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All-American Karen Dennison plays with the pros

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, June 15,2003 9:10 p.m.

Junior All-American Karen Dennison entered the Giant Eagle LPGA Classic as the only amateur in a field of 144 golfers and one of two who had earned a sponsor's exemption. Thirty-six holes later, Dennison couldn't make the cut with a 6-over-par 78. Overall, Dennison carded a 153 and missed the cut by eight strokes.

Hunting for orchids

Sunday, June 15,2003 9:10 p.m.

ANGOLA, Ind. -- Within earshot of Interstate 69 and the Indiana Toll Road lies some of the wildest land in northeast Indiana's Steuben County containing rare lady's-slipper orchids. The treasure is so beautiful and rare that some people have been known to risk the poison sumac-tangled, Massasauga rattlesnake-infested, soupy bogs where the orchids live. Orchids hold a special, unexplainable mystique in the imaginations of many who establish clubs and societies around this wonderful creature. People collect them, trade them, grow them and brag about the ones they have seen or have acquired.

International students thriving

By Alyson Brodsy and Rob Gloster · Sunday, June 15,2003 9:09 p.m.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Minnesota's Adam Steele came from far behind to win the 400 meters, a race in which the top three men were separated by 17-thousandths of a second Saturday night at the NCAA track and field championships.

Picasso meets Einstein

By Brandon Morley · Sunday, June 15,2003 9:06 p.m.

Actor/comedian turned playwright Steve Martin's work "Picasso at the Lapin Agile" opened at Nashville's noted Brown County Playhouse to a crowd of more than 125 people Thursday evening. Directed by Murray McGibbon, assistant professor of directing and acting at IU, the show depicts a chance meeting by patent office worker and soon-to-be noted scientist Albert Einstein and the then amateur artist Pablo Picasso in a Parisian bar in 1904.

Iranian police keep rioting protestors at bay

By Ali Akbar Dareini · Sunday, June 15,2003 9:01 p.m.

TEHRAN, Iran -- Police patrolled Tehran dormitories Sunday to prevent attacks by pro-clerical militants, and President Bush said a week of anti-government protests by Iranian students showed a yearning for freedom. As clashes in the capital eased, sporadic violence elsewhere claimed the first reported fatality. Ali Moini, an anti-government protester, was killed Friday night in Shiraz, 550 miles south of Tehran, the daily Nasim-e-Saba reported Sunday.

Free clinic set up in Columbia

By Juan Pablo Toro · Sunday, June 15,2003 9 p.m.

ARAUCA, Colombia -- The high fever and sores spreading over her son's skin had been worrying Jensi Rojas for days, but she could not afford to take him to a doctor. So when a group of medics, including six from the U.S. military, set up a makeshift clinic inside a school in this town in eastern Colombia, Rojas brought in her 8-year-old son.

Hussein's daughter claims deposed Iraqi leader still alive

Sunday, June 15,2003 8:59 p.m.

LONDON -- A daughter of deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein told a British newspaper she believes he is still alive even though she has not seen him since before the U.S.-led invasion. "The last time I spoke to my father was five days before the war," Raghad Hussein was quoted as saying by The Sunday Times. "He was in good spirits.

Saudi police raid home of suspected terrorists

By Faiza Ambah · Sunday, June 15,2003 8:59 p.m.

MECCA, Saudi Arabia -- The Saudi government said Sunday it foiled "an imminent terrorist" attack with an overnight raid on a bomb-filled, booby-trapped apartment in the holy city of Mecca that left five suspects and two security agents dead.

Former Iraqi commander captured in Baghdad

Sunday, June 15,2003 8:58 p.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Coalition forces said Saturday they had captured former Iraqi air force commander Hamid Raja Shalah al-Tikriti, who was No. 17 on the U.S. Central Command's most-wanted list. A brief U.S. military statement gave no other details about the arrest.

U.S. bans Lebanese finance minister

Sunday, June 15,2003 8:57 p.m.

BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Lebanese Finance Minister Fuad Saniora has been banned from entering the United States for giving money to a society accused of links to the Hezbollah guerrilla group, the minister's spokesman said Sunday. U.S. Ambassador Vincent Battle told Saniora of the ban two weeks ago, the spokesman said. The U.S. Embassy would not comment on the report.

What men say women can't do

By Alyson Brodsy and Lize Kolar · Sunday, June 15,2003 8:48 p.m.

Controversy over the meaning of our nation's most majestic guarantees frequently has been turbulent. Abortion raises moral and spiritual questions over which honorable persons can disagree sincerely and profoundly. But those disagreements do not then and do not now relieve us of our duty to apply the Constitution faithfully," Harry Blackmun said in his obiter dictum, which was challenged June 4 as the Senate voted 282 to 139 to ban a procedure politicians provocatively refer to as "partial birth abortion."

Cowardice in the Vatican

By Alyson Brodsy and Vincent Carr · Sunday, June 15,2003 8:47 p.m.

Bishop Carl Mengeling of the Catholic Diocese of Lansing (Mich.) ordained Steve Anderson -- a 44-year-old married man with three children -- to the priesthood Saturday. Some might question how this is possible, but the answer lies in the fact that celibacy is neither fundamental to the priesthood nor dogmatic to the Church. The Catholic Church will grant special permission to married men who convert to Catholicism (from Lutheranism or Episcopalianism, for example) in order to become priests.

Who said the 'P' word?

By Alyson Brodsy and Aubrey Donaldson · Sunday, June 15,2003 8:46 p.m.

Have you all seen the latest Tampax commercial? It's the one where a guy and a girl, both who look to be well into their 20s, are seated at an outdoor cafe table where the girl dumps out the contents of her purse. Her tiny and discreetly wrapped tampon skitters across the surface and into the grasp of her boyfriend, who picks it up and shakes it.

Dividing the neighborhood

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, June 15,2003 8:45 p.m.

An area between Hillside and Grant streets, just west of Henderson Street, is slated to become the site of 32 family homes and 30 multi-family units. The developers, Tim Henke and Steve Smith, want to provide what will be mostly rental housing, although there might be an option for new homeowners to move into this neighborhood.

Pyramids, Graceland, rock 'n' roll

By Jacquelyn Janowski · Sunday, June 15,2003 8:43 p.m.

If you're into rock 'n' roll, live music and having a good time, Memphis is the place to be this summer. Not only is Memphis the home of Elvis, but also that of Sun Studio, the most famous recording studio in the world and the "birthplace of rock n' roll." This studio launched the careers of recording artists such as Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and the king himself, Elvis Presley.

French paintings copied

By Carl Hartman · Sunday, June 15,2003 8:42 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- J. Seward Johnson Jr. makes those realistic bronze figures that you can sit next to on park benches. Now he has a new gimmick: copying famous French impressionist paintings in three dimensions. "Beyond the Frame," his first one-man show at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, opens Sept. 13. The title explains that he's copying not only 18 impressionist and post-impressionist paintings, but also portraying the surrounding rooms and landscapes -- things the original artists left out altogether.

Anything but 'Ad Nauseam'

By Brittany Ausmus · Sunday, June 15,2003 8:41 p.m.

Ad Nauseam," the complete thirteenth edition news archive of the nationally known humor newspaper The Onion, is one book you simply must purchase -- as long as you have a sense of humor and are not easily offended. This 13th archive of The Onion's biweekly newspaper is a humorous look back at 2000 and 2001, highlighting the ups, downs and everything in between.

Musicians try to stop injuries

By Karren Mills · Sunday, June 15,2003 8:36 p.m.

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Playing hurt was just part of the job for musicians for decades -- something to endure in silence, hoping it would go away with more practice. "No pain, no gain" was the prevailing attitude. Musicians feared they would be blamed or considered weak if they admitted feeling pain and took time off to heal. Their careers could be damaged.

Man dies in drowning rescue attempt

Sunday, June 15,2003 8:35 p.m.

MARION, Ind. -- A man who jumped in the Mississinewa River to rescue his twin 11-year-old sons drowned Saturday in the current above a dam, police said. Both of Neill W. Cornell's sons survived after a man fishing on the riverbank came to their aid. Neither suffered any major injuries.

Lugar to visit Iraq next week