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Gtyf omly ®ar Mwl Driving Back in Time: A Trip in Cinema History By Sherifa Meguid Staff Writer Park your car as close to the screen as you desire. Sit on the hood or open the hatchback. Relax, lay back and enjoy the show. If you want to see a movie the way people did in the ’sos, the Starlite Drive-in is the only place left in the Triangle. While most drive-in theaters are close to extinc tion, the Starlite is still showing both new releases and pictures dating back to the late ’4os. Only five drive-ins are left in the entire state. Hamburgers, onion rings, Close To Home A \ J _L_ candy, popcorn, cotton candy, cappuc cino and hot chocolate are just some of the concession stand items customers snack on while watching a movie. Micah Spalding, a Durham resident, bought a snack before watching Martin Lawrence’s “Blue Streak” with his girl friend. “I like the laid-back atmos phere. I can smoke a cigarette in my car,” Spalding said. “When it warms up it’s the spot.” This Halloween, the theater showed “The Blair Witch Project.” In the past patrons have watched a variety of films including “The Wizard of Oz,” “Runaway Bride,” “Star Wars” and “Rocky Horror Picture Show.” One of the most well-received Judge Admits Lack of Faith in Gates Associated Press WASHINGTON - The judge behind the blistering ruling against the Microsoft Corp. didn’t question the hon esty of Bill Gates outright, but he reject ed almost every explanation of events offered under oath by the world’s most fanjous billionaire. The lack of faith that U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfieldjackson showed in Microsoft’s trustworthiness could hurt chances for a less severe punishment - oj- even for a settlement offer - that relied on a company pledge of some future behavior toward rivals in the technology industry. * Once the judge determines which antitrust laws Microsoft broke, he could order punishments as severe as breaking up the company unless a settlement is reached, which many lawyers and ana lysts consider unlikely. “ Investors showed they weren’t ready to abandon Microsoft on Monday. In vfcry heavy trading - about five times tfte average for the company - shares ROBBERIES : From Page 3 Sunday and charged him with armed robbery and possession of drug para phernalia after attempting to rob a man at knife point in front of the Harris Teeter Supermarket at Carrmill Mall at 310 N. Greensboro St. ; According to police reports, Lever threatened the man with a pocketknife aftd demanded money. 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It’s like the circus, once you join you can’t leave,” Groves said. “I quit a couple of times, but l always go back to it.” Fourteen years ago, Groves got the opportunity to work for Piedmont Theaters in Charlotte, Greensboro and Wilson. He ran the other two drive-ins in the Triangle - Midway and Forest. The company decided to get greedy and sell the other two off, Groves said. Back then the Starlite showed X rated films, but it changed back to reg ular movies when Groves became the owner 15 years ago. The drive-in is open seven days a week in the summer, Groves said. Though the drive-in was open all year last year, its schedule really depended on mother nature, Bednarz said. In 1997, the drive-in closed from November to April. “The first few years we just about went under,” Groves said. Groves said the majority of their profits came from the concession stand. But because the bills kept com ing in during the winter months, the couple had to find alternate sources of fell to $83.50 but then recovered to $89.93, down just $1.62 from last week’s close. The judge, in his antitrust fact-finding statement on Friday, embraced the gov ernment’s version of key events and Microsoft’s motivations. In one of its most sensational claims during the lawsuit, the Justice Department said Microsoft quietly met with software rival Netscape to illegally divide the market, a charge Gates him self called “an outrageous lie.” The judge called the offer “an effort to persuade Netscape to structure its business such that the company would not distribute platform-level browsing software for Windows.” He didn’t buy Microsoft’s version of events throughout his ruling. “That’s the implication,” said Robert Litan, a former senior Justice official now at the Brookings Institution. “He didn’t come out and say it, but if you read between the lines, that’s certainly what he ended up deciding.” “It’s clear he didn’t think they had was in possession of a crack pipe. “He was pulled over shortly after the incident in front of Town Hall,” Capt. Booker said. “The vehicle matched the description given to the police by the victim.” According to police reports, a pock etknife was found in the glove compart ment of the car and the victim positive ly identified the suspect. Booker said warrants were pending against the driver of the car who fled the scene with Lever. The City Editor can be reached at citydesk@unc.edu. . - • m •, - ; v ■ BBB§|j DTH/JEFF POULAND Cars pass by the Starlite Drive-In, one of the last remaining drive-in theatres in the area. Owner Robert Groves said drive-ins were dying on the East Coast but were still popular in California where the weather was better. income to supplement ticket sales. A flea market has operated on the Starlite property on the weekends since before Groves became the owner. People rent spaces to sell any thing but prepared food, Groves said. They also opened a small video club housed in the same building as the much (credibility),” agreed Marc Schildkraut, a former Federal Trade Commission official who questioned Gates during negotiations with Microsoft in the early 1990s in the FTC’s antitrust investigation. “The find ings are very one-sided. It’s a tough row for them to hoe on that ground.” Throughout Microsoft’s case, state ments by Gates and others outside the courtroom seemed at times to contradict their legal claims. Stephen Houck, the lead lawyer for the 19 states joining Justice in suing Microsoft, said the com pany suffered from the problem of “the doggoned witness.” “They encountered three problems: their own witnesses, their own exhibits and their own client, Mr. Gates,” Houck said in closing arguments. Microsoft trial attorneys, for example, said the company’s Web browser was inextricably intertwined within Windows, but other company lawyers wrote for an obscure patent last year that “a Web browser ... is separate from the operating system.” mwm shorts aat Carolina... Volleyball vs. Maryland 7:OOpm at Carmichael Auditorium a Free Nike T-shirts to the first 200 students! Hardees Students & Faculty Admitted FREE w/ID! Meet the Author Dean Smith Signing Friday, November 12th 12:30* 1:30 PM Fat thirty six years, the University of North CaroUm unci iVon Smith had a peerless ' w.nmr.aest college * basketball c hof nil time (with o record of the '■■l *fkn hr r-HTt Meet ■ ;:; - Dean Smith when he signs copies of the story \ " ] of his success, A Coach's Life. \ 0 'L BARNES&NOBLE shop online at bno or visit our stores 1 FOR INFORMATION ON DAILY EVENTS, VISIT OUR STORE & EVENTS LOCATOR ONLINE AT bn.com I News concession stand. Several customers kept asking where they could buy guns, so Groves applied for a Federal Firearms License as a way to boost his earnings. Blacky, a large German shepherd, guards the gun shop and greets cus tomers coming in for a snack. DYSON From Page 3 issue. “(The students) showed up speak ing ebonies,” he said. They did not need to learn it, he said. “Speaking ebonies isn’t a problem,” he said. “It’s a problem if you want to get a job at Texaco.” Dyson emphatically dismissed the current idea that race no longer mat tered. Only in recognizing beliefs on race could society truly discuss and then reshape racial norms, he said. Dyson said people should move beyond integrating American society to interacting in society. “Integration is a vehicle for a larger end - not an end to itself,” he said. “That end is racial justice.” Like integration, affirmative action was also a means, Dyson said. “Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X didn’t die for affirmative action.” Despite his criticism, Dyson said racial change could occur. “We’ve got to learn to embrace one another.” The University Editor can be reached at udesk@unc.edu. The Starlite attracts customers of all ages and most of the business comes from repeat customers, Groves said. The drive-in is located off Interstate 85 on East Club Boulevard. The Features Editor can be reached at features@unc.edu. Interested in j jAj Jj Uj L'Jj New York Jobs ?SP In Advertising, Publishing, \J| Public Relations, Non-Profit, i Legal or Social Science \l ■ Research, Arts, etc? 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He said it was important to make sure the intervention was focused on the individual student’s weaknesses, instead of implementing a generalized solution to all students. Parents would also have to participate in the intervention to bring their child up to grade level. “Parents are critical to this whole process,” he said. Pittman said the new standards aimed to do away with social promotion - the passing of students not meeting grade level requirements. Pittman said some parents and teach ers worried that teachers would begin to focus too much on merely preparing students for state exams. But Pittman said he was not con cerned because the standards simply set a statewide curriculum that would pro vide a basis for the testing. But some local teachers, such as Mary Clayton, the English-language arts coordinator for Chapel Hdl- Carrboro City Schools, support the standards. “I think you can be very creative and have a wonderful classroom, and teach the state curriculum,” she said. Elsie Leak, director of school improvement for the N.C. Board of Education, said teachers and students who already met the standards would also benefit from the new program. “As teachers get more proficient in diagnosing and intervening, it will help students across the board." The State & National Editor can be reached at stntdesk@unc.edu. 9
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