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Monday, April 13, 2009
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Today is Monday, April 13, 2009. Today’s issue of The Utah Statesman is published especially for Alexis Hutchinson, a freshman majoring in social work from Pleasant Grove, Utah.
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Katie Holmes is headed back to the stage, this time for the annual Memorial Day weekend concert in Washington, D.C. Holmes and actor Gary Sinise are among the stars confirmed for the event, set for Sunday, May 24. The wife of Tom Cruise along HOLMES with actress Dianne Weist will team up to read one veteran’s personal story. Those readings have been based on veterans’ letters home in past concerts. The policy of The Utah Statesman is The concert will include appearto correct any error made as soon as ances by Laurence Fishburne, possible. If you find something you Katharine McPhee, Trace Adkins, would like clarified or find unfair, former Secretary of State Colin please contact the editor at 797-1762 Powell and Broadway stars or TSC 105. CREW MEMBERS OF the ship celebrate after their captain was released, on the deck of the Maersk Brian Stokes Mitchell and Colm Alabama at the Mombasa port in Kenya, Sunday. AP photo Wilkinson. NEW YORK (AP) – Stephen Colbert is still clinging to hope that NASA will name a new room at the international space station after him. 2 Houston firefighters MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) – An American ship Obama said Phillips had courage that was The space agency said Friday die in house fire captain was freed unharmed Sunday and three of “a model for all Americans� and he was pleased it would announce the name of his captors were killed in a daring rescue by U.S. about the rescue, adding that the United States the module Tuesday on Comedy HOUSTON (AP) – Two firefightNavy Seals that ended a five-day standoff between needs help from other countries to deal with the Central’s “The Colbert Report.� ers in Texas have died in an Easter the world’s most powerful Navy and Somali threat of piracy and to hold pirates accountable. Astronaut Sunita Williams will Sunday house fire. pirates in a lifeboat far off the Horn of Africa. The Navy said Phillips was freed at 7:19 p.m. appear on the program. Houston Fire Department District Capt. Richard Phillips was in “imminent danlocal time. He was taken aboard the Norfolk, The agency held an online conChief Tommy Dowdy said the depart- ger� of being killed before U.S. Special Operations Virginia-based Bainbridge and then flown to the test, letting the public vote on a ment responded to a house fire call forces shot the pirates in an operation personally San Diego-based USS Boxer for the medical exam, name for a future addition to the early Sunday in the southeast part of approved by President Barack Obama, U.S. offi5th Fleet spokesman Lt. Nathan Christensen said. station. “Colbert� beat out NASA’s the city. cials said. Christensen said Phillips was now “resting four suggested options: Serenity, Dowdy confirmed that two firePhillips’ crew, who said they had escaped after comfortably.� The USS Boxer was in the Indian Legacy, Earthrise and Venture. fighters died at the scene. He would he offered himself as a hostage, erupted in cheers Ocean off the coast of Somalia, Christensen said. TORONTO (AP) – Billy Bob not release additional details pending aboard their ship docked in Mombasa, Kenya. U.S. officials said a fourth pirate had surrenThornton’s band has canceled the notification of their families. Some waved an American flag and fired flares in dered and was in military custody. FBI spokesman rest of its Canadian tour after the Neighbors said firefighters had celebration. John Miller said that would change as the situation actor compared the country’s fans entered the house after the blaze Phillips, 53, of Underhill, Vermont, was not became “more of a criminal issue than a military to mashed potatoes with no gravy appeared to be dying down. hurt in several minutes of gunfire and the U.S. issue.� in a testy interview that caused a But witnesses said flames suddenly Navy’s 5th Fleet said he was resting comfortably A spokeswoman for the Phillips family, Alison sensation online. shot through the roof and erupted on a U.S. warship after receiving a medical exam. McColl, said Phillips and his wife, Andrea, spoke The cancellation came two days sideways through the house. “I’m just the byline. The real heroes are the by phone shortly after he was freed. after Thornton made world headAuthorities said firefighters were Navy, the Seals, those who have brought me “I think you can all imagine their joy and what lines with a belligerent appearance then ordered out of the house but two home,� Phillips said by phone to Maersk Line a happy moment that was for them,� McColl said on CBC radio’s “Q.� failed to answer roll call. Limited President and CEO John Reinhart, the outside of the Phillips home in Underhill. “They’re The actor apparently didn’t like company head told reporters. A photo released by all just so happy and relieved. Andrea wanted me that host Jian Ghomeshi started Red River tributary the Navy showed Phillips unharmed and shaking to tell the nation that all of your prayers and good the interview with references to poised to flood hands with the commanding officer of the USS wishes have paid off because Capt. Phillips is safe.� Thornton’s Hollywood career. Bainbridge HORACE, N.D. (AP) – Residents of the Fargo area already have survived one threatening flood crest this spring on the Red River and are hunDavid Letterman’s Top Ten Signs kered down for another. For others Your Monkey Needs a Bath July 17, in the region, it’s been more like slow 2008 torture as they wait for high water to peak on one of the Red’s little broth10. Even his fleas have fleas. ers. The Red River crested at Fargo and 9. He’s sweating right through his VATICAN CITY (AP) – Pope rection. friars marched into the church neighboring Moorhead, Minn., late adorable monkey sailor suit. Benedict XVI sought to give In his speech, Benedict to the sound of bagpipes, follast month just short of 41 feet, after a message of hope on Easter said hope was urgently needed lowed by clergymen in purple an intense sandbagging effort that 8. Your daily horoscope reads, “Today around the globe, despite capes and others bearing crossis a great day to wash your monkey.� raised levees and helped the two cities Sunday to victims of wars, mounting reasons for despair. es. largely escape major damage. The riv- poverty and financial turmoil, “At a time of world food And in the earthquake-rav7. Tries to cover up odor by wearing er’s second crest is projected to reach saying it was urgently needed to overcome the miseries that are shortage, of financial turmoil, aged central Italian city of too much monkey aftershave. 38 feet to 40 feet by next weekend. plaguing Africa, the Middle East of old and new forms of poverty, L’Aquila, survivors gathered in 6 die after organ and other parts of the globe. of disturbing climate change, of makeshift chapels set up in tent 6. Even the really slutty monkey next door refuses to groom him. Benedict delivered his “Urbi violence and depravation which that are housing some of transplant plane crash et Orbi� message – Latin for “to force many to leave their home- cities the 55,000 people driven from 5. Town’s sign reads “Home of the lands in search of a less pretheir homes by Monday’s 6.3ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) – A co- the city and the world� – after Rancid Baboon Stench.� celebrating Easter Mass before carious form of existence, of the magnitude temblor. pilot may have accidentally activat“We are all a little bit angry ed the autopilot on a medical plane tens of thousands of people who ever-present threat of terrorism, 4. You purchase so much Lysol, they packed St. Peter’s Square and the of growing fears over the future, with God because we never shortly before it crashed and killed put you on the board of directors. boulevard leading up to it. it is urgent to rediscover grounds expected a tragedy this big,� both pilots and a four-member The piazza, decorated with for hope,� he said. L’Aquila Archbishop Giuseppe organ transplant team, according to 3. Threatening note thrown through yellow tulips, azaleas, apple In Jerusalem, the faithful Molinari told the faithful gatha federal safety agency’s report. your window tied to a banana. blossoms and other spring flow- celebrated Mass at the Church of ered in a tent. “But even anger The report on a simulation of the flight’s final minutes came from ers, overflowed with the faithful the Holy Sepulcher, traditionally toward God is a sign of faith.� 2. Been offered the cover of next celebrating the most joyous and believed to mark the site where Benedict delivered his Easter month’s “Smelly Monkey Magazine.� a National Transportation Safety important day in the Christian Jesus was crucified, buried and message from the loggia of St. Board team, the Detroit Free Press church calendar, Christ’s resurthen resurrected. Brown-robed Peter’s Basilica. 1. He smells like Andy Dick. reported Sunday.
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