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Page 8A STATE Thursday, Nova: THE BATTALION Attention All New Members of NSCS National Society of Collegiate Scholars Millionaire faces life in prisf for arranging death of ex-wi tiursday. Now Induction Convocation Ceremony will take place Monday, November 6th from 4:00 - 6:00 PM In Rudder Auditorium Check In begins at 3:30 PM For More Information, Contact us at nscs_tamu @ yahoo.com If you are a current member and would like to get involved, please contact us at the above address for information on meeting times. SAN ANTONIO (AP)—A millionaire convicted of ar ranging the slaying of his ex-wife in a brutal attack that left two of her children crawling in her blood should receive life imprisonment, the victim’s widower says. Allen Blackthome faces sentencing today before U.S. District Judge Edward C. Prado for his conviction this sum mer of interstate conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire and interstate domestic violence. Ex-wife Sheila Bellush’s throat was slit, ahd she was shot in her Sarasota, Fla., home. “Judge Prado, please put Mr. Blackthome in a cage for the rest of his life,”Jamie Bellush wrote in a letter to the ju rist. “He is a vicious and dangerous animal. Cages lire where animals like him belong.” Two of Mrs. Bellush’s toddler quadaiplets from her sec ond marriage were found crawling in her blood following the 1997 murder-for-hire. Blackthome, the last of four men to be convicted or plead guilty in the mother's death, faces a mandatory life prison term. The quadruplets — Timmy, Joey, Courts Frankie, now almost six —sometimes ask iftl is still bleeding in heaven, their father wrotei 15 letter. Bellush described in Wednesday's editionsotj Antonio Express-News how one teen-age step cently wept over her mother's gravesite andanolIJ daughter requires counseling because the memor| mother’s body on a bloody kitchen floor is "bun brain.” Blackthorne's attorneys are seeking a newt the government’s main witness, Blackthome'* friend and accomplice, Daniel A. Rocha, recanteej her testimony. Except in unusual cases, a conviction forplo meditated murder carries no less than life impris der federal sentencing guidelines, said Nora Deir St. Mary's University law professor. r Partners law firm i back nev Texas y/lbrtina TA Soutl veekend company w itol if HOUSTON (AP)—Takiti:| from Silicon Valley lawyers,[t./i ^ A at some of Texas’ largest are investing in start-up ventutp cording to a published report For example, about 250 in Dallas-based Akin Gump Hauer & Feld have put up $10,000 and $40,000 each $5 million investment fund "It shows our commitment! ly-stage companies,” Eliot a partner at Akin Gump Texas Journal of The W Journal in Wednesday’seditii has helped us overcome the a 1.000-lawyer firm isn’t in in the start-up guys.” The fund, started last Ma' vested about half its money nine companies, including a of liigh-speed Internet access German market and u WebsiH links consumers and fiemtn sionals who believe in natural riel Seed money for clients of based Haynes & Boone has provided since 1999. David Combs, a partner, said the firm’s! ture fund is expected to invest $2 million next year. The firm spreads its invesi around, keeping them inthe$! range to avoid ethical dilemma* could arise if it had a material in a client company, McCombs At Houston-based Fulbrigl worski, lawyers are settingupa that will invest between $3 and $5 million, according toti nology partner Bob Gray. He said clients are the dir force behind the fund. “They tell us, ‘We want toll you are on our side. We wanly have a stake with us,’ ” saidGflj Some recipients of funds Gump are clients while others identified by an outside invest adviser. Each company has ret as much as $250,000 from t as part of a larger round of tional investment that rangedl $2 million to $50 million, aca to the newspaper. xas AS 1CL/MC BRAZOS ^GO 1/2 PRICE OPTION EVERY DOOHSOfEN CTSBSION 2ND SESSION 10! TiioJk iiMPM Hi PM NONE [ WcJuckUv MPM MSN WOPM ' ThiWiv SMPM MSN WOPM Ml THURSDAY hspm mopm f|[nI SON)! SdOPM MS PM MOPM MW 1 Sunday MPM MPM MOW Non-SraokingAna • Door Prizes • Creai food. Security • Pull Talis nM*! I Men Over Awarded Weellf KTSR Late Shows Thu., Fri., Sal: All shows after 11pm only s 4.50 Purchase Tickets Online @ cinetticii' LUCKY NUMBERS (R)* THE LITTLE VAMPIRE (PG) BEDAZZLED (PG13)‘ MEET THE PARENTS (PG13) 12:45 3:00 5:30 8:00 H* 11:30 1:55 4:25 7:201^ 11:35 1:504:1!" 11:50 2:15 4:35 7:1S ^ 11:40 2:10 4:40 7:25 1:05 4:05 7:05 9* PAY IT FORWARD (PG13)' AMERICAN PIE (R) BEST IN SHOW (PG13)' 12:30 2:50 5:15 7:35 DR. T & THE WOMEN (R) 1:20 4:lO ,I! LOST SOULS (R) 12:20 2:45 5:10 8:05 H* REMEMBER THE TITANS (PG) 12:00 2:35 5:20 H THE CONTENDER (R) THE EXORCIST (R) THE LADIES MAN (R) 2:05 4:45 7:30 H ,! 12:50'3:50 f 5 12.SS 4:00 7:10 10 ,! ' 12:10 2:30 455'' l l LEGEND OF DRUNKEN MASTER (R) 11:55 2204:507:4!*-1 4-DAY ADVANCE TICKET SALES 4 NO PASSES-N0 cinemark.com