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"With a kiss from Ken, she was already daydreaming of him popping the question on their third date."

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The Chronicle’s View: The Joy of Shameless Self-Promotion

November 15, 2001

With the big game between Brigham Young University and the University of Utah coming up this Saturday, tension is building, and the insult-slinging is well underway. While rivalry is a long-time college tradition, those of us at The Daily Utah Chronicle are above devoting our editorial space to further mocking the Cougars' football team (they stink).

Getting Down to the Bare Bones: Art Students Use Models to Learn About the Human Form

November 15, 2001

To the conservative, sketching nude models in University of Utah's Figure Structure class can be considered pornography. The more liberal might envision passionate students sketching the intricacies of the human body. Both may be surprised to see a student's sketchbook?the model's body drawn with perspective cubes and the complete muscle structure, barely resembling the body's outer appearance.

Tribes Encircle Last Taliban Strongholds

November 15, 2001

BANGI, Afghanistan?Northern alliance forces and Pashtun tribesmen encircled two of the Taliban's last remaining strongholds at opposite ends of the country Thursday. The Taliban's supreme leader said he preferred death to joining any new coalition government.

Harry Potter: Episode 1

November 15, 2001

J.K. Rowling bottled a potion that sent America, and the rest of the world, into supernatural Pottermania?and she packaged her potion in hardback books. The story may seem to be a new one, but the formula for Potter's wee-warlock success has been around arguably as long as stone tablets and the stylus?at least as long as George Lucas.

FAA Orders National Plane Inspections

November 15, 2001

WASHINGTON?The Federal Aviation Administration plans to order U.S. airlines that fly Airbus A300 planes to inspect their fleets, focusing on the tail that sheared off in Monday's plane crash in New York. The order was expected to be issued Friday, FAA spokesman William Shumann said.

SLOC to Banner Local Buildings

November 15, 2001

SALT LAKE CITY?The first of 11 gigantic images of Olympic athletes has gone up on a downtown building. By mid-January, nine more office towers and a building at the University of Utah will be similarly transformed. The building wraps, measuring as much as 141 feet long and 97 feet wide, will depict winter sports athletes, including a figure skater, snowboarder and Paralympian.

Police Buy Special Oly Surveillance

November 15, 2001

SALT LAKE CITY?Spectators at one Olympic venue will be examined by the same facial recognition technology that led this year's Super Bowl to be dubbed the "Snooper Bowl." West Valley City police will purchase about a dozen cameras for the E Center from Pennsylvania-based Graphco Technologies Inc.

Aid Workers Flown Out of Afghanistan

November 15, 2001

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan?In a dramatic nighttime evacuation, six aid workers set fire to their all-encompassing burqas so U.S. special forces pilots could find them on an Afghan field. Along with two men, they were whisked to safety early Thursday after three months of Taliban captivity.