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You double-crossed me. You dou ble-dealt me, and that's who you are," the former "Baretta" star told Bonny Lee Bakley - the woman he is accused of murder- defensive wounds on Bakley's arms. The prosecution's key witnesses are execte: be two former Hollywood stuntmen whoay Bl; tried to pay them to kill Bakley. When 4 prosecutors say, the actor shot her himsel Earle Caldwell, a former bodyguard, over a: handyman for Blake, is charged with conspingwi the actor. mg. AND GOOD LUCK! T he Office of Honors Programs & Academic Scholarships is proud to recog nize the following Texas A&M University students who have been named as FINALISTS in the 2003 Harry S Truman Scholarship Competition. SARAH RUBENSTEIN Political Science / Psychology Landstuhl, Gennany ADAM WILLIAMS DEREK MERCER Mechanical Engineering Political Science Marker Heights, TX Austin, TX These three students traveled to Dallas this week to interview with a regional selection O panel. The results of the competition will be announced in the coming weeks. The Harry S Truman Scholarship awards $30,000 scholarships to students who plan to attend graduate school in preparation for careers in government or public service. To learn more about National Scholarships, please call the Honors Office at: 845-1957; email: honors@tamu.edu; or visit our website at: http://honors.tamu.edu/NS.htm. Proudly Supporting Texas A&M University’s Tradition of Excellence Office of Honors Programs & Academic Scholarships - A Department in the Division of Academic Affairs BLAKE Judge Lloyd Nash allowed pros ecutors to use the tape in the preliminary hearing to decide whether there is sufficient evi dence to order Blake and a body guard to stand trial. He said the tape might not be admissible at a trial, however. Bakley, 44, was shot as she sat in the couple's car near a restaurant where they had dined on May 4, 2001. Blake, 69, has claimed he went back into the restaurant to retrieve a gun he carried for protection and found Bakley shot when he returned to the car. Blake faces life in prison without parole if convicted. On the tape, Bakley sniffled and cried as she insisted her only concern was to stay with Blake. "All I ever wanted was to be with you," she said. Blake urged her to get an abortion, suggesting "a pill from France." In other testimony, police Sgt. Charles Knolls testi fied that a diner who saw Blake and Bakley the night of the slaying reported that the actor looked nervous, appeared to be hyperventilating and asked someone for water. At the hearing, Blake's lawyer challenged a coro ner's work on the autopsy. Deputy Medical Examiner Jeffrey Gutstadt testified that a bullet that went through Bakley's cheek was fired in a slightly upward direction. In a long cross-examination, lawyer Thomas Mesereau Jr. suggested the autopsy never exactly established Bakley's position when she was shot, the height of her assailant, or which of the two shots that killed her came first. The coroner testified that Bakley was killed by one bullet that went through her right cheek and into her brain and another bullet that entered through her right shoulder. He noted that there were no The WB's 'Buffy the Vampie Slayer' to wrap up 7-year m NEW YORK (AP) - Stick a stake in it: Vampire Slayef" is done. After seven years, the series will be over alien of this season, said its star, Sarah Michelle Gear. "'Buffy,' in this incarnation, is over," Gellatol Entertainment Weekly magazine for its issue, her eyes welling with tears. The series will wrap up with a five-part sn which will include the return of Faith, the slayer, and Buffy's first love, Angel. "We're gearing up to tell a fabulous, arc," Cellar said. 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