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Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Peninsula Daily News
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Newsmakers Celebrity scoop ■ By The Associated Press
Ex-governor doesn’t like getting old ARNOLD SCHAWARZENEGGER HAS been busy since he left the California governor’s office in January. Among other things, he’s traveled to South America with director Schwarzenegger pal James Cameron; attended a Scorpions concert in Moscow with former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev; and been immortalized as a comic book superhero known as The Governator. But while his life seems pretty great from the outside, Schwarzenegger confessed in the latest Newsweek he has trouble looking at himself in the mirror these days, though it’s not because of the sorry fiscal shape in which he left California. Rather, it seems the 63-year-old ex-governor is having trouble coming to terms with the fact he’s getting old. “I feel terrific about where I am in my life, when I look back at what I’ve accomplished,” the former governor told the magazine. “But I feel so [expletive] when I look at myself in the mirror.” Indeed, Schwarzenegger is a long way from his days as Conan the Barbarian.
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Duran Duran lead singer Simon Le Bon performs during the last day of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival on Sunday in Indio, Calif. tify on his behalf in the case. Prosecutors quoted Murray as telling experts he left JackMurray son’s bedroom to make a phone call, even though he initially said he left Jackson to go to the bathroom. Experts also said Murray claimed to have experience using propofol — the anesthetic that Changing his story powerful killed Jackson — as a sedaProsecutors said the tive, even though Murray doctor charged in the death didn’t make such a claim in of Michael Jackson is police interviews. trying to change his story The motion also says about his actions involving Murray claims for the first time Jackson took propofol the pop star. in fruit juice while the docIn a motion filed Montor wasn’t looking. day, the prosecution asked Murray has pleaded not a judge to bar new claims made by Dr. Conrad Mur- guilty to involuntary manray to experts who will tes- slaughter. He’s heavier, and his perpetually spray-tanned face is etched with crow’s feet. But he’s still in decent shape for a guy his age, not that Schwarzenegger sees that. “I’m not competing; I’m not ripping off my shirt and trying to sell the body,” the former governor said. “But when I stand in front of the mirror and really look, I wonder: What the [expletive] happened here? Jesus Christ. What a beating!”
Passings By The Associated Press
MASON RUDOLPH, 76, who qualified for the U.S. Open at the age of 16 and was the 1959 PGA Tour rookie of the year, has died. He died Monday at a Tuscaloosa, Ala., hospice. The Tennessee native qualified for the U.S. Open in 1950 and became the first 16-year-old to win the USGA National Junior Amateur Championship. He helped the United States win the 1957 Walker Cup, and Golf World magazine named him one of the 20th century’s top 10 best junior boys in 1999. He won five PGA events during his 21-year career and played in the 1971 Ryder Cup. He coached Vanderbilt’s golf team in 1992 before being named the universi-
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BIJAN PAKZAD, 67, a Beverly Hills designer of ultra-luxury clothing, perfume and jewelry, has died. According to The Los Angeles Times, family members put his age at 67, but public records list Mr. Pakzad it as 71. His son, in 2010 Nicolas Pakzad, told The Times his father suffered a stroke Thursday and died Saturday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Mr. Pakzad, who was born in Iran, came to the
Did You Win? State lottery results
Peninsula snapshots
■ Monday’s Lotto: SURE SIGN OF spring 20-21-30-31-37-49 on the North Olympic Pen■ Monday’s Hit 5: insula: Brisk business at a 20-24-31-35-36 garden center west of Port ■ Monday’s Match 4: Angeles on the first sunny Sunday in recent 03-06-18-23 memory . . . ■ Monday’s Daily Game: 9-3-6 WANTED! “Seen Around” ■ Monday’s Daily items. Send them to PDN News Desk, P.O. Box 1330, Port AngeKeno: 02-06-09-11-12-14les, WA 98362; fax 360-417-3521; 16-18-23-29-39-40-41-47or email news@peninsuladaily news.com. 48-50-55-56-69-79
United States in the 1970s and opened a Rodeo Drive boutique. He boasted that his Bijan label included the most expensive menswear in the world, with suits costing thousands of dollars. In the 1990s, he teamed with NBA star Michael Jordan on a top-selling cologne.
Peninsula Daily News PENINSULA POLL SUNDAY’S QUESTION: Do you think that people in government waste a lot of money we pay in taxes, waste some of it or don’t waste very much of it?
Waste a lot
79.7%
Waste some Waste a little
12.8% 5.2%
Don’t waste 1.9% Undecided 0.5% Total votes cast: 1,126 Vote on today’s question at www.peninsuladailynews.com NOTE: The Peninsula Poll is unscientific and reflects the opinions of only those peninsuladailynews.com users who chose to participate. The results cannot be assumed to represent the opinions of all users or the public as a whole.
Setting it Straight Corrections and clarifications
■ Port of Port Townsend may lease space to U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Office of Field Operations, not the Border Patrol, as was stated in headlines Sunday on the front page of the Jefferson County edition and Page A9 of the Clallam County edition. The Border Patrol is a different branch of U.S. Customs and Border Protection. ■ More information
about and donations to Karen Griffiths’ multiple sclerosis fundraising efforts can be found at http:// tinyurl.com/gokareng. The website address in an article Sunday on Page A6 contained an error.
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Peninsula Lookback
From the pages of the Peninsula Daily News
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Opponents of the Wallgren bill that would create a Mount Olympus National Park agreed at a meeting in Shelton that a congressional subcommittee should be appointed to visit the Olympic Peninsula and see the area involved for itself. Creating the park would “bottle up a timber empire on the Olympic Peninsula and fix a policy of management for all time to come,” a statement from the opponents said. E.F. Banker, state director of conservation and development, and George Magee, Aberdeen postmaster, will speak against the bill at a public lands committee hearing in Washington, D.C., on April 23.
Funds for paving the road from the Hurricane Ridge Lodge area to Obstruction Point in Olympic National Park is one of the requests in President John F. Kennedy’s bid for more funds for Olympic and Mount Rainier national parks. A total of $354,100 is sought for Olympic. A majority of the funds is for improvements in the Hoh River area, but $147,100 would go to paving the Obstruction Point Road and developing campgrounds at Heart o’ the Hills south of Port Angeles, according to information from ONP headquarters.
of free popcorn and MTV in the new RAP — or Riders Awareness Place — center. The RAP center is an offshoot of the school’s Natural Helpers program and is intended for all students. The 12-foot by 16-foot room next to the counseling center is a students-only place in which students can talk, lounge around on easy chairs and sofas and pick up a variety of literature on such teen concerns as drug and alcohol abuse.
Laugh Lines
DENNY’S NOW HAS a menu where every item features bacon. Many hospitals are now 1986 (25 years ago) featuring Denny’s customPort Angeles High School ers. Conan O’Brien students lined up to partake
Looking Back From the files of The Associated Press
TODAY IS TUESDAY, April 19, the 109th day of 2011. There are 256 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: ■ On April 19, 1861, a week after the Civil War began, President Abraham Lincoln authorized a blockade of Southern ports. On this date: ■ In 1775, the American Revolutionary War began with the battles of Lexington and Concord. ■ In 1911, the Ballet Russes premiered “Le Spectre de la Rose” in Monte Carlo, with Vaslav Nijinsky and Tamara Karsavina. ■ In 1933, the United States went off the gold standard. ■ In 1943, during World War II, tens of thousands of Jews in the
Warsaw Ghetto began a valiant but ultimately futile battle against Nazi forces. ■ In 1951, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, relieved of his Far East command by President Harry S. Truman, bid farewell in an address to Congress in which he quoted a line from a ballad: “Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.” ■ In 1961, the Federal Communications Commission authorized regular FM stereo broadcasting starting June 1, 1961. ■ In 1971, the West African nation of Sierra Leone was declared a republic. ■ In 1993, the 51-day siege at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, ended as fire
destroyed the structure after federal agents began smashing their way in; dozens of people, including sect leader David Koresh, were killed. ■ In 1995, a truck bomb destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people. Bomber Timothy McVeigh was later convicted of federal murder charges and executed. ■ In 2005, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany was elected pope in the first conclave of the new millennium; he took the name Benedict XVI. ■ Ten years ago: Pharmaceutical giants dropped a lawsuit against a South African law that could provide cheaper, generic
AIDS drugs to millions of Africans — ending an international battle over patent rights and profit. The musical “The Producers” opened on Broadway. Former New Hampshire Gov. Meldrim Thomson Jr. died at his home in Orford at age 89. ■ Five years ago: The U.S. government released a previously secret list of the names and nationalities of 558 people held at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. ■ One year ago: Kenya’s Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot won the Boston Marathon and broke the course record with a time of 2:05:52; Ethiopia’s Teyba Erkesso won the women’s race in a time of 2:26:11.