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Page A 2 N ovem ber 19, 2 0 0 3 Tüpac’s Mom Brings His Dream to Life Afeni Shakur keeps memory and truth about her murdered son alive Tupac albums. "I’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice," Shakur says plainly, wearing a velour sweatsuit during an interview in a New York hotel suite. "W hatever it is I'm doing I do because my son was murdered, and he w as not able to complete his work. So as his (AP) — Afeni Shakur, the 56- I think from the time year-old mother o f the late rapper always he the reference Tupac Shakur, does not fit the im uses about Tupac. age of a savvy record executive. She lives on a farm in North Carolina. She prefers to spend her time overseeing her garden, attend mother, my whole job and respon ing to her grandchildren and taking sibility is to see to it that that hap naps. Yet Shakur is the executive pens for him, and I do that with producer of the new documentary love.” "Tupac: Resurrection,” as well as Yet as Shakur talks about up founder and CEO of Amaru Enter- coming projects, soon-to-be com tainment/Amaru Records, which pleted deals and other tasks, it’s has released several million-selling clear she’s much more than just a she says. grieving mother. “I read every agreement of every Certainly, that motherly instinct contract. Anything I put my signa has helped keep Tupac’s name and ture on, 1 really do read them. And legacy vibrant in the seven years I find things," says the former Black since Tupac Amaru Shakur died, Panther, laughing about an inci gunned down on a Las Vegas street dent where a company tried to get com er at age 25. paid for a photograph they hadn’t Tupac was already one of rap's even taken. greatest talents — and certainly its most dynamic, charismatic and con troversial figure — when he was it's released, it will killed. But since his unsolved 1996 material that anybody slaying. Tupac’s allure and mys tique have grown exponentially. -Afeni Shakur "Tupac: Resurrection" is just the latest example of Shakur's star They didn’t get away with it — power after death. The film is being Shakur, noticing something amiss, released in conjunction with a pic had the situation investigated and ture book and a soundtrack featur the proper person credited. ing new Tupac material. But savvy? Please, she says. Although there have been sev “T hat’s not savvy — that's your eral documentaries produced on mama. That’show y our mama does continued y ^ on pane AS it as opposed to how they do it,” Afeni Shakur, 56-year-old mother of late rapper Tupac Shakur. (AP photo) S trip S ea rch L a w su it S ettled (AP) — The federal govern cies based on claims that customs rights," the Houston woman’s at ment has agreed to pay $350,000 inspectors made it a national prac torney, L. Obii Aham-Neze, said. to a woman who says she was tice to single out minority women The Justice Department agreed singled out for a strip search by fo r u n ju stifie d , h u m iliatin g to settle a lawsuit filed by Brent Miami airport agents because she searches in the 1990s. without an admission of wrong is black. She is relieved that it’s over, and doing two years after she won an Rhonda Brent’s search and she in her way is also glad to know appeal that found she was sub do zen s o f o th e rs p ro m p te d that other people can benefit from jected to an unconstitutional strip changes in federal law and poli what she did to stand up for their search and X-ray exam. John Allen Muhammad stands for the reading o f a guilty verdict Monday. The former resident of Tacoma, Wash, was charged in last year's sniper attacks in the Washington, D.C. area. Army Veteran Guilty in Sniper Case the 42-year-old Arm y veteran The jury deliberated for 6 1/2 should get the death penalty Orlife hours- <fver two days before con victing Vluhammad of two counts in prison. “We reserve the death penalty of capital murder. One accused him for the worst of the worst,” pros of taking part in multiple murders, ecutor Richard Conway told the the other - the result of a post-Sept. (AP) — In a verdict that could jurors. "Folks, he still sits right in 11 terrorism law - alleged the kill cost him his life, a stone-faced John front of you without a shred of ings were designed to terrorize the Allen Muhammad was convicted remorse.” population. Muhammad is the first Monday of using a high-powered Muhammad stood impassively person tried under the Virginia law. rifle, a beat-up car and a teenage as the verdict was read, looking Muhammad was found guilty of sidekick to murder people at ran straight ahead with the same enig killing Dean Harold Meyers, a Viet dom and terrorize the Washington matic look he had throughout the nam veteran who was cut down by area during last year's sniper at trial. Two jurors held hands, and a single bullet that hit him in the tacks. two others wept. Family members head on Oct. 9,2002, as he filled his The Virginia jury immediately of victims held hands and wiped continued y ^ on page A5 began hearing evidence on whether away tears. Faces death for multiple murders and terrorism Starting in 2004, we will be taking a more com prehensive look at how a student comes to OSU. I bis approach will help us improve the future OSll community as well as ensure your individual success. 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