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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2009
"I hate television. I hate it as much as I hate peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts."
Orson Welles
FACT OF THE DAY
In 1927, Bell Telephone Labs and AT&T gave a USA public mechanical television demonstration over both wire and radio circuits.
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INTERNATIONAL
1. Iraq, U.S. arrest person suspected of killing team
BAGHDAD — Iraqi commandos and U.S. forces have arrested a suspect in the 2006 kidnapping and murder of an Iraqi taekwondo team whose highway ambush became one of the symbols of Iraq's lawlessness during its worse years of sectarian violence.
The U.S. military announced the arrest in a statement Sunday, but did not say when it took place or identify the suspect. The Iraqi military did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Athletes and sports officials were frequent targets of threats, kidnappings and assassination attempts at the height of the civil strife in 2006 and 2007. Sportsmen were targeted for ransom or as victims of the sectarian violence.
2. Flood in Philippines leaves 80 people dead
MANILA, Philippines — Many Filipino villagers managed to save only the clothes on their backs but began to rebuild Sunday as the flood waters receded from a tropical storm that set off the worst flooding in the Philippine capital in 42 years and left about 80 dead.
Army troops, police and civilian volunteers plucked dead bodies from muddy flood waters and rescued drenched survivors from rooftops after Tropical Storm Ketsana tore through the northern Philippines a day earlier, leaving at least 106 people dead and missing.
3. Iran trumpets success in short-fire missile tests
Gen. Hossein Salami, head of the Revolutionary Guard Air Force, said Iran had perfected its short range missiles to make them more accurate in tactical battlefield situations and defend the country from any attacks.
TEHRAN — Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard said it successfully test-fired short-range missiles Sunday in drills meant to show Tehran is prepared to crush any military threat from another country.
"We are going to respond to any military action in a crushing manner and it doesn't make any difference which country or regime has launched the aggression," state media quoted Salami as saying. He said the missiles successfully hit their targets.
The display of force comes days after the U.S. and its allies warned Iran over a newly revealed nuclear facility it was secretly constructing.
NATIONAL 4. S.C. candidate begins
NATIONAL
campaign with a bang
GREENVILLE, S.C. — A candidate to be South Carolina's next National Guard leader skipped the fiery speeches for firepower, launching his campaign with what he called a "machine-gun social."
The Greenville News reports some 500 people came out to a shooting range Saturday for Republican Dean Allen's political rally. He wants to be the next adjutant general, the person who leads the state's National Guard
Attendees paid $25 for barbecue, a clip of bullets for target practice and the chance to win a semiautomatic AK-47.
5. Man severely burned after fight, hospitalized
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Officials say a man was airlifted to a central Florida hospital for treatment after he was severely burned during a fight over beer, cigarettes and money.
Ambulance company spokesman Mark O'Keefe says 47-year-old Dean Allen Fultz suffered "serious burns." Daytona Beach police Chief Mike Chitwood told the Daytona Beach News-Journal that Fultz was drinking in a home's backyard when the fight broke out Saturday afternoon.
Chitwood said that during the
Harper was jailed on $100,000 bond. He faces charges of attempted felony murder. It is unclear if he has an attorney.
scuffe, 42-year-old John Harper dragged Fultz into a wooded area, poured gasoline on his face and lit a fire. Chitwood said a bystander helped put out the flame
6. William Safire, writer on politics, dead at 79
NEW YORK — Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative columnist, language expert and former White House speechwriter William Safire has died. He was 79.
His assistant Rosemary Shields says Safire died Sunday morning at a Maryland hospice.She said he had been diagnosed with cancer.
Safire spent more than 30 years writing on the Op-Ed page of The New York Times. In his "On Language" column in The New York Times Magazine and 15 books, Safire traced the origins of words and everyday phrases such as "straw-man","under the bus" and "the proof is in the pudding"
As a speechwriter in the Nixon White House, Safire penned Vice President Spiro Agnew's famous phrase, "mattering nabobs of negativism," a tongue-in-cheek alliteration that Safire claimed was directed not at the press but Vietnam defeatists.
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What do you think? BY KIRSTEN KWON
CASEY BEAR
Baldwin City freshman "I think they can be harmful if you succumb to not studying and stay on Facebook all the time. But they're good for reaching people in your classes. It's a blessing but a curse."
Do you think social networks like Facebook and Twitter do more harm than good?
Minnetonka, Minn. senior They're good because they allow me to speak my mind through my Facebook statuses."
JOEY FINKELSTEIN
"It's harmful because it turns normal people into creepers, and I'm not talking about myself."
STEPHANIE IRWIN Coffeyville senior
JAY KOMBRINK Mission Hills junior "Social networks are good because you can chat with friends across the U.S."
ON CAMPUS
The Blackboard Strategies and Tools workshop will begin at 9 a.m. in 6 Budig.
The "SPSS I: Getting Started" workshop will begin at 10 a.m. in the Instruction Center in Anschutz Library.
The "Quantum Size Effects in Metal Thin Film Growth" lecture will begin at 4 p.m. in 2074 Malott.
The "Pray the Devil Back to Hell" showing will begin at 7 p.m. in Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
The Hallmark Design Symposium Series will begin at 6 p.m. in 3139 Wescoe.
The 2009 Dole Leadership Prize event will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Lied Center.
ON THE RECORD
About 6:30 a.m. Wednesday at Chase Court apartments, a University student reported an attempted aggravated burglary.
About 2 a.m. Thursday at the Stouffer Place apartment's playground, two men were charged with minor in possession of an alcoholic beverage.
About 3 a.m. Thursday near 12th and Ohio Streets, a University student reported an alcohol-related disorderly conduct. Multiple university students were listed as witnesses in the report.
About 8 a.m. Thursday near 19th and Kentucky Streets, a University student reported the theft of a bicycle, at a loss of $400.
About 2 a.m. Friday at Legends Place apartments, a University student reported a battery.
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