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Show Monday, Deo. I,L20Q TMn/'slssue Celebs&People NEW YORK (AP) - Whitney Houston has issued a statement denying the rumors of a reunion with Bobby Brown. Acting on behalf of Houston, the singer's publicist Nancy Seltzer calls speculation that the exes are getting back together "a complete fabrication." Seltzer pinpoints the rumors to a report HOUSTON in Wednesday's Chicago Sun-Times that said Houston and Brown had been spotted out and about in The policy of The Utah Statesman is to corGeorgia looking romantic. rect any error made as soon as possible. If NEW YORK (AP) - Madonna's awakyou find something you would like clarified ening to the crisis in Malawi - an impovor find unfair, please contact the editor at erished African nation where one million 797-1762 or TSC 105. children are orphaned by AIDS - had many consequences. She adopted one of those orphans, her CHITRA GAUTAM, 19, RIGHT, INTRODUCES HIS MOTHER, Jamuna Gautam, 36. center, to 3-year-old son David. She is building a Catholic Charities representative Clare Kushman, left, as his father Dina Gautam, 40, stands behind him after school there. their arrival at the Greater Pittsburgh International Airport in Imperial, Pa., Monday, Sept. 22. AP photo. And she has told Malawi's harrowing story in her documentary, "I Am Because We Are." With an audience thus far limited to isolated theater screenings, it will ST. LOUIS (AP) - Leslie Owen Collier be screened for everyone with its TV prewas surrounded by cattle at a livestock aucmiere on Sundance Channel at 9 p.m. EST tion when his cell phone rang. It was the Monday (World AIDS Day). White House. The feature-length film was written, Twelve years after pleading guilty to produced and narrated by Madonna. It federal charges in the deaths of three bald consults experts including President Bill CASTLE SHANNON, Pa. (AP) like Pittsburgh, where housing refugee camps. eagles, Collier learned his name was cleared Clinton and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. - Chitra Prassad Gautam and is affordable and officials hope Bhutan has significantly He was pardoned by President George W. CLEVELAND (AP) - Fans of the holihis family watch in awe as water diverse populations will reinvigoopened up in recent years, embracBush. day classic "A Christmas Story" are celcomes out of the shower head in rate urban areas hurt by deindusing democratic freedoms and "I guess I was humbled is the best way ebrating the film's 25th anniversary with trialization. coronating a young king on Nov. 1. to say it - 1 never thought it would happen," the bathroom of their new aparta convention and trips to the house where ment. Charitable organizations Nevertheless, the tiny Himalayan Collier, 50, said in a phone interview this the movie was made. "I have a question," Gautam responsible for resettlement get kingdom remains tightly conweek. "It was emotional. I almost came to The 1983 film, an adaptation of Jean says, holding up a bottle of shamthe families apartments, food, trolled. Traditional robes and coltears, really." Shepard's memoir of a boy in the 1940s, poo. "Do I put this in my hair Social Security cards and English ored sashes indicating class rank Collier was among 14 people pardoned was set in Indiana but largely filmed in before going in the shower or classes, and help them find jobs. are mandatory and only 20,000 by Bush on Monday. The president has Ohio. The movie starred Peter Billingsley after?" After three months, the families foreigners are permitted to enter granted just 171 pardons overall — less as a young boy determined to get a Red Gautam, 19, his parents and his will have to provide for themselves, the country annually on superthan half as many as the other most recent Ryder BB gun for Christmas. two siblings are among the first usually working minimum wage vised trips. two-term presidents, Bill Clinton and - Thefilmwas a modest theatrical of about 5,300 ethnic Nepalese .jobs. . .. j ... ,; Ronald Reagan. Like most others in Bhutan, success, but critics lovedit!lt evehtii:; r) "' > ' 1 refugees from the tiny south Asian . .,,,,. Bhutan is a predominantly . .. the Gautams were farmers. Chitra ally joined "It's a Wonderful Life" and country of Bhutan who this year Buddhist constitutional monarchy Prassad Gautam and his sister, "Miracle on 34th Street" as a Christmas started leaving refugee camps to bordered by China and India. In Uma, 17, were born in Bhutan. cult classic. resettle in the United States. The the early 1990s, the monarchy Their younger brother, Raju, 15, U.S. has agreed to take in 60,000 of instituted sweeping legislation is part of the generation born in SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A consorthem. that effectively stripped the ethnic refugee camps in Nepal. They were tium of health groups says Utah doesn't Unlike other, high-profile Nepalese, a Hindu minority also educated in schools run by the spend enough on anti-tobacco advertisrefugee groups such as Iraqis and known as the Lhotsampas, of their United Nations, an education that ing despite 10 years of collecting tobacco David Letterman, Nov. 27,2008 Burmese, the ethnic Nepalese citizenship, their right to own gives these children an advantage settlement funds. Top Ten Signs You're Watching A Bad have gone largely unnoticed. Since property and their ability to get over their parents, many of whom The "Decade of Broken Promises" Thanksgiving Day Parade there are no Bhutanese communigovernment jobs. are not even literate in their native report ranked Utah 17th among states for ties in the United States, most Since then, an estimated Nepalese. its anti-tobacco spending. The report is are being resettled near cities 10. The Garfield balloon is anatomically 100,000 ethnic Nepalis have fled to produced by the Campaign for Tobaccocorrect. Free Kids in collaboration with American Heart Association, American Cancer 9. It was double booked with the Gay Pride Society, Cancer Action Network and the Parade. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. A 1998 settlement agreement forced 8. On every float, a sneezin' monkey. tobacco companies to settle tobacco-associated health costs claims. 7. City forgot to stop traffic on parade Utah will get roughly $42 million this route. year, according to a state appropriations RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) region. Another group, Jaish-eAkbar' (God is Great) is sick and report. Add that to the projected 2009 - Muslims from the Middle East Mohammed, has also operated in ignorant." 6. Hillary Clinton still hasn't decided tobacco tax revenues and Utah could take to Britain and Austria condemned Kashmir. Both are reported to be In Britain, home to nearly two whether she'll be the grand marshall. in some $105 million, the consortium Sunday the Mumbai shooting linked to al-Qaida. million Muslims, a spokesman report states, only $8.2 million of which rampage by suspected Islamic Ten gunmen attacked 10 targets for the Muslim Council of Britain, 5. Parade comes to an abrupt halt when will be spent on anti-tobacco initiatives. militants as senseless terrorism, in the three-day assault including Inayat Bunglawala, said that "a tuba player inhales a pigeon. Meanwhile the consortium projects but also found themselves on the a Jewish community center and handful of terrorists like this bring tobacco companies will spend more than defensive once again about bloodhotels in India's commercial hub. the entire faith into disrepute." 4. Even Dora the Explorer couldn't find $57 million advertising their products in shed linked to their religion. More than 170 people were killed. A previously unknown Muslim a parking space. Hey you gotta laugh or Utah. Intellectuals and community Many Muslims said they are group, Deccan Mujahideen, you'll go crazy, right New Yorkers? Utah lawmakers skimmed $44.4 milleaders called for greater efforts to worried such carnage is besmirchclaimed responsibility for the lion from tobacco funds for the budget in combat religious fanaticism. ing their religion. attacks. The name suggests ori3. Instead of shouting, "Ho, ho, hoi" Santa 2004 and another $9.8 million in 2004. Indian police said Sunday that "The occupation of the synagins in India. Pakistan has denied has long, violent coughing fits caused by "I'm not sure I can tell the Legislature the only surviving gunman told gogue and killing people in hotels involvement and demanding that years of smoking. what to do, but the Campaign for them he belongs to the Pakistani tarnishes the Muslim faith," India provide proof. Tobacco-Free Kids is saying that more can militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba. said Kazim al-Muqdadi, a politiIn Islamic extremist Web 2. It takes place on June 14th. be done, and I think we agree," said David The group is seen as a creation of cal science lecturer at Baghdad forums, some praised the Mumbai Neville, spokesman for the state's tobacco- Pakistani intelligence to help fight University. "Anyone who slaughattacks, including the targeting of 1. There's a creepy guy who keeps asking prevention and -control program. India in the disputed Kashmir ters people and screams 'Allahu Jews. you to inflate him. Today is Monday, Dec. 1, 2008. Today': issue of The Utah Statesman is published especially for Shirrel Cooper, a junior majoring in communications native to Layton, Utah. ChrifyCorrect \ / Briefs President pardons man for eagle deaths U.S. agrees to take 60,000 refugees from Bhutan Utah ranked 17th in anti-tobacco spending LateNiteHumor Muslims worry about image after Mumbai shootings TEXTBOOK UY-BACK! 42 SOUTH MAIN • LOGAK •Free short sleeve screen printed t-shirt. 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