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'fiih Your No. 202 101)8 Wisconsin Sialr Journal Wisconsin TATE JOURNAL 'Ulysses' voted best novel 'Gatsby' places second on list of top 100 of the century SPORTSIB Squaring off over free speech? Crash kills parents; baby fights to survive Dodge County accident also fatal to other driver ately touched off debate about who made the list, who didn't and who ranked where. "We tried to pick books that were of great merit and proven over time," said board chairman Christopher Cerf. The Modern Library is a divi White Holmgren The top 100 novels3A sion of Random House that has published classic nationalism. The explicit language and stream of consciousness prose resulted in the book's ban in many countries, including Ireland and the United States, when it was -published in 1922.

The voting panel consisted of Cerf; Daniel J. Boorstin, a former librarian of the Library of Con-gress; English novelist AS. historians Shelby Foote, EdmuncD Morris, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and. John Richardson; Vartan Grego- rian, head of the Carnegie Corpor-; ation; and American authors Gore Vidal and William Styron.

Byatt was the only woman on Z-the judging panel; there were no blacks. By Ula llnytzky Associated Press NEW YORK James Joyce's "Ulysses," the epic story about one man's journey during a single day in Dublin, Ireland, has been unanimously selected by a panel of scholars and writers as the best English-language novel of the century. F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" was second, and Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" was third. The selections announced Monday by the Modern Library's editorial board were generally older, recognized classics.

They immedi Spice Girls-Hanson daybreak concert can be rannnnn. a family affair tFiMydfl tLY literature since 1917, but Cerf said novels were chosen regardless of publisher. "Ulysses" takes place on June 16, 1904, when a Jewish cuckold named Leopold Bloom went wandering around his native city. In the epic, Joyce ranges from religion and adultery to literature and Coming soon to Milwaukee FOCUS: REROUTED By Richard W. Jaeger Regional reporter Five-month-old Ian Carlson, orphaned in a Dodge County traffic accident Sunday night, clung to life Monday at University Hospital in Madison.

The baby is in critical condition with injuries received in a Sunday night car crash that killed his parents, John E. Carlson, 32, and Jayme S. Carlson, 31, west of Columbus. The family was reportedly returning home to Illinois after visiting John Carlson's parents at their cottage in Green Lake. The couple died after a 1996 Mustang driven by Michael Bork, 44, of Columbus, crossed the center line on Highway 73, hitting the Carlsons' 1998 Buick head-on, authorities said.

They were pronounced dead at the scene. Bork also died at the scene after his vehicle burst into flames. Authorities believe Bork had been drinking. M6E may cut some -r Lm I III I I 4 1111. 4.

i 'I it'-- -r el air centr Ian was taken to Madison by Med Flight All of the Carlsons were wearing their seat belts, in vestigators said. info oue Jayme Carlsons parents were also en route to Illinois from Green Lake at the same time as the Carlsons and were notified late Sunday of the accident They were reportedly at University Hospital with the infant Monday. John Carlson's parents were notified in Green Lake. ft The deaths shocked residents in the neighborhood in Aurora, 111., where the Carlsons lived. There was no one at the Carlson home Monday afternoon when an it.

Aurora reporter visited the large, single-family house in an upscale Volunteers could lose cooling units for hours By Judy Newman Business reporter The searing heat wave engulfing much of the nation brought Denver to the verge of rolling blackouts Monday and cut electricity to dozens of big businesses in Southern Wisconsin. In Madison, thousands of residents are on standby today for a steamy afternoon with no air conditioning. For the first time since it was initiated in 1991, Madison Gas and Electric is poised to activate its Power Control program. With the press of a button, a radio signal flips off central air conditioner compressors at homes signed up for the voluntary program. As many as 16,500 homes could be left to bake in the heat for some period between noon and 7 p.m.

today, MGE spokesman Steve Kraus said. In return, participants will get $8 Slate Journal pholoSTEVE APPS Kelly Miller of Madison talks to Madison Metro's Dave Eveland get home from East High School. "This is so crazy," she said, about the new bus routes at the North Transfer Point at Huxley Madison Metro plans to have staff on hand for up to two weeks to Street and Aberg Avenue. Miller took two buses and an hour to help riders negotiate the new routes. going? mi winere you credit on their next bill for every hour their air conditioners are silenced.

"Will people be uncomfortable? Yes, sure," said Kraus. "But it helps main neighborhood of the far western suburb of Chicago. Neighbor Elroya Brown said the Carlsons had been living in their two-story tan house for about a year and called them "a wonderful family." "I've got goose pimples," Brown said, upon hearing of the accident "I'd see them mowing the lawn and walking the dog," she said. She said the Carlsons proudly brought Ian home from the hospital a few months ago. "I was tickled for them," Brown added.

Diana Haesler, another neighbor described the young couple as "generous people" who allowed some of their neighbors to use some of their yard for a gardea "I just saw her over the weekend doing yard work and holding the baby," Haesler said. She described them as professional people just starting out with a family. 'They were really nice, always friendly," Haesler said. Aurora, a city of more than 120,000, is just south of Interstate 88, west of Chicago. The Beacon-News of Aurora contributed to this report.

POWER ALERT tain integrity of the system." take a bus Downtown to go between her home on the far East Side and La Follette High School. Instead, she transfers at the East Transfer Point near Woodman's East But getting to the UW-Madison for a summer research class is more difficult, involving two buses rather than one, Fowler said. Monday's confusion was eased by Madison Metro drivers and staff dressed in red shirts who stood by at each transfer point and on the Square to help passengers. Each bus also had boxes of ride guides and route maps, which were getting heavy use by passengers. "There's a few excited people.

But all in all, I'd say it's going good," said Bill Roeth, a Madison Metro driver working Downtown to direct riders. "Most people investigated their trip beforehand. But some didn't" Riders also were taking it upon themselves to help their fellow travelers. At a Downtown bus stop, one man was furiously trying to help another passenger Please see BUSES, Page 4A Crossen as she drove the No. 7 route, which stops at West Towne Mall.

As she drove past a group of teen-agers at the mall, Crossen wheeled back, realizing the route they hoped to take probably had been eliminated. "You can't get there from here anymore," Crossen confirmed, looking at her map. "Better get on with me and I'll take you over to the transfer station." For the first time in recent memory, Madison Metro now has numbered routes, not letters. And for the first time in its history, not all Madison Metro routes converge on the Capitol Square. A growing number of riders no longer need or want to go Downtown, said Julie Maryott-Walsh, spokeswoman for Madison Metro.

"Madison has grown significantly over the past 20 years," she said. "More housing and more shopping and more employment has occurred on the periphery. People's travel patterns have changed." The new routes are a mixed blessing for Sara Fowler, a La Follette High School junior. She no longer needs to Lots of riders didn't as city's bus system gets major tuneup By Dee J. Hall, Phil Brinkman and Valeria Davis-Humphrey Wisconsin State Journal It was a day of confusion, consternation, humor and humanitarianism Monday as Madison Metro riders tried for the first time to navigate changes in the city's bus system.

Although the new routes actually began Sunday, it was the Monday morning commuters who put the system to its first big test Even some Madison Metro drivers were confounded by the routes, which now revolve around four hubs or transfer points in Madison. "It's a learning experience for everyone," said Madison Metro driver Linda A resident whose air conditioning is disconnected for five hours, for example, will be credited $40. That's comparable to the price of the average electric bill for an entire month of $41. MGE also is "almost certain" to pull the plug today on 26 big businesses with interruptible contracts. They have agreed to be taken off line during peak times in exchange for lower electric bills.

Together, those programs save up to 53 megawatts of electricity, enough to keep the lights on for another 20,000 customers, Kraus said. Power plant outages in Illinois, Michigan and Minnesota are aggravating high electricity demand because of the hot, humid weather. MGE will decide by noon if it will make a public appeal for residents to use less electricity. "We still want people to be conscious about conserving," Kraus said. Alliant-Wisconsin Power Light Co.

of Madison turned off its 69 interruptible customers Monday, saving 127 megawatts. Businesses on the program were Please see POWER, Page 3A Site Of I Beaver i Mftk if nam I "i COLUMBIA CO. Columbus OANECO. DODGE CO. i SSL JEFFERSON CO Madison woman's killer gets life in prison WSJ graphic INDEX Judge says no parole ever for Sanchez-Diaz S4 i r.

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Public defender Jon Helland made no recommendation for parole eligibility. Rather, he portrayed his client's difficult life: a Cuban refugee who learned early to hate authority and came to Wisconsin via the 1980 Mariel boatlift, who suffers a seizure-causing brain tumor and slid into a world of drug abuse. "The portrayal of Ramon as a monster for his whole life, that simply isn't true," Helland said. Calling Sanchez-Diaz "a smart, dangerous predator," prosecutor Judy Gundersen urged the judge to deny parole eligibility. Kern's murder was so brutal and violent, Gundersen said, "it's hard to imagine the horror and the terror this woman experienced in the last moments of her life." Kern, a tiny woman with severe mental illness who was his neighbor on Todd Drive.

A juror said afterward that he was convicted mostly on the strength of fingerprint and DNA evidence found in Kern's home. O'Brien said she found most chilling evidence that a meal as eaten after Kern was murdered. "It showed a shocking lack of respect for the dignity of human life." Jesse Kern, one of Dorothy's two sons, praised Dane County sheriffs detectives for their handling of the investigation. He thanked the four women who testified at the trial that Sanchez-Diaz had raped them "who relived their ordeals with this maa" Almost spitting out the words. Kern said that not a day passes when he doesn't think about "this man coming into my mother's apartment and strangling the life out of her." Sanchez-Diaz loudly and angrily insisted he is innocent "It's ail lies and lies and lies.

I did not kill this woman. As simple as that I did not kill Dorothy Kern." Liberal ith obscenities, he called the po Today: Mostly sunny. High 92. Winds: 10-20 mph. Tonight: Hot and humid.

Low 66. Detailsback page BB 2C 7B -6A -7A 8A -2D 5B 1B Last summer, 65-year-old Dorothy Kern was choked and beaten to death in her Madison apartment She was sexually assaulted, and the few possessions in her South Side efficiency were trashed. On Monday, her killer, 34-year-old Ramon Sanchez-Diaz, was sent to prison for the rest of his life "I really don't think it will ever be safe for him to be in society again." said Dane County Circuit Judge Sarah O'Brien, ordering that he never be eligible for parole. In February, a jury convicted Sanchez-Diaz of the first-degree intentional homicide and second-degree sexual assault of Movies Mutual Obituaries-Opinion People Records Scoreboard. Sports State Jouma1 pOola JOSEPH JACKSON At his sentencing Monday, Ramon Sanchez-Diaz, left said he's being sentenced for a murder he didn't commit "How em I supposed to feel remorse for torn thing I have not done? How, fudge, how?" Seated next to him is public defender Jon Helland.

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