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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2007
"I'm definitely going out there with my mic and my shield to declare, I am here to save R&B:'I will have the people saying, 'Sire, there is a man at the musical gates saying he is here to save R&B.'"
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In the movie "The Kingdom," which opens today, Ronald Fleury (Jamie Foxx) mentions the Terrell Tribune newspaper when discussing the terrorist attacks. Terrell, Texas, is Jamie Foxx's hometown.
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GET READY FOR THE BEAKEND
BY KATHERINE LESLIE editor@kansan.com
THE SECRET GARDEN
The Lawrence Community Theater will introduce a play filled with enchanting music and haunting scenes that many will remember from a favorite childhood story.
The "Secret Garden" will play tonight and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2:30 p.m. The theater is at 1501 New Hampshire St.
This Tony Award-winning show
has stirred the minds of audiences as Mary Lennox (Sally Spurgeon) moves to live with her reclusive uncle, Archibald (John Phythyon), after the death of her parents.
The play focuses on her experiences living in her new home, especially after she discovers a run-down secret garden and begins bringing it back to life with the help of Dickon (Jacob Leet), the chambermaid's son and Colin (Jayke Workman), Archibald's son and her cousin.
than 20 feet from the action. At intermission playgoers can visit the Gladys Six Green Room to enjoy a variety of beverages and desserts and view works by several local artists.
Audiences are promised an intimate, relaxed setting in which to watch the play as no seat is more
Friday and Saturday tickets are $19 for students and senior citizens and $20 for adults. Sunday tickets are $18 for students and senior citizens and $19 for adults. Tickets are $14 for children both days.
At 8 p.m. Saturday, seven area boxers will battle it out in 10 bouts of action. The matches will occur at Harrah's Voodoo Lounge, 1 Riverboat Drive, Kansas City, Mo. The event is open to those 21 and older.
LIVE BOXING
The boxers are Juan Astorga (10-
1-2), Grandview, Mo., junior middleweight; Marcus Oliveria (10-0), Lawrence light heavyweight; Derek Campos (13-4), Topeka junior lightweight; Jr. Solis (9-0), Kansas City, Mo., junior welterweight; Dennis Race (4-1), Kansas City, Mo., welterweight; Rocky Dunkin (pro debut), Trenton, Mo., middleweight; and Brandon Hoskins (4-0), Hannibal, Mo., welterweight.
According to Lawrence.com, the fight has all the makings of "an action-packed collision of heart, mind, will and skill, and once the opening bell rings it will all meet head-on to determine the outcome!"
Tickets cost from $30 to $60,
and are on sale at www.ticketmaster.
com.
Edited by Jeff Briscoe
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Brandon Martin, 8-year-old Cordley Elementary School student, smashes a pie in the face of Joe Lawton, Olathe senior, Thursday afternoon at Sigma Alpha Epsilon's Back to School Bash. The carnival was held for the Boys and Girls Club of Douglas County.
ODD NEWS
ODD NEWS Big baby born in Russia is twice the normal size
MOSCOW — A small Russian city just got a really big addition: a 17-pound, 1 ounce baby whose mother had already delivered 11 other children.
Tatiana Khalina, 42, delivered the girl by Caesarean section at a maternity clinic in Aleisk, a town of 30,000 people in the Altai region in southern Siberia, a nurse at the clinic said Thursday.
Nurse Svetlana Gildeyeva also said the Sept. 17 birth went smoothly, and mother and child were fine. She said the baby, Nadezhda, was transferred from the small clinic to a maternity hospital in Barnaul, a larger city.
"We have presented them with
The daily Moskovsky Komsomolets quoted the local social services chief, Marina Alistarova, as saying the family had modest means.
An average weight for newborn babies is around 7 pounds,1 ounce, according to international statistics.
a good washing machine, a food package and a card," Alistratova told the newspaper.
The Guinness Book of World Records says the heaviest baby ever was born in the United States in 1879. It weighed 23 pounds, 12 ounces and died 11 hours after birth. Guinness says the heaviest surviving baby was born in 1955 in Italy, weighing in at 22 pounds, 8 ounces.
Puppies urinate on fallen comrade's memorial
ILLSBORO, Ore. — A fire hydrant painted as an American flag has been removed from a dog park after complaints it was disrespectful to let dogs use it for what dogs do.
The new leash-free park was named for Hondo, a police dog
killed 10 years ago chasing a suspect, and the flag-painted hydrant was intended as a tribute to him.
"We put a lot of effort into it," said artist Jason Ross.
However, after a photo of the hydrant appeared Sunday in The Oregonian newspaper, e-mails started arriving at the parks department.
"That gallant dog must be turning in his grave at the thought of the flag being desecrated every time a dog pees on that hydrant!" wrote Louanne Douris, a retired U.S. Foreign Service officer.
Corrine Bloomfield, the department's community resources manager, said the city hadn't decided where to replace the hydrant.
But Tuesday night, Eargle said he was jerked from sleep by coughing and quickly ended up having to fight a blaze at his own fire station.
Fire station catches fire; station barely saved
BISHOPVILLE, S.C. — Firefighter Brian Eargle is accustomed to waking up to fight fires.
Eargle managed to escape the fire, call for help and drive two trucks away from the burning building. He then pulled a hose from a fire truck parked outside to fight the blaze for about 10 minutes until his fellow firefighters could arrive and get their equipment on.
But it could have been a lot worse. Bedenbaugh said he was glad Eargle wasn't hurt or killed and that he managed to save the vehicles from the blaze.
The fire, which started in the lounge of the station, did about $30,000 in damage, Lee County Fire Chief Mike Bedenbaugh said.
The State Law Enforcement Division is investigating the fire.
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on campus
The 13th-Annual Mid-America Alliance for African Studies Conference will start at 10 a.m. in the Kansas Union. Tickets are $20 for students and $40 for faculty.
Professor Michael Crawford will present the lecture"The genetics of biological aging in Mennonite communities" at noon in 633 Fraser Hall.
David Krasner will present the seminar "Performing Billie Holiday" at 1:30 p.m. in the Seminar Room in the Hall Center for the Humanities.
Dr. Robert H. Singer, Yeshiva University, will present the seminar "Observing Single mRNA Molecules in Living Cells Using Advance Microscopy" at 3 p.m. in 1001 Malott Hall.
Brent Metz will present the Latin American seminar "Chort Maya Indigeneity in Honduras" at 3:30 p.m. in the Seminar Room at Hall Center for the Humanities.
John Deigh, University of Texas, will present the lecture "Moral Agency and Criminal Insanity" at 4:30 p.m. in 305 Courtside Room in the Burge Union.
The opening events for "Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist" will start at 5:30 p.m. at the Spencer Museum of Art.
The Kansas Concert Opera will perform "Tosca" at 7:30 p.m. at the Lawrence Arts Center. Tickets are $8 for students and $12 for adults.
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