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OPEN LATE THE BATTALION Are You Coming? AGGIELIFE Monday, September 15,20(l. ; | Bee A Good Neighbor Carnival A/ISC Flag Room Wednesday, September 17,2003 11:00am - 1:00pm Better Ingredients • Better Pizza Monday Special fi: b, safee pickup only Sunday: 1 1 a.m. - midnight Monday - Wednesday: 1 t a.m. - 1 a.m. Thursday: 11 a.m. - 2 a.m. Friday & Saturday: 1 1 a.m. - 3 a.m. Affleck and Lopez split on wedding day LOS ANGELES (AP) — Have they gone from Bennifer back to Ben and Jennifer? The most overexposed couple on the plan et was supposed to exchange wedding vows Sunday, but instead there was a report that they had ended their tabloid-chroni cled storybook romance. Amid the frantic specula tion surrounding the pair last week, People magazine reported Sunday that Affleck has dumped Lopez due to “second thoughts” about MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY 1 LARGE 1-TOPPING $C 99 pu/only 2 LARGE 1-TOPPING $12" ■ pu/delivery 1 EX-LARGE 2-TOPPING $ I0 50 * *** pu/delivery 1 LARGE 2-TOPPING & 2 liter drink $1 1 99 1 1 • pu/delivery PICK YOUR SIDE LARGE 2 TOPPING AND 1 SIDE $12 78 1 pu/delivery FAMILY SPECIAL 1 LARGE SPECIALTY 1 LARGE 2 TOPPING *16” ANY LARGE SPECIALTY $| Northgate 601 University Dr. 979-846-3600 Post Oak Square Center 100 Harvey Rd. r Suite D 979-764-7272 Rock Prairie 1700 Rock Prairie 979-680-0508 their impending wedding. Dubbed “Bennifer” by gossip wags, the pair planned to wed at a mansion estate near Santa Barbara. But they postponed the ceremony Wednesday, saying excessive media attention was turning the event into havoc. Citing unidentified “sources close to thecoii pie,” People reported that Affleck initiated tti;| breakup with Lopez, who was “devastated”anc[ “in tears.” However, the magazine hedged its scoop M adding “it was unclear whether the separatiofj was permanent.” A representative for Affleck, Ken Sunshine ! declined to comment on the breakup rumor Lopez’s publicist, Dan Klores, did not retun;| The Associated Press’s call for comment. Klores told People he believed the couplel was still together, but had not spoken to Lopfr[ in several days. If the wedding happens, it will be the third fori Lopez, 33, and the lust Uu Affleck. 31. The;! met while filming this summer’s infamous bomb, “Gigli.” Their second film together, writer-director Kevin Smith’s “Jersey Girl,” is set for release next year. PEOPLE IN THE NEWS Older sister of Venus, Serena Williams shot to death Depp scores again with Once Upon a Time in Mexico COMPTON, Calif. (AP) — An older sister of tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams was shot to death Sunday, and sheriff’s deputies sur rounded a house where three suspects were barricaded, authorities said. Yetunde Price, 31, of Corona, was gunned down shortly after midnight in the Los Angeles suburb of Compton following a confrontation with some residents, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy Scott Butler said. She was pronounced dead at a hospital. At about 6 a.m., about 40 deputies surround ed a home where three people believed involved in the confrontation were barricaded, Deputy Richard Pena said. No arrests were immediately made. Price was one of five Williams sisters who spent their early years in Compton. The family later moved to Florida. Price was identified as a registered nurse and a business management major in Venus Williams’ personal information listed in the 2003 media guide for the WTA Tour. Madonna wants third child LONDON (AP) — Madonna wants to have another child. The 45-year-old singer and pop icon, who has two children, told Britain’s Times newspaper she was consulting doctors about having another baby. “Because of my exercising and this that and the other, I’ve kind of screwed up my cycle a bit,” Madonna was quoted as saying by the newspaper’s weekend magazine that came out Saturday. “And I’m going to the doctors to make sure I’m OK to have a baby, so wish me luck,” she said. Madonna has a daughter Lourdes, 7, from her relationship with ex-boyfriend Carlos Leon; and a son Rocco, 3, with her film-director husband, Guy Ritchie. LOS ANGELES (AP) — Johnny Depp has made another transformation: oddball actor lo I box office moneymaker. The star known for playing eccentrics in a* favorites such as “Ed Wood” and “Fear an: Loathing in Las Vegas" is establishing himse ; as a major box office draw with two films to weekend in the top five. “Once Upon a Time in Mexico," starrw Antonio Banderas as a mariachi-playinj gunslinger and Depp as a sleazy CIA agent debuted in first place with $24 million according to industry estimates Sunday. It was Depp’s second consecutive No. 1 debut after the summertime hit "Pirates the Caribbean: The Curse of the Blac | Pearl." Analysts said Depp’s comical sashayinjl swashbuckler in “Pirates" may have helpe:! sell audiences on “Once Upon a Time r Mexico,” which was written and directed b) Robert Rodriguez as a sequel to his films “E Mariachi” and “Desperado.” “Johnny Depp’s career has been very inter esting but he’s normally not in the big block-1 busters,” said Paul Dergarabedian, president) of box office tracker Exhibitor Relations Co. “Suddenly, he’s in the No. 1 and No. 5 movie in) the same weekend. For any actor that’s great, and for Johnny Depp it’s totally unexpected | and welcome.” Depp has had blockbusters before, such as) "Sleepy Hollow” (1999) and “Chocolat (2000), and modest hits like “Edwardl Scissorhands” (1990) and “Donnie Brasco'l (1997), but they have been few and fa between the respected but little-seen cu films like “Dead Man,” “Ed Wood,” “Benny I Joon” and “Fear and Loathing.” The first weekend’s ticket sales for “Once Upoi a Time in Mexico” nearly matched the total $2531 million theatrical gross for 1995’s “Desperado, which starred Banderas but not Depp. PRICING: Men's 10K-S463 14K-S392 Women's 10K-S30I 14K-$332 Arid SS On for aiff U? or before and S20 for. outol !0‘,yn deliver: AUDIT SUBMISSION: Sept. 15 - Oct. 22.2003 DELIVERY DATE: December 11, 2003 ORDER SESSIONS: 1 - Sept. 29 - Oct. 2 2 - Oct. 6 - 9 3 - Oct. 13 -16 4 - Oct. 20 - 24 UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT REQUIREMENTS: 1. 9S cumulative completed undergraduate credit hours 2. 45 undergraduate resident credit hours completed atTAMU, or degree posted in SIMS 3. 2.0 cumulative GPR at Texas A&M University 4. 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