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Beernuts by Rob Appling
OH MAN, I MET A NEW GIRL
THIS WEEKEND AND LET ME
TELL YOU, I AM IN LOVE!!
IN LOVE, HUH?
WHAT'S SHE LIKE?
HER NAME IS NASTY
McGEE AND SHE LOOKS
JUST LIKE JENNIFER
ANISTON ONLY SHE'S
SHORTER, A LITTLE
FATTER, HAS LESS TEETH,
AND RED HAIR.
I'M TAKING HER OUT
TOMORROW NIGHT I'M SO
NERVOUS BECAUSE I REALLY
WANT TO DO SOMETHING THAT
WILL IMPRESS HER...
YOU'RE NERVOUS ABOUT IMPRESSING
A GIRL NAMED NASTY ??
I KNOW, ISN'T THAT AN \
INTERESTING NAME? SHE \
SAID HER DAD NAMED HER \
AFTER HIS EX-WIFE
Mi;.
Afghan vice
buried with
JALALABAD, Afghanistan (AP) — Vice
President Abdul Qadir was buried Sunday with
full military honors a day after he was gunned
down in an attack that Afghans fear may bring
new instability to a nation struggling to build
peace after decades of war.
An estimated 10,000 people followed Qadir’s
body as it was transported on a gun-carriage from
Jalalabad’s White Mosque to Amir Shaheed
Gardens in the city center. Afghan troops in full
uniform marched in the procession.
As the body, wrapped in a green, red and black
Afghan flag, was lowered into the grave, a Pashto-
language poem read over a loudspeaker hailed
Qadir as “a unique man” and “a hero of
Afghanistan.” Seven shots were fired into the air,
and mourners wept and chanted his name.
Qadir, who also served as minister of public
works and governor of Nangarhar province, died
Saturday in a hail of bullets after two gunmen
opened fire on his vehicle as it was leaving his
THE BATTAlI
president
full honors
office in Kabul. His driver, who was alsoasol
law, was killed too but the gunmen escaped.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai will cal:
foreign help in cracking the case if localaucl
ties are unable to make progress in their I
investigation, Afghan television reported Suns I
State-run television said two men had I
detained for questioning after they were stoppl
a Kabul checkpoint in a car similar to the one J
by the killers for their getaway.
Qadir’s body was flown here to the Nanp j
capital from Kabul aboard a helicopter pro, !
by the international peacekeeping force folio-
a prayer service attended by Karzai and thou ; r
of mourners. I
No one claimed responsibility fortheat
Turkish Army Col. Samet Oz, spokesman^
5.000-strong international peacekeepingfc |
Kabul, described the killing as “an indiv:
attack designed to destabilize the transit
government.”
Turkey’s deputy premier calls for early elections
ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) —
Turkey’s deputy premier called
Sunday for early elections,
breaking ranks with his coali
tion partners who have vowed to
stay in office despite fears over
the premier’s health.
Devlet Bahceli became the
first senior figure in Prime
Minister Bulent Ecevit’s gov
ernment to call for the sched
uled 2004 vote to be advanced.
He told party members that par
liament should cut short its sum
mer holiday to vote on holding a
poll in November.
“Let’s set an election date for
November 3,” said Bahceli,
whose Nationalist Action Party
is the second-largest member of
•the three-party coalition.
He said that an early election
would end the political instabil
ity shaking Turkey.
In recent weeks, the govern
ment has defied calls for early
polls as a string of ailments have
left the 77-year-old Ecevit
unable to work. Ecevit, who has
pledged to stay in office, is seen
as the glue that holds the coali
tion together.
Ecevit was hospitalized twice
in May, and has been recuperat
ing at home after suffering intes
tinal problems, an infection, a
cracked rib and a spinal injury.
In his absence, coalition part
ners quarreled over reforms to
further Turkey’s EU member
ship bid, alarming financial
markets already shaky after last
year’s economic crisis.
Turkey’s benchmark stock
index and its currency have
both lost over 15 percent since
Ecevit was first hospitalized in
early May.
On Sunday, he said he
intended to stay in office until
2004 elections.
Ecevit told private CNN-
Turk that he had “no intention
of stepping down at the
moment,” and added that his
government “owed it to the
nation” to pursue its program of
political and economic reforms
over a full five-year term.
Turkey is seeking to recovef
from a crisis that saw the econo
my shrink 9.4 percent last year.
Opposition parties, which
have been calling for early elec
tions for months, welcomed
Bahceli’s call for an early vote.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan,
leader of the pro-Islamic Justice
and Development Party, said
elections could even be held
before November.
“Parliament could immedi
ately be called for an extraordi
nary meeting,” Erdogan said.
“We could start an election
campaign swiftly, we have no
time to lose.”
It was unclear, however,
whether Bahceli’s proposal
would gain the parliamentary
majority required. Signs were
that the other two parties in the
coalition would oppose an early
election call.
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Boy killed by bias!
of unknown
device in Georgia
CUSSETA, Ga. (AP)-AS
year-old boy died Sundays
injuries suffered when r
explosive device blew u:
near a truck trailer whereli:
was playing with his sister
Little was known aboit
what caused the blast, sai!
John Bankhead, spokesme -
for the Georgia Bureau: 1
Investigation.
Sammy Evans died at;
Columbus hospital. His ?
year-old sister, whose name
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Census finds grandparents taking
primary caregiver roles to grandkids
THURMONT, Md. (AP) — Hunched on the
living room floor in front of a Lego set, 5-year-old
Michael Simmons turned and waved at his grand
mother. “Look, Grandma,” he said, holding a
newly built toy in hand.
Pat Owens smiled and nodded approvingly.
With Michael’s parents out of his life, the 59-year-
old Owens has joined the more than 2.4 million
grandparents found by the 2000 census to be pri
mary caregivers to a grandchild.
It was the first time the once-a-decade count
tracked such living arrangements.
The closest the census had come in the past to
Goode
Continued from page 1
Goode was born in Dallas and was a National
Merit Scholar at Irving High School. Goode was
also in the marching band and marched at the
grand opening of Texas Stadium in Irving, Texas.
She joined EG&G in Idaho after graduating in
1979 with a bachelor’s degree in nuclear engi
neering from A&M and later worked in the com
mercial nuclear industry.
She was an annual member of the Association
of Former Students’ Century Club and a member
addressing this issue was to estimate the percent
age of children under 18 living in a grandparent
headed home. That was 6.3 percent in 2000, com
pared with 5.5 percent in 1990, 3.6 percent in
1980 and 3.2 percent in 1970.
That data, however, did not cover how many of
those grandparents were the main caregivers for
their grandchildren.
The 2000 census long form asked if a grand
parent was responsible for “most of the basic
needs” of a grandchild in the home. Yes was the
answer from 42 percent of the nearly 5.8 million
grandparents living with a grandchild.
of the Fort Worth/Tarrant County A&M Club.
Goode was a supporter of the women's move
ment. She was also a longtime volunteer for the
Cowtown Marathon and active in the Susan
Komen Race for the Cure against breast cancer.
The scholarship gift counts in the “One Spirit,
One Vision Campaign,” the university’s multi
year fundraising campaign aimed at helping A&M
achieve national top 10 standing among public
universities.
The scholarship will only be available to
women because Goode realized there was a need
for more females in the engineering field.
Volunteers
Continued from page 1
In addition, the volunteers
work at the Chaplin’s library
by handing out religious litera
ture to the students in the
evenings. Many of the volun
teers also participate as pen
pals with the students.
“Chaplin’s Library and
being a pen pal are great
opportunities to get to know
the boys better,” Nguyen said.
“It is important to get to know
them so they trust you enough
to actually be their friends.”
“We hope to continue
reaching out to [the students|
at Hamilton,” said Blake
Childs, a senior economics
major. “Everyone on our team
cares about these kids, and we
plan to put in a lot of time and
effort at Hamilton as we
always have.”
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released, officials said
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Saturday night wh^
children, visiting
Philadelphia, Miss., ^
playing ouis\6e their
grandmother's palnneadw
shop, Bankhead said.
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FORT WORTH, Texas (AP)'
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