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What is the collective name for a group of specific animals?
You might be thinking of a:
uate of turtles
band of gorillas
beld of clams
bevy of quails
brace of bucks
cast of hawks
cete of badgers
clutter of cats
crash of rhinos
down of hares
warren of rabbits
army of frogs
mob of kangaroos
muster of peacocks
pod of whales
murder of ravens
exalation of larks
parliament of owls
trip of goats
smack of jellyfish
or a paep of chickens
Into the fog
A student walks through rising steam on the steps of Wescoe Hall yesterday morning. Yesterday's warmer temperatures and humid conditions contributed to the steam.
Imam Ali Shrine damaged
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NAJAF, Iraq — U.S. infantrymen engaged in fierce battles with cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's militants yesterday, and U.S. tanks moved closer to the Imam Ali Shrine as the American military stepped up pressure on the insurgents to leave the holy site and end their uprising.
Late yesterday, witnesses said U.S. warplanes bombed the area of the Old City. Ahmed al-Shaibany, an aide to al-Sadr, said shrapnel from the attack hit the shrine's golden dome, one of its minarets and the compound's outer wall. The U.S. military denied responsibility for the damage.
Militant medical officials said at least two insurgents were killed and four wounded.
Hussein Hadi said two civilians were killed and two others injured.
Al-Hakim Hospital employee
Al-Sadr, whose Mahdi Army fighters are behind the uprising, has not been seen in public for many days.
His aides denied rumors that he had fled toward Sulaymaniyah in northern Iraq.
Worries that the violence could spread brought new calls yesterday to end the fighting in Najaf.
end the fighting in Iraq.
The Najaf fighting, which began Aug. 5, has killed at least 40 Iraqi policemen, eight U.S. soldiers and dozens of civilian bystanders. The U.S. military says it has killed hundreds of al-Sadr fighters, though the militia says its casualties have been far lower.
Interim government officials sent mixed messages to insurgents in recent days, first threatening to raid the shrine which would infuriate the nation's
Shite majority — then backing down and saying they were willing to wait for a peaceful solution.
Al-Sadr's aides said Friday that they would turn over the shrine to Shiite authorities, but the militants still had not withdrawn by yesterday.
Interior Minister Falah Hassan al-Naqib said the government would not wait indefinitely.
"Certainly there's a limit, and I think the period has started to narrow," he told Al-Arabiya television yesterday.
U. S. State Department spokesman Adam Ereli said that U.S.forces will not be involved in a move against the holy sites.
The militants see U.S. troops as unwanted occupiers and view their very presence in the streets of Najaf as a provocation, even if the soldiers do not attack them first.
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Pizza delivery vehicle stolen outside Templin Hall Sunday
A delivery driver who was in a hurry to get pizza to Templin Hall on Sunday learned a difficult lesson: Turn off and lock the car.
A KU Crimestoppers report released yesterday announced a pizza delivery vehicle was stolen Sunday at 1:45 a.m., while parked in front of Templin Hall.
The delivery driver left the 1995 white Chevy Cavalier unlocked with the engine running, the report stated.
yesterday morning, said Capt. Schuyler Bailey of the KU Public Safety Office.
The driver saw an unidentified suspect drive his car away as he left Templin, the report stated.
When the report was published, the two-door car was last seen leaving 15th Street heading west.
But luck was on the pizza driver's side: The car was reported recovered to the KU Public Safety Office at 3:40
The vehicle was found in St. Joseph, Mo., Bailey said.
Police haven't identified any suspects. Nikola Rowe
Ambulance responds when woman passes out in class
-Jonathan Kealing
Jane VanderVelde's English class, Topics in Love and Marriage, was a little more eventful yesterday.
It had nothing to do with literature, either. An ambulance responded to reports of a woman in need of medical attention.
The woman, who prefers her name not be used, declined to go to the hospital and walked away from the classroom on her own.
She told teachers and paramedics that this was not the first time she had
"She just passed out." VanderVelde, English lecturer, said.
passed out in class.
Hall Family Foundation board appoints Hemenway to roster
Chancellor Robert Hemenway was elected to the Hall Family Foundation board of directors, Donald J. Hall, Hall Family Foundation chairman, announced yesterday.
Hemenway is the third KU chancellor to be appointed to the Hall Family Foundation board. The appointment will begin immediately.
The Kansas City-based foundation pledged $42 million to further life-sciences research at the University of Kansas Hospital and scholarship in the humanities at the Hall Center for the Humanities.
This remains the largest private gift to a college or university in Kansas history.
— Nikola Rowe
STATE
Democrats select Lee Jones to battle Brownback
Democrats met in Wichita Saturday to name Lee Jones, a 53-year-old locomotive engineer from Lenexa, to run against Sam Brownback for the U.S. Senate.
The news came after Robert Conroy, a 76-year-old railroad worker and primary winner, dropped out of the race two weeks ago.
Marilyn Greathouse, Democratic Party chairwoman for Douglas County, said she thought he would be a good candidate.
"The problem will be the money," Greathouse said.
She said Brownback had more than $1 million to spend on a campaign compared to tens of thousands for Jones.
Justin McFarland, Lenexa senior and chairman of the KU College Republicans, said that it was not impossible for Jones to beat Brownback, but extremely unlikely.
Andy Hyland
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