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2 The Megaphone, October 24, 2002
_In The News
By AMY HORNBERGER
Megaphone Nans Editui
MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) -
Gunmen identifying themselves
as Chechens took several hun-
dred hostages inside a Moscow
theater Wednesday night, threat-
ening to kill some of the hos-
tages and telling police they had
mined portions of the building.
Several hundred police uffucu.
and security officials and
numerous emergency, vehicles
were deployed around the the-
ater. The standoff began about
0:05 p.m. (1:05 I f).
As many as 700 people were
estimated to be in the theater.
There were no immediate
reports of injuries.
photo courtesy of CNN com
Police officers stand guard out-
side of a theatre m Moscow.
DENVER, Colorado (AP) -
Three nuns have been indicted
on charges that they cut through
a fence and entered a northern
Colorado missile site as a peace
protest.
All three women are members
of the Dominican order. Two
are members of Jonah House,
a group that advocates disarma-
ment.
According to Jonah House, the
women entered the site October
b and used their own blood to
paint a cross on the silo and the
tracks that carry the lid of the
silo to its firing position. They
also hammered at the silo and
the tracks.
The nuns have been tailed since
their arrest that day
According to Tuesday’s indict-
ment, Ardeth Platte, Carol Gil-
bert and Jackie Hudson each
face one count of willful injury,
interference or obstruction of
national defense. Each also
faces a count of causing more
than $ 1.000 in damage.
The lirsl count carries a sen-
tence up to 20 years in prison.
The second carries a maximum
10-year term.
The missile site Is near Gree-
ley, about 60 miles north of
Denver.
RIVHRHEAD, New York (AP)
— Entertainment publicist Lizzie
Grubman, whose clients have
included Britney Spears and
Jay-/, swapped her Manhattan
home for a Long Island jail
cell Wednesday, surrendering to
serve a 60-day sentence for a
car crash that injured 16 people
outside a Hamptons nightclub.
A tcary Grubman apologized
again to the victims of the crash
before she was led from the
courtroom in handcuffs to begin
her time behind bars in a 6-by-8
cell.
“I’m hapmed by it daily,” she
said h/fore her sentencing. Her
father, Allen Grubman, a high-
power entertainment attorney,
was with her in court.
Grubman, 31, admitted last
month that she had backed her
luxury SUV into a crowd of
revelers outside a trendy South-
ampton club on July 7, 2001.
The accident ignited a media
frenzy usually reserved for
A-list celebrities, not someone
who planned publicity for their
parties.
Witnesses said Grubman had
become upset when a bouncer
at Southampton’s Conscience
Point Inn asked her to move
her Mercedes SUV from a
fire lane. The bouncer, Scott
Conlon, claimed that Grubman
called him “white trash” before
slamming her car into reverse
and backing into the crowd.
The crash injured 16 people,
scattering them across the
ground with injuries ranging
from broken bones to cuts and
bruises. Grubman was whisked
from the scene in another vehi-
cle. By the time police tracked
her down, it was too late for her
to take a breathalyzer test.
LANSING, Michigan (AP) -
The Michigan C'ourt of Appeals
threw out a jury’s $29.3 mil-
lion award against “The Jenny
Jones Show,” saying the talk
show had no legal duty to pro-
tect a guest who was murdered
after revealing a gay crush.
The appeals court, in a 2-1 ruling
released Wednesday, reversed
the 1999 decision of an Oak-
land County jury that found the
show’s owner, Warner Bros
and its distributor, Telepictures,
liable for the death of Scott
Amedure.
Amedure was shot and killed
by Jonathan Schmitz in 1995.
three days after he revealed an
attraction to Schmitz during a
taping of the show. The seg-
ment never airetf, ancfSchmitz
is serving a 25- to 50-year
prison sentence.
Amedure’s family sued the talk
show in 1995, contending that
Schmitz, was ambushed and
tricked into believing his secret
admirer was a woman.
The Court of Appeals said the
show “may be regarded as the
epitome of bad taste and sen-
sationalism,” but that wasn’t
enough to hold it liable for
Amedure’s death.
“The defendants owed no duty
as a matter of law to protect
[Amedure] from the intentional
criminal acts of a third party,”
the court said.
In a dissenting opinion. Judge
William Murphy said the show
failed to check Schmitz’s per-
sonal history, which included
mental illness, alcohol and drug
abuse, suicide attempts and
anger management problems
“1 would hold that as a matter
of public policy, if defendants,
for their own benefit, wish to
produce ‘ambush’ shows that
can conceivably create a vola-
tile situation, they should bear*'
the risk if a guest is psycho-
logically unstable or criminally
dangerous,” Murphy wrote. .
Attorney Geoffrey Fieger, who
represents Amedure’s family,
said he would appeal the
ruling.
WASHINGTON (CNN) - The
Bush administration Wednesday
designated Indonesia’s radical
Islamic group Jemaah Islami
yah as a foreign terrorist orga-
nization under U.S. law.
The United States believes the
JI network was behind this
month’s deadly bomb attack
in Bali that killed nearly 200
people, although Secretary of
State Colin Powell said U.S.
officials have not come to any
conclusion about who was
responsible for the bombing.
In a written statement, he said
the group’s designation as a
photo courtesy of CNN com
terrorist organization vvift “the
result of a process that has been
under way since well before the
Bali bombings.”
“The Bali situation makes clear
we have to take terrorism in
southeast \sia seriously.” a
senior administration official
said, adding that the region is a
“high priority” in the campaign
against terrorism.
The latest State Department Pat-
terns of Global Terrorism report
says that in addition to Indone-
sia, Jemaah Islamiyah has cells
operating throughout southeast
\sia, including Singapore and
Malaysia and possibly the Phil-
ippines.
The United States says Jemaah
Islamiyah, whose stated goal
is to create an Islamic state
comprising Malaysia, Singa-
pore. Indonesia, and the south-
ern Philippines, is linked to the
al Qaeda network and some of
its members are known to have
trained in al Qaeda camps in
Afghanistan.
CHICAGO. Illinuis.......(CNN) -
'.Attorneys'“for NBA superstar
Michael Jordan filed a lawsuit
Wednesday accusing a woman
of attempting to extort $5 mil-
lion from him in exchange for
keeping quiet about a relation-
ship they had more than 10
NBA star Michael Jordan
appears in court to file a
lawsuit acusing a woman
of extortion She allegedly
extorted $5 million from him
in exchange for keeping
quiet about their relationship
that occurred over 10 years
ago The trial is taking place
in Chicago.
years ago.
The lawsuit conceded the NBA
superstar and the woman had
a “relationship,” but did not
go into details. The suit also
alleges that the woman was
paid $250,000 by Jordan “under
threat of publicly exposing the
relationship "
The suit was filed by Jordan’s
attorneys against Karla Knafel
in Cook County Circuit C ourt in
Chicago, the city where Jordan
became a legend with the Bulls,
leading them to six NBA cham-
pionships in the 1990s.
NABLUS, West Bank (CNN)
— An elite Israeli military unit
entered a Palestinian refugee
camp Wednesday and arrested
two wanted Palestinians, trig-
gering a gun battle between the
Israeli forces and Palestinians
in the area, the Israel Defense
f orces said.
The IDE said its forces entered
the Balata refugee camp, acting
on intelligence and security
information, to arrest the two
men — both described as mem-
bers of Palestinian leader Yasser
Arafat’s Fatah movement - who
Israel accuses of plotting sui-
cide .bombings.
Talent show this
weekend in theatre
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Seven groups will then be
selected to perform Saturday
night based on the following cri-
teria: Quality of performance
(25). Theme and Creativity (25),
Choreography and staging (20).
Costuming and props (15), and
backstage courtesy (15). A max-
imum of 600 points can be
received, 100 maximum from
one of the six judges, three of
the judges consisting of faculty
and staff, and the other three
alumni.
The Saturday show will begin
at 7pm and an awards ceremony
with the Marcia Ball Band will
be hehJ out on the .Academic
Mall following the last perfor-
mance.
Tickets are free to students and
are $5 a piece for parents,
alumni, and friends. A ticket
is needed to enter the doors, so
make sure you stop by the Table
of Fun on the McCombs Con-
course and pick up one. Also,
video tapes are for sale and can
be ordered in advance when you
pick up your ticket.
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Managing Editor Sarah Winn
News Editor . AmyHombqrger
Features Editor- Joan Henegar
Arts and Entertainment Editor Tiffany Welsh
Sports/Humor Editor Manuel Jovel
Op/Ed Editor Caley Thomas
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