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By COLETTE BANCROFT
Published November 13, 2006
SEND THESE KIDS STRAIGHT TO WASHINGTON USF St. Petersburg hosts a refreshingly different kind of college bowl game Saturday: the Southeast Regional Ethics Bowl. Teams from 20 colleges will debate ethical issues in everything from politics to pop culture, with winners going on to national competition. It's co-sponsored by USF, St. Petersburg College and Eckerd College, and open to the public in Davis Hall and Steidinger Auditorium, 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Too bad he didn't study ethics Having arguably helped Republicans lose both houses of Congress, lobbyist Jack Abramoff is scheduled to turn himself in Wednesday to begin serving a six-year sentence for fraud in a Florida case. Two days later, he is likely to be sentenced for a corruption conviction in Washington, D.C. Federal prosecutors want him in a nearby prison so he can continue to dish the dirt for an undisclosed number of ongoing investigations. They can't make this stuff up Truth is at least as strange as fiction, as five bestselling crime novelists will explain in Court TV's new series Murder by the Book. Premiering tonight at 10, the show features James Ellroy, Michael Connelly, Faye Kellerman, Jonathan Kellerman and Lisa Scottoline in one-hour documentaries about gripping real-life murders. Some new players in this game The U.S. Senate convenes today, probably still a little stunned by all the membership changes it will see in January. Among the more interesting hearings scheduled this week is a report before the Armed Services Committee Wednesday on the current situation in Iraq and Afghanistan. Celebratory cake and so much more Our birthday boy and girls are celebrating other things this week, too. On Thursday, actor Maggie Gyllenhall, who stars in the hit movie Stranger Than Fiction, will be 29; jazz chanteuse Diana Krall turns 42 and has a terrific new CD, From This Moment On and next month she and husband Elvis Costello will celebrate the birth of their twins. On Friday, Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean turns 58, and you know what else he's celebrating. By Colette Bancroft, Times staff writer, (727) 893-8435 or bancroft@sptimes.com.
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