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(03/27/02 5:12pm)
California Crossing\nFu Manchu\nMammoth Records\nAll you slackers rejoice. Fu Manchu is back. Kingpins of the ultra-cool "stoner-rock" movement heralding the likes of Queens of the Stone Age, High on Fire and the legendary genre-founders Kyuss, Fu Manchu has broken free of the conservative establishment once again with its sixth full-length album, California Crossing. Not that there is anything very different about its approach this time around -- just the same blistering heaviness and bellowing attitude -- but that's what makes Fu Manchu so powerful. The band doesn't beat around the bush; it gets straight to the point. And that point is straight-ahead rock.\nWith a predilection for heaviness and a bias toward fast cars and loose women, Fu Manchu trudged out of Southern California in the early '90s and has since remained steadfast in its dedication to the groove. California Crossing boasts 11 songs of equally mammoth intensity. The riffs are Herculean. The vocals are laid-back cool. The rhythm section is driving. For those unfamiliar, it sounds something like Dexter Holland (the Offspring) fronting mid-'80s Black Flag on a serious Black Sabbath kick. \nFrom the first notes of "Separate Kingdom," the riffs pound you into oblivion and leave no choice but to crank it up. It's a perfect open road anthem, windows down and wind in your face, music drowning out the highway and engine noise. \nAnd frankly, nothing changes throughout the album's nearly 40 minutes. Apart from Keith Morris' (Circle Jerks) joining the fold for co-vocal duties on "Bultaco," the album is one linear bong-hit. The only downside is this lack of sonic difference, which by the album's end becomes somewhat tiresome. But having too much of a good thing is nothing to complain about. So rev up the engine, crank the stereo and head for the open road. California Crossing is ready for you.\n
(03/27/02 5:00am)
California Crossing\nFu Manchu\nMammoth Records\nAll you slackers rejoice. Fu Manchu is back. Kingpins of the ultra-cool "stoner-rock" movement heralding the likes of Queens of the Stone Age, High on Fire and the legendary genre-founders Kyuss, Fu Manchu has broken free of the conservative establishment once again with its sixth full-length album, California Crossing. Not that there is anything very different about its approach this time around -- just the same blistering heaviness and bellowing attitude -- but that's what makes Fu Manchu so powerful. The band doesn't beat around the bush; it gets straight to the point. And that point is straight-ahead rock.\nWith a predilection for heaviness and a bias toward fast cars and loose women, Fu Manchu trudged out of Southern California in the early '90s and has since remained steadfast in its dedication to the groove. California Crossing boasts 11 songs of equally mammoth intensity. The riffs are Herculean. The vocals are laid-back cool. The rhythm section is driving. For those unfamiliar, it sounds something like Dexter Holland (the Offspring) fronting mid-'80s Black Flag on a serious Black Sabbath kick. \nFrom the first notes of "Separate Kingdom," the riffs pound you into oblivion and leave no choice but to crank it up. It's a perfect open road anthem, windows down and wind in your face, music drowning out the highway and engine noise. \nAnd frankly, nothing changes throughout the album's nearly 40 minutes. Apart from Keith Morris' (Circle Jerks) joining the fold for co-vocal duties on "Bultaco," the album is one linear bong-hit. The only downside is this lack of sonic difference, which by the album's end becomes somewhat tiresome. But having too much of a good thing is nothing to complain about. So rev up the engine, crank the stereo and head for the open road. California Crossing is ready for you.\n
(03/05/02 6:31am)
It's snowing in Bloomington. Wind chills are dipping to ear-numbing levels. People are hacking at their car windows to remove ice. \nGolf season must be starting.\nThe Hoosiers have begun their spring campaign in the warmer climates of Pensacola, Fla., participating in the two-round Emerald Coast Collegiate tourney which began yesterday and concludes today.\nBut the frigid temperatures of Bloomington followed the men to Florida. In the first day of action yesterday, the men's golf teamn shot a first-round 314, and are in sixth place overall. The tournament was called before the completion of one of the rounds because of frosty temperatures.\nIU's Ben Davidson is tied for second place overall after day one action. The junior shot a 1-over-par 73, and stands one stroke out of the lead. \n"Ben played a great round today, especially under these conditions," IU coach Mike Mayer said in a press release. "It was unfortunate that he ended his round with a double bogey, or else he would be leading the golf tournament."\nDavidson and junior Aldo Jordan are joined by freshmen Jeff Overton, Rob Ockenfuss, and Heath Peters in the Hoosier lineup.\nIn addition to IU, the field of competitors consists of Austin Peay, Cincinnati, Drake, Eastern Michigan, Florida A&M, Florida Atlantic, Illinois, Louisville, Missouri and host West Florida. West Florida is the defending NCAA Division II champion.\nMayer believed prior to heading to Florida that the Hoosiers could tame the tournament course, Tiger Point Golf & Country Club.\n"It's a good test of golf," Mayer said. "With our length, I think it (the course's layout) suit us pretty well. We believe this tournament gives us a chance to compete for a title right away."\nMayer also thought that any southern team who thinks that northern teams like IU won't be able to compete may be in for a bit of a surprise. During the off-season, the team worked with strength and conditioning coach Stephan Roche to bulk up and add flexibility to golf-related muscles. \nThe mild weather also allowed the Hoosiers to play more frequently than usual during the winter.\n"I really feel we can challenge some of the southern schools," Mayer said. "I wouldn't be surprised if we beat a lot of their butts."\nThe IU golfers were excited about the prospect of playing in a tournament setting for the first time since October. Particularly enthused is Jordan, who missed the end of the fall season after being injured in an automobile accident.\nJordan spent much of his winter break working to strengthen his muscles and bones that had been damaged. Upon returning, he focused on getting back into golf-related shape.\n"On a scale of one to 10, I would have to give this a 15," Jordan said. "I'm really excited. I've put a lot of effort into running and eating right. I'm finally getting back on track."\nFor Overton, the tournament will be a gauge of his transition from an inexperienced rookie to a cagey leader both on the scorecard and as a decision maker. Overton will be playing in the No. 1 spot for the Hoosiers.\n"You learn from the best five players from teams all over the country," Overton said. "It allows you to stay more competitive."\nThis is the first year that IU has competed in the Emerald Coast Collegiate. The tournament was added on to the schedule to make up for the loss of the Northern Intercollegiate, which was among the Big Ten events cancelled in the aftermath of Sept. 11.\nIf the weather behaves, IU will begin the final 18-hole round at 7:30 a.m today.
(03/04/02 7:56am)
A fire damaged several units in Colonial Crest Apartments, 703 W. Gourley Pike Saturday morning, causing six residents to jump from a second story window for safety, Bloomington Fire Department Chief Jeff Barlow said.\nTwo of those who jumped from a window about 10 to 12 feet from the ground were injured, one with lacerations and an ankle injury and another with cuts and a broken heel, Barlow said. \nThe cause of the fire is still under investigation, he said.\nFirefighters arrived at the blaze around 7 a.m. Saturday, where they battled heavy smoke and flames coming from the apartments, he said. \n"The building construction was good," Barlow said. "They had fire stops, and with the aggressive firefighting of the fire crews they kept it (around) the fire's origin."\nNineteen people were unable to stay in their homes, said Ed Vande Sande, director of emergency services for the Monroe County American Red Cross. Several residents were students, he said.\nHe said all of the evacuated residents are staying in hotels, IU housing facilities, vacant Colonial Crest apartments or with friends.\nOther residents were allowed back into their homes around 11:30 a.m., Barlow said.
(02/20/02 4:34pm)
Crossroads - PG- 13\nStarring: Britney Spears, Anson Mount, Zoe Saldana, Taryn Manning\nDirected by: Tamra Davis\nShowing: Showplace East 11\nHe said: \"I might be a liar... but this movie sucked\"\nBritney Spears, a bastion of "chastity" and "virtue," the diva minus the diva-esque persona, the girl next door and the impending media mogul. Britney wears many hats, and the latest one's that of actress in the vapid teeny-bopper road trip flick "Crossroads." And for some reason this hat seems to be ill-fitting.\nBritney's acting chops and this flick suck... hard. Spears stars as Lucy, a lily-white virgin-valedictorian. Once graduation passes she rekindles her friendships with childhood friends Kit (Zoe Saldana), a prom queen priss, and Mimi (Taryn Manning), a pregnant chick from the trailer park. \nThe girls, along with Ben (Anson Mount), the "ruggedly charming" ex-con with a heart of gold (cliche check anyone?) set out on an inane road trip to Los Angeles. Laughably absurd events litter their pilgrimage; the girls give a rousing karaoke rendtion of "I Love Rock 'n Roll," because as Britney was recently quoted in Rolling Stone as saying, "I love Pat Benatar!" The song is by Joan Jett, bubblehead! Lucy's character recites trite poetry from her journal, which coincidentally enough winds up being Britney's new hit single "I'm Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman," and is later butchered in a duet between the reigning teen pop songstress and the ever-sensitive Ben. I wanted to puke, and could have, had I not been laughing so uncontrollably.\nThe highly controversial scene, which depicts the popping of Britney's cherry by big, bad Ben, contains about as much taste as a rice cake. The two do the deed before an open window overlooking a beach. What if some kid were building a sand castle out there? How perverse and insensitive are these people? Apparently very, because I had to endure this crappy flick which they were both at least somewhat responsible for.\nThere's very little redeemable about "Crossroads," with the exception of the scenes in which Britney pranced about in her skivvies, and these finer moments were in abundance. The flick's a real disappointment despite being lensed by Tamra Davis, the director behind such modern-day comedic masterpieces as "CB4," "Billy Madison" and "Half Baked"; but then again, Britney's about as funny as outtakes from "Schindler's List."\nBritney, while cute, sucks as an actress. Perhaps she'd be better in a different vehicle, but I doubt it. \n
(02/20/02 5:00am)
Crossroads - PG- 13\nStarring: Britney Spears, Anson Mount, Zoe Saldana, Taryn Manning\nDirected by: Tamra Davis\nShowing: Showplace East 11\nHe said: \"I might be a liar... but this movie sucked\"\nBritney Spears, a bastion of "chastity" and "virtue," the diva minus the diva-esque persona, the girl next door and the impending media mogul. Britney wears many hats, and the latest one's that of actress in the vapid teeny-bopper road trip flick "Crossroads." And for some reason this hat seems to be ill-fitting.\nBritney's acting chops and this flick suck... hard. Spears stars as Lucy, a lily-white virgin-valedictorian. Once graduation passes she rekindles her friendships with childhood friends Kit (Zoe Saldana), a prom queen priss, and Mimi (Taryn Manning), a pregnant chick from the trailer park. \nThe girls, along with Ben (Anson Mount), the "ruggedly charming" ex-con with a heart of gold (cliche check anyone?) set out on an inane road trip to Los Angeles. Laughably absurd events litter their pilgrimage; the girls give a rousing karaoke rendtion of "I Love Rock 'n Roll," because as Britney was recently quoted in Rolling Stone as saying, "I love Pat Benatar!" The song is by Joan Jett, bubblehead! Lucy's character recites trite poetry from her journal, which coincidentally enough winds up being Britney's new hit single "I'm Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman," and is later butchered in a duet between the reigning teen pop songstress and the ever-sensitive Ben. I wanted to puke, and could have, had I not been laughing so uncontrollably.\nThe highly controversial scene, which depicts the popping of Britney's cherry by big, bad Ben, contains about as much taste as a rice cake. The two do the deed before an open window overlooking a beach. What if some kid were building a sand castle out there? How perverse and insensitive are these people? Apparently very, because I had to endure this crappy flick which they were both at least somewhat responsible for.\nThere's very little redeemable about "Crossroads," with the exception of the scenes in which Britney pranced about in her skivvies, and these finer moments were in abundance. The flick's a real disappointment despite being lensed by Tamra Davis, the director behind such modern-day comedic masterpieces as "CB4," "Billy Madison" and "Half Baked"; but then again, Britney's about as funny as outtakes from "Schindler's List."\nBritney, while cute, sucks as an actress. Perhaps she'd be better in a different vehicle, but I doubt it. \n
(02/01/02 4:07am)
NEW YORK -- With signs the United States is emerging from recession, the 32nd annual World Economic Forum began Thursday with discussions on where the global economy is headed and how to deal with terrorism. \nAgainst a backdrop of generally peaceful demonstrations and scattered vandalism targeting symbols of corporate America, some 3,000 international business, political, academic and religious figures met at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel behind phalanxes of police. \nSome 4,000 police were on duty, So many were concentrated around the conference site it reminded some New Yorkers of the intense security after the Sept. 11 terror attacks. \nDespite the high state of alert, there were few arrests, and former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani predicted police would maintain order. \n"This is a peaceful city. This is a city that understands diversity. This is a city that understands how to deal with large meetings," Giuliani, who was instrumental in bringing the forum to New York partly in solidarity following Sept. 11, said. \nAt a news conference, a top official of a private industry group predicted the U.S. economy will grow 1.5 percent in 2002. \n"My view is that the U.S. recession is over, that November will be viewed as the trough," Gail Fosler, chief economist at the Conference Board, a business-financed group that issues influential monthly economic reports, said. \nEurope's recovery will probably take hold in the third and fourth quarters but the pace could be slower than in the United States, Klaus Zimmerman, president of the German Institute for Economic Research, said. \n"We're struggling with the sins of the past in terms of government spending," he said. \nThe outlook for Japan remains bleak, said Jacob Frenkel, former head of Israel's central bank who is president of Merrill Lynch & Co.'s international division. \nJapan "will stay in a recession until it deals with its financial system and banking sector properly," he said. \nBesides the worldwide economy, the five-day forum is focusing on such topics as improving security and alleviating poverty around the globe. \nA panel of international security experts warned the Bush administration against using force on other countries, saying that could hurt relations with its allies. \nThey said President Bush should use diplomacy instead of military might in his dealings with Iran, Iraq and North Korea, which were identified as rogue states in his State of the Union address Tuesday. \n"If you topple Saddam Hussein, there will be another Saddam Hussein somewhere else," Christoph Bertram, director of the German Institute for International Affairs and Security, said. \nAt another seminar, Alain Dieckhoff, research director at France's Center for International Studies and Research, said the best way to combat terrorism is to build a strong middle class. "When you have that, it's easier to have democratic values and practices," he said. \nThe forum also offered a chance for diplomacy. Palestinian officials said their parliament speaker, Ahmed Qureia, planned to meet with Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, who is attending the forum. \nAmong the forum's other participants are King Abdullah II of Jordan; Kofi Annan, secretary-general of United Nations; Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, president of Philippines; Michael Dell, chairman and chief executive of Dell Computer, and Microsoft chairman Bill Gates. President Bush won't attend, but is sending Secretary of State Colin Powell and Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill. \nAfghanistan's interim leader, Hamid Karzai, had been scheduled to give opening remarks Thursday afternoon but canceled his appearance because he had to meet in London with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, forum spokesman Charles McLean said. \nOutside, police in riot gear stood guard while other officers rerouted traffic and kept protesters behind concrete barriers ringing the site. \nFive women were charged with trespassing and reckless endangerment in lower Manhattan for climbing to a building rooftop and unfurling a banner that read, "Bush and big biz agree that people with AIDS drop dead." \nPolice also reported vandalism at several chain businesses around Manhattan. A man was arrested for defacing the front door of a Starbucks coffee shop, police said. \nAbout two blocks from the Waldorf, several hundred followers of the Chinese meditation sect Falun Gong -- which is banned in China -- did slow-motion bending and stretching exercises in a cold drizzle behind a police barricade where they hung a banner saying "Help Stop State Terrorism in China." \nNearby, a dozen environmentalists, outnumbered by reporters and camera crews, chanted, "WEF, you are the weakest link -- goodbye!" \nPolice officers wearing olive green military helmets and flak jackets looked on. A few officers toted black submachine guns. \nAuthorities hoped to avoid a repeat of last year's World Economic Forum at its traditional site in the Swiss ski resort of Davos. Protesters there smashed windows, burned cars and clashed with police.
(01/28/02 5:16am)
JERUSALEM -- For the first time, a Palestinian woman launched a bomb attack Sunday, killing herself and an 81-year-old Israeli man and wounding at least a dozen people on a busy Jerusalem street. \nIsraeli police said they were not sure if the woman intended to kill herself or if the bomb exploded prematurely as she walked along Jaffa Street, the main commercial strip in west Jerusalem. \nIn Lebanon, the Al-Manar television station run by the militant Hezbollah movement said the bomber was Shinaz Amuri, a female student at Al-Najah University in the West Bank town of Nablus. \nIsrael accused Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat of "encouraging terrorism" and said it was prepared to respond to the bombing -- the third major attack in an Israeli city in a week. \nVice President Dick Cheney said Arafat must "make a 100 percent good-faith effort to put an end to terrorism." \nThe blast next to a shoe shop blew out shop windows, set a store on fire and left victims sprawled on the pavement amid shards of glass, pieces of fruit, shoes and storefront mannequins. \n"It sounded like half the street exploded," said Hama Gidon, a clothing store worker who was slightly injured. "All the mannequins went flying and I did too. People were falling, glass was flying everywhere." \nMore than 100 people were treated on the spot or taken to hospitals, though most suffered only from shock. Three people were seriously hurt and nine had moderate injuries, officials said. \nMark Sokolov, a U.S. citizen from Woodmere, N.Y., who survived the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, was slightly hurt in Sunday's explosion along with his wife and two daughters. \n"I heard a loud whoosh, like a bang, and I kind of saw things flying around a little bit, and then I realized I was able to get up and walk around," Sokolov told Israeli television. \nSokolov said he was on the 38th floor of the World Trade Center's south tower on Sept. 11 when a hijacked airliner hit the north tower. His office was evacuated and he escaped before the south tower was hit. \nNo group immediately claimed responsibility for Sunday's attack, but Israel said it held Arafat ultimately responsible. \nArafat is "encouraging terrorism, he's sending (attackers) to Jerusalem," said Raanan Gissin, a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. "We will continue to systematically dismantle the terrorist infrastructure." \nThe Palestinian leadership, meanwhile, "strongly condemned the suicide attack" and called on President Bush to send Mideast envoy Anthony Zinni back to the region. However, Bush has been sharply critical of Arafat, and Cheney suggested on "Fox News Sunday" that Zinni will not return soon.
(01/11/02 4:15am)
I had a ritual. Whenever I drove home, as I approached Manhattan I'd watch for the skyline to appear. Then I'd hit play on the CD player. I always arrived home to Billy Joel's "New York State of Mind," my spirits lifting as first the World Trade Center tower and then the Empire State building loomed large.\nI loved the Manhattan skyline. It was a symbol of home and family to me. This is especially odd, as I'm from Eastern Long Island, and most Long Islanders loathe "The City." Not me, though. Even when I abandoned driving in favor of flying home, I'd watch for the skyline from my plane window. \nTherefore, while I was home for Christmas, I really wanted to visit Ground Zero. Although I'd seen pictures, I couldn't comprehend my beloved skyline without the Twin Towers. I had some misgivings, however. Even as my brother and I rode the train into Manhattan, I wondered if by making this trip I was becoming the equivalent of a person who slows down to gawk at car accidents. Was it insensitive to want to see a place where so many died? \nAlthough I wasn't sure what to expect at Ground Zero, I was completely unprepared for what I encountered. Thousands of people waited in a line that stretched almost five blocks. Unknowingly, we had chosen the morning the public viewing platform opened. The two-hour wait was surreal. It was the quietest line I've ever stood in. After an hour in the frigid cold, my hands and feet were completely numb, but when a crew of firemen, obviously fresh from the rubble, walked by, I joined with the rest of the crowd in ripping off my gloves and applauding. \nNear the end, the line passed in front of St. Mark's Church. Literally next door to Ground Zero, twisted shards of metal still festooned the trees behind it. The fence that encircles the church has become a shrine, smothered in posters, pictures and banners. The fliers bearing photos of the missing are faded now, most covered by thank-you messages to the relief workers and memorials to the dead. One I remember vividly read, "Dear Mark, Happy 24th birthday in Heaven." It was at this point that I fought tears for the first time.\nWithin minutes we were on the platform overlooking Ground Zero. Although the surrounding buildings were a bit tattered, to my surprise, it was more like viewing an enormous construction site than a disaster scene. There is only a small pile of debris left. The recovery effort has moved below ground. \nLeaving the platform, we again passed the memorial area. I noticed a teenaged girl in front of one of the "missing" fliers. As I watched, she reached out with one hand and touched the picture on the flier. With her other hand she covered her mouth and began to sob. It was then, after the fact, that I finally cried. I saw the real devastation in front of St. Mark's, not overlooking the ruins. \nIn retrospect, I'm glad I swallowed my qualms and braved the cold to see Ground Zero. Not long after Sept. 11, I read something by a New York writer who described "a hole in the skyline as big as the hole in our hearts." I went to pay my respects to the hole in the skyline and I left with a hole in my heart.
(11/15/01 5:00am)
Jennifer Smith is a psychology major. She's thinking about graduate school, but she's not quite sure. She's between 5'7" and 5'8" and has brown hair. Her parents live in a small town in Indiana. \nThat's where the similarities between Jennifer Diane Smith and Jennifer Lorraine Smith end. \nJennifer Diane Smith -- Friday night\nAni DiFranco provides a little "get-happy" music as Jennifer Smith drives her Kia Rio to Steak 'n Shake, where she's about to clock in for her eight-hour graveyard shift. She listens to "Virtue" and "Jukebox" before she drives from Collins Living-Learning Center to the College Avenue restaurant. \nJennifer, whose nametag says 'Jeni,' started working at Steak 'n Shake in September. \n"I was kinda nervous about it," she says. "I tend to not have people skills." \nShe works about 30 hours a week, usually nights. Jeni, a sophomore, catches naps between class and considers staying awake through a lecture an accomplishment. \nTonight is slow, and the first table's customers walk out without leaving a tip. \nBut she likes her job -- the night crew is laid back and the corporate guidelines don't infringe on her individuality. She refuses to let them.\n"I'm not wearing a hair net," she says. \nAnd you won't find a tuna salad "propaganda" button on her apron, either. \n"You're not supposed to have face piercings, I'm not sure if my tongue ring counts," she says.\nShe likes her coworkers, too. There's Nick, her manager, "he's got the most gorgeous blue eyes." \nAnd Mike, who goes with her to Bullwinkle's when they have a night off. The sexual innuendo between them is a running joke. The hugs are real, but the lusty looks and dirty jokes are just for fun. He's gay, and she is, too. \nJust after midnight, the swimming shapes of people emerge past the glass block entrance. A couple searches for prime seating. For Jeni, a slight tension arises every time people walk in the door and scan for seats. More people in her section means pockets full of tips, fewer means uninterrupted smoking breaks. Tonight, Jeni prefers the latter. \n"Think hard before you choose my section," Jeni grumbles under her breath. They retreat to a corner booth beyond her territory. \nEven if she dozes through the occasional psychology class, the restaurant is a bit of a living lab. She notices patterns from people. Whenever a troop of drunken people files in from the bars, there's always one sober person. That person offers exasperated shrugs and motherly head shakes while Jeni reasons with the hopelessly tanked friends. No worries. "Happy drunks leave good tips," she says. \nShe consistently gets the best tips from a group of women that she suspects work at Night Moves.\nIt's 12:50 a.m. The employee working the driveway window spins around to music that barely wafts to the dining room over the hiss of the grill. \n2:40 a.m. Jeni pours coffee refills for two men with big mustaches. \n2:55 a.m. "Where are all the drunk people?" Jeni says. "The bars are closing." \nAs if on cue, a group of four college-aged customers walk in. \n3:02 a.m. The grill is silent now and Steve Perry wails "Don't stop beleeeeiving" on the radio. Jeni looks expectantly at a girl who tilts her cell phone for an instant to order a glass of water. \nIt was a slow night. Amazingly so. Jeni made $16, a major cut from her $100 the previous Saturday. \n7:15 a.m. As the sun rose over Collins, she headed to bed, with about $11 and a stomach full of McDonald's breakfast. \nJennifer Lorraine Smith -- Saturday night\nThe Plum Delish nail polish is dry. Black eye liner, carefully smudged by friend Kaari Andrews, is still vivid. A spritz of Romance by Ralph Lauren, hair flipped up and sprayed.\nJennifer Smith closes her door with a resounding thud that echoes in the hallway of McNutt Bryan. Behind the door in the dark room is a picture on the corkboard. She's smiling in her prom dress and he's grinning broadly. "I wanted to go to prom with him," she says. \nHe is Scott Ulery, an IU-Southeast freshman. They had been best friends and dated for about two months until July. They hadn't talked since, until Wednesday night, when he called and invited her to a party. Tonight. \nJenn, her roommate Stacy Griffith and her friend Kaari -- all freshmen -- walk across the parking lot of the Varsity Villas. An officer looks up from his undercover cruiser at Jenn in her black pants, red tank top and tall shoes. She's 18. \nThe pre-party ritual is just as vital as the getting-ready ritual, but more surreal as the flash bulbs of cameras capture smiling moments between friends. Rap and rock compete in the air between Villa balconies. \n10:30 p.m. Jenn's cell phone rings. "It's 15 guys and no keg," she reports to her friends. "This party could be a dud, just a hang-out situation."\nFor the time being, "Blind Date" is more interesting than the party. \n"I've seen a couple (shows) where they had sex at the end," Jenn comments. No one replies. \nThat wouldn't happen in Canada, as Jenn remembers it. She lived there until she was 16. \n"It's much more moral there," she says. \n12:15 a.m. Cars radiate out from the driveway of a house on a dead end street: the party location. The door opens to an invisible wall of spilled beer and stale smoke stench.\nScott and Jenn look at each other. Neither says hi to the other. IU football, grades and Jenn's Canadian accent all pass for conversation in a dark hallway. A half-hour into the party Jenn and Scott are talking like old friends again. \n"I saw you on Instant Messenger but you just ignored me," she says to him during a smoking break in the basement. He looks at her and shrugs. She looks away. \n2:15 a.m. Scott is out of cigarettes, and Jenn is fine to drive his truck. When they get back from the Shell station neither wants to get out of the truck. It was past time for a talk. \n"He said he's really missed me as a friend, and even as a girlfriend he'll always have a place in his heart for me," she says. \nJenn is on the other line with her boyfriend Kyle as she recounts the late-night conversation on Sunday. "I was so happy, having the tension between us was awful," she says. \nIt had been a long night, and she only got to sleep two hours before waking for her 7 a.m. shift at Mr. D's. \n"I woke up and felt like I had slept 10 hours," she says.
(11/15/01 4:29am)
Jennifer Smith is a psychology major. She's thinking about graduate school, but she's not quite sure. She's between 5'7" and 5'8" and has brown hair. Her parents live in a small town in Indiana. \nThat's where the similarities between Jennifer Diane Smith and Jennifer Lorraine Smith end. \nJennifer Diane Smith -- Friday night\nAni DiFranco provides a little "get-happy" music as Jennifer Smith drives her Kia Rio to Steak 'n Shake, where she's about to clock in for her eight-hour graveyard shift. She listens to "Virtue" and "Jukebox" before she drives from Collins Living-Learning Center to the College Avenue restaurant. \nJennifer, whose nametag says 'Jeni,' started working at Steak 'n Shake in September. \n"I was kinda nervous about it," she says. "I tend to not have people skills." \nShe works about 30 hours a week, usually nights. Jeni, a sophomore, catches naps between class and considers staying awake through a lecture an accomplishment. \nTonight is slow, and the first table's customers walk out without leaving a tip. \nBut she likes her job -- the night crew is laid back and the corporate guidelines don't infringe on her individuality. She refuses to let them.\n"I'm not wearing a hair net," she says. \nAnd you won't find a tuna salad "propaganda" button on her apron, either. \n"You're not supposed to have face piercings, I'm not sure if my tongue ring counts," she says.\nShe likes her coworkers, too. There's Nick, her manager, "he's got the most gorgeous blue eyes." \nAnd Mike, who goes with her to Bullwinkle's when they have a night off. The sexual innuendo between them is a running joke. The hugs are real, but the lusty looks and dirty jokes are just for fun. He's gay, and she is, too. \nJust after midnight, the swimming shapes of people emerge past the glass block entrance. A couple searches for prime seating. For Jeni, a slight tension arises every time people walk in the door and scan for seats. More people in her section means pockets full of tips, fewer means uninterrupted smoking breaks. Tonight, Jeni prefers the latter. \n"Think hard before you choose my section," Jeni grumbles under her breath. They retreat to a corner booth beyond her territory. \nEven if she dozes through the occasional psychology class, the restaurant is a bit of a living lab. She notices patterns from people. Whenever a troop of drunken people files in from the bars, there's always one sober person. That person offers exasperated shrugs and motherly head shakes while Jeni reasons with the hopelessly tanked friends. No worries. "Happy drunks leave good tips," she says. \nShe consistently gets the best tips from a group of women that she suspects work at Night Moves.\nIt's 12:50 a.m. The employee working the driveway window spins around to music that barely wafts to the dining room over the hiss of the grill. \n2:40 a.m. Jeni pours coffee refills for two men with big mustaches. \n2:55 a.m. "Where are all the drunk people?" Jeni says. "The bars are closing." \nAs if on cue, a group of four college-aged customers walk in. \n3:02 a.m. The grill is silent now and Steve Perry wails "Don't stop beleeeeiving" on the radio. Jeni looks expectantly at a girl who tilts her cell phone for an instant to order a glass of water. \nIt was a slow night. Amazingly so. Jeni made $16, a major cut from her $100 the previous Saturday. \n7:15 a.m. As the sun rose over Collins, she headed to bed, with about $11 and a stomach full of McDonald's breakfast. \nJennifer Lorraine Smith -- Saturday night\nThe Plum Delish nail polish is dry. Black eye liner, carefully smudged by friend Kaari Andrews, is still vivid. A spritz of Romance by Ralph Lauren, hair flipped up and sprayed.\nJennifer Smith closes her door with a resounding thud that echoes in the hallway of McNutt Bryan. Behind the door in the dark room is a picture on the corkboard. She's smiling in her prom dress and he's grinning broadly. "I wanted to go to prom with him," she says. \nHe is Scott Ulery, an IU-Southeast freshman. They had been best friends and dated for about two months until July. They hadn't talked since, until Wednesday night, when he called and invited her to a party. Tonight. \nJenn, her roommate Stacy Griffith and her friend Kaari -- all freshmen -- walk across the parking lot of the Varsity Villas. An officer looks up from his undercover cruiser at Jenn in her black pants, red tank top and tall shoes. She's 18. \nThe pre-party ritual is just as vital as the getting-ready ritual, but more surreal as the flash bulbs of cameras capture smiling moments between friends. Rap and rock compete in the air between Villa balconies. \n10:30 p.m. Jenn's cell phone rings. "It's 15 guys and no keg," she reports to her friends. "This party could be a dud, just a hang-out situation."\nFor the time being, "Blind Date" is more interesting than the party. \n"I've seen a couple (shows) where they had sex at the end," Jenn comments. No one replies. \nThat wouldn't happen in Canada, as Jenn remembers it. She lived there until she was 16. \n"It's much more moral there," she says. \n12:15 a.m. Cars radiate out from the driveway of a house on a dead end street: the party location. The door opens to an invisible wall of spilled beer and stale smoke stench.\nScott and Jenn look at each other. Neither says hi to the other. IU football, grades and Jenn's Canadian accent all pass for conversation in a dark hallway. A half-hour into the party Jenn and Scott are talking like old friends again. \n"I saw you on Instant Messenger but you just ignored me," she says to him during a smoking break in the basement. He looks at her and shrugs. She looks away. \n2:15 a.m. Scott is out of cigarettes, and Jenn is fine to drive his truck. When they get back from the Shell station neither wants to get out of the truck. It was past time for a talk. \n"He said he's really missed me as a friend, and even as a girlfriend he'll always have a place in his heart for me," she says. \nJenn is on the other line with her boyfriend Kyle as she recounts the late-night conversation on Sunday. "I was so happy, having the tension between us was awful," she says. \nIt had been a long night, and she only got to sleep two hours before waking for her 7 a.m. shift at Mr. D's. \n"I woke up and felt like I had slept 10 hours," she says.
(11/14/01 4:21am)
KABUL, Afghanistan -- It was a day when the grisly and the joyous came together in the Afghan capital. Men exultantly shaved off their beards for the first time in years. They played music in public. A man impishly but unsuccessfully encouraged women on a bus to uncover their faces. \nIn a forested park of Kabul, a different story unfolded Tuesday. There, five men who had come to Afghanistan to fight alongside the Taliban lay dead, their bodies riddled with bullets from a final gun battle. \nThe five, identified as Pakistanis, were among the foreign Muslim fighters, Arabs, Chechens and others, who are now targets for reprisal by Afghans who associate them with five years of oppressive Taliban rule. \nThere was unease too, that with the sudden, sweeping advances of the northern alliance, Afghanistan might slide back into the factional fighting that characterized the alliance's 1992-1996 rule over the country. \n"Today we are celebrating, but we worry that tomorrow they will start fighting again. We pray that won't happen," said Ahmed Rashef, who sat in a barber's chair for the first time in five years. \n"I hated this beard," he said. Being shaved "is like being free." \nThe barber, Zul Gai, smiled broadly. \n"This has been my best business day in many long years," he said. But he wasn't shaving off his bushy black beard just yet. \n"It's still too early," Gai said. "We will wait and see." \nThe Red Cross said the bodies of five Pakistanis and six Arab nationals were collected from different parts of the city. \nThe Pakistanis had climbed into trees and were firing randomly when northern alliance troops killed them in a hail of bullets, and went on firing into their corpses, witnesses said. \nThen the northern alliance men stuffed Afghani bank notes up the nose of one and into the gaping head wound of another, an Afghan way of implying an enemy is corrupt. Their bodies were taken away by the Red Cross.\nFour Arabs died when their pickup truck was blasted by a U.S.-made rocket. Their charred bodies were dragged from their vehicle by people who kicked and poked at them. \nTwo other Arabs were killed outside a military base near the United Nations guesthouse. Their bodies were covered with blankets and old clothes and thrown into the street. \nThrough Soviet occupation in the 1980s, the civil wars of the 1990s, the age of the Taliban and the U.S. bombings of the past month, Kabul has endured great suffering. The foreign fighters, many of them allied with Saudi exile Osama bin Laden, are particularly acute symbols of the Taliban and its militant brand of Islam. \nThat doctrine banned music, forced men to grow their beards to a prescribed length, empowered street enforcers to whip them into mosques to pray. Women were barred from work or school, and had to cover themselves from head to toe in tent-like robes called burqas. \nThe Taliban's alleged alliance with terrorism made Afghanistan an international pariah, and led to the U.S. bombing to force the surrender of bin Laden, the prime suspect in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States that killed thousands. \nSo the end of Taliban rule was described by many in Kabul as tantamount to being freed from prison, and Tuesday became a day of small but telling declarations of independence. \nSeveral people took their audiocassette recorders out of hiding and openly played music for the first time in five years. \nAbdul Rehman unwrapped his cassette recorder and let the voice of Ahmed Zaher, his favorite singer, blare in the street. \n"I used to play this at home, but very quietly, and then I would check to see if anyone was outside," he said. \nAn old man, his gray beard trimmed shorter than previously allowed, danced in the street holding a tape recorder that played music. Others renewed acquaintance with their freshly shaved faces. \n"Look, this feels so good!" said Ahmed Shah, rubbing his face. "I hated the beard. It was always itchy." \nThe women seemed cautious about dumping the Taliban rules. The burqa was commonplace attire in deeply conservative Afghanistan long before the Taliban made it mandatory, and on Tuesday most women kept theirs on despite the disappearance of the Taliban enforcers. \nIn a rickety old bus, a woman flipped her burqa up over her head. Male onlookers laughed. She quickly flipped it back. \nOne young northern alliance soldier gestured to the other women on the bus to take their burqas off, but got no response. Some looked away, or closed the window curtains. \n"For now we will leave the burqa on. We don't know yet who are these people in the city," said Mariam Jan, one of six women traveling to a wedding. Her husband, Mohammed Wazir, said: "It is our tradition. We are not sure that it will stop." \nHouses occupied by Taliban leaders in the once posh neighborhood of Wazir Akbar Khan were abandoned. The large steel doors of the home of former Health Minister Mullah Abbas Akhund were wide open. \nHomes were also abandoned on the so-called "street of guests," a reference to the Taliban's foreign volunteers. \nIn the money market in the old city, businessmen said departing Taliban soldiers emptied the stores of goods and money. One money-changer, who gave his name as Dr. Wali, said Taliban soldiers on tanks stopped in front of the shops, demanded the money and then drove out of the city.
(11/09/01 3:57am)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- In a diplomatic crackdown on the Taliban, Pakistan's Foreign Ministry said Thursday it ordered the fundamentalist militia to close its consulate in the port city of Karachi. \nTaliban diplomats also were told not to take part in nationwide protests by hard-line Islamic groups scheduled for Friday in Karachi, a center of Islamic fundamentalist activity, and protest organizers were warned against inciting violence. \nDespite the moves, Pakistani president Gen. Pervez Musharraf said Thursday that his military government had "no intention" of breaking diplomatic relations with the Taliban regime. \nPakistan is the only country to maintain diplomatic relations with the Taliban. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates severed their ties after the Sept. 11 attacks. \nThe ties with the Taliban provide "a useful diplomatic window," Musharraf said in Paris, where he met with French President Jacques Chirac to discuss the U.S.-led campaign against terrorism. \nThe Taliban embassy in Islamabad and consulates in Quetta and Peshawar remain open, said Aziz Ahmad Khan, a Foreign Ministry spokesman. Musharraf said there was little need for a Taliban consulate in the southeastern city of Karachi. \n"Having a Taliban consulate in Karachi is purposeless and it was having some negatives," Musharraf said. He noted that the Taliban consulate in Peshawar, near the border with Afghanistan, was useful because of Afghan refugees in the area. \nTaliban Ambassador Abdul Salam Zaeef told The Associated Press that the Pakistanis ordered operations ceased at the consulate by the end of the week. \nZaeef was also told to stop his regular news conferences, which he has used to condemn the United States and its coalition partners for the bombing campaign in Afghanistan. Broadcast live by CNN, the news conferences had made Zaeef the most visible Taliban spokesman. \nPakistan supports the U.S. campaign, launched Oct. 7 after the ruling Taliban refused to hand over terror suspect Osama bin Laden, wanted in connection with the September attacks. \nPakistan made the moves ahead of a nationwide strike called by the Afghan Defense Council, an alliance of 35 Islamic groups, to protest the government's support of the bombing campaign in Afghanistan. \nOfficials said the government has told Zaeef to make sure Afghan diplomatic staff in Pakistan do not take part in the rallies. Scores of Islamic activists and leaders also have been put under house arrest or travel restrictions. \nHaider warned hard-line Islamic groups Thursday against inciting violence. "We can't tolerate sedition. We can't encourage anarchy," he said. \nThe government also plans to stop funding and to monitor madrassas, or religious schools, that promote violence and extremism, Haider told The Associated Press. \nIn recent months, madrassa students in Karachi have rioted several times to protest support of the U.S.-led campaign in Afghanistan.
(11/08/01 5:00am)
Everybody who pays any attention to the media or American pop culture at all knows that there is a lot out there that deserves to be made fun of. Sure, I still respect some of the artists, but many of them take themselves too seriously. \nAs a result, I have developed this quiz to test your knowledge on American pop culture. Such knowledge may help you bond with future employers, get respect from the opposite sex or at least remind you of some catchy tunes to sing in the shower. I tried to throw in a few fun facts as well.\nDisclaimer: Seth thought this was funny when he wrote it. None of the questions or answers are meant to offend anyone. Please don't send any more hate mail from the MC Hammer fan club. \nWarning: some of these questions require the recollection of the early 1980s and '90s, while others require imagination.
(11/08/01 5:00am)
Everybody who pays any attention to the media or American pop culture at all knows that there is a lot out there that deserves to be made fun of. Sure, I still respect some of the artists, but many of them take themselves too seriously. \nAs a result, I have developed this quiz to test your knowledge on American pop culture. Such knowledge may help you bond with future employers, get respect from the opposite sex or at least remind you of some catchy tunes to sing in the shower. I tried to throw in a few fun facts as well.\nDisclaimer: Seth thought this was funny when he wrote it. None of the questions or answers are meant to offend anyone. Please don't send any more hate mail from the MC Hammer fan club. \nWarning: some of these questions require the recollection of the early 1980s and '90s, while others require imagination.
(10/19/01 4:09am)
Oct. 12, IU's sculpture department celebrated the grand opening of The Fuller Projects, an alternative installation space in the McCalla Sculpture Center on the corner of 10th Street and Indiana Avenue. \nThe building that houses the center used to be the McCalla Elementary School, and the exhibition space is named after Herschell Fuller, the principal of McCalla Elementary School from 1951 to the school's closing in 1973.\nWhen the school closed, the University acquired the building. The old classrooms have been transformed into creative spaces with tall windows and high ceilings, maximizing the daylight and creating the ultimate studio space. The University allowed the building, which houses studios for students, to fall into disrepair. The students with studios in the building have taken the matter into their own hands. \n"This is where our studios are -- it's our second home," graduate student Richard Saxton said. "It reflects the idea that if your landlord lets your house go, you are either going to move or fix it up yourself."\nThe students decided to stay, and the Fuller Projects is the result of their goals to create an alternative viewing space and preserve the history and structure of the building. \n"Part of the reason we created the space comes out of frustration, of not having a space like this in Bloomington, a place to do really contemporary sculpture," Saxton said. "And the other reason we did this addresses the building as something that has fallen by the wayside as far as the University goes." \nThe Fuller Projects, a 750-square foot exhibition space in a renovated classroom, was founded to highlight work from emerging artists who move away from the mainstream. The exhibition space is intended to attract artists working with new ideas in experimental contemporary art. Work from IU students is emphasized, although proposals are accepted from artists not affiliated with the University. \n"What we would like to see happen is the gallery attracting nontraditional installation type work," Saxton said. "What we wanted to do was have this gallery be a place where one can do things that can't be done anywhere else in Bloomington."\nGraduate student Stuart Hyatt's "New Houses Have No Ghosts," is now on exhibit. \nHyatt's exhibition consists of 11 photographs of suburban housing developments. Instead of including real people in his photographs, Hyatt created cartoon-like characters. His figures represent humanity, but Hyatt erases all detail and expression from the faces to reflect what he considers the superficiality of the suburbs.\n"I've taken realistic people and removed all of the detail to cartoonize the figure, and I have also removed any expression to simulate the vacuous nature of the suburbs," Hyatt said. "At the same time I am trying to get across a sense of foreboding, that something has gone awry in the neighborhood. Suburbs are an emotional frontier in that the kids who are born there create a specific life for themselves, dealing with childhood imagination."\nOutside the gallery windows, Hyatt has installed a swingset, occupied by four of his cartoon children. Each swinging child is lit with a spotlight so the viewer can see them through the windows. The children create a ghost-like quality, representing the children who used to attend McCalla and playing off the title of Hyatt's exhibition. The location of Hyatt's swingset is also the location of the original McCalla playground. \n"I wanted people to know that the photographs weren't digitally manipulated, so I included the figures outside," Hyatt said. "I was also making a historical nod to the idea of the playground."\nThe Fuller Projects is expected to be an outlet for contemporary artists who are looking for a space to exhibit their installations. After Hyatt's show is an exhibit by graduate student Wendy Taylor. Richard Saxton's "Free History 2" will then be on display through the beginning of November. The Fuller Projects are open to public viewing, and viewing appointments can also be made through the McCalla Sculpture Center.
(10/09/01 5:26am)
WASHINGTON -- The United States pounded terrorist targets in Afghanistan from the air for a second night Monday in an effort to undercut the Taliban militia sheltering Osama bin Laden. Anti-Taliban forces inside Afghanistan appeared ready to strike in concert with the American barrage. \nAs U.S. warplanes and naval forces unleashed assaults halfway around the world, the Bush administration raised its guard at home. \n"We've learned that America is not immune from attack," President Bush said as he created an Office of Homeland Security and put former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge in charge. \nThe creation of an anti-terrorism office underscored America's heightened anxiety. The FBI said it was investigating the possibility that the anthrax bacteria detected in two Florida men was the a result of terrorism or criminal action. \n"Every American should be vigilant," Attorney General John Ashcroft said. \nThe Pentagon said five long-range bombers, 10 sea-launched warplanes and 15 Tomahawk cruise missiles struck an undisclosed number of targets, including early warning radars, Taliban ground forces and military command sites. It was smaller than Sunday's opening attacks. \nFeeding while firing, the U.S. operation dropped 37,000 packages of food rations on Monday, about the same number as Sunday. \nU.S. officials said the military strikes, expected to continue at least another day, were designed to destroy terrorist camps and bolster opposition forces fighting the Taliban. \nBush, who meets Tuesday with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has not disclosed his plans to followup the airstrikes. However, U.S. officials said Bush wants to shake bin Laden and fellow terrorists from Afghan hideouts and into the hands of American or other anti-Taliban ground forces. \nBritish Prime Minister Tony Blair, Bush's staunchest ally, hinted that the offensive would expand. \n"In time, (the airstrikes) will be supported by other actions, again carefully targeted," Blair said. He didn't elaborate, but the British defense ministry said that ground operations were an option. \nAnti-aircraft fire lit the skies over the Afghan capital of Kabul, where electricity was cut and Taliban radio told residents to close the blinds on their windows and remain indoors. A Taliban-friendly news agency said an airport and TV transmission tower were targeted and a bomb landed near a 400-bed women's hospital — reports that were not confirmed by the Pentagon. \nBush, speaking shortly before the second day's assaults began, said the opening volley "was executed as planned." Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld had a more modest assessment. \n"We cannot yet state with certainty that we destroyed the dozens of military command and control and leadership targets we selected," Rumsfeld said. \nThe military campaign is aimed at punishing the Taliban for harboring bin Laden, the man accused of plotting the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington that left more than 5,500 people dead or missing. \nU.S. officials lifted any doubt that they wanted the Taliban overthrown. \n"The only way that the Afghan people are going to be successful in heaving the terrorist network out of their country is to be successful against ... that portion of the Taliban and the Taliban leadership that are so closely linked to the Al-Qaida," Rumsfeld said. \nHe said the United States was working with the northern alliance and tribes in the south who oppose the Taliban. \nSen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said after a Pentagon briefing that the U.S. military is engaged in a war of attrition "in which the Afghan opposition can gain enough strength and we can weaken the Taliban enough so a broad-based group can take on the Taliban." \nAs lawmakers were briefed, U.S. strikes were sending thousands of Afghan refugees in flight from Kabul, their possessions strapped to donkeys. The line of hungry, scared Afghans crossed paths with northern alliance fighters. \nThe soldiers were moving Soviet-made Scud missiles south toward the capital, apparently preparing for an offensive on Kabul under the protection of U.S. airstrikes. \nOther aerial strikes were under way on the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar, according to a Taliban official who refused to be identified by name. \nAt the same time, the Afghan Islamic Press agency said the northern alliance launched a major attack Monday evening on the Taliban position near Dara-e-Suf, not far away. \nThe display of U.S. military might sparked anti-American rioting in one Pakistan city near the Afghanistan border. Mobs lobbed firebombs into a haze of tear gas while praising bin Laden. \nThere were protests, too, in Europe and outside the White House, where about 50 demonstrators carried signs that read, "Stop the bombing." Some feared retaliation from terrorists. \nAshcroft spoke in grim tones about a long list of steps taken by the government to guard against further strikes, including increased security at nuclear facilities and power plants. \nVice President Dick Cheney was taken to a secret location outside the White House to protect the continuity of government while Bush toils at the presidential mansion, a potential terrorist target. \nAnd the government imposed new security rules limiting passengers to one carry-on bag and one pocketbook or briefcase. \nThe warnings didn't stop New York City from conducting a flag-waving Columbus Day parade. "We're going ahead with our lives," Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said.
(10/04/01 3:59am)
MANCHESTER, Tenn. -- A passenger on a Greyhound bus slashed the driver's throat with a blade, grabbed the wheel and crashed the vehicle Wednesday, killing six of the 41 people aboard and prompting the company to temporarily shut down service across an already jittery nation.\nThe driver was in stable condition following surgery for a 4- to 5-inch cut on his neck. The 34 others aboard were also injured.\nThe FBI said the 29-year-old assailant was among the dead. He was identified as Igric Damir, a Croatian who entered the United States in Miami in March 1999 with a one-month visa. He boarded the bus in Chicago.\n"He just went up to the bus driver and, like, slit his throat," passenger Carly Rinearson told WTVF-TV of Nashville.\nThe FBI said Damir was apparently trying to take over the bus.\n"We believe he was acting alone," said R. Joe Clark, the FBI's agent in charge of the Knoxville office. "I would say this was a disturbed individual ... this is not an act of terrorism."\nA law enforcement official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the name on the man's passport is not on government lists of known terrorists and those sought by the FBI in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.\nClark said Damir attacked the driver "with an implement."\n"It was sharp, we'll leave it at that," he said.\nThe driver told doctors that he was attacked with a box cutter, a device believed to have been used in last month's airliner hijackings.\nThe crash happened just after 4 a.m. on Interstate 24 near Manchester, 60 miles southeast of Nashville. The bus, which originated in Chicago, was headed for Orlando, Fla. At the time, most of those aboard were asleep.\nDr. Al Brandon, chief of staff at the Medical Center of Manchester, said the driver told him the attacker was polite and spoke with a foreign accent.\n"Every few minutes he seemed to ask (the driver) what time it was, and where they were," Police Chief Ross Simmons said.\nThe driver, whose name was not released, told doctors Damir suddenly "accosted" him, grabbed the wheel and forced the bus into the lanes of oncoming traffic. It crossed the road and tipped over.\nThe driver crawled from the wreckage through a window and tried to flag down passing vehicles. He told Brandon his attacker was thrown through the windshield.\nGreyhound immediately shut down service as a precaution, pulling 2,000 to 2,500 buses off the nation's highways. After consulting with federal and state officials, it resumed service at noon, about seven hours later.\n"The officials have assured me that they believe this tragic accident was the result of an isolated act by a single deranged individual," Greyhound president and chief executive Craig Lentzsch said.\nThe shutdown stranded some 70,000 passengers at stations across the United States, Greyhound spokeswoman Jamille Bradfield said. The bus company carries 25 million passengers a year.\nDana Keeton, a Tennessee Department of Safety spokeswoman, said six people died at the site of the crash.\nBy late afternoon, 14 passengers remained hospitalized. Among them was Elena Wilson, who was 81/2 months pregnant and gave birth to a girl in an emergency Caesarean section. Both were in stable condition.\nOthers were treated and released.\n"I was on the bus and I'm alive. That's all I can tell you," passenger Ricardo Jamal Brooks said as he left a hospital. He chose Greyhound to get from Flint, Mich., to Atlanta because he was worried about airline safety.\n"You could understand why (I chose the bus), but you know, you never know," he said.\nElsewhere, Greyhound passengers waited for hours or found other means of transportation.\n"People are a little panicky about it," said Joi Smith, a Greyhound agent in New Hampshire. "They are freaked out, which is understandable."\nLentzsch said that Greyhound was offering full refunds to passengers, and that Amtrak had agreed to accept Greyhound tickets.\nHe also said security was being bolstered: As service resumed, carry-on luggage was searched, and passengers in San Francisco, Dallas and Orlando were checked with hand-held metal detectors. The wands were introduced in response to the terrorist attacks.\nGreyhound does not maintain lists of passengers.\n"They ought to have a manifest," Gov. Don Sundquist said. "I think bus travel needs to be scrutinized as well as aircraft."\nGreyhound has set up a toll-free phone number for relatives seeking information about passengers, 1-800-884-2744.
(09/18/01 4:18am)
As students here sat glued to the British Broadcasting Company's coverage of the terrorist attacks on the United States, many pointed out that the words "culture shock" have taken on a whole new meaning.\nThe attempt to squeeze a semester's worth of clothes into one or two suitcases was aggravating. The persistent wet chill in the air as early as September is disconcerting. And the embarrassing manner in which students are herded around London like 63-year-old tourists is worst of all.\nEspecially because that's what was going on Tuesday afternoon.\nMy class was on a tour of Bloomsbury, London's literary district. For the first time yet, I was managing to enjoy myself, because we had a tour guide who was actually more interesting than a door knob and spoke above a whisper. But then my friend's cell phone rang. It was 11 a.m. EDT.\nOur tour, thankfully, was coming to an end, and as we looked around the streets of London, we saw crowds of people huddled around radios and pressing their noses against pub windows to catch a look at the television. All around me, fellow students were bursting into tears and lighting cigarettes. And although everyone began frantically dialing home on their cell phones, it was nearly impossible to get through to the States.\nOnce we realized the futility of our efforts to reach home, we too crowded around a television. Many students were too nauseated to watch; it is one thing to be away from home, but it's another entirely to watch that home being ruthlessly attacked while standing helplessly in a strange and unfamiliar lace. \nBefore they leave for their new countries, students who study abroad are given a "diagram" of what culture shock is like; it resembles a graph, full of labeled peaks and valleys. Several hours into the patchy and infuriatingly insufficient BBC coverage, one student pointed out that OUR graph should have been revised to include a point labeled, "home country blown up by terrorists." It would have been off the chart.\nSo, four days later, we are still trying to find a balance between grief and stoicism. We are surrounded by Brits who repeatedly say, "So sorry for your loss," unwittingly reminding us that it is OUR loss indeed, and we have only each other to share it with. We have no compass against which to measure our behavior, and we wonder if we are "allowed" to discuss anything other than "our loss."\nServers give us free desserts in restaurants, and British motorists have stopped trying to plow us down in the crosswalks, but we don't know how to respond to a tragedy in our own homes. Some indulge their sadness, while others use physical distance to deny it. But either way, our feelings are of removal, confusion and rapidly intensified camaraderie.\nThey warned us about culture shock, but no one signed up for this.
(09/12/01 7:24am)
CHICAGO -- Air traffic around the nation was halted for the first time in history Tuesday as stunned travelers watched televised pictures of the smoking ruins of New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon, both attacked by terrorists.\nThe Federal Aviation Administration ordered all outbound flights grounded following the fiery twin disaster at the World Trade Center around 9 a.m. The FAA said the ban would not be lifted until Wednesday at noon EDT, at the earliest.\nAll domestic commercial flights -- other than the four that were crashed by terrorists -- had reached their destinations by early Tuesday afternoon, according to the FAA. Some airports were evacuated.\n"Anybody that is planning on going somewhere isn't going anywhere at least for now," said James Kerr, deputy director at Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee.\nWhen flights resume, passengers won't be able to check luggage at curbside, there will be more security officers and random security checks, said Transportation Secretary Norman Y. Mineta.\n"These terrorist acts are designed to steal the confidence of Americans," he said. "We will restore that confidence."\nOn Tuesday, thousands of passengers gathered around TV sets at airports, staring silently at images of smoke billowing over Manhattan's skyline, flames shooting from Pentagon windows and people covered with soot running in the streets.\n"I'm sitting here with shivers down my spine," said Dan Weiland, of Lewisville, Texas, an American Airlines passenger at Boston's Logan Airport. He said he called his children to reassure them.\nSteve Hyatt, 55, of San Antonio, was stunned when he heard the news at Denver International Airport. "I just felt like I went into a trance and a dream," he said.\n"It's going to be interesting to see what our country does in light of what took place with Pearl Harbor and comparing this to Pearl Harbor," he added. "But who do you fight, who do you get mad at?"\nAround the nation, airports were put under heightened security as officials considered the tremendous security breach that had allowed Tuesday's terrorist attacks.\nLogan Airport -- the departure point for two of the doomed planes -- underwent a security sweep.\nLos Angeles International Airport and San Francisco International Airports were evacuated except for essential personnel, according to officials.\nAt Chicago's O'Hare Airport, passengers were barred from entering the gated areas, and police patrolled with dogs.\nAt Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and Denver's airport, concourses were closed.\nIn New Orleans, passengers were not allowed into the airport, but it was not evacuated.\nThe Trade Center was hit by two planes, both Boston-to-Los Angeles flights, carrying a total of 157 people: United Airlines Flight 175, with 65 people on board, and American Airlines Flight 11, with 92 people aboard.\nThe Pentagon was hit by American Flight 77, which was seized while carrying 64 people from Washington to Los Angeles.\nAnd in Pennsylvania, United Flight 93, a Boeing 757 en route from Newark, N.J., to San Francisco, crashed about 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh with 45 people aboard.\nThe four planes carried 266 people. There was no word on survivors. At the Pentagon, about 100 people were believed dead.\nThe devastating assault on America's centers of government and commerce renewed long-standing concerns about flaws in airport security.\nThe General Accounting Office warned in April 2000 that "serious vulnerabilities in our aviation security system exist and must be adequately addressed."\nAnd Transportation Department Inspector General Kenneth Mead reported in January that the FAA needed to improve training for airport security screeners and develop guidelines for installing bomb-detection machines.\nThe inspector general's office announced in August it would assess what the FAA was doing to make sure airlines were thoroughly screening passengers and baggage.\nRep. John Mica, chairman of the House aviation subcommittee, said Tuesday that before the August congressional recess, he had called for a complete review of airport security.\n"Some of the training and actual deployment of equipment has been far from adequate," Mica said in an interview.
