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The Dole Institute of Politics, 2350 Petefish Drive, held a naturalization ceremony on Friday in honor of Constitution Day and Citizenship Day. Ninety-one people from 38 countries were naturalized at the ceremony.
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Karen Hough admits that her career has taken some improbable turns. After graduating from Lawrence High School in 1985, she studied improvisational theater at Yale University. She later got I’m highly the chance to hone her collaborative. skills with I know how C h i c a g o ’ s to think of famed Second City new ideas. t h e a t e r I manage c o m p a n y , stuff when and was having a everything successful goes wrong. career in And those are film, tele- the behaviors vision, radio and the of improv.” stage. “So here — Karen Hough, we are, a author and speaker liberal arts educated actor, and you get several years down the road and have a fantastic career, and you marry this awesome guy and move to New York, and he’s a banker so you never see him,” she said. “And so you go, ‘You know what, I’m ready for a new challenge. I think I’ll go into I.T.’” Amazingly, Hough said, she actually got a job with a tech firm, even though she had no training, education or experience in that field. But she excelled, she said, because she always worked by the principles of improvisational acting, where the challenge is to accept any premise that’s handed to you, no matter how absurd, and use creativity to build on it and turn it into something entertaining. She is now a best-selling author and professional speaker whose consulting firm, ImprovEdge, brings the tools and techniques of improv acting to business and industry, helping them become more creative and innovative. Hough returned to Lawrence Friday as the keynote speaker at the annual community breakfast for the Lawrence Schools Foundation,
Investigation alleges he knocked down, punched resident By Conrad Swanson cswanson@ljworld.com
A Lawrence police officer swept the legs out from an uncooperative man and punched him in the face as many as four times during an August arrest, an investigation concluded. At a news conference Friday, Douglas County District Attorney Charles Branson said a single misdemeanor charge of battery has been filed against Frank Mc- McClelland Clelland, who is no longer a Lawrence police officer. On Aug. 16 an officer was dispatched to the 1900 block of 19th Street for a report of two men fighting, Branson said. Unable to separate the men, the officer used pepper spray and called for backup. McClelland was the next officer to arrive on the scene. One of the men “refused to comply with Officer McClelland’s request to sit on the sidewalk,” Branson said. “Officer McClelland approached (the man) with a leg-sweep maneuver and placed (him) on the ground and proceeded to strike (him) in the face up to four times with a closed fist.”
Above: Mamta Malhotra Bindra, of Manhattan, raises her right hand and swears an oath to the United States while holding her daughter Shreeha, 2, during the ceremony. Bindra is originally from Nepal. Right: Newly naturalized citizens line up to recieve a certificate and shake the hand of Judge John Lungstrum.
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