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► People in the news
Academy Awards
host search begins
NEW YORK
(AP) — Whoopi
Goldberg has
settled on her
cj-ioice as host
N for next year’s
' Academy Awards
show —x Rosie
O’Donnell.
During an
appearance on
O’Donnell’s TV
show Thursday, Goldberg, the host of
this year’s Oscars, declared: “There
isn’t anybody else who can do it in
my opinion but Rosie." She urged the
audience to write the Academy to tell
them so.
Osmond up-staged
by throat injury
DETROIT (AP) — He’s a little bit
rock ’n’ roll and a little bit ... hurt.
A throat injury will force 38-
year-old Donny Osmond to miss
the first three weeks of the mus
cal Joseph and
the Amazing
Technicolor
Dreamcoat.
Osmond,
who has the
title role in the
Andrew Lloyd
Webber produc
tion, injured his
vocal cords Osmond
three weeks
ago while performing in Boston. He
aggravated the injury Tuesday doing
voice exercises.
Osmond up-staged
by throat injury
NEW YORK (AP) — Superman
actress Margot Kidder, found
dazed and filthy in a Los Angeles
back yard in April, says she is
“much humbled” and feeling fine.
In her first interview since the
episode, the 47-year-old Kidder
told Barbara Walters on ABC’s
20/20 that she has suffered for
years from manic depression.
“It wasn’t my mood swings that
alarmed me as much as the
altered states that I would go
into,” Kidder said in the interview,
which airs Friday. “I likened them to
LSD trips without the LSD.”
► Campus
Dean receives
honorary doctorate
The dean of Texas A&M’s College
of Science received an honorary doc
torate two weeks ago from the Uni
versity of Bergen in Norway.
Richard E. Ewing was given the
award during a special ceremony
and banquet attended by the
Queen of Norway.
Ewing was honored for his work
in applied mathematics/ numeri
cal simulation and his close links
with researchers at the University
of Bergen.
► City
Council run-off
begins Saturday
College Station voters will
head to the polls Saturday to
decide a run-off for the College
Station City Council.
The election will end the race
between Paul Williams, a College
Station business man, and Brad
Martin, a landscape architect.
Residents can cast their bal
lots at the College Station City
Council chambers at 1101 Texas
Avenue South.
► State
Tech may gain top
state health official
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — The state
could lose a second high-ranking fig
ure to the Texas Tech hierarchy if
Chancellor John T. Montford decides
to pluck Texas’ top health official.
State Health Commissioner
David R. Smith is “pondering the
possibility” of becoming the first
president of the Texas Tech Uni
versity Health Sciences Center,
he told the Lubbock Avalanche-
Journal.
“I’ve got to weigh some family
decisions,” he said.
Montford already said he plans
to recommend to school regents
that interim university President
Donald Haragan, a finalist for the
chancellor’s job, become the per
manent president of the university.
National Guard
pilot dies in crash
CORSICANA, Texas (AP) — A
small, twin-engine plane crashed
early Thursday, killing the pilot as
he was attempting an emergency
landing, authorities said.
Killed was Robert Warner of
Chauvin, La., a 31-year-old Nation
al Guard captain.
The Federal Aviation Adminis
tration in Fort Worth said the
Beechcraft Baron was on a flight
from Houston’s Hobby Airport to
Love Field in Dallas when the pilot
reported engine trouble about
2:30 a.m.
The Texas Department of Public
Safety said the pilot tried to land at
Corsicana’s municipal airport but
crashed about three-quarters of a
mile from the northern edge of the
field into a resident’s front yard.
DPS Sgt. Kenneth Authier said
the plane was owned by GTA Inc.
of Dallas and was carrying bank
documents.
A GTA spokeswoman who
identified herself only as Bonnie
said she could not confirm any
information.
► Nation I
Yale tops latel
college rankinl
WASHINGTON (AP)-J
sity topped U.S. News cl
Report’s annual survey offol
best universities. Swarthmorl
was the top liberal arts sctaj
The magazine, now in]
year of rankings, is one]
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high school students :l
choose among hundreds*
leges and universities.
“We use many of the rJ
schools use to judge theirs
cess," said Al Sanoff, mans
tor for the project. ‘Howevs
in the guidebook that inch]
school, students need to:
host of factors, and rankit
one of them.’
This year’s ranking, s
Thursday, ended Harvard's
streak at No. 1. It finish:
behind Yale and Princeton.
Critics say the rankings
heavily on statistical meas.
fail to sort out importantir
and character differences.
This day in history
(AP) — Today is Friday, Sept. 6, the 250th day of
1996. There are 116 days left in the year.
On this date:
In 1837, the Oberlin Collegiate Institute of Ohio
went co-educational as it conferred equal academic
status to a class of four women and 30 men.
In 1901, President McKinley was shot and mortally
wounded by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-Amer
ican Exposition in Buffalo, N.Y.
In 1939, South Africa declared war on Germany.
In 1941, Jews over the age of 6 in German-occupied
areas were ordered to wear yellow Stars of David.
In 1975, Czechoslovak tennis star Martina
Navratilova, in New York for the U.S. Open, requested
political asylum.
Ten years ago: 22 worshipers were killed when two
gunmen attacked a synagogue in Istanbul, Turkey, with
machine guns and grenades, then took their own lives.
Five years ago: In the Soviet Union, the State Coun
cil, a new executive body composed of President
Mikhail S. Gorbachev and republic leaders, recognized
the independence of the Baltic states.
One year ago: Los Angeles police detective Mark
Fuhrman invoked his Fifth Amendment right against
self-incrimination as he was called back to the witness
stand at the OJ. Simpson trial.
► Weather
Today
Tonight
Tomorrow
Highs &
Today’s Birthdays
Country singer David Allen Coe is 57. Comedian-
actress Jane Curtin is 49. Rhythm-and-blues musician
Claydes Smith of Kool & The Gang is 48. Actor-comedi
an Jeff Foxworthy is 38. Country singer Mark Chesnutt is
33. Singer CeCe Peniston is 27. Rock singer Dolores
O’Riordan of the Cranberries is 25. Actor Justin Whalen
of Lois and Clark is 22.
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