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THE UNIVERSITY OF HALY I KANSAN
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2008
— Mark Twain
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Seven Pomeranian dogs wear fire fighter costumes during a fashion show of the Dog Olympics at the Hakijima Sea Paradise aquarium-amusement park complex in Yokohama, Japan, southwest of Tokyo on Saturday.
Obama chooses N.M. governor for Cabinet
BY BETH FOUHY
Associated Press
NEW YORK - President-elect Barack Obama has chosen New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson to be commerce secretary, adding a prominent Hispanic and one-time Democratic rival to his expanding Cabinet.
Clinton sent Richardson on several high-level diplomatic missions while he was in Congress, including direct talks with Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
Richardson, 61, had a distinguished and visible career in Washington before returning to New Mexico, where he was elected governor in 2002. Richardson served as U.N., ambassador under President Bill Clinton and later as energy secretary. He was in the House from 1983 to 1997.
Obama planned to announce the nomination after Thanksgiving, according to a Democratic official familiar with the discussions. The official was not authorized to speak publicly about the negotiations and did so on condition of anonymity.
Richardson is a seasoned international negotiator who mediated with North Korea over the downing of two U.S. Army helicopter pilots; hammered out a deal with Saddam Hussein for the release of two U.S. oil workers; won the release of three Red Cross workers held captive by Sudanese rebels; and was later sought out by the North Koreans to discuss nuclear issues.
competitive, with a jocular sense of humor.
In Richardson, Obama will get a secretary of commerce who has been described as relentless and
His success, said David Goldwyn, national security deputy at the United Nations in the late
1990s, stems from the many different facets of his personality — whether it's the athlete (he bonded with Fidel Castro over baseball), the tireless adversary (he spent four hours at the table trying to persuade President Laurent Kabila to let a U.N. team investigate massacres in Congo) or the regular guy.
"Richardson is all about crashing through boundaries," Goldwyn said in 2007. "He says hello to the security guy, and if he's Hispanic he'll say something in Spanish. If he's African-American, he might call him 'his brother.'"
ODD NEWS Couple sues McDonald's for uploading nude photo
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Here's some food for thought: if you have nude photos of your wife on your cell phone, hang onto it.
Phillip Sherman of Arkansas learned that lesson after he left his phone behind at a McDonald's restaurant and the photos ended up online. Now he and his wife, Tina, are suing the McDonald's Corp., the franchise owner and the store manager.
The suit was filed Friday and seeks a jury trial and S3 million in damages for suffering, embarrassment and the cost of having to move to a new home.
Manager Aaron Brummley declined to comment, and other company officials didn't return messages.
until he returned.
The suit says that Phillip Sherman left the phone the Fayetteville store in July and that employees promised to secure it
Albuquerque Police Dept. places ads, pays tattletales
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. The Albuquerque Police Department has turned to the want ads for snitches.
An ad this week in the alternative newspaper The Alibi asks "people who hang out with crooks" to do part-time work for the police.
An informant whose tip helps officers arrest a drug dealer could earn $50. A tip about a murder suspect could bring up to $700.
It's not the first time department has run ads. In a program 10 years ago, police received so many calls they turned the phones off.
Capt. Joe Hudson says police received more than 30 responses in two days. He says one tip was a "big one" but wouldn't elaborate.
It reads in part: "Make some extra cash! Drug use and criminal record OK."
MADRID, Spain — A new kind of silent hero has joined the fight against climate change.
Spanish town turns to cemetery for solar power
Santa Coloma de Gramenet, a gritter, working-class town outside Barcelona, has placed a sea of solar panels atop mausoleums at its cemetery, transforming a place of perpetual rest into one buzzing with renewable energy.
The power the 462 panels produces — equivalent to the yearly use by 60 homes — flows into the local energy grid for normal consumption and is one community's odd nod to the fight against global warming.
Flat, open and sun-drenched land is so scarce in Santa Coloma that the graveyard was just about the only viable spot to move ahead with its solar energy program.
"The best tribute we can pay to our ancestors, whatever your religion may be, is to generate clean energy for new generations. That is our leitmotif" said Esteve Serte, director Conste-Live Energy, a Spanish company that runs the cemetery in Santa Coloma and also works in renewable energy.
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on campus
The seminar"New Staff Orientation" will begin at 8 a.m. in 204 JRP.
The student-group event "Colors of Sri Lanka" will begin at 10 a.m. in the Jury Room in Marvin Hall.
The seminar "Cosmic Cataclysms" will begin at 3 p.m. in 3005 Malott.
The film "Daresalam" will be shown at 7 p.m. in Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
The seminar "Travel Memoirs, Rhetoric and the Self" will begin at 3:30 p.m. in the Seminar Room in Hall Center.
The Oread Singers concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall.
on the record
On Nov. 23, the KU Public Safety Office reported that:
- On Nov. 20, a student reported that an unknown suspect removed three credit cards from the victim's wallet while the victim was in the Student Recreation Center. The suspect used the cards to make $240 in unauthorized purchased. On the same day, an unknown suspect stole a victim's backpack, which contained a laptop computer valued at $1,200, among other items. Although the backpack was recovered, the computer was missing.
- On Nov. 23, the Lawrence Police Department reported that:
- On Nov. 21, a student reported the theft of more than $700 in personal items, including a $300 cell phone and several credit and identification cards. The items were taken from the victim's purse in a home near Ninth and Emory streets. The suspect allegedly sat locked in his car with the items until police arrived and confronted him after the victim continued to scream for some time. All items were returned to the victim, and the suspect was arrested.
- On Nov. 22, one student reported being the victim of battery, and another reported a burglary and the theft of two clothing items valued at $140.
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