Jane Finds It Ain't Easy to Shed Past

Now that she's Mrs. Ted Turner, Jane Fonda might think she'sdumped her radical past. But a new book rehashes all the '60s dirt,plus adds a few new wrinkles. Former Newsweek White Housecorrespondent Porter Bibb's It Ain't As Easy As it Looks, out thisfall, reveals Fonda was heavily influenced by the politics of VanessaRedgrave, as well as her first husband, French director Roger Vadim.

Redgrave was such a big influence, Fonda named her daughter,born in 1968, Vanessa.

Bibb's book also points out Vadim and Fonda had an open marriageand even tells a tale about Jane turning up for dinner while incollege wearing pearls, high heels and . . . nothing else.

Bibb …

Smith finds Sundance buyer for new film _ himself

PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Kevin Smith has premiered his latest movie at the Sundance Film Festival and sold it to the highest bidder — himself, for $20.

Smith had indicated he would auction off distribution rights to his fundamentalist horror film "Red State" after its Sundance premiere Sunday night, and he brought up the movie's producer, Jonathan Gordon, to handle the …

Wednesday's Champions League Results

(Home teams listed first)

Quarterfinals

Second Leg

Manchester United (England) 3, Bayern Munich …

GOP wooing Keyes to take on Obama Ex-presidential hopeful lives in Maryland but open to running here

Barack Obama might get a race, after all.

Former GOP presidential candidate Alan Keyes told IllinoisRepublicans Monday that he is "open to the idea" of taking on theDemocrat in the U.S. Senate race -- a move that would pit twoeloquent, nationally known African Americans against one another.

"It would be a classic race of conservative vs. liberal," saidstate Sen. Dave Syverson, a member of the panel looking for acandidate to go up against Obama. "It would put this race on the mapin this country -- just for excitement."

Syverson spoke to Keyes several times Monday and said Keyes didnot commit to making the run. The former State Department officialand radio and …

The three roles of assessment: gatekeeping, accountability, and instructional diagnosis

External assessment began as an imposed activity to provide quality control for a process. This gatekeeping role has a norm-referenced focus. A second role, ensuring accountability, emerged to judge the quality of education, an activity that has remained essentially norm-referenced. A third role, instructional diagnosis, is a recent phenomenon driven by the need to improve education and to provide educational, not political, justification. Traced from a measurement perspective, two requirements must be met for external assessment to yield instructionally diagnostic information: a reconceptualization of reliability, and development of more detailed and facilitative mechanisms for test …

No. 5 LSU holds off Mississippi St., 34-24

LSU's answer to avoiding this week's upset bug was to hand it off to Charles Scott.

Scott surpassed 100 yards rushing for a fourth straight game and punched in two short touchdowns, leading No. 5 LSU to a 34-24 victory over Mississippi State on Saturday night.

The Bulldogs turned in a feisty performance in a bid to add another surprising result to a week highlighted by upsets of No. 1 Southern California and No. 4 Florida, Mississippi State trailed by only 10 well into the fourth quarter.

But Scott's 27 carries for 141 yards kept LSU (4-0, 2-0 Southeastern Conference) moving and the clock rolling.

Jarrett Lee, who went the whole way with …

Church had reason to be grateful to cider-maker

Cider helped keep a roof over a church 30 years ago in RodneyStoke. A cider-making demonstration even attracted visitors fromExeter to Richard Drane's Manor Farm in 1980.

The owner enlisted the help of retired master cider-maker ArthurSealey to entertain 300 people.

Aided by sons Robert and Richard and the help of Eddie Moore, thecider-maker pressed 150 gallons of apple juice.

The occasion turned into a fundraising event for roof repairs atSt Leonard's Church in the village.

Among displays were samples of cider apples including the StokeRed, developed by …