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"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug."
Mark Twain
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
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FACT OF THE DAY
For the duration of his presidency, Ronald Reagan slept with a roll of Life Savers candy under his pillow to bring good luck.
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SUA's Late Night Winter Bash is tomorrow night from 9 p.m.to midnight in the Kansas Union Ballroom. Enjoy holiday food and activities as we bid a fond farewell to fall 2010 classes.
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WEDNESDAY
December 8
What's going on?
The chancellor's holiday reception will be from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the Adams Alumni Center.
The Department of Visual Arts clubs will hold a holiday art sale from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union.
THURSDAY
December 9
Student Union Activities will host a late-night winter bash from 9 p.m. to midnight in the ballroom of the Kansas Union.
Last day of classes.
FRIDAY December 10
SUNDAY
Stop Day. No classes.
December 12
Student Union Activities will host its Late Night Breakfast at Mrs. E's from 10 p.m. to midnight.
The School of Journalism will hold its graduation ceremony at 1 p.m. in Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union
MONDAY December 13
Finals week begins.
SATURDAY December 11
The School of Engineering will recognize fall 2010 engineering graduates at 9 a.m. in Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
TUESDAY December 14
CORRECTION
The Dec. 6 story "Professor teaches inmates poetry" misidentified the man who is the program director for the Douglas County Correctional Facility. His name is Mike Caron.
ODD NEWS
Truck with cream strikes L.A. home
LOS ANGELES — Mark Leon lives in a sweet spot for big rigs in Los Angeles County.
Authorities say the truck, driven by an unlicensed 16-year-old, was stopped by a stand of trees and a chain link fence just off Interstate 210.Three people had minor injuries.
Nine years after a truck hauling chocolate syrup crashed into his mobile home park, another rig hauling 36,000 pounds of whipped cream and sour cream crashed Tuesday just feet from his house.
WikiLeaks' founder sent to jail, faces extradition
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LONDON — A British judge sent Julian Assange to jail on Tuesday, denying bail to the WikiLeaks founder after Assange vowed to fight efforts to be extradited to Sweden in a sex-crimes investigation.
Despite Assange's legal troubles, a WikiLeaks spokesman insisted the flow of secret U.S. diplomatic cables would not be affected. He also downplayed efforts to constrict the group's finances after both Visa and MasterCard cut off key funding methods Tuesday.
"This will not change our operation," spokesman Kristinn Hrafinn Hrafinnson told The Associated Press. As if to underline the point, WikiLeaks released a dozen new diplomatic cables, its first publication in more than 24 hours, including the details of a NATO defense plan for Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania that prompted an indignant response from the Russian envoy to the alliance.
Assange turned himself in to Scotland Yard on Tuesday morning, and was sent to the City of
Westminster Magistrates' Court in the early afternoon. He showed no reaction as Judge Howard Riddle denied him bail and sent him to jail until his next extradition hearing on Dec. 14.
U. S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, visiting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and U.S. troops in Afghanistan, was pleased to hear that Assange had been arrested.
"That sounds like good news to me," he said Tuesday.
Riddle asked the 39-year-old Australian whether he understood that he could agree to be extradited to Sweden. Assange, dressed in a navy blue suit, cleared his throat and said: "I understand that and I do not consent."
The judge said he had grounds to believe that the former computer hacker — a self-described homeless refugee — might not show up to his next hearing if he were granted bail.
Arguments during the hour-long hearing detailed the sex accusations against Assange, all of which he has denied.
Attorney Gemma Lindfield,
acting on behalf of the Swedish authorities, outlined one allegation of rape, two allegations of molestation and one of unlawful coercion stemming from Assange's separate sexual encounters in August with two women in Sweden.
Lindfield said one woman accused Assange of pinning her down and refusing to use a condom on the night of Aug. 14 in Stockholm. That woman also accused of Assange of molesting her in a way "designed to violate her sexual integrity" several days later.
A second woman accused Assange of having sex with her without a condom while she was asleep at her Stockholm home.
Assange's lawyers have claimed the accusations stem from a "dispute over consensual but unprotected sex" and say the women only made the claims after finding out about each other's relationships with Assange. WikiLeaks lawyer Mark Stephens says the case has taken on political overtones — a claim Swedish officials have rejected.
Legally, there is a good chance Assange will be heading to Sweden. Experts say European arrest warrants like the one issued by Sweden can be tough to beat, barring mental
Assange's Swedish lawyer Bjorn
or physical incapacity. Even if the warrant were defeated on a technicality, Sweden could simply issue a new one.
Hurtig said it was difficult to say how long the extradition process in Britain would take, but it could be anywhere from a week to two months.
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