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DIG-EYE- DROWED, TWIG CHARACTER! THIS NEWS IS WORSE THAN THE WAR IN IRAQ! Cube of Xoe by JSsh Darwin By C L HI XOE! ITS ME- STEREOTYPICAL ANIME SIRL! SU6SS WHATt Ouft GOOD FttlEND ZARTH^ HAD TO SO TO THE HOSPITAL' SHE HAS TO HAVE AN OPERATION TOMORROW MORNING! SHE'S SETTING BACK SURGERY* SHES HAD BAD BACK PROBLEMS FOR A LONG, LONG TIME BECAUSE HER — / ^ ANATOMY IS SO DISPROPORTIONATE! NO! THE MASSIVE AMOUNT OF TEXT IS GOING TO PUSH ME OUT OF THE PANEL. SO I BETTER STOP N2is£ PSIlHtiSn by R.DeLuna by Profiling Baghdad. Day by day we a moving closer to victory,” Bu said during a trip to Philadelphi- Officials said the civilians wet killed when Army guards openc fire at a checkpoint near Naja the same general area where fot soldiers from the same unit we; killed in a weekend car bombin; This time, officials said Ant guards fired warning shots atth vehicle carrying 13 people, the fired into its engine, but neitk action stopped the van. Twooth; civilians were injured and unharmed in the incident, whii the military is investigating “In light of recent tem attacks by the Iraqi regime, soldiers exercised consideral restraint to avoid the unnece loss of life,” said a statemi from U.S. Central Command The official casualty couni Americans stood at 44 seven captured and 16 mi: The British death toll rose to with the death of a soli Monday in southern Iraq. Iraqi officials have given estimate of military casualti hut have said at least 425 ians have been killed and i sands wounded. Some Iraqis described ham> ing conditions, and not only fm American air bombardments. One. who agreed to talkir condition his name not be use said agents of the ruling Ba; party attempted to shoot de ers. “But we decided it either die from an Amend bomb or be killed by our people,” he said in the Kurd: town of Kalak in northern Iraq Grat Continued from page 1 “take it to court.” The CSPD reported two complaints in 2002 of officers violating the department’s pro filing policy, but neither com plaint was found to be valid. “If black people are driving around with guns and crack, I want you to pull them over,” Lecky said. “But if not, don’t pull me over just because I’m black.” Carla Kwarteng, a junior accounting major and president of the A&M chapter of the NAACP, said she knows people who feel they have been dis criminated against because of their ethnicity. “If it has affected even one person, then it is definitely a problem,” she said. Kwarteng said the problem with racial profiling reports was that they can give a false sense of racial equity. “It gives a sense of compla cency, a sense of nothing going on,” she said. “But we know it’s a problem because we hear sto ries about it every day.” Article 2, section 132 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedures requires all Texas police forces, including UPD, to submit a racial profiling report annually to the Department of Public Safety. NEWS IN BRIEF “History i; poems, songs [quished.” Sus cal quote as s first genocide “This quol genocide, wh of,” she said. Kouyomjii the late Chari |ning dramatis isited Collej wice since la Ararat” is he productio olocaust of ttoman Em] Kouyomjii ‘Ararat” has < as only beer n November “This is a cause it ha: nuch of the / Kouyomjii merest to hei nvolvement i “Three of narches for r hie that they Kouyomjii he encouragi jee “Ararat” 1 the Armenian Coach Continued from page 1 Gillom’s fate was not determined prior to last season’s end. “There was no decision made until after the completion of the basketball season, just as every coach on campus is evaluated at the end of their season,” Miller said. Gillom, who did not post a winning season with the Aggies, has since been named an assis tant coach at the University of Mississippi. Blair has never posted a losing season and has had 14 seasons of 20 wins or more. Byrne said that finding a proven winner was one of his primary goals in the search for a new women’s coach. “He’s had a lot of experience in building pro grams, and we’re awfully glad he’s coming back to the state of Texas to rejuvenate our women’s basketball program to the level of success that we expect,” he said. Former student to spend month in jai history books I Kouyomjii A former Texas A&M stude that Armenia, found guilty of videotaping se the most anci al relations with a female si “Making t dent without her knowledf of us who ha 1 and then showing the tape t memories of his fraternity brothers was sen ^The f,f m jt s{ tenced in early March to fw years of probation and of month in jail, according to Tt> Bryan-College Station Eagle. Brennan Bice, 21, pleade guilty to a fourth-degree feloii charge punishable by up to tw years in jail and a $10,000 fins according to The Eagle. 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