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WORLD Page 12 THE BATTALION Tuesday,AfB ay, April 1 Ready for takeoff PATRIC SCHNEIDER TtifB Jules Glogovcsan makes final adjustments before takeoff. Glogovcsan learned to fly as a US Marine, but he had not flown in 15 years until he completed a refresher course. t is easy to lection tirr .words “tax gh the air :11s on Easter, sweet music — everybc lowever, t osal is a fo the feder; lis shouk Ideas An hen the p nited Stat ■hine. The m up from tin Jurprise! — )ince this was ;ofernment di bif'fixing it” 1 Jiminating the Iroponenls WefaCT.com will 1 REVOLUTIONIZE the way you learn. Five convicted in bridge collap Too bad it can t do the same for the way you live. Some things about college life will never change. But the way you study can. thanks to WebCT.com. WebCT.com is an e-learning hub packed with academic resources, from study aids and research materials to forums for discussing and debating with students and faculty around the world. In fact, using WebCT.com can have such a positive impact on your academic performance, you may even be inspired to do your laundry. Or not. Visit www.webct.com/revolution and see for yourself. TEL AVI V, Israel (AP) A court convicted five Israelis of causing death and injury by negligence in a footbridge collapse that killed four Australian athletes and injured scores of others during the opening ceremony of the 1997 Maccabiah Games. Micha Bar-1 Ian, the engineer who constructed the bridge, held his head in his hands as Tel Aviv Magistrate Edna Beckenstein read the decision of the three-judge panel. The defendants face up to four years in prison. In addition to Bar-Ilan, the defen dants included contractors Baruch Karagula and Yehoshua Ben-Ezra; Adam Mishorin, director of the Irgunit company that stages public events; and Yoram Eyal, the chairman of the Mac cabiah organizing committee. The bridge collapsed on July 14, 1997. during the opening of the Mac- cabiah Games, a sporting event for Jew ish athletes from around the world. Maccabiah organizers had built a temporary footbridge across the Yarkon River into the Ramat Gan sta dium near Tel Aviv. When the first ath letes walked across the bridge, it buck led and about 100 people plunged into the polluted river. Two athletes, Greg Small and Yetty Bennett, drowned. Two others, Eliza beth Sawicki and Warren Zincs, died lat er from what were believed to be the ef fects of swallowing polluted river water. Sixty-four people were injured, in cluding Australian Sasha Elterman, jenefit the ecoi lowever, it is c litoftax relief Wong-term c ■The problen who even after sevaai t0 ^ | UI , t j not recovered. .. I Iterman and relatives ofl:M r ' - a 011 s '’ ImIi.ui victims have ll!ah alllK lk si ihc World MaccjH.-i^l ,cns '' c - co lion, the engineer and contra; : « alc b ; ' pe'trok cit\ of Ramat Gan, the Yarto# day, there \ ,s cr K&biUrU Authority, the state of Israel andMThe solution The president of Australia's organization, Tom Danes, asked Israeli lawmakers to hel; the replenishment of an SMIO.OOO that Israel hadseturj the \ ictims pay medical andW The criminal trial beganl«;L # ago he I ore the Tel \vh \L T . ( ouri and a special tliree-ju;;/V/ HU11 began deliberating six montfe ■ court heard more \.\\an mi LI xhe Okla- over 50 sessions. I homa A -/ House of IT UP REAL LOUD BECAUSE MY MOM'S A I A 7i ER 99 .<*•. Vy> ZV f: ■■ : :Mv, c j .corn the Interactive online music experience ience ;• try; •;v - • • - *•' ,,,r zb • ’ ’ •• ’ •■-'v-i..-a• By- ■ /.va-MV-''/a. ; - . m'h .'.'"••YyV ' Vlepresentatives The Gentlemen of 01’ Ags at Texas A§M would like to thank the students and the community for their support of this year’s Cans For a Cause. As a result of your support OF Ags made a generous donation of more than I SOOIbs. of canned food and s 2500 to the Brazos Valley Food Bank. We would like to thank our sponsors: Association of Former Students Triangle Bowl McCaslin-Hill Construction Aggieland Printing Los Cucos fcmade a mov fcange the |y science ks read. An bndment to a Jposed bill ensure that 1 State Textboi lowiedge th ted by one C e bill origii book commit tary and twe hers. Howev frogged its w the way scien ahoma public the guise of d , some memt tse of Represr |trying to take ntal basis of n nee and mani r own person. [Some membe ma House ar like away the dren to get an on. They are all £ to not only ad |ol but state it fttionism alone lalso the theor idren do not h t?ke a decision c committee is its and state th idren will be ti P will be hinde Iny classes, tes lights in the sc ed on evolutio Rhodes Securities Chop’s Auto Shop Roly Poly Custom Sportswear Fajita Rita’s A SPECIAL THANKS TO: Deloitte & Touche IteLuctevt | o