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2 I Tuesday, April 18, 2006 | The Red & Black NEWS UGA TODAY >- Swing Night. 9 p.m./les sons, 10 p.m./music. The Ritz. Sponsor: UGA Ballroom Dance Club. Web site: www.ugabdc.org > May Week 2006. The 31st Annual Miss Black University of Georgia Pageant. 7 p.m. Georgia Hall, Tate Center. Sponsor: Delta Sigma Theta. >- “Invisible Children.” A student-produced documen tary of child soldiers in Uganda. 8 p.m. 245 SLC. Sponsor: AIESEC > Depression and Suicide Awareness Week, Active Minds: Stressbuster Night. 7 p.m. Fireside Lounge in Rooker Hall, East Campus Village. Sponsor: Nugi's Space Student Organization. Wednesday >■ Barqs 4 Beer, Food 4 Feedback. 4 p.m. 101 SLC. Sponsor: SGA. Contact: mcopper@uga.edu >- P.A.C.E.S. Lecture- Demonstration. 7 p.m. New Dance Theatre, UGA Department of Dance, Sanford Drive. Sponsor: UGA Department of Dance. ► May Week 2006. Poverty and Health In the Black Community. 12 p.m. Tate Plaza. Sponsor: Delta Sigma Theta. >- Lambda Sigma Upsilon Latino Fraternity Inc. Interest Meeting. 6:30 p.m. 253 SLC. >- Presentation on Major Scholarships: Fulbright, Goldwater, Rhodes, etc. 3:45 p.m. The Chapel. Sponsor: The Honors Program. Contact: dmiller@uga.edu — Please submit items for UGA Today to ugatoday @ randb. com at least two days before the date to run. r Wi n TOP STORIES FROM AROUND THE STATE, NATION AND WORLD NAMES & FACES Eminem owed land in Mich. DETROIT — Marshall Mathers, the state of Mich igan has something of yours. The 33-year-old rapper better known as Eminem may not be hurting for cash, but if he ever runs low, he can pick up the unclaimed property turned over by Michigan National Bank. The state Treasury Department lists Mathers on its unclaimed property Web site. Spielberg to design Olympic ceremonies BEIJING — Steven Spielberg will join filmmaker Zhang Yimou in designing the opening and closing cere monies for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Zhang, whose films include “Hero” and “House of Flying Daggers,” was named Sunday to lead a team that includes Spielberg. — Associated Press Immigrant bill signed into law by Perdue ATLANTA — Gov. Sonny Perdue on Monday signed a sweeping immigration bill that both supporters and critics say will make Georgia’s laws among the toughest in the nation. “I want to make this clear: we are not, Georgia’s govern ment is not, and this bill is not anti-immigrant,” Perdue said Monday at a signing cer emony. The Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act will verify that adults seeking many state-administered benefits are in the country legally. It sanctions employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants and mandates that companies with state contracts check the immigra tion status of their employees. The law will also require police to check the immigration status of people RIC FELD | Associated Press A Gov. Sonny Perdue signs SB529, Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act, into law in Atlanta Monday. they arrest. Georgia lifts ban on agricultural wells ALBANY — The state has lifted a seven-year ban on per mitting new agricultural wells in the Flint River Basin and is considering 1,100 applica- STATE tions that were filed during the moratorium. Some of the permits will be issued this year, but “nobody should count on it,” McDowell said Monday. — Associated Press Papers win Pulitzer for Katrina coverage TEL AVIV, Israel — A Palestinian suicide bomber struck a packed fast-food restaurant during Passover on Monday, killing nine other people and wounding dozens in the deadliest attack in more than a year. In a sharp departure from the previous Palestinian gov ernment’s condemnations of bombings, the Hamas-led administration said the attack resulted from Israel’s “brutal aggression.” The bloodshed and the hard-line stance could set the stage for harsh Israeli reprisals and endanger Palestinian efforts to secure desperately needed international aid. Tourist bus plunges off cliff in Mexico VERACRUZ, Mexico — A bus carrying Mexican tourists plunged off a nearly 650-foot cliff Monday, killing 43, police said. The bus was on its way from the western city of Guadalajara to the Gulf coast city of Tabasco follow ing the Easter week holiday. Three people were injured, and authorities said the number of victims could increase. MOHAMMED BALLAS | Associated Press ▲ Samiya Hammad holds photographs of her son Samer Hammad, a suicide bomber who detonated a blast that killed himself and at least nine others in Tel Aviv Monday. Suspect unknown in Holloway case ORANJESTAD, Aruba — A lawyer for a Dutch youth detained previously as a sus pect in the disappearance of teenager Natalee Holloway WORLD said Monday his client did not know the latest person arrested by Aruban authori ties in the case. Joseph Tacopina, a U.S. lawyer for Joran van der Sloot, said the detention of a person identified by authori ties only as “G.V.C.” was good news for his client because it suggested the investigation was heading in a new direc tion. — Associated Press NEW YORK — The staffs of The Times-Picayune of New Orleans and The Sun Herald of south Mississippi captured Pulitzer Prizes for public service on Monday for chronicling the cata strophic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina despite life-changing damage to their own homes and work places. The Washington Post won four Pulitzers, The New York Times three and The Times-Picayune and the Rocky Mountain News each won two. In the arts categories, the fiction prize went to “March,” Geraldine Brooks’ novel imagining the life of the father in Louisa May Alcott’s “Little Women.” Two Duke lacrosse members indicted DURHAM, N.C. — A grand jury issued sealed indictments Monday against two members of the Duke University lacrosse NATIONAL team in connection with allegations that a stripper was raped last month at a team party, a source close to the case told The Associated Press. Gov. convicted of steering contracts CHICAGO — Former Gov. George Ryan was convicted of corruption Monday in the scandal that ended his political career in 2003 at the same time he was win ning international acclaim for commuting the sen tences of everyone on Illinois' death row. He was convicted of steering state contracts and leases, including a $25 million IBM computer deal, to political insiders while he was Illinois secretary of state in the 1990s and then governor for one term. In return, he got vacations in Jamaica, Cancun and Palm Springs and gifts ranging from a golf bag to $145,000 in loans to his brother's floundering business. — Associated Press Grow Lights • Fertilizer • Plant Food • Green Houses • Start Kits • Amazing Growth! ^ If you grow it... z'~in -*• fhpu h P I I Full Service Retailer ^ : \A/| 11 (hydSfarm) — —— ** HYDROPON III ■ 2475 Jefferson Rd • Athens • 706-2 Full Service Retailer HYDR4FARMJ HYDROPONICS 2475 Jefferson Rd • Athens • 706-353-2223 CORRECTIONS The Red & Black is committed to journalis tic excellence and pro viding the most accu rate news possible. Contact us if you see an error, and we will do our best to correct it. Editor-in-Chief: Brent Mosley 433-3027 bmosley@randb.com Managing Editor: Matthew Borenstein 433-3026 mborenste@randb.com LET THEM KNCM/ YOU'RE 6R/WJATiNQWiTH /WOUNCEMENTS FROM B el-iean COPY/PRINT CENTER DOWNTOWN ATHENS ■ 548*3648 Suicide bomber kills nine Israelis Congratulations Eric Perez Last Friday's Sudoku Puzzle winner! Eric's correctly completed Sudoku puzzle from The Red & Black was drawn from entries submitted to The Red & Black office. Eric wins two large, two topping pizzas from Domino's Pizza. Solve Friday's Sudoku puzzle in The Red & Black and you could win! One entry per person, no photocopies. 540 Baxter St. - Athens - across from Brumby Hall Take control - Learn to Fly! An exciting career - Dept, of Labor says 60,000 NEW airline pilots needed over the next 10 years. Learn about opportunities. Pleasure and Adventure - Always wanted to fly? Never have another dull weekend! Open House! Sat., April 22 • 9-2 www. 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