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ISA SUNDAY, September 21, 2003 ODESSA AMERICAN Tirigo dances bacE( onto popularscrtp CHICAGO (AP) The music had barely flowed out of the portable speaker in the square when Ed Pamintuan whisked his wife, Cindy, onto the cobble- Chicago's northwest side. Held in rented halls, parks, dance studios and restaurants from Seattle to Boston, such events are fueling a slow but steadily growing appetite for the century-old tango. After watching the Broadway show "Forever Tango," the Pamintuans quickly tapped into the network of dance parties weekly or monthly affairs organized by dance studios, clubs or those with tango fever. The couple tango twice a week in Chicago and sometimes drive to Milwaukee monthly to dance. Often they drop by a milonga when visit ing other cities, such as Los Angeles or Toronto.

On the same night the couple danced in Chicago, dozens goed under a white tent on New York's Pier 63 and at a VFW hall in Cambridge, Mass. "People are addicted to it; you can't stay away," said Reba Perez, who owns -Empire Dance studio in New York and hosted the milonga held on a metal barge docked at Pier 63. "Tango has been pretty steady, going strong." Tango began over a century ago in the bars and brothels of Buenos Aires after European immigrants arrived there on wooden sailing ships. a Reviving a dance associated with their parents and grandparents, the couple tangoed into the night even after the nearby cafe had closed, onlookers had gone home and others had petered out "When I dance, it's just the music, my partner and nothing else," said Cindy Pamintuan, 54, who steps out in black suede heels each week to attend a tango dance party, called a "milonga," on AP PHOTO Tango partners Mary Foley, middle right, and Tom Aksoy dance during an Argentine outdoor tango party known as a 'milonga', in this photo in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of Chicago. Central Florida diocese rejects decision to allow a gay bishop 334-C418 301 II.

Grent ISM. Sol. to 6:00 Downtown Odessa I 889 334-0418Metro: 580-0418 W.lcr saiuwm IB ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) The Episcopal Diocese of Central Florida voted Saturday to repudiate a decision by the denomination's national convention to confirm a gay man as bishop. The central Florida diocese also rejected a decision by the General Convention that said same-sex blessing ceremonies are consistent with church teachings.

Other dioceses have rejected the decision to approve Gene Robinson of New Hampshire as a bishop, but the central Florida diocese was the first to do so in a formal diocesan convention after a vote involving several hundred delegates. The 400 clergy and lay delegates also voted to ask the world's Anglican leaders, or primates, to intervene during a meeting next month to be held by the Archbishop of Canterbury. "We don't accept those decisions. We distance ourselves from them," Bishop John Howe said. usy wayi to charge 8e HaMi EspaAol JHWHI Tm of Psttonr in rrocK $199 1 mm q.yo.

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Photographs of Polk, whose hobby was modeling, lay on the family kitchen table, near a vase of pink roses. The teens' bodies were discovered shortly before noon Wednesday in Prince's car in a parking lot across from Christian County High School. A revolver used in the shootings was found in the car, police said. Police released no information about a possible motive. NYSE board looks for replacement NEW YORK (AP) The New York Stock Exchange's directors launched a search for a new leader and discussed reforms, including a bold proposal calling for all Wall Street insiders to step down from the board.

In its first step since forcing chairman and chief executive; Oick Grasso to resign over a pay scandal, the board on Friday named Laurence FiiuVitaSO of investment group jBlackRock to lead a search committee for a replacement Former U.S. Secretary of1 State Madeleine K. Albright was among others selected to the search committee. The; NYSE's directors are considering sweeping changes following the uproar over Grasso's lavish compensation. Foremost among them is a suggestion by Goldman Sachs CEQ Henry M.

Paulson Jr. to address conflict of interest issues by excluding those affiliated with regulated companies from the board. Court throws out death sentence ST. LOUIS (AP) A federal appeals, court overthrew one of two death sentences for a convicted killer, ruling that jurors were wrongly blocked from considering a letter written on the man's behalf. Vernon Brown will remain on death row for the other capital sentence.

A panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 ruling Friday declared the penalty phase of Brown's 1991 trial for the slaying of a 19-year-old woman as "fatally flawed." For 1 5vears in Odessa. uiMfloa novum J- We ve grown from the 4 Smallest to one of the NO WAX largest Carpet Ceramic Floor Tile Dealers in CEimmic Floor Tile PHCIS STAKT AT Cttiamwkl Qwalily Compute limit Swpprtecl lafmUjf lJ West Texas. Vinyl Flooring ,0 sq.ft. 17Widt Established Sept.

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