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2A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14. 2006
TUESDAY top10
BY ASHLEY PATE
editor@kansan.com
KANSAN CORRESPONDENT
Top 10 Match-Ups to Watch during the Olympics
1. **Hockey:** Goaltenders Martin Brodeur (Canada) vs. Dominik Hakem (Czech Republic)
2. Snowboard Cross: Seth Wescott (U.S.A.) vs. Xavier Deleur (France)
3. Men's Figure Skating: Yevgeny Plushenko (Russia) vs. Johnny Weir (U.S.A.) vs. Stephane Lambiel (Switzerland)
4. Ice Dancing: Tatyana Navka and Roman Kostomarov (Russia) vs. Tanit Bellin Ben and Agosto (U.S.A.)
5. Men's Bobsled: Driver's Todd Hays (U.S.A.) vs. Andre Lange (Germany)
7. Women's Alpine Skiing: Janica Kostelic (Croatia) vs Ania Paerson (Sweden)
o. men's Alpine Skiking: Giorgio Rocca (Italy) vs. Benjamin Raich (Austria)
B. Short Track Speedskating (Apolo Anton Ohm)
(U S A Lamp, Aln Hauhn-Song (South Korea)
9. Long Track Speedskating: Chad Hedrick (U.S.A.) vs. Shagi Daji (U.S.A.)
10. Women's Figure Skating: Irina Slutskaya (Russia)
vs. Sasha Cohen (U.S.A.)
Source: The Dallas Morning News
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Fact of the day
The 1997 movie "As Good as it Gets" was titled "Mr. Cat Poop" in its Hong Kong release. Jack Nicholson's character's name, Melvin, is similar in pronunciation to the Cantonese colloquialism for cat poo.
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"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."
— Napoleon Bonaparte
"Qquote of the Day"
NYC program offers dating tips
NATION
'You and I' group preps adults with disabilities
BY ELIZABETH LAURE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — Zachary Lewis is looking for a date with a "positive attitude." Josh Wolf would like to spend time with someone "polite and friendly." Zaheer Malik wants a girlfriend who is "not too serious and not too silly, but in between."
All three are learning about dating and relationships as part of "You and I," a program for young adults who are retarded or autistic or have other mental disabilities.
On Monday night, about a dozen participants gathered to make ziti, salad and garlic bread and learn the cha-cha at a pre-Valentine's Day party.
Senior sex educator Bobra Fune, center, gives a lesson on cha-cha dancing during "You and I," a program for young adults challenged by autism, mental retardation and other disabilities to learn dating, self-esteem, social and sexual skills with such specifics as body language, grooming and conversation starters Monday in New York. The program, including the Valentine social, is offered through YAI/National Institute for People with Disabilities, which serves more than 20,000 people.
"I just love hanging out," George Korawckvi, 19, said.
At "You and I" events, the participants — the guys outnumber the women 16 to three — learn "social-sexual skills," with specifics on body language, grooming and conversation starters. There are also sections on feelings, body awareness and sex education.
The program's coordinator, Bobra Fyne, says it can be tough for parents to realize that their children are adults who are ready for relationships.
Jeanette Reyes said her 20-year-old autistic son, Anthony Hasan, "loves girls dearly" but didn't know how to connect with them. She decided it would be better for him to learn about dating from people she
trusted.
"I didn't know how it would be, but I knew I couldn't be afraid anymore," she says.
Each session ends with a dance hour.
Wolf's mother, Roberta Wolf, said the dancing is a "big plus" for her 28-year-old son, who works in the mailroom at Goldman Sachs. "He loves to dance, and any opportunity for a dance party is the biggest draw for him," she said.
Malik's mother got tears in her eyes when she saw her 29-year-old son dancing for the first time.
"You and I" is aimed at twenty-somethings who live with their parents in New York City and "are falling through the cracks. There's just no social outlet for them at all," said Fyne, who started her first group in 1999.
In an exercise last week, group members drew hearts. Outside the hearts, they completed the sentence
"I want somebody who looks like..."
Inside the hearts, they completed
the sentence "I want somebody who
treats me ..."
"The really juicy stuff is inside the heart," Fyne said. One writer wanted "somebody who isn't afraid of me because I have a disability."
Members also practice phone conversations and have workshops on how to say no and how to get out of difficult situations. A holiday session was about gift-giving on a budget.
NATION
Millions squandered in Katrina relief fraud
BY HOPE YEN
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — The government squandered millions of dollars in Katrina disaster aid, including handing $2,000 debit cards to people who gave phony Social Security numbers and used the money for such items as a $450 tattoo, auditors said Monday.
In other instances, recipients improperly used their debit cards intended for food and shelter for $400 massages, a $450 tattoo, a $1,100 diamond engagement ring and $150 worth of products at "Condoms to Go."
Federal money also paid for $375-a-day beachfront condos and 10,777 trailers that were stuck in mud and unusable.
Overcharges, poor accounting and abuses will take "months or years" to rectify, the Government Accountability Office and the Homeland Security Department's inspector general concluded in preliminary reports on how billions of dollars in taxpayer money is being spent.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency recognizes it "made many, many mistakes," and is working on improvement, said Homeland Security inspector general Richard Skinner. "But they're not where they should be. In some cases, the government will have little legal recourse to recoup payments to contractors for payments."
Separately the Justice Department said Monday that federal prosecutors had filed fraud, theft and other charges against 212 people accused of scams related to Gulf Coast hurricanes.
Forty people have pleaded guilty so far, the latest report by the Hurricane Katrina Fraud Task Force said. Many defendants were accused of trying to obtain emergency aid, typically a $2,000 debit card, issued to hurricane victims by FEMA and the American Red Cross.
The GAO report found that up to 900,000 of the 2.5 million applicants who received aid under the emergency cash assistance program — which included the debit cards given to evacuees — based their requests on duplicate or invalid Social Security numbers, or false addresses
and names.
In other instances, recipients improperly used their debit cards intended for food and shelter for $400 massages, a $450 tattoo, a $1,100 diamond engagement ring and $150 worth of products at "Condoms to Go."
The reports called for stronger controls to verify the eligibility of disaster victims who apply for aid over the phone and Internet, better planning of emergency supplies for hurricanes and improved accounting of FEMA's vast inventory of temporary housing.
Senators decried the problems.
"Once again, FEMA failed to adequately plan for the very type of disaster that occurs virtually every year," said U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) who chairs a Senate panel reviewing the government's response to the storm.
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