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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2007
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"There's one major difference between James Bond and me. He is able to sort out problems!"
Sean Connery
—imdb.com
In 1953, Sean Connery entered the Mr. Universe contest, finishing third in the tall man's division.
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Models demonstrate wedding clothes during the Love Fashion AIDS show in New Ukraine. Tuesday, Some 38 Ukrainian designers united their efforts in creating a collection to attract more attention to AIDS epidemics in the country, with HIV-AIDS affected people, TV anchors and pop stars participating in the show. The Ukraine has the fastest growing rate of HIV/AIDS in Europe.
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Woman cited for swearing at her overflowing toilet
SCRANTON, Pa. — Talk about a potty mouth.
A Scranton woman who allegedly shouted profanities at her overflowing toilet within earshot of a neighbor was cited for disorderly conduct, authorities said.
Dawn Herb could face up to 90 days in jail and a fine of up to $300
"It doesn't make any sense. I was in my house. It's not like I was outside or drunk," Herb told The Times-Tribune of Scranton. "The toilet was overflowing and leaking down into the kitchen and I was yelling (for my daughter) to get the mop."
Herb doesn't recall exactly what she said, but she admitted letting choice words fly near an open bathroom window Thursday night
Mary Catherine Roper, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union in Philadelphia, took issue with the citation.
Her next-door neighbor, a city police officer who was off-duty at the time, asked her to keep it down, police said. When she continued, the officer called police.
"You can't prosecute somebody for swearing at a cop or a toilet;" she said.
NEW YORK — The wedding was lovely, except for the flowers: They were the wrong color.
They got hitched but didn't like the flower switch
So says the bride, Elana Glatt, who was so upset that she sued the florist and alleged breach of
She says Posy Floral Design in Manhattan substituted pastel pink and green hydrangeas for the dark rust and green ones she had specified for 22 centerpieces.
contract.
"The use of predominantly pastel centerpieces had a significant impact on the look of the room and was entirely inconsistent with the vision the plaintiffs had bargained for," Glatt, a lawyer, said in the lawsuit, filed on behalf of herself, her husband, David, and her mother-in-law, Tobi Glatt, who paid for the flowers.
She also alleges that the hydrangeas were wilted and brown, and arranged in dusty vases without enough water.
The flowers cost $27,435.14. The lawsuit asks for more than $400,000 in restitution and damages.
Stamos Arakas, the florist, said that he and his wife, Paula, tried to match the color of the hydrangeas with a picture Glatt had given them, but explained to her that the colors might not look the same.
"My father used to tell me, Don't deal with the lawyers," Arakas said. "Maybe he was right, God bless his soul."
WELLSVILLE, Utah — When Lynn Archibald received a mysterious note asking whether he was missing anything big in his life, the middle school principal checked his pumpkin garden.
"He came into my class so disstraught," teacher Ainsil Jenks said.
Giant pumpkin snatched, returned to win prize
Archibald decided to turn his loss into a fun lesson, asking students to write about the pumpkin theft.. Students responded with poems, stories and creative court scenes.
His giant gourd had been car-
ed away shortly before the staff
Archibald suddenly recognized the 184.5-pound pumpkin — the winner by more than 6 pounds — was his.
- was his.
at Willow Valley Middle School judged their great pumpkin growing contest.
"School is just fun here. Now we have a new thing for Halloween," student Kelly Miller said.
The principal's pumpkin turned out to be a winner in the end when the green-thumbed thieves, two teachers wearing shirts with black-and-white jail stripes, brought it in for the weigh-in.
FREDERICK, Md. — These giant skeleton keys can't be used to pick locks, but they could soon be opening some jailhouse doors.
Four men were arrested and charged with stealing one of 30 fiberglass keys installed throughout Frederick's historic downtown in tribute to national anthem author Francis Scott Kev.
Authorities said the stars-and-stripes number was taken by four men who smiled and waved at witnesses as they loaded the 6-foot item into a pickup truck.
Key, author of "The Star-Spangled Banner," is buried in Frederick. —Associated Press
Singing in the key of theft has sour results for four
BISMARCK, N.D. — A national insurance group is looking into conflict-of-interest allegations against North Dakota's former insurance commissioner for his role in writing a new law that restricts the resale of life insurance policies.
GOVERNMENT NAIC makes allegations against insurance law
Former North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Jim Poolman had a leading role in drafting the measure.
The NAIC letter was in response to a letter sent last month by a group of consumer advocates that urged the association to reopen debate on the new life-insurance law and to strengthen the association's conflict-of-interest policy.
A letter signed by the top officers of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners defends the law, and says supports efforts to persuade state legislatures to adopt it.
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According to Lawrence police, a former Kansas football player was arrested and charged with ag-gravated burglary, criminal threat, criminal damage to property and criminal trespass.
Lawrence police are investigating a man who reportedly flashed a knife and made threats to a customer at the Shell Gas Station near the 1800 block of Massachusetts Street and the Phillips 66 near the 2500 block of Iowa.
on campus
The Kansas Public Radio Membership Drive will be held all day at the Broadcasting Hall.
A Resume Doctor will be available from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Level 4 in the Kansas Union.
Harry Braun will present the university forum "Heading Toward a Technological Utopia or an Ecological Oblivion" at noon at the ECM Center.
Dan Bernstein and Doug Golick will present a workshop seminar on the "KEEP Toolkit" at 3 p.m. in 135 Budig Hall.
Kendra McLauchlan will present the lecture "Terrestrial Environmental Change During the Very Late Holocene: Evidence from Paleorecords" at 4 p.m. in 317 Lindley.
Silvia Bermudez will present the seminar "Virginia Vargas and the Languages of Latin American Feminisms" at 3 p.m. in the Seminar Room in the Hall Center for the Humanities.
Laura Moriarty will hold a book signing and reception at 7 p.m. in Oread Books in the Kansas Union.
The film "Sneakers" will be shown at 7 p.m. in Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union. Admission is free.
corrections
Tuesday's article "Parking changes proposed" misspelled the director of the parking department's name in a pull quote. Her name is Donna Hultine.
116 years ago this week, "Harvard crimson" was chosen as the new football team's official color. Yale blue was added five years later. They have served as the University of Kansas official colors ever since.
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