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b others suffered for these “white chick” costumes, reportedly
losing 30 lbs for the outfits and having to sit through tedious five-
hour makeup sessions each day. And the result: Have you seen
the posters?
Keenan-Ivory Wayans (writer, director) does a sloppy job with
tile script and many of the jokes don’t work because of poor phras
ing. He doesn’t seem to care if things make sense or if scenes flow
■ gether, and instead frequently resorts to the mentioned bathroom
humor or annoying cliches.
As director, Wayans never did figure out what the movie was sup
posed to become. The first half is gags and the second rs sprinkled
■ th attempts for greater meaning. Men can learn to become better
Irtners if they dress up as women, and pretentious, spoiled brats
can loosen up if they hang out with the right people.
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■'er. "White Chicks” is surprisingly devoid of any new ideas or
comedy. It isn’t as good as “In Living Color” and it isn’t as creative
~ “Scary Movie,” but it does hit almost as much as it misses.
Go see it if you have nothing else to do. Otherwise, spend your
aney on another movie.
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I'll leader,” Holmes said.
Holmes said he has been with Aggies ever since he graduated
ith his marketing degree in 1987. Since 1991. Holmes has been
• krtc- i'L'olved in managing and leading an agricultural association in and
~ Jit of Texas. He now works at the Association of Former Students
room: al an assistant executive director responsible for marketing and pro-
lam areas.
have gone from a managing association involving agriculture
t(| those involving Aggie-culture,” Holmes said.
Holmes credits being a yell leader with making him feel com
fortable in front of large groups of people and teaching him to work
ith leaders of other organizations.
“Being a yell leader and in the Corps of Cadets prepares you for
surprises,” Holmes said.
Holmes said that being a yell leader is a humbling experience.
“Knowing others would have loved to be in my shoes added extra
sponsibility,” Holmes said.
Holmes said he encourages current and future yell leaders to
t two ehjoy every minute of it because once you are out. you’ll want to
ise oliS dp it again.
Jeff Bailey, Class of 2000 head yell leader, said his time as a yell
lew. leader helped him gain leadership, learn to work well with his
.'very clients and be able to deal with tough situations. After graduating in
asitui)agricultural systems management in 2001, Bailey got married,
[ailey now works as a credit analyst for JP Morgan & Chase Bank
San Antonio.
Bailey said that after graduating and starting his career, he was
■nprised how much he took for granted while in college.
miss the freedoms of college and having all your friends
ere,” Bailey said.
Bailey was head yell leader at the time of the Bonfire tragedy. He
id he’ll never forget the Bonfire yell practice.
“We focused on what we could do to bring people together and
improve moral after such a devastating event,” Bailey said.
| Bailey urges yell leaders to serve at all times and be unselfish.
| “It has paid off and taught me more than I could ask for,”
ailey said.
Cox said yell leaders are a lot more visible now and are viewed
settle a celebrities. He encourages yell leaders not to draw too much
irk si aiention to themselves, but to draw attention to the Aggie Spirit.
“It is not about you,” Cox said. “It’s about the time honored na
tions of Texas A&M.”
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Israel’s high court orders changes
in West Bank separation barrier
By Steven Gutkin
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BIDOU, West Bank — Israel’s Supreme Court sided with the
Palestinians in a precedent-setting decision Wednesday, ordering
the government to reroute part of its West Bank separation barrier
near Jerusalem because it causes too much suffering.
The ruling — the first major legal decision on the barrier —
cracked a cornerstone of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s plan to dis
engage. from the Palestinians by 2005.
Palestinians rejoiced at the move. A family in this West Bank
village expressed relief at no longer being blocked from its olive
trees, and a little boy rode his bicycle up and down the barrier route
waving a Palestinian flag.
“The wall was choking all of our lives. That’s why the decision
is important,” said Mohammed Abu Eid, a 54-year-old father of 10
whose crops were uprooted to make room for the barrier.
Israel’s deputy defense minister, Zeev Boim, said the ruling
would delay completion of the barrier, which Israel says it crucial
for keeping out suicide bombers. “Now there will be a court
appeal on every meter (yard) of the fence,” Boim told Israel TV’s
Channel One.
The court said the barrier must be rerouted, even at the cost of
Israeli security. Several officials decried the ruling as a security
menace, but the Defense Ministry — which oversees the barrier’s
construction — said it would comply.
The court forced the government to return land that has been
seized and compensate the Palestinians for their financial losses.
The court also forced the government to return land that has
been seized and compensate the Palestinians for their financial
losses, making it less likely the government can finish the project
by next year as planned.
The ruling focused on a stretch of barrier near Jerusalem that
would have separated some 35,000 Palestinians from their crops.
Foundations had been laid along parts of the 25-mile section, and
earthmovers had leveled ground and uprooted trees elsewhere in
Court orders route
change for barrier
Israel’s Supreme Court ordered
changes Wednesday in the route
of the West Bank separation
barrier near Jerusalem, saying
the current plan is hurting
the local Palestinian population.
Green Line
(1967 pre-occupation border)
Israeli Wall
(completed/under con
struction as of May 2004)
Israeli Wall approved by
Israeli government
Projected Israeli Wall by Israeli
Army recommendations
I I Palestinian territory
Israeli settlement
l I Palestinian territory de facto
annexed into Israel
SOURCES: PLO Negotiations Affairs Department: Israel Ministry of Defense AP
preparation for construction.
With Wednesday’s decision, similar lawsuits are likely for other
parts of the 425-mile complex of fences, concrete walls, trenches
and razor wire.
“We won’t stop here,” said Mohammed Dahla, a lawyer for the
petitioners. “We will continue our legal struggle against this wall.”
The court did not shoot down the barrier itself but rather the
chosen route, which it said “injures the local inhabitants in a
severe and acute way.”
The decision comes a week before the world court at The
Hague, Netherlands, was to issue its own advisory ruling on the
barrier Palestinians decry as an attempt to expand Israel’s borders.
Rates rise by one-quarter of a percentage point
Fed hikes key rate
By Martin Crutsinger
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — The Federal
Reserve on Wednesday raised interest rates
for the first time in four years, reversing
course as the economy strengthened.
Policy-makers signaled only slow increases
ahead in the rock-bottom rates Americans
have enjoyed.
Wall Street rallied modestly on the Fed’s
continued promise of a “measured” pace
for future rate increases, with the Dow
Jones industrial average climbing 22.05
points to 10,435.48. Bond prices also rose
on the news, pushing the yield on 10-year
Treasury notes down to 4.59 percent, com
pared with 4.69 percent the previous day.
In what was the most telegraphed rate
increase in Fed history, Federal Reserve
Chairman Alan Greenspan and his col
leagues announced they were boosting the
target for the federal funds rate by one-
quarter of a percentage point, to 1.25 per
cent. This rate, which represents the inter
est that banks charge each other on
overnight loans, is the Fed’s primary tool
for influencing economic activity.
The Fed’s decision triggered a one-quar
ter percentage point increase in commercial
banks’ prime lending rate, which also had
not risen in four years.
This benchmark borrowing rate for
millions of consumer and business loans
The Federal Reserve Board
raised the federal funds rate by
10% one-quarter percent
Wednesday, the first
increase in four years.
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rose from 4 percent, the lowest since
1959, to 4.25 percent.
The Fed’s quarter-point increase was the
first change since the funds rate was cut to
a 46-year low of l percent in June 2003.
That had marked the 13th Fed rate cut in a
series that began back in January 2001 as
the central bank battled to jump-start an
economy staggered by a series of blows,
from a plunging stock market and the 2001
recession to terrorist attacks and two wars.
With Wednesday’s rate increase, bor
rowers have seen the lows for mortgage
rates and other loans. But economists said
that rates for homes and autos should con
tinue to be attractive, given the Fed’s com
ments that it did not expect inflation to pose
a problem soon.
The Fed reaffirmed a pledge, first made
at its May meeting, that future rate increas
es would come “at a pace that is likely to
be measured.”
“The bottom line is that the Fed is
going to continue to be cautious about hik
ing interest rates,” said economist David
Jones, author of several books on the Fed
under Greenspan. “While we are seeing
solid growth, we are not seeing an over
heated economy.”
Jones and other analysts said they read
the pledge as indicating a series of one-
quarter percentage point increases spread
into next year.
Many economists are looking for the
Fed to keep increasing the funds rate until
it hits around 4 percent. At that level, ana
lysts said, the Fed would view the rate as
neither stimulating extra growth nor acting
as a drag on growth.
The rate increases are expected to have
little impact in slowing the economy
before the November election. That would
be good news for President Bush and
other incumbents.
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