THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2005
Volume 4, Issue 236
Santa Monica Daily Press A newspaper with issues
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NEWS OF THE WEIRD CHUCK
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■ Paris Satine, 46, the madame of a legal brothel in Maroochydore, Australia (north of Brisbane), who was a nominee at an awards banquet for Excellence in Business (which was being held at a local hotel), was arrested for soliciting clients during the event. ■ London’s Sunday Telegraph reported in July that, because of the shortage of military supplies caused by troops deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq, British Army soldiers on training exercises were ordered simply to shout “bang bang” rather than fire practice rounds.
TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Thursday, Nov. 3, the 307th day of 2005. There are 58 days left in the year. On Nov. 3, 1900, the first automobile show in the United States opened at New York’s Madison Square Garden under the auspices of the Automobile Club of America. In 1868, Republican Ulysses S. Grant won the presidential election over Democrat Horatio Seymour. In 1903, Panama proclaimed its independence from Colombia.
QUOTE OF THE DAY “Justice is too good for some people and not good enough for the rest.”
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SCOTTISH AUTHOR (1868-1952)
INDEX Horoscopes Happy as a clam, Sag
2
Surf Report Water temperature: 62°
3
Opinion Battle royale for White House
4
State It’s not all in the genes
5
Business Taking time to make merry
8
Comics Strips tease
16
Classifieds Ad space odyssey
17-19
Fabian Lewkowicz/Daily Press RALLYING CRY: Santa Monica students make their convictions known, protesting the war in Iraq and calling for President Bush’s resignation during a Wednesday afternoon protest on the Third Street Promenade.
Students skip school to protest war White House responds that expressing views is American right, but one threatened by terrorists BY RYAN HYATT Daily Press Staff Writer
THIRD STREET — Santa Monica students who oppose President Bush, and fearful they could soon be drafted into military service, walked out of their classrooms on Wednesday to protest on the Promenade. The 250-person demonstration, organized by a group called The World Can’t Wait, began at noon on the corners of Third Street and Wilshire Boulevard. More than nine simultaneous demonstrations were staged along the Wilshire corridor, according to organizers. Carrying signs that brandished messages such as “No more Lives for Lies” and “No WMDs,” the protesters — many of them Santa Monica High School students — marched from the campus, located south of the Interstate 10 Freeway, to their permitted protest site on Third Street. By 12:51 p.m., Rage Against the Machine’s “Killing in the Name” was being blasted from a loudspeaker as protesters, shout-
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ing and cheering, took turns crossing Wilshire while waving signs. Several passing motorists honked their car horns in support. Meanwhile, a dozen Santa Monica police officers, some on foot and others on motorcycles, kept an eye from the sidelines to ensure vehicular traffic stayed clear of students. Among those in the crowd were Santa Monica parents, who said they withdrew their children from class to participate in the demonstration. “I want there to be a world for my son to grow up in,” said Santa Monica resident Michelle Sutter, whose son is a middle school student. “My father was a lifelong Republican, but wouldn’t vote for the party after the first Iraq war, because he said all they care about is getting rich and getting their friends rich.” “For a while, we suspected there were dark forces in the White House, and now we know there are.” Fanny Ballantine, a Samohi freshman with two homosexual
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It figures! Schools eye math coordinator BY RYAN HYATT Daily Press Staff Writer
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fathers, decided to participate in the demonstration because she is against the occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq. She also considers Bush to be anti-gay. Ballantine — who said she avoided afternoon classes to march with her fellow students — will likely have to make up for her truancy by attending school on Saturday, but she said she doesn’t mind. “There are consequences for what you do, but that’s all right, if what you do is something you believe in,” Ballantine said.
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“For a while, we suspected there were dark forces in the White House, and now we know there are.”
OCEAN PARK — A residency dispute over a rent-controlled apartment unit ended unfavorably for a woman with cancer, causing her rent to double. The Santa Monica Rent Control Board on Thursday heard from attorneys, representing landlord Sandra B. Petit and tenant Juin Desrosiers Barker, who argued whether Petit had a right to charge market rate for an apartment Barker has been using part-time since 2000. The rent control board sided with Petit in the case, believing Barker was a “tenant not-in-occupancy.” Under Santa Monica’s Regulation No. 3304, a rent control law passed in 2003, landlords are able to increase rent when it’s been determined a unit is not the
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