2A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 2006
Aftermath of a plane crash
TUESDAY top10
BY BENJAMIN SMITH
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KANSAN CORRESPONDENT
Top 10 best first lines from novels, according to the American Book Review.
1. "Call me Ishmael." — Herman Melville, "Moby-Dick" (1851)
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2. "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." — Jane Austen, "Pride and Prejudice" (1813)
Emergency crews respond to the scene of a C-5 cargo plane that crashed carrying 17 people, just short of a runway at Dover Air Force Base, Del., Monday. The tail of the aircraft is in the field near by. The military cargo plane headed for Spain developed problems after takeoff and crashed trying to return to Dover Air Force Base early Monday, military officials said. All 17 people aboard survived, though several were injured.
3. "A screaming comes across the sky." — Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow" (1973)
4. "Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."
— Gabriel García Márquez, "One Hundred Years of Solitude" (1967); trans. Gregory Rabassa)
6. "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." — Leo Tolstoy, "Anna Karenina" (1877); trans. Constance Garnett)
5. "Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins."
    - Vladimir Nabokov, "Nobukov" (1955)
    - "Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins."
7. "Riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius virus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs. — James Joyce, "Finnegans Wake" (1939)
8. "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen." — George Onwell, '1984 (1949)
9. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair." — Charles Dickens, "A Tale of Two Cities" (1859)
10. "I am an invisible man." — Relph Ellison, "Invisible Man" (1952)
"Quote of the Day"
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. — Gloria Steinem
ODDS AND ENDS Here comes the bride, all dressed in tackle
BRETHREN, Mich. — A couple brought together by a passion for fishing was married at — where else? — a river's boat ramp.
William Nickel read a short poem Friday before asking Vickie Wright to join him in the Manistee River during their wedding ceremony. They were dressed in fly fishing gear, with white flowers attached to their vests. Family members observed the ceremony from a dock rather than church pews.
Nickel had proposed to Wright a little over a year ago and asked her to meet him at the river for their wedding. He recalled introducing Wright to the sport of fishing — saying she has enjoyed it ever since.
"I taught her how to fly fish," Nickel said. "She has been catching a lot more fish lately."
While Nickel waited for the pastor to arrive for the ceremony, he threw in a line and caught 10 small fish. He threw them back after kissing one of them for good luck at the request of his bride-to-be.
The Associated Press
Upset father sues contentious coach
Oddenino, an attorney, filed a lawsuit in Superior Court claiming coach Don Riggio inflicted emotional distress on a player when he called her "a 2-year-old" and frequently called other players idiots.
ARCADIA, Calif. - When Michael Oddenino's teenage daughter complained that her softball coach was insulting her
teammates, he took the dispute off the diamond and into a court
The suit sought $3 million for intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress, negligence, a civil rights violation, and sex discrimination.
But Superior Court Judge Jan Plim dismissed the case, writing in her March 14 decision that there is nothing wrong with "a coach pushing an athlete to excel, and in so doing, using words that in another context would be considered rude, demeaning and even intimidating."
The suit had alleged that Riggio "took advantage of his position of authority to engage in an abusive pattern of excessive intimidation and humiliation of the female players, frequently calling them 'idiots,' and belittling them for minor errors"
Said Riggio: "I'm just glad it's over. Now we can move forward and do what we're there for, and that's to coach."
The Associated Press
Mercier built his house out of concrete — 85 yards of it. From the outside, the new 2,300-square-foot ranch-style home doesn't look a lot different from most. The basement and foot-thick exterior walls are made of concrete
Mercier and his wife are often asked if their bed is concrete. It is not.
— but so are the floors, windowsills, counter tops and end tables.
Man constructs home entirely of concrete
Mercier, who has run a concrete contracting business for three decades, said he got the idea of building a concrete house from an exhibit he visited at a World of Concrete convention.
Construction involved no wood framing or plywood, just windows, siding and interior Sheetrock. Hollow foam blocks were stacked and angled inside the walls before concrete was pumped around it. Even some of the furniture inside is molded concrete.
AUBURN, Maine -Termites wouldn't like the house that Mike Mercier built.
"The end tables are so cute," said Sue Mercier.
The walls are so soundproof that the Merciers' dog has a hard time hearing people come up the driveway now.
Such a home is energy efficient, because foam and concrete homes use less oil to heat, Mercier said. But a concrete home costs 10-15 percent more to build than a traditional wood-frame home, he added.
lowa alumni erect school flag on capitol
DAVENPORT, Iowa — Some University of Iowa alums elected to show school pride in an odd way two weeks ago, hanging an Iowa flag atop a state building — in Illinois.
A construction crew in Springfield, Ill., apparently raised the University of Iowa's Hawkeyes emblem while working on a historic building last week, unaware that only U.S. and state flags are typically allowed to fly atop state buildings.
The rules apply to state buildings that are under construction as well, so state officials in Illinois ordered the Iowa flag taken down last weekend.
"Had we known their plan we could have told them before it happened," said David Blanchette, spokesman for the Illinois Capital Development Board.
The Associated Press
Several workers for the project's general contractor, Halverson Construction Co., attended the University of Iowa and apparently wanted to show pride in their alma mater.
The building in question is a train station that construction crews are converting into a visitors center for the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, a popular attraction.
The Associated Press
CORRECTION
Friday's The University Daily Kansan contained an error. The article "Bands to aid Tibetan projects," incorrectly identified Deborah Peterson. Peterson is a lecturer of East Asian Studies.
ON THE RECORD
A 22-year-old KU student was charged with aggra- vated assault about 9 p.m. Saturday. The victim, an unidentified KU student, was assaulted with a stick near Watson Library.
ON CAMPUS
Tetyana Boryak, visiting Fulbright student, Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, Ukraine, is giving a lecture entitled "Escaping Bolshevm: Refugees' Exodus from Russia to Europe (1919-1939)" as part of the Brown Bag Discussion Series at 12:30 p.m. today in 318 Baile Hall.
The University Career Center is sponsoring a workshop on "Resumes from Scratch for Juniors and Seniors" at 3:30 p.m. today in the Budig Computer Lab.
Richard Jenkyns, Lady Margaret Hall Fellow, University of Oxford, is hosting a seminar on "God, Space, and Cities in the Roman Imagination" at 4 p.m. today in the Seminar Room at the Hall Center for the Humanities.
John Toohey, Dole Fellow, is hosting a seminar on "Politics in an Age of Entertainment & Instant Information" at 4 p.m. today at the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics.
Student Union Activities is showing the film "The Godfather" at 7 tonight in the Woodruff Auditorium at the Kansas Union.
Earline Moulder is holding an Alumni Organ Recital at 7:30 tonight in the Bales Organ Recital Hall.
The KU Choral Society is performing at 7:30 tonight at Lied Center.
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