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investigated in Olympic bombing SPOKANE, Wash. — Three men charged with several bombings and bank robberies in the Pacific Northwest also arc being investigated for possible links to the Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, a newspaper reported Sunday. However, while anonymous Justice Department and FBI officials told The Spokesman-Review that the Spokane bombing suspects are being investigated in the Atlanta case, they cautioned that they have other leads and no solid suspects. At this point, they are our strongest lead in the Olympics bomb ing,” one Justice Department official told the newspaper. “But there’s a lot more work to do, and it’s really early on in the investigation.” The three men are being held without bail on charges of robbing banks and bombing one of the banks, an abortion clinic and an office of The Spokesman-Review. 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I CALL TODAY 484-5211 http://www.binary.net Reinterpret! BERLIN (AP)—The Ninth will sound the same, and so will the Fifth. Beethoven will still be Beethoven because of a British musicologist who is painstakingly restoring the composer’s sympho nies. j Average listeners probably won’t bolt from their seats in epiphany upon hearing the restora tions, the first since the composer’s death 150 years ago. After a dozen years of compar ing Beethoven’s original scribblings with later copies, Jonathan Del Mar is giving the music world reason to reconsider long-held notionsof the composer’s work — and the popular image of Beethoven as a sloppy genius. Del Mar’s first corrected sym phony, Beethoven’s Ninth, was published just-Last week by Baerenreiter musical publishers, of Kassel, Germany. But the correc tions already have been performed by many conductors, including John Eliot Gardiner, who incorpo rated them in his 1994 recording of the Ninth. They are not footnotes, Gardiner said. “I think anyone who is at all serious about interpreting Beethoven’s symphonies will find they have totally new insights into the workings of that extraordinary mind.” It has long been acknowledged that copyists and music publishers over the years introduced errors into Beethoven’s nine symphonies. Never before, however, have all the symphonies been corrected, due in part to the sheer volume of notes in a symphony. Del Mar’s version of the Ninth is 350 pages long. He plans to finish the remaining eight symphonies by 2000, several years ahead of a similar project by the Beethoven Haus in Bonn, a cul tural center dedicated to preserving the composer’s work. Whether Del Mar’s own correc tions to the Ninth alter listeners’ experience depends on how famil iar they are with the symphony. “If they knew the piece ... I would hope that 30 times they would sit upright and think, ‘Oh!’” Del Mar said. ng Beethoven Ninth Symphony Ludwig van Beethoven's sloppy handwriting caused hundreds of tiny errors as copyists and music publishers transcribed his works. Here, a hom passage in the Ninth Symphony. As commonly published... ... and as revised by British musicologist Jonathan Del Mar. Del Mar found Beethoven had written two extra ties in thesp three measures. This smooths oqt the rhythm and sustains the passage. • ' I AP/Eileen Glanlon, Tonia Cowan Del Mar determined what he be lieves were Beethoven’s final nota tions through close comparisons of scores, some in Beethoven’s own hand, in libraries and private col lections throughout Europe. Though Beethoven’s original texts were a copyist’s nightmare, Del Mar said, in reality, Beethoven “was remarkably meticulous.” ^He sometimes wrote and re wrote a pair of notes, crossing out bar after bar until there was only a tiny clear space left to record his final thought, which often was over looked when the piece was copied. Musical transitions were lost, re placed in passages by unintended repetition. Del Mar’s new versions, Gardiner said, “will defuse the im age of Beethoven as a flawed, ca pricious genius who never knew how to finish his pieces, who was in a state of permanent indecision as to how his music should sound.” “Beethoven, despite his ex tremely untidy handwriting, will emerge as extremely clear in his thinking, someone who knew ex actly what he wanted.” Women's Studies International Colloquium Series Wendy Weiss Associate Professor in Textiles, Clothing, and Design Women, Textiles, and Development Issues Thursday, Jan. 30, 3:30«p.m., City Campus Union San Francisco law on domestic partners may have wide reach SAN FRANCISCO tAP) — Disney’s done it. So have Levi Strauss, IBM and American Express. All offer benefits to employees with domestic partners, many of whom arc homosexual. Companies and employ ees alike say the policy improves mo rale and can sharpen the recruiting edge. But nobody forced the decisions. Then San Francisco told United Air lines it had to obey an ordinance re quiring companies doing business with the city to offer spousal benefits to their workers’ unmarried and same sex partners. “We’re surprised.... We’re disap pointed,” said Mary Jo Holland, a United spokeswoman in Chicago. Holland said if United offered ben efits in San Francisco, it would have to offer them worldwide. United had no estimate of what such compliance might cost. United already complies with a New Zealand Human Rights Commis sion ruling that bans benefits apply ing only to married couples. That rul ing permits New Zealanders to nomi nate any beneficiary, and United now allows its employees in New Zealand Tto follow suit. In San Francisco, United employ ees want to offer benefits to their cho sen families, straight or gay, married or not. “It’s about equality,” said Kent Bloom, a flight attendant who has worked 22 years for United and hopes to one day offer his benefits to his part ner, Mike Ownbey. i Questions? Comments? Ask for the section editor concerned at472-2588, or e-mail dnOunKnfo.unl.edu Editor: DougKouma Managing Editor: Paula Lavigne Associate News Editors: Joshua GilHn Chad Lorenz Night Editor: Anne Hjereman FAX NUMBER:472-1781 The Daily Nebraskan (USPS144-080) is published by the UNL Publications Board, Nebraska Union 34, 1400 R St., Lincoln, NE 685884)448, Monday through Friday during the academic year. weekly during summer sessions. Readers are encouraged to submit story ideas and comments to the Daily Ne braskan by calling 472-2588. The public has access to the Publications Board. Subscription price is $55 for one year. 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