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LAGOS,
Nigeria — As onlookers wept and wailed, hundreds of bodies
were pulled out of a canal in Nigeria’s largest city Monday
after they drowned while trying to flee explosions at an army weapons
depot.
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The
International Bible Society said Monday that America’s best-selling
modern Bible is about to get an update using gender-neutral wording,
despite past criticism of that idea from conservatives.
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No
harm caused to campus system by e-mail
SGA
cabinet inauguration today
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Board
of Trustees approve tuition, minimum wage increase
By Kelly Morris
Staff Reporter
The Board of Trustees approved an 8.7 percent tuition increase,
a $213 million budget and increased minimum wages for university
staff for 2002-03 at its second meeting of the year Friday, said
Clarence Scharbauer III, chairman of the TCU Board of Trustees Student
Relations Committee.
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Lectures
to aid awareness of Islam
By Sam Eaton
Staff Reporter
The
Department of Extended Education is co-sponsoring a lectureship
series called, “A Closer Look...Islam,” that will bring
experts to speak on Islamic religion, culture and politics because
of the growing interest in the topic, said David Grebel, director
of Extended Education.
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TCU
security guard killed Saturday
By Anthony Kirchner
Staff Reporter
Edward
Carson, 68, was “full of energy everyday” while he worked
as a TCU security guard, said TCU Police Chief Steve McGee.
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Monumental
Meeting
Bush pledges support to Afghanistan
By Sandra Sobieraj
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Bush promised Afghan leader Hamid Karzai
a “lasting partnership” including economic aid and training
for a national military on Monday but turned aside a request for
U.S. troops as part of a peacekeeping force. Americans will help
build a new Afghanistan “free from terror, free from war and
free from want,” Bush told Karzai as the tri-colored flag of
the visitor flew in the White House Rose Garden for the first time
in nearly four decades.
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Guantanamo
Bay detainees not POWs
By Robert Burns
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush said Monday he is weighing
legal questions on whether the Geneva Convention applies to the
158 suspected terrorists detained at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo
Bay in Cuba. He pledged to treat them humanely, but said: “These
are killers.”
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President
to address the nation
By Alisha Wassenaar
Staff Reporter
President Bush will address a country fighting a war and battling
a recession in his State of the Union speech at 8 p.m. tonight.
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Information
being withheld in Enron case
By Marcy Gordon
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Dick Cheney says the Bush
administration’s refusal to identify business executives who
met with him and his aides concerning energy policy probably will
end up in court.
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