6A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 2006
Teamwork
Ronald W. Erdrich/Abilene Reporter-News
Abilene Police Officer Mike McAuliffe, second from left, and teacher Pat Donahue, left, pull on a hydraulic jack while Abilene High School students push a trashed-out Chevrolet left overnight in the school's courtyard as a senior prank Tuesday in Abilene, Texas. Fences and overhanging breeway ceilings prevented access to the car by tow truck, resulting in the elbow grease solution. Vandals had cemented the car's wheels into holes, driven a large pole through the roof into the earth beneath, and spray painted "Seniors 06" on the side.
Public records sealed by agency
BY FRANK BASS
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NATION
WASHINGTON — The National Archives agreed to seal previously public CIA and Pentagon records and to keep silent about U.S. intelligence's role in the reclassification, according to an agreement released under the Freedom of Information Act.
The 2002 agreement, requested three years ago by The Associated Press and released this week, shows archivists were concerned about reclassifying previously available documents — many of them more than 50 years old — but nonetheless agreed to keep mum.
Intelligence officials began reviewing documents for reclassification in 1999. The New York Times reported earlier this year.
The number of documents
that have been removed from public view, however, has soared since President Bush took office in 2001 and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks occurred.
An estimated 55,000 pages within 10,000 documents have been removed from public view, ranging from information about 1948 anti-American riots in Colombia to a 1962 telegram containing a translation of a Belgrade news article about China's nuclear capabilities.
National Archivist Allen Weinstein announced a moratorium on the reclassification last month so his information security oversight office could audit the process.
Historians expressed concern about the secrecy in the reclassification agreement.
"This whole activity was effectively concealed," said Steven Aftergood, director of the Federation of American Scientists' government secrecy project. "It's baffling. It's basically a covert action taking place at the National Archives."
Aftergood also said he found it odd that the agreement named two of the agencies involved in the reclassification program — the U.S. Air Force and Central Intelligence Agency — but redacted the name of a third, arguing it would compromise national security, reveal internal government deliberations and violate statutes against disclosure of specific information.
In congressional testimony last month, a historian said the third agency was the Defense Intelligence Agency.
Archivists refused to address his assertions.
ENTERTAINMENT
Series wives share man, stars share thoughts
Actresses, from left, Ginnifer Goodwin, Jeanne Triplehorn and Chloe Sevigny portray Bill Paxton's three wives in the HBO dramatic series "Big Love," which airs on HBO at 9 p.m. on Sundays.
HBO photo
BY FRAZIER MOORE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — There was something about playing the three wives on "Big Love," HBO's polygamy drama, that made three fine actresses answer: "I do," "I do," "I do."
"I was really shocked at myself for signing on without knowing where it was gonna go, or much of anything else," says Chloe Sevigny, who co-stars with Jeanne Triplehorn and Ginnifer Goodwin in this unconventionally devout series (following "The Sopranos" at 9 p.m. Sundays).
"But after reading the pilot, I was so moved by it," she continued, "and I was fascinated by my character" — Nicki, the sulky middle wife of Salt Lake City merchant and father of seven Bill Henrickson, played by Bill Paxton.
"I had months of auditioning," recalls Goodwin, who was vying for the role of the excitable, childish third wife, Margene.
Goodwin's screen test was a love scene with Paxton.
"I was pulling out of the driveway on the phone with my agent, saying, 'I blew it. I made out with a stranger, and I think I must have unset him'" she said.
Then another call came in:
"Welcome to 'Big Love!'"
Tripplehorn said she had been wanting to do a television series "but I don't like legal dramas. I don't like medical dramas. I was looking for a comedy."
"I went through all sorts of emotions: 'I don't think I'm right.' Everyone is really nice." But she trusted the script. "The family situation was handled
Before accepting the part of Barb — Henrickson's wife of 17 years and the matriarchal focus for the whole family — she initially wavered.
with such dignity and intelligence and class."
"Polygamy is just the back-drop," explains Goodwin, noting the Henricksons' overwhelming righteous lifestyle in their three adjoining suburban tract homes. The fact is, "Big Love" seldom turns out to be what you expect.
"I think it's funny how there are a thousand shows out there, and a thousand movies, that are glorifying affairs, while this man is being completely honest with his wives," says Goodwin. (Well, not quite honest: Splicing up his round-robin bedroom regimen, he and Barb have been sneaking around on the others.) "And all his wives love each other."
"We're all married to each other," Tripplehorn agreed. "But I did have a problem in the very beginning with Barb, with bringing dimension to her, because she is so generous in spirit. As we went along, I found subtleties — Barb is selfish in her own way — but at first I felt like she was so saint-like and boring, while Margene and Nicki were so beautifully defined."
"Margene is 23 going on, like,
10," Goodwin says. "She has a way of creating utter chaos, and still finds a way of making none of it her fault.
"But I can only define her now that I have some distance. When we were shooting, I felt messy, while, watching you," she says to Triplelhorn, "I felt like YOU were so specifie."
The show was in production from last April through September, "and by the end," says Seyvigny, "I was so sick of being a bitch! I thought, 'Audiences are gonna hate this character.'"
True, Nicki is a snop, a shopaholic and often a sourpuss. "But I think she is a very sympathetic character." Sevigny declares. "I fell SO in love with her! It's the greatest part I've ever had."
"I was always telling Chloe how much I wanted that role," says Triplehorn with a smile.
"When we were shooting one of the final episodes." Sevigny reminds her, "Barb was still a saint and Nicki was still a bitch, and I was sort of freaking out. I said, 'We should trade. Just once.'"
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