Rivalry revived
Sun Oct 10, 2004, Scott McClurg/Journal-World Photo
Kansas University's John Randle, center, breaks free for a touchdown run to seal KU's victory over Kansas State. The Jayhawks snapped an 11-game losing streak in the Sunflower Showdown with a 31-28 victory on Saturday at Memorial Stadium.
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Ink controversy throws election into question
Sun Oct 10, 2004, Hasan Sarbakhshian/AP Photo
Afghan men stand in lines to vote at the main mosque in Herat, Afghanistan. Saturday's election, the first ever in Afghanistan, was called into question when the 15 presidential challengers to Hamid Karzai decided to boycott the outcome.
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Marking a milestone
Sun Oct 10, 2004, Kansas University Archives
The second violins pose for a group portrait of the 1904-1905 Kansas University Symphony Orchestra.
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Soil-free lettuce farming unique to Kansas
Sun Oct 10, 2004, David Doemland/Emporia Gazette Photo
Tony and Janell May harvest lettuce at their ranch, TJ Farms, north of Emporia. The couple recently started their hydroponic lettuce business to add to their cattle income.
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Woodling: This time, Jayhawks didn't fall apart
Sun Oct 10, 2004, Thad Allender/Journal-World Photo
Kansas State's Allen Webb (8) is brought down by Kansas' Jermial Ashley (top right) and Nick Reid.
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Viewing 'The Learning Tree' helps Kansas legend remember his roots
Sun Oct 10, 2004, Bill Snead/Journal-World Photo
Gordon Parks, 91, an internationally recognized artistic icon, returned last week to his hometown of Fort Scott, where he was honored and discussed at the four-day "Gordon Parks Celebration." Aside from his creative talents, his white mane and mustache have long been the New York City resident's trademarks.
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Viewing 'The Learning Tree' helps Kansas legend remember his roots
Sun Oct 10, 2004, Gordon Parks/Farm Security Administration Photo
Ella Watson, who worked as a charwoman in a federal building in Washington, D.C., posed for Gordon Parks in 1948 with a mop and broom, symbols of her trade. The photograph is now known as "Gordon Parks American Gothic."
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Viewing 'The Learning Tree' helps Kansas legend remember his roots
Sun Oct 10, 2004, Bill Snead/Journal-World Photo
Gordon Parks spoke about his memories of Fort Scott during a conversation there last week. The 91-yer-old artist was in Fort Scott for a city-wide celebration in his honor.
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Nemechek emerges
Sun Oct 10, 2004, Jared Soares/Journal-World Photo
Tony Stewart's pit crew works on a stop during the NASCAR Busch Series Mr. Goodcents 300. Joe Nemechek won the race Saturday at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Kan.
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Quake activity increases at Mount St. Helens
Sun Oct 10, 2004, Rick Bowmer/AP Photo
A family from Olympia, Wash., tries to view Mount St. Helens, which was obscured by clouds and rain at ColdwaterRidge Visitor Center. Inclement weather has hidden the smoldering volcano for several days.
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K.C. defense starting to click
Sun Oct 10, 2004, Chris Gardner/AP Photo
Kansas City safety Greg Wesley, left, tackles Baltimore tight end Terry Jones. Wesley, shown during the Chiefs' game Monday in Baltimore, and the K.C. defense are gradually adapting to and optimizing the system of new defensive coordinator Gunther Cunningham.
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Students march to protest state's legal drinking age
Sun Oct 10, 2004, Mike Yoder/Journal-World Photo
Kansas University students rally and march across campus to bring awareness to their efforts, begun last spring, to lower the Kansas drinking age to 18.
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In New York City, nibbling at 'a buffet for the mind'
Sun Oct 10, 2004, Joel Mathis/Journal-World Photo
Marisa Acocella, a cartoonist for the New Yorker, sketches a man who was attending the New Yorker Festival Oct. 1-3. The "Cocktails with the Cartoonists" event was at The Leaf Lounge.
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Betting on the blues
Sun Oct 10, 2004, AP File Photo
Sharecropper shacks that make up The Shack Up Inn in Clarksdale, Miss., cast a feel for the hardscrabble lives of the farm workers who occupied them years ago. The row of six authentic sharecropper homes sits on the 4,000-acre Hopson Plantation, just four miles south of the crossroads of U.S. highways 49 and 61, where legend has it bluesman Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil.
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Florence E. Sweeney
Sun Oct 10, 2004
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Tennessee turns tables on Georgia
Sun Oct 10, 2004, John Bazemore/AP Photo
Tennessee's Kevin Burnett celebrates a 19-14 victory over Georgia with fans. The No. 17 Volunteers snapped the third-ranked Bulldogs' 17-game home winning streak Saturday in Athens, Ga.
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Bush, Kerry hit the trail after heated 2nd debate
Sun Oct 10, 2004, AP Photo
President Bush, above, greets supporters at the City Center Park in Chanhassen, Minn., the morning after the president's second debate with his Democratic opponent, Sen. John Kerry, below, who campaigned Saturday at Lorain County Community College in Elyria, Ohio.
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Activists plan to fight buffalo hunting
Sun Oct 10, 2004, AP File Photo
Hunter Al Krenzler poses beside a buffalo he shot during a hunt in the winter of 1989, north of Yellowstone National Park, in Montana. Montana's wildlife commission voted Thursday to resume bison hunting, allowing up to 25 animals to be killed next year if they leave Yellowstone National Park. The hunts were canceled in 1991 after a firestorm of controversy.
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Wildcats take it on chin in KU Homecoming Parade
Sun Oct 10, 2004, Mike Yoder/Journal-World Photo
The float "Follow the Yellow Brick Road to the Crimson City" by Delta Upsilon fraternity and Kappa Alpha Theta sorority passes by Lippincott Hall. The float was one of the entries in Saturday's Homecoming Parade at Kansas University.
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Leggy furniture from 1700s attractive to collectors
Sun Oct 10, 2004, Cowles Syndicate Inc.
This Philadelphia Queen Anne drop-leaf table has the typical curved cabriole legs of the era it was made -- 1740 to 1760. It sold at Sotheby's New York for $4,200.
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World-renowned French philosopher Derrida dies at 74
Sun Oct 10, 2004, Alexis Duclos/AP File Photo
French philosopher Jacques Derrida, seen in this 1981 file photo, was the founder of the philosophical movement known as deconstructionism. Derrida died of cancer Saturday in Paris.
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At last!
Sun Oct 10, 2004, Scott McClurg/Journal-World Photo
Kansas University fans tear down the goal post at the south end of Memorial Stadium after KU's defeat of Kansas State University. The KU victory Saturday was the first over the Wildcats in football since 1992.
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Ink controversy throws election into question
Sun Oct 10, 2004, Emilio Morenatti/AP Photo
Afghan women wearing burqas line up to vote at a polling station in Kabul. Afghanistan voters went to the polls Saturday in the country's first-ever direct presidential elections.
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Marking a milestone
Sun Oct 10, 2004, Thad Allender/Journal-World Photo
Kansas University Symphony Orchestra conductor Nicholas Uljanov leads the orchestra during rehearsal last week at Murphy Hall. The orchestra will celebrate its 100th anniversary with a gala concert Tuesday at the Lied Center.
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Soil-free lettuce farming unique to Kansas
Sun Oct 10, 2004, David Doemland/Emporia Gazette Photo
The finished produce of hydroponic lettuce grown at TJ Farms is kept in its own "miniature greenhouse" that allows the plant to continue living for four to six weeks in the refrigerator.
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Arkansas bus crash kills 15
Sun Oct 10, 2004, Jamie Brockwell/AP Photo
Emergency personnel remove a victim from the scene of a bus crash in Marion, Ark. The driver of the tour bus and 15 passengers were killed in the crash early Saturday. Police say the bus was carrying 31 Chicago tourists to a casino in Tunica, Miss., when it overturned along Interstate 55.
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Viewing 'The Learning Tree' helps Kansas legend remember his roots
Sun Oct 10, 2004, Bill Snead/Journal-World Photo
Marcella Piper, St. Louis, right, tells stories about her "Uncle Gordon" during presentation of "Gordon Parks Up Close and Personal" at the Fort Scott Community College. Laughing at Piper's comments Friday is former Vogue employee and longtime Parks friend, Katie Strickler, New York City.
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Viewing 'The Learning Tree' helps Kansas legend remember his roots
Sun Oct 10, 2004, Bill Snead/Journal-World Photo
Gordon Parks buttons his shirt before sitting down for an interview last week. His son David, also a film maker from Austin, Texas, is behind him.
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'Dear George' puts human face on divisive poll numbers
Sun Oct 10, 2004, Special to the Journal-World
New York theater producer Marcus Woollen reads an excerpt from "Dear George: Letters to the President" on Sept. 23 through the giant megaphone of the Freedom of Expression National Monument in Lower Manhattan. The play, a compilation of selected letters written by the American public to President George W. Bush, will be performed next weekend in Lawrence.
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Nemechek emerges
Sun Oct 10, 2004, Jared Soares/Journal-World Photo
NASCAR Nextel cup driver jeff gordon signs in Autograph Alley at Kansas Speedway. Gordon appeared Saturday in Kansas City, Kan., in preparation for today's Banquet 400.
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Exhibit probes troubled photographer's 'Family Albums'
Sun Oct 10, 2004, Matthaei Collection
This untitled portrait of Marcella Matthaei, 1969, by Diane Arbus, is part of "Diane Arbus: Family Albums," on view Saturday through Jan. 16 at the Spencer Museum of Art.
 Photo gallery: "Diane Arbus: Family Albums"

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K.C. defense starting to click
Sun Oct 10, 2004, AP Photo
Chiefs linebackers Scott Fujita, right, and Shawn Barber, center, tackle Ravens running back Jamal Lewis. The Chiefs won, 27-24, Monday in Baltimore.
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In New York City, nibbling at 'a buffet for the mind'
Sun Oct 10, 2004, Joel Mathis/Journal-World Photo
Journal-World reporter Joel Mathis takes a slightly misaligned shot of himself with the Empire State Building, on the right. Mathis was in New York Oct. 1-3 for the annual New Yorker Festival.
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WWII pilots meet former foe
Sun Oct 10, 2004, Travis Heying/AP Photo
Irl Mitchell, left, swaps war stories with former German Luftwaffe pilot Horst Petzschler Sept. 22 in Wichita. Petzschler spoke to members of the Wichita chapter of the Distinguished Flying Cross.
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Betting on the blues
Sun Oct 10, 2004, Scott Speaks/AP Photo
Bill Luckett, left, and Morgan Freeman have opened a blues club, Ground Zero, and an upscale restaurant, Medidi, in Clarksdale, Miss. They are part of an effort to attract tourists to the Delta for more than just casino gambling.
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Park Hetzel III
Sun Oct 10, 2004
Hetzel
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OU claims Red River shutout
Sun Oct 10, 2004, AP Photo
Oklahoma running back Adrian Peterson slips away from Texas defensive end Brian Robison (39). The OU freshman gained 225 yards in just his fifth college game to help the No. 2 Sooners win the Red River Shootout against the No. 5 Longhorns, 12-0, Saturday in Dallas.
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Bush, Kerry hit the trail after heated 2nd debate
Sun Oct 10, 2004, AP Photo
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Australian prime minister elected to fourth term
Sun Oct 10, 2004, AP Photo
A surfer passes a billboard with a photo of Australian Prime Minister John Howard, right, at a polling booth at Sydney's Bondi Beach. Australians voted in their federal election Saturday, giving Howard a fourth term.
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Fairgrounds gone to the dogs during Kennel Club show
Sun Oct 10, 2004, Mike Yoder/Journal-World Photo
Sisters Abby, 15, left, and Gretchen Kroese, 12, of Lincoln, Neb., ready their Scottish Terrier Maggie for competition at the American Kennel Club dog show sponsored by the Lawrence Jayhawk Kennel Club. The show, which began Saturday, continues today at the Douglas County 4-H Fairgrounds.
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Fading light requires photographer to think quick but exercise patience
Sun Oct 10, 2004, Scott McClurg/Journal-World Photo
Grain handler Rob Smith, of Pomona, signals a truck driver to raise his load of corn last week at the North Lawrence grain elevator. Area farmers have filled the local elevators with this year's exceptional crop.
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Pet post
Sun Oct 10, 2004, Special to the Journal-World
Maxwell, a 3-year-old Westie (West Highland white terrier), loves to ride in the truck and has to be pried out after a drive, says his owner, Marvin Huey, of Lawrence.
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