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Show Sunday, April 14,1 Indent harassed President lend prior to lulling to appear By SHAWN DONNAN Associated Press Writer students at Johns Hopkins crsity, activists in the campus biican club, and mends. ut when Chao ended the hdship last year, Harwood making harassing phone k to him. Wednesday night. Kvood fatally shot Chao after a liege Republicans meeting re Harwood tried to block 10 s election as chairman. larding to police. in 19. piao, of Port Washington, ., an intern in the office of Rep. an Molinan. and an shot in was violinist, omplished head and chest. JHarwood. 22, a chemistry jor from Hopkinton, R.I., v here was the valedictorian of his h school class, was charged in murder. He was being held pending aignment Thursday, police said. first-degr- "Our entire university commu-is deeply wounded bv the ents of last night," said Daniel Lthans, the university's interim lesident. "It's clearly one of the st terrible occurrences in the story of the university." A university' spokesman said arwood began harassing Chao t year, after Chao tried to end to leir friendship. Other friends con v fined that. "Me definitely has been acting erv weira laieiy. ne u neen arising Rex. He made a lot of aty phone calls to him, sent a lot f obscene messages, said keil Namler. a menu ot Lhaos kho served as College Republi- ans chairman between Harwood nJ Chao. Sander wouldn't sav why Chao wke off the friendship with Harwood. who finished his kourse work in December, was :heduled to graduate from Hop kins in Mav and had been liv inc in Rhixle Island, said Dennis O'Shea. a university spokesman. Robert Harwood University officials said they were approached by both Chao and Harwood earlier this year about their differences. Harwood agreed to notify them whenever he returned to the campus, and had done so regarding the Wednesday night meeting. O'Shea said. "There was never any indication of any intent to do any kind of physical harm." O'Shea said. Before the meeting. Rex Chao called home to talk with his mother, who wished him luck. "Music and politics were his love. I hate politics. told him that, but it was something he wanted." Rosetta Chao said Thursday. "We loved him very much." she said. "He was very intelligent, very gifted." According to police and people 1 younger generation no longer measures distances on the Wasatch Front in terms of miles, but in minutes: "You're about 50 minutes from Salt Lake City." not "30 "Give me your Non-L'tah- address" L'tahn: "844 East 560 North." "How do I get WASHINGTON (AP) President Clinton will make a cameo appearance in a television movie about a child with terminal cancer who wants to meet the president. Clinton agreed to the role because it reinforces the importance of the Family and Medical Leave Act. White House press secretary Mike McCurry said last week. "It's not going to be on until long after the election so we don't see any (problem)." McCurry said. Filming of the CBS movie, "A Child's Wish," began recently in Washington. The movie deals with the troubles of a family when the daughter loses a leg to cancer and the father subsequently loses his job as a result of spending too much time with her. The president's scene will Non-L'tah- therer L'tahn: "What do you mean. 'How do I get there?'" "How do I find that addressT L'tah addresses of this type are who mysienes to many are not used to the layout of the streets in typical L'tah towns. Square blocks, eight or 2 to a mile, each block numrered from d zero to 100, the houses on the nght. the streets numbered first, second, third, or 100. 200. 300. etc.. all laid out in a neat north-sout- h these notions grid however stymie many simple and logical they may seem to natives. In many areas, parts ot rural Southern Idaho, for evainpie. the same plan holds, except that the first, second, etc.. "blocks" are square miles, l.et us he tolerant of aliens who request urban directions of us natives. A sure sign of impending gridlock on our streets, highways and freeways is a change in how we express distances from one place to another. In the good ol" days in L'tah. if you told someone they were 25 miles from your house, it could be assumed that that someone would be there in about minutes. Anymore, that's not so. ("Anymore" as used here, meaning "nowadavs." is also a localism.) A reader wonders whv the Non-L'tah- Don non-native- Norton , i An escaped SEW YORK mental patient stared at his fingers and appeared oblivious as a jury found him innocent by reason of insanity for killing a woman by shoving her under a subwav train. Reuben Harris had been in mental hospitals 17 times before last year's attack, and jurors asked to watch a videotape of his bab-- 1 Mine, childlike confession three tunes before returning their v erdict Wednesday. "It was a very good jury who understiXKl what we do for sick people m 'ur society." defense attorney Harvey Fishbein said. Harris. 44. told police he had walked away from a low security -- psychiatric center two weeks before he pushed 63-seamstress Soon Sin onto the v ear-ol- d rUr even-numbere- s. be shot in the next few weeks. McCurry said Clinton will be paid a union wage. $500, and he will donate the money to a private foundation that helps terminally ill children. The 1993 Family and Medical Leav e Act requires employers to pav ide up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave a year to workers w ho need time off during a family emergency to care for an ailing spouse, parent or child. 35-4- A 15 5 WordWise fort with the layout of cities and farms in the rural est. We don't w ant to get too far into gender dialects, but readers might wish to be aware that men and women give directions to places differently. Women generally orient themselves by landmarks ("the big white house on the corner... the lilac bush... the shopping center with the bakery." etc. . whereas men go by numbers and directions (go three blocks. .. take a left going south... then it's about a mile). A few weeks ago, I gave directions to a male colleague, who reminded me. "You know, you're giving me woman directions." apologized. Junior high schooler Kyle Jensen asks about the phrase "all of the sudden." which apparently appeared in his school newspaper, writer unmentionable. "1 was taught that the phrase was "all of a sudden." You're nght. Kyle. Note that the "v" sound in "of could he confused for a "th" sound in casual speech. Somebody hasn't been listening very carefully Confusion of vunds is quite common. We'll have to nuke that a topic of a WordWise sometime. If you have a comment or question about usace. write WordWise. The Duih Herald. PO Box 717. Provo. LT WoOJ-0711 miles." learned this new dialectal variant in an embarrassing way When I visited the Los Angeles area, people gave me all distances in minutes. When I asked for miles, they gave me a blank look. Large-citpeople have no idea how far apart places are in terms of miles: miles have no meaning in the city, only minutes. The fact that the Wasatch Front dialect now calls for minutes rather than miles tells us first that there is a traffic problem, and second, that the valleys are filling up with but we already knew that Many of us westerners, particularly L'tahns. who grow up with a strict orientation to the points of the compass feel disoriented when we can't tell where north is This mindset may have to do with our com 1 y Cah-fomia- sort-of-ali- 7. at the meeting, Harwood tried to stop Chao's election, handing out fliers with derogatory comments about Chao. Police say after the meeting broke up. Harwood followed Chao and his girlfriend as they headed back to Chao's dormitory and shot him once in the head near the university's library. Witnesses said Harwood then stood over the victim and fired a second shrt into his chest. 'APR under train found innocent By SAMUEL MAULL Associated Press Writer Page to people outside the state Man who pushed woman I uh Utah addresses confusing in movie Rex Chao and LT1MORE rt Harwood were both excep- - THE DULY HERALD, Provo, I tlirotigli July 1996 billing statement tracks at a Herald Square subwav station in midtown Manhattan. He said he shoved her because she was in his way. IVosecutors argued Hams was a cold-bloode- killer: the defense d argued that Harris was psychotic arid didn't know w hat he w as doing. He w ill now be placed in a more secure hospital and have regular psychiatric reviews. He could be released if doctors determine he is no longer a danger to himself or society. 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