Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service articles from March 2002, page 7

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service archives from March 2002

Fox likes Panthers' new division.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 23, 2002... CHARLOTTE, N.C. _ Realignment has its advantages, says new Panthers coach John Fox. "In our division, if you take San Francisco and St. Louis out of our old division, you can't help but look at that and think it's a positive if you're...

Marlin comes in on top, for once.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 23, 2002... BRISTOL, Tenn. _ Virtually everyone in NASCAR at least tries to do a Sterling Marlin impersonation. Maybe you've seen a few on television. Some are really good and most are at least fair. Mumble "yeah, uh, yeah" a couple of times and...

Kansas will run away from Oregon at the end.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 23, 2002... MADISON, Wis. _ There are not many, if any, teams in the country that can run up and down the basketball court with the Kansas Jayhawks and not require a ventilator. Oregon might be one of them. These Ducks do not waddle. They...

Cool Hand Lukes lead Oregon.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 23, 2002... MADISON, Wis. _ Luke Jackson was in heaven. It was late at night, the floor of Mac Court in Eugene, Ore. was bathed in the dim glow of a single light, classic rock played loudly from a radio, and he was playing hoops with his best...

Kansas State women routed by Old Dominion.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 23, 2002... MILWAUKEE _ On the bus ride to U.S. Cellular Arena, Kansas State coach Deb Patterson sensed her team was ready for Saturday's NCAA Tournament game against Old Dominion. In the locker room, Patterson believed the focus was there. ...

Hornets have that look of a playoff team.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 23, 2002... INDIANAPOLIS _ Flashbacks of last season. It took a lineup change two weeks ago to create them. And now at long last the Hornets are looking more and more like the streamlined version everyone expected to see in November. Just, it...

Doctor says there's no `definitive proof' that Sept. 11 hijacker had anthrax.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 23, 2002... MIAMI _ A Fort Lauderdale, Fla., emergency room doctor who treated one of the Sept. 11 hijackers for a leg sore in June said Saturday that there is a "circumstantial case but not definitive proof" the wound was the result of exposure to...

Jeff Green steers clear of Bristol's battles; action on the track leads to hot tempers after 14-caution event.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 23, 2002... BRISTOL, Tenn. _ Saturday's NASCAR Grand National race at Bristol Motor Speedway brought out the best _ and worst _ short-track racing has to offer. Jeff Green won the Channellock 250 in a race slowed a record-tying 14 times by caution...

Final Four a rare site for freshman point guards.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 23, 2002... MADISON, Wis. _ Brats and beer may mix, but not freshman point guards and the Final Four. Not since North Carolina's Ed Cota and Arizona's Mike Bibby did it in 1997 has a team with a freshman point guard reached the Final Four. Jalen...

Indiana's threes oust Kent State.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 23, 2002... LEXINGTON, Ky. _ Rupp Arena was red, red like Rupp Arena _ home of the royal blue Kentucky Wildcats _ has never been before. Amid the Indiana red, like a dab of mustard inside a bottle of ketchup, was Kent State's small cheering section. ...

Coaches, GMs, scouts confident UNC DE will be taken early.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 23, 2002... ORLANDO, Fla. _ The Carolina Panthers could try to camouflage their preference for the No. 2 pick in next month's NFL draft, but coaches and executives of other teams wouldn't buy it. The Panthers would stun the league if they passed on...

Marlins not hitting, scoring or winning.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 23, 2002... VIERA, Fla. _ Baseball teams never wear the look of panic in March. The games don't count. The statistics go poof come April, never finding their way onto the backs of baseball cards. The regulars play a few innings, retire to the clubhouse...

Heat burned at the Alamo.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 23, 2002... SAN ANTONIO _ No one in the Heat's locker room, from coach Pat Riley on down, has given up on this season. They spoke confidently Saturday night about turning things around and making a late rally. But with 14 games remaining, the season...

Capriati finds the third round.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 23, 2002... MIAMI _ Jennifer Capriati can play a match and forget she has won three of the past five Grand Slam events. She can walk into the locker room and forget she's the world's No. 1 player. She can even drive her new car and forget it's a Ferrari....

Message amid the squabbling; women's sports suffering from expectations gap.(Chicago Tribune)
March 23, 2002... MILWAUKEE _ The issue won't go away, but maybe it's a good thing it doesn't. Aside from the pure entertainment value of it all, there may be actual lessons to be gleaned from the incessant sparring between male and female coaches in women's...

For Blackhawks, it's time to deliver, and other notes.(Chicago Tribune)
March 23, 2002... CHICAGO _ The spiraling Blackhawks are winless in six games. They fell to fifth place in the Western Conference. They lost home home-ice advantage in the first round. And now they play St. Louis in the United Center on Sunday. It will be...

Ordonez needs better marketing to be a fan favorite.(Chicago Tribune)
March 23, 2002... TUCSON, Ariz. _ During the last few years, Magglio Ordonez has evolved from secret weapon to perennial All-Star. Last season he became a $10 million-a-year man and the first player in American League history to hit at least .300 with 40...

Former White Sox finding success with Pirates; Lowe, Wells, Fogg lift Pittsburgh's pitching staff.(Chicago Tribune)
March 23, 2002... CHICAGO _ As the White Sox wrap up a nightmarish spring for their young pitching staff, they sure could use the three pitchers they traded to the Pittsburgh Pirates. Sean Lowe, Kip Wells and rookie Josh Fogg, who were traded to the...

Bitter ending for Illinois.(Chicago Tribune)
March 23, 2002... MADISON, Wis._Frank Williams will have to live with the fact that the final shot of his Illinois career was a baseline jumper he has probably made a million times. Friday night, with a chance to be a hero again and send the Illini to the...

Arafat pressures leaders of Al Aqsa to stop suicide bombers.(Chicago Tribune)
March 23, 2002... JERUSALEM _ Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, intent on attending a summit of the Arab world this week, pressured regional leaders of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades to put a stop to suicidal attacks to allow peace talks here to continue,...

Dolphins should pursue Cris Carter.(South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
March 23, 2002... ORLANDO _ The suggestion to Dolphins management is simple: Get Carter and hope he does better than the Sylvester Stallone movie remake of the same name. That a player as storied as Minnesota wide receiver Cris Carter remains unsigned...

Let's break down Ricky Williams' fumble zone.(South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
March 23, 2002... FORT LAUDERDALE _ Those were remarkably candid words from Saints coach Jim Haslett about Ricky Williams' butter fingers. "I'm surprised he fumbled as much as he did with us because he doesn't show that tendency in practice. I think...

Capsules for Sunday's games.(The Orlando Sentinel)
March 23, 2002... Midwest Kohl Center in Madison, Wis. No. 1 Kansas vs. No. 2 Oregon TIME: 2:40 p.m. HOW THEY GOT HERE: Kansas d. No. 16 Holy Cross 70-59, d. No. 8 Stanford 86-63 and d. No. 4 Illinois 73-69; Oregon d. No. 15 Montana 81-62,...

No. 1 UConn gets defensive, routs Penn State.(Chicago Tribune)
March 23, 2002... MILWAUKEE _ Asjha Jones directed the traffic Saturday as unbeaten Connecticut swerved past Penn State, 82-64, and into the Elite Eight of the NCAA tournament Saturday. No. 1-seeded UConn's victory in the Mideast Regional semifinal...

Young Huskies need to play with maturity; veteran Terps beat Connecticut in December.(Chicago Tribune)
March 23, 2002... SYRACUSE, N.Y. _ Emeka Okafor, Connecticut's freshman center, is the perfect metaphor for what his team was back on the third day of December. He was terribly raw and unfinished, and in the fourth game of his college career was still learning...

Another skating competition, another skating controversy.(Chicago Tribune)
March 23, 2002... CHICAGO _ Russia's Irina Slutskaya won her first world figure skating title Saturday in Nagano, Japan, leaving runner-up Michelle Kwan with more world medals than any U.S. skater ever. Both were overshadowed by another judging controversy...

Derby preps have shed little light; no horse has stepped to the front among this year's Kentucky Derby hopefuls.(The Orlando Sentinel)
March 23, 2002... ORLANDO _ If the Kentucky Derby is the one horse race each year that interests you enough to make a small wager, you certainly would love to be given a sure bet now for the Run for the Roses on the first Saturday in May. Forget it. ...

Bush vows to help Latin American nations fight terrorism.(Chicago Tribune)
March 23, 2002... LIMA, Peru _ Three days after a car bomb killed nine near the U.S. Embassy, President Bush arrived here Saturday vowing to help Peru and other Latin American nations battle terrorism and build the democratic, capitalistic societies that he...

Sanderson win is for the book; fourth straight title concludes 159-0 collegiate career.(Chicago Tribune)
March 23, 2002... ALBANY, N.Y._They stood and cheered when Cael Sanderson entered the Pepsi Arena. When Sanderson left the wrestling mat, they stood and cheered again_and cheered and cheered and cheered. The sellout crowd of 13,077 didn't stop cheering for...

Check your stopwatch Jayhawks, Ducks among NCAA's quickest teams.(Chicago Tribune)
March 23, 2002... MADISON, Wis. _ On selection Sunday, Oregon guard Frederick Jones took one look at the NCAA tournament brackets and smiled. Kansas was the No. 1 seed in the Midwest Regional. Oregon was No. 2. If the seeds held The next day Jones...

Title consumes consummate coach _ Roy Williams.(Chicago Tribune)
March 23, 2002... MADISON, Wis._You think he wants this thing a little bit? "They could see my heart beating, see the veins sticking out," Roy Williams was saying late Friday night, maybe an hour after confronting his Kansas players during a timeout. "I...

Guards show Sooners a way.(Chicago Tribune)
March 23, 2002... SAN JOSE, Calif. _ The officials in Saturday's NCAA West Regional final between Oklahoma and Missouri made the big men marked men, tattooing them with fouls and leaving it largely up to the guards to carry their teams. Hollis Price...

Red-letter day; Hoosiers ride hot 3-point shooters into Final Four.(Chicago Tribune)
March 23, 2002... LEXINGTON, Ky._The "Red" is finally "Big" again. The pride is back. Indiana basketball, which has distinguished itself in the last 10 years for nothing so much as NCAA tournament failure, catapulted itself into the Final Four for the first...

Bulls defenseless: Cartwright hints at lineup changes after Hawks roll.(Chicago Tribune)
March 23, 2002... ATLANTA_A 60-loss season_which the Bulls are both familiar and again are headed toward_have a tendency to numb the pain. But certain losses stand out. Certain defeats still sting. For example, take their 112-96 debacle Saturday in...

As five key players exit, Illini will sport new look.(Chicago Tribune)
March 23, 2002... MADISON, Wis. _ Leave it to the always entertaining Lucas Johnson to put into proper perspective Friday night's bitter loss to Kansas, the end of his college basketball career and Illinois' strange season. "In 2.8 seconds I went from...

Deep inside Deborah's brain.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 22, 2002... CHARLOTTE, N.C. _ The letter arrived in September. Robert Setzer brought the mail to the kitchen, where his wife, Deborah, was working at her computer near the bay window overlooking Lake Wylie. Her breath caught when she saw the...

Deep inside Deborah's brain: Ready for surgery.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 22, 2002... CHARLOTTE, N.C. _ A week before Christmas, Deborah Setzer and her husband, Robert, drove to Margaret's Beauty Shop in Belmont, N.C. In two days, she would have brain surgery for Parkinson's disease. She came to get her head shaved....

Deep inside Deborah's brain: Losing heart for repeat surgery.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 22, 2002... CHARLOTTE, N.C. _ What else would go wrong? Deborah Setzer wondered. She had felt so much better after Dec. 21. The brain surgery to treat her Parkinson's symptoms had worked. For three weeks, she was nearly pain-free. She had walked...

Home tests have brought freedom, ease to diabetics.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 22, 2002... COLUMBIA, S.C. _ When Kaytina Taylor Haack was diagnosed with diabetes as a teen in 1970, the disease controlled her life. But thanks to home testing and other innovations, things are different for 7-year-old diabetic Michael Barber. He...

If you go to Freeport ...(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 22, 2002... IN AND OUT Customs is usually a piece of cake going down. There's a mandatory search of all luggage at the Freeport airport before your return flight. TIME AND MONEY Freeport is on Eastern Time. Don't worry about money...

Sampling of columns from Knight Ridder/Tribune contributors.(Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service)
March 22, 2002... SKIP BAYLESS, San Jose Mercury News, on JEFF KENT: He has shown little respect for his teammates. His leadership has fallen far short of his MVP talent. He has avoided the seemingly obvious truth when questioned by reporters, then...

Carlos Santana's winging it for his encore to `Supernatural'.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 22, 2002... So what is Carlos Santana going to do for an encore? Ask the angels. Santana is putting the finishing touches on "Shaman," his followup to "Supernatural," the CD-turned-pop-culture phenomenon that resurrected his career to such...

Duke Power installing equipment to reduce pollution.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 22, 2002... CLIFFSIDE, N.C. _ Even in an industry of colossal scale, one that gobbles coal by the boxcar and raises smokestacks to skyscraper height, the steel skeleton going up outside Duke Power's steam station here is a big piece of work. Call it...

Technical school officials mull lottery spending plans.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 22, 2002... COLUMBIA, S.C. _ The state's technical colleges are scratching their heads as they try to figure out how two separate plans to spend lottery proceeds will affect them. Both the S.C. House and Senate plans propose setting aside a portion...

Fewer expected to attend Winter Music Conference in Miami.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 22, 2002... MIAMI _ The Winter Music Conference descended Friday on Miami Beach, bringing nearly 10,000 deejays, industry insiders and dance music aficionados to scores of clubs, restaurants and hotels for six days of revelry. Fewer people are...

N.C., Utah fighting to protect congressional clout.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 22, 2002... CHARLOTTE, N.C. _ Utah will try to convince the U.S. Supreme Court this week that 856 North Carolinians don't exist. That's 0.01 percent out of 8 million Tar Heels. That's also the number by which North Carolina edged out Utah for the...

The case: Utah v. Evans.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 22, 2002... Utah v. Evans _The case: Utah v. Evans, oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court at 10 a.m. Wednesday. _The issue: Whether the U.S. Census Bureau properly counted the population for allocating congressional seats. North Carolina...

Lettuce prices jump up as supply continues to wilt.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 22, 2002... CHARLOTTE, N.C. _ If you're shelling out more green for lettuce, brace yourself: The situation is expected to last for several more weeks, at least. Cold weather in California and frosts in Arizona have driven the price of lettuce to...

N.C. jobless rate down _ by a hair.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 22, 2002... CHARLOTTE, N.C. _ North Carolina's unemployment rate dropped for a second straight month, giving economists further signs of the region's recovery. Powered by hirings at makers of automotive equipment and parts, the state's unemployment...

Governors: Textiles need federal action.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 22, 2002... DALLAS, N.C. _ With the U.S. textile industry in free fall, governors of the three largest textile states called for swift and substantial federal action Friday to stem rampant layoffs and plant closings. S.C. Gov. Jim Hodges and Georgia...

Duke loss makes NCAA a sad state of affairs in North Carolina.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 22, 2002... CHARLOTTE, N.C. _ For the first time in 22 years, North Carolina will not send a team to the regional finals of the men's NCAA basketball tournament. I'm talking about the state, not the school. The streak, which began in 1980, was...

Jeff tops Robby in Gordon fight for pole.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 22, 2002... BRISTOL, Tenn. _ The weather made you think of New Hampshire, why shouldn't the results? On a cold, blustery day at Bristol Motor Speedway, Jeff Gordon and Robby Gordon took the front-row spots for Sunday's Food City 500. In November...

NBA reportedly told Hornets that move to New Orleans is a lock if ticket goal is met.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 22, 2002... al is met CHARLOTTE, N.C. _ The leader of efforts to keep the Hornets in Charlotte acknowledged Friday that all signs point to the team moving to New Orleans. "It doesn't look good for us," Nelson Schwab told The Charlotte...

Florida priest molested at least 12 boys, documents show.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 22, 2002... MIAMI _ They hid under tables, in locked bathrooms and under beds. One boy "cinched his belt tight" to try to avoid being molested. But Father Rocco D'Angelo got to them every time anyway, they said. During a 31-year Florida career that...

Geter focused despite turmoil; South Carolina senior forward's brother sentenced to prison for 20 years.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 22, 2002... COLUMBIA, S.C. _ Teresa Geter's nickname on the South Carolina women's basketball team is "Tree," a derivation of her first name. This week, that nickname took on special significance, in two ways. Last weekend, Geter stood tall as an...

Dog Eat Dog: UConn wins this dogfight over Southern Illinois.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
March 22, 2002... SYRACUSE, N.Y. _ There is one less Cinderella in the dance. Southern Illinois checked its glass slipper at the door Friday night as it exited the East Regional. Connecticut, the Big East Conference tournament champion, did not want to go...

Failure to raise CAFE only sidesteps issue.(Chicago Tribune)
March 22, 2002... CHICAGO _ Corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) laws dictate the mileage each automaker's fleet of vehicles must obtain in the United States. Neither Japan nor Europe have CAFE laws. Of course, you don't find many Ford Expeditions...

Saturn to drop L-Series for Malibu spinoff.(Chicago Tribune)
March 22, 2002... CHICAGO _ Makes sense now. A few weeks ago, Saturn folks refused to talk about the planned `05 revise of the midsize L-Series sedan. Now AutoHorizon, an industry newsletter, reports that Saturn has scrapped plans for a revise because...

Families of Colombia's kidnapped plead for loved ones on radio.(South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
March 22, 2002... BOGOTA, Colombia _ As broadcasting, it's strictly an amateur affair: the scripts are handwritten and read by somber, often cracking voices to a captive audience. But in a country full of tragic stories, the letters read by the families...

White Buffalo a `Miracle' for owners, sacred for Native American visitors.(Chicago Tribune)
March 22, 2002... JANESVILLE, Wis. _ She looks like any other buffalo, big and brown and shaggy, slogging through her muddy pasture at David and Valerie Heider's farm. But she's not like any of the other buffalo in the Heiders' herd of about 75 animals....

Uruguay's president struggles to balance serious tax burden, jovial image.(Chicago Tribune)
March 22, 2002... MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay _ For the past decade, as a wave of economic reform and privatization of state-run industries swept Latin America, this tiny beef-producing nation preferred to play it safe. Uruguay moved slowly with economic reforms...

Parents need to sober up on child drinking.(Chicago Tribune)
March 22, 2002... Whenever he conducts focus groups about teens and alcohol, researcher Richard Yoast sees a distinct pattern emerge. "The kids say the parents greatly underestimate the amount of drinking going on, and they never think their kids are...

Actors can be great public speakers ... if they have a script.(Chicago Tribune)
March 22, 2002... NEW YORK _ The Oscar telecasts notwithstanding, one must concede that actors are the most effective public speakers we have. The stellar public career of an actor named Ronald Reagan is certainly testament to that. But with rare,...

Staying alive another year: Young Twins looks to contend again.(Chicago Tribune)
March 22, 2002... FORT MYERS, Fla._Although the Minnesota Twins' winter was a nightmare, that doesn't make the season preceding it a fantasy. It was very much real, according to the endangered team's players and management, and so is the chance to do even...

Sock it to France? I'll toast to that.(The Orlando Sentinel)
March 22, 2002... The French are known as much for their serious shortage of backbone as for their wine, cheese and champagne. The image of the gluttonous, wine-swilling French _ dependable only in their unreliability _ is a stereotype I have always enjoyed....

Making nations earn foreign aid.(Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service)
March 22, 2002... The following editorial appeared in the Chicago Tribune on Thursday, March 21: X X X If spending money were the only answer to alleviating poverty, then rich industrial nations would have long ago used their wallets to lead the poor...

BMW's iDrive incredibly terrible, but 745i wonderful otherwise.(The Orlando Sentinel)
March 22, 2002... The first new car I test-drove for a story was a 1984 BMW 318i. Since then, it would be safe to say I've averaged maybe one road test a week. Actually, that's very conservative, as for quite a few years I averaged two test-drive stories a...

Controversial memorial for Sept. 11 victims proposed for National Mall.(Chicago Tribune)
March 22, 2002... WASHINGTON _ A new controversy looms over yet another proposal to add a memorial to the National Mall _ this one to honor the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Legislation authorizing...

Fossils found of 7-pound creature that evolved into 10-ton Triceratops.(Chicago Tribune)
March 22, 2002... CHICAGO _ Two fossils of a puny, horny-faced, seven-pound, four-legged creature found recently in China are turning out to be early ancestors of Triceratops, the 10-ton, tanklike vegetarian with three mighty horns. Approximately 130...

Campaign finance bill traveled long road to passage, but it may not last.(Chicago Tribune)
March 22, 2002... WASHINGTON _ There was a time, and not so very long ago, when the wise men of Washington would look at the idea of campaign finance reform, pat it gently on the head and send it back to those warrens of Congress reserved for lost causes. ...

Jim's driveway: Capsules of Jim Mateja's auto reviews.(Chicago Tribune)
March 22, 2002... Jim's Driveway is capsules of Jim Mateja's auto reviews that appear in the Chicago Tribune. The vehicles will be grouped by model year and listed alphabetically. The digested version of the most recent reviews will replace older ones each...

Honda gives `02 Accord special sendoff.(Chicago Tribune)
March 22, 2002... CHICAGO _ This, too, shall pass, just like all the other Honda Accords that have come before it since the car first appeared in the 1976 model year. This is the last model year for the current-generation Accord, which began life as a...

Campaign finance flimflam.(Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service)
March 22, 2002... The following editorial appeared in the Chicago Tribune on Friday, March 22: X X X The U.S. Senate has sent a campaign-finance reform bill to President Bush. The president has promised to sign it, even though he acknowledges that it...

Terrorists' day in court.(Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service)
March 22, 2002... The following editorial appeared in the Chicago Tribune on Friday, March 22: X X X When President Bush announced last fall that the U.S. might establish military tribunals to prosecute non-citizens who were accused of...

Reviews of `Greg the Bunny' and `Death in the Family'.(The Orlando Sentinel)
March 22, 2002... Imagine that Kermit the Frog carried on like a nasty, pill-popping star away from the camera. Or that Elmo enjoyed booze too much. Or that Big Bird acted like a prima donna whose feathers were easily ruffled. Fox's Greg the Bunny portrays...

Few stay in Orlando for long.(The Orlando Sentinel)
March 22, 2002... ORLANDO, Fla. _ At 77, B.J. Jones has lived long enough in one place to feel like a stranger in his own hometown. Jones spent most of his life in Central Florida, graduated from Winter Garden's public schools, worked 30 years in an...

Pet drug maker files lawsuit over sales of foreign versions.(South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
March 22, 2002... FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. _ A North Carolina maker of pet medications is suing three pet products retailers, including two in Pompano Beach, Fla., alleging the companies are selling foreign versions of the medications that aren't approved by the...

Fear, suspicion reign in post-9/11 America.(Newport News (Va.) Daily Press)
March 22, 2002... Four members of an international commercial ship's crew go AWOL in Chesapeake, Va., and the rest of us go ape. The disappearance of four Pakistani sailors from the cargo vessel Progreso was one of those things that would have been...

Florida businesses have stake in records debate.(The Orlando Sentinel)
March 22, 2002... TALLAHASSEE, Fla. _ Amid a flurry of bills that would shut off information from the public, few have been promoted as urgently this year as one affecting records of government-owned utilities, including those in Orlando, Tampa and...

Guitarist is enjoying commercial rebirth at his own pace.(The Orlando Sentinel)
March 22, 2002... It seems like a long time since Carlos Santana's commercial rebirth with 1999's Supernatural, which sold more than 10 million copies and reaped eight Grammys. Another musician would have seized the opportunity with a highly anticipated...

Feature film of the week: `When a Man Loves a Woman'.(The Orlando Sentinel)
March 22, 2002... ___ WHEN A MAN LOVES A WOMAN 10 a.m. Sunday, March 31 TBS ___ The man in "When a Man Loves a Woman" is Michael Green, played by Andy Garcia. The woman is his wife, Alice, played by Meg Ryan. An attractive San...

Movie classic of the week: `So Big'.(The Orlando Sentinel)
March 22, 2002... ___ SO BIG 12:30 a.m. Tuesday, April 2 TCM ___ "So Big," the film that established Barbara Stanwyck as an actress with a brilliant emotional range, was one of very few films made in 1932 with a realistic variation on...

Center launched to help ease shortage of nurses.(The Orlando Sentinel)
March 22, 2002... ORLANDO, Fla. _ Hoping to ease Florida's worst nursing shortage in more than a decade, a group of hospital executives, community leaders and educators have launched the Florida Center for Nursing at the University of Central Florida. The...

Setting up Saturday's regional finals.(The Orlando Sentinel)
March 22, 2002... Saturday's regional finals WEST REGIONAL Compaq Center, San Jose No. 2 Oklahoma vs. No. 12 Missouri TIME: 4:30 p.m. EST HOW THEY GOT HERE: Oklahoma d. No. 15 Illinois-Chicago 71-63, d. No. 7 Xavier 78-65 and d. No. 3...