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National & World Headlines
McGwire's Mark: 70 home runs in 1998
ST. LOUIS — Mark McGwire ended his season as mightily as he
started It
McGwire hit his 69th and 70th homers on the season s last day,
a fitting finale for a record-smashing year he began with a grand
slam on opening day
Big Mac, who hit five homers on the final weekend, connected
against Montreal rookie Mike Thurman In the third inning Sunday,
then homered off Carl Pavano for No. 70 In the seventh McGwire
moved four ahead of Sammy 8osa and ended nine — nine! — in
front of Roger Marls’ old record.
Big Mac hit a 1-1 fastball 377 feet Into the left-field seats at 2:10
p m CDT for No 69 After stomping on home plate, he took a few
glow steps, then made several salutes to the crowd.
The usual sellout crowd that had stood well before his at-bat
demanded and got not one, but two, curtain calls
With two on and two outs In the seventh and the score 3-all, he
lined a first-pitch fastball 370 feet over the left-field wall at 3:19
pm . sending the Cardinals on to a 6-3 win.
The 46.110 fans, who remained on their feet, cheering even as
Bnan Jordan took a called third strike for the third out
Hurricane Georges bears
down on Louisiana coast
NEW ORLEANS — The Big
Easy was decidedly uneasy
Sunday as New Orleans pre
pared for Its worst nightmare
hurricane — a massive storm
that could sit overhead for
days, driving Lake
Pontchartraln over Its levees
and submerging the city.
We re Just waiting for the
trigger to be pulled," said Lt.
Col Ronnie Jones of the
Louisiana State Police, but
thousands didn’t wait for
Hurricane Georges to arrive.
They fled, turning Interstates
10 and 55 into bumper-to-
bumper processions.
More than 15 million people
were ordered or urged to leave
New Orleans and coastal areas.
The storm, with sustained
wind of 110 mph, was expected
to smash the Gulf Coast
Sunday night or early Monday.
Intermittent downpours start
ed Saturday night, and the
storm surge started flooding
low-lying coastal roads on the
Florida Panhandle Sunday
afternoon
More than 300 deaths had
been blamed on the hurricane
In the Caribbean.
Forecasters said up to 25
Inches of rain could fall on New
Orleans, coupled with a storm
surge that could drive millions
of gallons of water up the
Mississippi River toward the
city.
In Sri Lanka, rebels
clash with government
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka —
Government soldiers clashed
with Tamil Tiger rebels yester
day in a battle for a strategic
highway in northern Sri Lanka,
leaving at least 49 fighters
dead, the military said.
The dead Included 40 rebels
and nine soldiers In the fiercest
fighting in the past two
months, the military said.
There was no immediate state
ment by the guerrillas.
The rebels attacked soldiers
on defense lines near
Paranthan, a town 175 miles
north of Colombo, the Sri
Lankan capital.
"At present, troops are In
hill control of the situation,
and clearing operations are In
progress," said the military
statement, adding that a large
number of rebels also were
wounded.
Paranthan is close to a 45-
mlle highway passing through
rebel-held territory that the
military has been trying to cap
ture for more than a year. Its
control would open a road link
to Jaffna Peninsula, a former
rebel stronghold at the north
ern tip of Sri Lanka that was
captured by the military two
years ago
Woman found guilty of
killing pregnant teen
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — A
woman was found guilty of cap
ital murder Saturday in the
shooting death of a pregnant
teen-ager whose full-term fetus
was then cut from her womb in
a crude Caesarean section.
Felecia Scott, 31, could
receive the death penalty or life
In prison without parole when
she is sentenced for the Jan. 31,
1996, slaying of 17-year-old
Carethla Curry. The Jury begins
its sentencing phase today.
Scott showed no emotion as
the decision was read Saturday
"It's just a real good ver
dict," said Curry's mother,
Carolyn O’Neal.
Curry was nine months
pregnant when she disap
peared after going out for pizza
with Scott, who witnesses said
was also claiming to be preg
nant.
Prosecutors said Scott killed
Curry out of her obsessive
desire for another baby.
Soccer game leads to
violence in Bangladesh
DHAKA, Bangladesh —
Frenzied fans clashed and fired
gunshots during a soccer
match yesterday killing at least
two people and Injuring 40 oth
ers In Bangladesh.
The military was called in as
the fighting spread to the
streets of Dighlnala, a township
110 miles southeast of Dhaka,
the capital.
The clash erupted 12 min
utes before the final whistle as
one of the teams took a 2-0
lead Two youths belonging to
the Chakma tribe died of bullet
wounds, a local official said on
customary condition of
anonymity.
— Associated Press
UGA Today
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6 30 p m.. Physical Education Building
Room 276 InloimatKXi 549-2522.
> Lambda Allianc*, University's
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Center Room 137. Information:
(www.uga.edu/-lgbsu).
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6864
> UGA Man’s Lacroaa*
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> Straight But Not Narrow,
■Homo^xual Jeopardy. 6 p m., Tale
Student Center Inlotmaton: 357-1733.
> UGA Aikido Club, weekly
meeting 7 p.m„ Ramsey Center Room 385
Information: 208-0746.
AMNOUHCPIPfTS
> Communlvoraity is accepting
applications through Fii„ Oct. 2.
Applications available at Tate Center Room
325, Information: 542-3713.
> Pandora Yearbook w* be tak
ing portraits every day this week Irom 9 am.
to 6 p.m. lor the class sections ol the year
book. Information: 542-2858.
> Georgia Outdoor
Recreation Program announces
UGA Ski Week ’96. The trip will be to
Whistler. British Columbia. Canada from
Dec 19-23. Sign up at the Ramsey Center
Cashier's Window by Oct. 14 Information
542-GORP
> Alpha Gamma Delta
announces its Jail and Bail Philanthropy
Event supporting juvenile diabetes The
event will take place on Wed.. Oct 7 al
Bultalos Cate Information: 227-9353.
> Abeneefoo Kuo Honor
Society is accepting applications lor
membershp through Oct. 2. Applications
are due lo Minority Services and Programs
Information: 542-5773.
> Delta CM win be having a blood
dnvt on Tuesday in Memorial Hal Room
102. Information: 542-5773.
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The plot weakens: ‘Legend’ screams repetition
;
By JOSH MASSEY
The Red a Black
Let's give originality points to
"Urban Legend ” No horror movie
In recent memory has had a cast
of good-looking teen-agers, used
hip pop culture references or
starred a person from "Dawson's
Creek .”
Um. OK, the sarcasm is laid on
pretty thick In fact, “Urban
Legend" is just the latest spawn
of 'Scream.'' the hit 1996 flick
which starred good-looking teens
and used hip pop culture refer
ences. And it's the third horror
movie in as many months to use
somebody from “Dawson's
Creek” (Joshua Jackson here,
Michelle Williams in “Halloween:
H20" and Katie Holmes in
“Disturbing Behavior"!
School's in session at fictitious
Pendleton University and a stu
dent has Just been decapitated
by someone in her back seat. And
then two other students are mur
dered in the next few days.
What's strange is that every
death seems linked to a certain
“urban legend," and coincidental
ly our young stars are taking a
class in urban legends. Among
them are nice-girl Natalie (Neve
... I mean. Alicia Witt), semi-slut-
ty Brenda (Rebecca Gayheart.
a.k.a. Noxzema Girl) and journal
ist Paul (Jared Leto).
It's an interesting plot, and for
Just a little while, it holds. But
the movie's just too stupid to be
really fun.
It turns out there was a mass
murder at the university 25 years
before, but it was covered up by
simply hiding newspaper articles
about it. In the middle of all the
mayhem, a remarkable number of
the characters “just have to be
alone.” And, like in “I Know What
You Did Last Summer." a lot of
townspeople happen to wear the
same type of clothing as the bad
guy.
And the "surprise" killer is the
most inane to come down the
pike in a long while.
"Urban Legend" does have
some fun, though. A nice slam at
“Dawson's Creek" is appreciated,
and the telephone scene in
"Scream" is nicely redone — but
from a chat room on the Web. It
just seems impossible for “Urban
Legend" to succeed, though.
“Scream" presented an inter
esting problem It was, essential
ly, the last slasher movie. It
revealed all of the secrets, mak
ing any future stab at the genre
futile. And then it was a hit.
Hollywood’s moneymaking
mentality has overpowered the
obvious fact that the era of slash
ers is over. But since they can be
made cheaply and tend to easily
turn a profit, we're seeing more
and more trash
And that's just what “Urban
Legend" is, along with most of
the other supposedly "scary"
stuff out there. They rely on
cheap thrills — someone quickly
jumping on screen, a cat pounc
ing on the hero, etc. — than real
psychological heebie-jeebies.
4 Alicia
Witt, left,
and
RatMCca
Gayheart
•tar in
“Urban
Legend,"
the latent
in a grow
ing aeries
of horror
films fea
turing bad
things hap
pening to
_ good-look-
£ ing people.
h Also stars
| Jared Leto
• and Joshua
Jackson.
And, as legend has it. that just
doesn’t work.
URBAN LEGEND
Starring: Alicia Witt. Rebecca Gayheart
The lowdown: (R) "Scream" life
Playing al: AMC Colonial 18,
Beechwood
Grade: C-
‘Tibet’ film offers diverse views on concert
Fill | Thi Rip a Bum
A Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth per
forms at the 1996 Tibetan Freedom
concert in San Francisco.
By JOSH MASSEY
The Red a Black
Almost unintentionally, “Free Tibet: The
Motion Picture" seems to mock the very
thing it's promoting.
The documentary, about the 1996 Tibetan
Freedom Concert in San Francisco, offers a
healthy amount of cynicism toward its sub
ject.
By mixing in real-life footage of horrific
human rights crimes being done in Tibet, it
makes the thousands of American concertgo-
ers look positively idiotic in their drunken
revelry.
“Free Tibet! Woo!" yells one intellectual
entering the gates, cooler in hand.
“I care and everything, but (I got a) short
attention span,” says another when asked
about the concert's serious meaning.
Monks 1, punk kids 0.
But this is actually a good thing.
If “Free Tibet" had tried to make us think
that the concert was 100,000 people who
truly cared about Tibet, or who could even
spell it, it would have seemed silly and insult
ing.
In truth, the concert was 20 bands who
cared about Tibet, and 100,000 people who
cared about the bands.
“I guess that it’s about the best dumb
rock stars can do," says James Iha of The
Smashing Pumpkins, meaning that even the
smallest amount of enlightenment can’t hurt.
“Free Tibet” offers plenty of entertain
ment with its education, with fiery perfor
mances from The Beastie Boys. Foo Fighters,
Rage Against the Machine and others (the
subsequent mosh pits lend support to the
Buddhists’ non-violent teachings). The best
sets come from Fugees Biz Markie, A Tribe
Called Quest and Bjork.
There's actually more marketing genius in
this film than the concert, though.
Hand a flier to a concert-goer, and it
immediately hits the ground.
But in a movie setting, the viewer Is forced
to watch, listen and ingest anything you feed
to them. And “Free Tibet" manages to do
that without ever becoming preachy or
drawn out.
The music is fun, but not as much as see
ing the monks react to the crowd.
And hearing the various experts expound
on the serious nature of Tibet is never boring
(and here's a handy fact: interviewee
Professor Robert Thurman is Uma's dad).
What the film could have done but
doesn't, though, is explain why Tibet is the
hip “cause” of the moment.
Is it the growing number of Buddhist
stars such as Richard Gere and the Beasties’
Adam Yauch?
Would a bunch of musicians fighting
against Christian persecution be as popular?
It's never explained why, in a world where
countless people are suffering, Tibet is wor
thy of singling out.
"Free Tibet: The Motion Picture" is being
treated as a concert, traveling to different
cities across the country for one night only.
The Georgia Theatre will host the film
tonight, and at a fitting time: a two-day
Tibetan Freedom Benefit ended Saturday at
the 40 Watt.
The Beastie Boys didn't show up there as
rumored this weekend, so this may be your
only chance to see them in Athens, even If
the concert is 2 years old.
FREE TIBET: THE MOTION PICTURE
Starring: 100,000 people, 20 bands
The lowdown: (Not Rated) An intelligent documentary
ol the 1996 Tibetan Freedom Concert in San Francisco.
Playing al: 10 p.m. The Georgia Theatre; $3.
Grade: B+
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CD REVIEWS
When
Korn
released
its 1994
debut,
the world
simply
wasn’t
ready for
some
thing
quite that
aggres
sive and shocking.
Well, the boys are back, but
this time they don’t care if the
world is ready or not. “Follow
The Leader" (the band’s third
album) is a filll-throttle, aggres
sion-packed, roller-coaster ride
that proves that Korn has com
pletely rewritten the book on
heavy metal.
Korn took their time record
ing this album, and it shows.
The band has more of a com
plete sound on this album,
something that comes with care
ful planning and experience.
The album begins with the
driving "It’s On” and doesn’t let
up from that point on.
Songs such as “Dead Bodies
Everywhere," "Pretty” and
"Reclaim My Place" ring true
with Korn’s traditional style of
rough heavy metal with the mix
of Jonathan Davis' distinct
vocals and those ever-present
random guitar sounds that add
the mood and tone to Korn’s
songs.
The current single, "Got the
Life,” shows a more catchy side
of Korn that will surely help the
album attract more fans.
The band then continues to
bridge the gap between heavy
metal and rap by having guest
appearances by Ice Cube (on
“Children of the Korn”), Tre
Hanson from the Pharcyde (on
"Cameltosls”) and by having
Korn’s own Davis battle wits
with Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit
on the amusing “All in the
Family " All three of these songs
are definitely worth checking out
and add plenty of life to the
album.
Korn is not afraid to stretch a
few boundaries, and it pays off.
Overall, Korn has done an
excellent job with this album.
“Follow The Leader" is definitely
going to turn some heads and
have a huge impact on the world
of heavy metal.
This is a solid album filled
with aggression, tension, and
everything that you would
expect from Korn and then
some.
If this is any indication of
where heavy metal is going,
buckle up, kids, it’s going to be a
crazy ride.
— Adrian Stowers
KORN
New Release: "Follow the Leader”
The lowdown: An excellent album that
may very well rewrite the book on heavy
metal.
Grade: A+
What
do you get
when you
cross
grinding
guitars,
some gui
tar-syn
thesized
effects,
driving
rhythms
and melodic pop -like vocals?
How about an orgy?
No, nothing sexual, but a
combination of sounds that
come together to form a new
band, Orgy
Orgy Is the first band to be
signed to Korn’s own Elementree
record label.
Don't let the association fool
you. though: Orgy and Korn
sound nothing alike.
Actually, about the only thing
these two have in common is
that they are, well, not normal.
Orgy’s first album is titled
“Candyass,” and it’s a cutting-
edge mix of heavy metal and
synth-pop that form a sound
that’s pleasing to the ear.
Now, this combination of syn
thesizers and heavy guitars is
nothing new; with the evolution
of such bands like Nine Inch
Nails, Prick and Gravity Kills we
have seen many bands who mix
the two styles, but Orgy pulls
this off like no other. The band’s
synthesized effects really darken
the album, while the low-end
guitars grind away to give a con
tradictory feeling of roughness
to the songs.
The songs themselves are
anything but cheery.
From the dissatisfied love
explained in “Stitches" to the
strange explorations described
in “Fetisha," the songs all retain
a dark feel, fueled by angst and
dissatisfaction.
Jay Gordon does a great job
of expressing his aggression in
his singing, but also in keeping it
melodic and fitting with the
music.
Overall, Orgy puts out a very
Impressive debut which beauti
fully blends heavy metal with a
melodic pop sound.
This album may not be for
everybody, but it’s definitely
worth checking out for some.
— Adrian Stowers
ORGY
New Release: "Candyass"
The lowdown: A great album tilled with
the cross-breeding ol dark heavy metal,
synthesized effects and melodic vocals.
Grade: A
Some bands don't Uke
change. A good example of this
is Slayer. These thrash-metal
veterans are back with a new
CD, “Dtabolus In Musica," and
they definitely have held true to
their form.
Slayer has always been a
mi i Tm Rid a Biacb
strong
force on
the metal
scene, but
their
thrashing
under
ground
style has
always
kept them
from
being a commercial success like
Metallica or Megadeth. But this
seems to be just fine with Slayer.
“Diabolus in Musica" is an 11-
song line-up filled with Slayer's
traditional tales of hate, chaos,
and complete dissatisfaction
with religion.
This isn't a pretty CD.
As far as the music goes.
Slayer once again pulls off a
solid metal CD, like they have so
many times before, but that Is
the problem.
This album really doesn’t
break much new ground. Songs
such as "Bitter Peace," “Stain of
Mind," and "Love to Hate" all
show the fast-paced, guitar-driv
en sounds that Slayer is famous
for, but they really don’t show
much new stuff at all.
Not to say that this isn't a
good CD; Tom Araya's voice is
just as rough as ever, and Jeff
Hanneman and Kerry King both
show excellent skill on the gui
tar, but this album won't bring
them too many new fans.
Overall, this album Is a solid
metal album with a style that
Slayer perfected many years ago
— a good example of what speed
and thrash metal used to be, but
not aimed at the current music
today, and one that most Slayer
fans will at least want to give a
try.
— Adrian Stowers
New Release: "Diabolut in Musica"
The lowdown A good metal CD. but
lacking some ongmality.
Grade: B-