1997_12 The Daily Collegian December 1997

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THE DAILY
COLLEGIAN
Wednesday, December 3,1997
ACROSS
1 Why nor?
5 "Enterprise'
personnel
9 Lartchester and
ScniapareNi
14 Concerning
15 Arizona tribe
16 Bowler Wagner
17 Lrved oft the
lard
19 Friend ol
Pythias
20 Grana's caprlal
21 Carried with
great effort
23 See-through
Curtains   '
25 Mount in the
Cascades
26 Hoods' heaters
28 Canad province
29 Black goo
32 Finding a new
mate
36 Author ol The
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37 Make one
38 6 on the phone
39 Curved
40 Fishing action
41 Things thrust
forward
43 Star Wars
44 Ring dec.
45 Old adages
46 Charles de __
49 Creek. CA
53 Success by
association
56 Lasso
57 Open
58 Stayed mum
60 Srxxilde' wrap
61 Verdi heroine
62 Male parent
63 Sweet wines
64 Blaze a trail
65 Brown shades
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and Malta
2 "     Arden"
3 Cease-fire
4 isolate
5 Ernesto
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7 Grand tales
8 Good way to
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9 Senior
10 Bounded
11 Uke-minde(d
12 African plant
13 Smooth wood
18 Zimbabwe's
capital
22 Tonguoi'abbr.
24 Orch. section
27 Having hidden
meaning
30 Mideast gulf
31 Bcatty film
32 Chafes
33 Author Bagnold
34 Moftifior
35 Bank pmt.
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union 52 Records
44 Private students 53 Zodiac link
47 Listing 54 Not taken in
48 Songwriter 55 Actress
Greenwich Thompson
50 Ms. Comaneci 59 Loony
Lead Stories
In December I996. Phillip
Johnson, then 32, of Johnson Bot¬
tom. Ky., shot himself in the left
shoulder with his .22-calibcr rifle,
"to sec how it felt," he told ambu¬
lance personnel. On Oct. 2, 1997.
an ambulance, crew was again
called to Johnson's home, where
Johnson was bleeding from another
left-shoulder shot fired by a 22:
caliber rifle. A source told the Inez
Mountain Citizen newspaper that
Johnson said the December shoot¬
ing "felt so good," he had to do it
again.
The government of Italy re¬
vealed in September that it had re¬
cently asked a court in Rome to take
jurisdiction of a lawsuit it plans to
file against Yousscf al-Magicd al-
Molqi. who was convicted of the
1985 Achille Lauro hijacking and
murder. The government says that
when Al-Molqi failed to return to
an Italian prison from a pass last
year, he embarrassed the country,
and now it wants to sue him for the
harm to its international imaae and
for betraying the trust of jaft offi¬
cials. (Al-Molqi is still at large.)
At the Vatican's request, Brazil's
leading religious artist, Claudio
Pastro, is at work giving the image
of Jesus Christ a makeover de¬
signed to update it for the third mil¬
lennium. According to an October
Knight-Riddcr news service report,
the new image will be of a serene
and victorious Jesus (rather than a
suffering one) and will have traces
of Asian, black and Indian features
in his face.
The Litigious Society
Daniel Lima filed a lawsuit in
New Britain, Conn., in May against
the Minnichaug Golf Course for at
least $15,000 in damages after be¬
ing hit in the nose by an errant shot.
The errant shot was by Lima, him¬
self, as his fairway drive hit a yard¬
age marker, bounced back, and hit
. him in the face.
In March. New Jersey Nets bas¬
ketball coach John Calipari admit¬
ted that in a moment of rage he
called reporter Dan Garcia of the;
Newark Star-Ledger a "f— Mexi¬
can idiot." He later apologized, and
Garcia accepted the apology. Fur¬
thermore, the National Basketball
Please see WEIRD, page 5.
Mall of America a patriotic ride,
as long as you can find your car
By Doug Lansky
College Press Service
BLOOMINGTON. Minn. -
Where can you gel married, eat a
Walleye on a stick, stuff a teddy
bear, get facc-to-facc with a live
shark, attend college classes, and
jump around in a 30-foot inflated
Snoopy? The Mall of America, of
course. Here's a shopping center
large enough to have its own ozone
layer, and it has a name so patriotic
you get the feeling people are sup¬
posed to shop with one hand over
their heart.
The Mall of America operates on
the exact opposite premise of
Disney World, where you go for the
rides, then get so sick of waiting in
line that you decide to do some
shopping. The Mall has an indoor
flume, roller coaster and several
other rides but these things arc only
what you do when your hand
cramps from pulling out your credit
card too often.
The Mall is anchored by four
department stores connected by a
loop of walkways .57 miles around
and three levels high. The halls
sport more than 50 restaurants and
food vendors, eight nightclubs, a
Lego Imagination Center and a
aquarium big enough to water ski
on. And don't forget the 520 stores.
This place could swallow the Lou¬
vre for breakfast and the Astrodome
for lunch. Sound intimidating? Just
try to find your car.
With over 20.000 people per
year flying in from 60 U.S. cities
for SAME DAY shopping. The
Mall of America now welcomes 40
million visitors a year - more than
Disney World, the Grand Canyon
and Graceland combined. What
does this say about our society?
That people are fond of Mickey
Mouse, big holes in the ground and
Elvis fnemorabilia, but they're ab¬
solutely (ital) addicted (end ital) to
shopping.
The first place I visited was The
Chapel of Love on the second level
of the north concourse. Who gets
married in a shopping mall? Well,
when I was there, there was a "spe¬
cialty wedding" in progress. The
groom, a Medieval history major,
was wearing a full suit of armor
(made of sturdy plastic; the real
stuff was too cumbersome). The
Please see MALL, page 4.
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