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After he saw a sneak preview of Mel Gibson's new movie "The Passion of the Christ," the Rev. Kelvin Redmond called Carmike 15 Theatre and reserved four private showings for his North Raleigh congregation. He's encouraging church members to buy extra tickets and invite friends and co-workers to the showings Feb. 28.

"The movie brings everything to life -- the reality, the purpose, the reason Christ came," said Redmond, pastor of Body of Christ Church. "This is a must-see movie for every Christian to become reacquainted with the Bible story."

One week before the movie opens Feb. 25, churches across the nation are planning for what they hope will be the most influential Christian-themed movie ever to come out of Hollywood. The premiere corresponds with the start of Lent, the 40-day period of prayer and fasting preceding Easter, when Christians believe Jesus was resurrected.

In Raleigh, half a dozen churches have booked private screenings at Six Forks Station Cinema. In Durham, Campus Crusade for Christ has booked two showings at Southpoint Cinemas for students at UNC-Chapel Hill. Many church leaders say they want members to see the movie together and talk about it afterward. Advance ticket sales, which began Jan. 23, are brisk...

A student group at Roger Williams University is offering a new scholarship for which only white students are eligible, a move they say is designed to protest affirmative action.
The application for the $250 award requires an essay on "why you are proud of your white heritage" and a recent picture to "confirm whiteness."

"Evidence of bleaching will disqualify applicants," says the application, issued by the university's College Republicans.

Jason Mattera, 20, who is president of the College Republicans, said the group is parodying minority scholarships...

University of Minnesota researchers make hydrogen from ethanol in a prototype reactor that is small enough to generate power for homes and cars. It could help bring renewable hydrogen to the mass market.

A convicted burglar sentenced in Calhoun County to 20 years in prison this week as a repeat offender had an unusual run-in with his victim.

The victim, Richard Bussey, says he drove up to his father's rural residence last summer and found a man loading furniture and other items into a pickup truck.

Bussey held a gun on the would-be thief and ordered him to return the furniture. Bussey didn't have a telephone, so he made 45-year-old Roy Andrew Gendron mow the lawn with a push mower until he could think of a plan to alert authorities...

A NASA poll conducted to gauge support for President Bush's space-exploration initiative revealed that a depressing 57 percent of Americans believe that the U.S. already has a research base on the moon. "We put that international space-station thing up there in the '60s," phone-poll respondent Randy Snow said. "It might be on Mars, but I think it's the moon—wherever they have the golf course that President Kennedy played on. Remember, the Cubans tried to take it over?" NASA officials said they hope someday to make Americans' perception a reality.

A harmless little joke about turning a shiny new Power Mac G5 into a PC unleashed a torrent of bad tidings, including death threats. By Leander Kahney.

In one of the wildest primaries ever, John Kerry won 5 of 7 states, taking Arizona, Delaware, Missouri, North Dakota and New Mexico. Clark took on Oklahoma and Edwards took on South Carolina. Joe Lieberman got the most votes in the local temples around Missouri, while Al Sharpton received the most votes due to mistakes from blind people in South Carolina.

Kerry is now clearly the front lead, followed by Edwards, which swept South Carolina. "Dean is out of this race," stated a very proud and somewhat cocky Kerry, "He can go scream at his staff, his family, whomever he wants now. I'm in the lead baby. His wife doesn't have to worry anymore about her patients either. She can take care of them all she wants." ...

Janet Jackson Episode: White House Cites Failure Of Intelligence To Warn Nation Of The Existence Of Breasts

The repercussions from the Janet Jackson-Justin Timberlake Super Bowl show continued unabated today. This time the White House stepped in by conveying its shock and outrage at the very existence of breasts.

How come nobody ever told us about these things before?" asked a confused White House spokesman Scott McClellan, expressing a sentiment shared by all members of the Bush administration.

"Before now I always thought that breasts were just something that belonged to male professional golfers," McClellan added.

The discovery has left many in the Bush administration wondering how they were caught so patently off-guard when one of Janet Jackson's two breasts was thrust upon it and 100 million other viewers this Sunday.

Today the administration was busy trying to seek answers.


"This is clearly failure of intelligence," said an unnamed source within the administration. "We will definitely need to spend millions upon millions of taxpayer money to look into this."