictments against Gilberto Martinez and Maria de Jesus Bravo.
They were charged last month with terrorism and sabotage after tweeted reports of violence caused panic in Veracruz city.
Duarte hasn't set a date for signing the legislation into law.
Veracruz Gov. Javier Duarte proposed the change earlier this month, citing pressure over the tweeting case from the Roman Catholic Church and civic groups.
LONDON
British police have been given more time to question six men arrested in what officials called a significant counterterrorism operation.
The suspects, aged 25 to 32, were detained Monday in the central England city of Birmingham, on suspicion of "the commission, preparation or instigation" of a terrorist act.
Officials said the arrests related to Islamic extremism and were one of the year's most significant anti-terror operations.
Terrorist suspects can be held for up to 14 days before they must be charged or released.
Police said Tuesday they had been given until midnight Sunday to charge the men, release them or apply for a further extension.
A woman arrested on suspicion of failing to disclose information about terrorism has been released on bail.
CAIRO
The Al-jazeera satellite TV channel has announced Tuesday that its director has stepped down after serving the network for eight years.
Wadah Khanfar's resignation follows release of documents by Wikileaks, purporting to show he had close ties with the U.S. and agreed to remove some content in response to American objections.
The leaked U.S. diplomatic cable dated October 2010 indicated that Khanfar was in constant contact with the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, responding to U.S. complaints of negative coverage and promising to tone down items on the station's website. The cables referred to Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs as "MFA" which passed him some of the DIA reports.
Al-Jazeera said in a statement that Khanfar expressed his desire to resign in July, and that his replacement was arranged one month ago.
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An east German regional train struck a car and de railed Tuesday, injuring more than 20 people, officials said.
The driver of the car managed to get out before the accident. Henkel said.
He said three of the train cars derailed and one tipped over on its side.
Six people were seriously injured and another 15 received minor injuries, according to local officials. News agency dapd said regional federal police chief Wieland Mozdzynski and Saxony's state transport minister, Sven Mortok, issued those figures during a visit to the scene — revising downward initial police reports that nine people were seriously injured and another 40 lightly injured.
Helicopters flew the most seriously injured to local hospitals for treatment.
Retelling 1994 South African election
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It was the end of the nightmare. The 1994 election in South Africa brought about the end of apartheid, and brought in president Nelson Mandela.
Tom Baxter, a journalist with 40 years of experience, relived his part in the 1994 election during Pizza and Politics Tuesday in the Parlor Room at the Kansas Union, with a musical soundtrack to bring the spirit of South Africa to the University.
Music always seemed to be present during Baxter's experiences, such as crowded buses of South Africans traveling down the interstate singing an almost religious, hymn-sounding song. The lyrics were strictly political and when translated into English, were quite vulgar.
A religious-style song called one of the candidates opposing Mandaela a Buthelezi, meaning 'mother f-er,' and blamed him for current economic and social problems.
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Spontaneous singing also marked significant events, such as when the old South African flag was triumphantly pulled down and replaced with the new South African flag. The huge crowd watching the ceremony broke out cheering and sang the new unofficial national anthem, Baxter said.
This election marked a significant advance in social progress and held parallels to southern politics.
years. Black South Africans, a majority of the population in South Africa, had been denied the right to vote up until the 1994 election, but almost everyone turned up to vote in this election.
Integration, which took the United States 20 years to achieve, had only taken South Africa two
Baxter said eight-hour lines extended from one polling place to the next.
He added the sick and physically impaired walked up three flights of stairs one step at a time, despite various disabilities. One man, after pointing to Nelson Mandela on the ballot, actually died; perhaps his will to vote for Mandela was the only thing keeping him alive at that point.
Journalist Tom Baxter talks to students during Pizza and Politics Tuesday afternoon in the Kansas Union. Hosted by Dole Institute of Politics, Baxter talked about his coverage of the 1994 South Africa election of Nelson Mandela. "We wanted to try and take a picture of the country. To try and capture something about the country that other news organizations weren't trying to do," said Baxter.
Baxter said there was more participation in this election than in most U.S. elections.
"This atmosphere takes a sometimes intimidating subject like politics and brings it down to a friendly level," said Lexie Clark, a junior from Fort Collins, Colo., who is also the Pizza and Politics coordinator. "It also allows for the speakers to experiment with new ways to bring their experiences alive as Tom Baxter showed through his personal recordings which varied from South Africans doing the Toyi-toyi dance, to a political song insulting Buthelezi."
It was easy to picture crowds of people cheering as the new South African flag was hoisted up especially in the low key atmosphere of a luncheon discussion.
— Edited by Mike Lavieri
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