<span class="R~sep~ACopyBody">The front page of the Wednesday, Sept. 14, edition of the</span> <span style="font-style: italic;" class="R~sep~ACopyBody">American Press</span> <span class="R~sep~ACopyBody">featured two photographs of large spherical structures being built as part of Sasol’s multibillion-dollar expansion project.</span>

<span class="R~sep~ACopyBody">That evening a reader emailed The Informer two images, along with a question.</span>

<span class="R~sep~ACopyBody">One image was a photograph of one of the</span> <span style="font-style: italic;" class="R~sep~ACopyBody">Press</span> <span class="R~sep~ACopyBody">pictures, and the other — showing spherical spaceships in flight — was a still of the Battle of Geonosis from the film “Star Wars: Episode II — Attack of the Clones.”</span>

<span class="R~sep~ACopyBody">“Is Sasol connected to the Trade Federation?” the reader wrote. “No really what are the round tanks for?”</span>

<span class="R~sep~ACopyBody">During the Clone Wars, the Trade Federation — owner of the spherical space vessels, called core ships — was allied with the Confederacy of Independent Systems, or Separatist Alliance, which, through the machinations of Sith lord Darth Sidious, seceded from the Galactic Republic.</span>

<span class="R~sep~ACopyBody">Sasol’s chemical complex, which is half finished and covers 400 acres, will comprise an ethane cracker, two polymer plants, an ethylene oxide-ethylene glycol plant and three derivative plants. Sasol spokeswoman Kim Cusimano said the spherical tanks “will be used for product storage.”</span>

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<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="R~sep~ACopyEditors~sep~endnote">Online:</span> <span class="R~sep~ACopyEditors~sep~endnote">http://starwars.wikia.com; www.sasol.com.</span>

<span class="R~sep~AHeadBrief">LSU: Mike the Tiger to remain in habitat</span>

<span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: ‘Lucida Sans’;" class="R~sep~ACopyBody">How is Mike the Tiger getting along after his surgery?</span>

<span class="R~sep~ACopyBody">Louisiana State University announced earlier this month that Mike is doing fine, but that he will remain in his habitat for home games this season.</span>

<span class="R~sep~ACopyBody">“On June 1, 2016, Mike VI received stereotactic radiotherapy at the Mary Bird Perkins – Our Lady of the Lake Cancer Center in Baton Rouge, La., for spindle cell sarcoma. It appears that the tumor in Mike’s face responded to the radiation treatment and has shrunk in size,” reads a news release issued Sept. 6.</span>

<span class="R~sep~ACopyBody">“Mike’s attitude, weight and appetite are normal, and he does not appear to be in any pain. Eventually, the radiation-resistant cells remaining in the tumor will resume growth. As for time frames, it is estimated that without treatment Mike would have lived for just one or two months; with treatment, perhaps one to two years.”</span>

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<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="R~sep~ACopyEditors~sep~endnote">Online:</span> <span class="R~sep~ACopyEditors~sep~endnote">www.lsu.edu/miketiger.</span>

<span class="R~sep~AHeadBrief">Law license rumor has sliver of truth</span>

<span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: ‘Lucida Sans’;" class="R~sep~ACopyBody">I know both Clintons, Bill and Hillary, are law school graduates of Yale. I have heard they have both been disbarred. If so, what was the reason?</span>

<span class="R~sep~ACopyBody">Bill Clinton agreed to have his license to practice law in Arkansas suspended for five years in 2001 after he admitted lying about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky during questioning in the Paula Jones sexual harassment lawsuit.</span>

<span class="R~sep~ACopyBody">Later that year, the U.S. Supreme Court suspended his permission to practice there. Rule 8 of the high court’s rule book:</span>

<span class="R~sep~ACopyInfoBox">“Whenever a member of the Bar of this Court has been disbarred or suspended from practice in any court of record, or has engaged in conduct unbecoming a member of the Bar of this Court, the Court will enter an order suspending that member from practice before this Court and affording the member an opportunity to show cause, within 40 days, why a disbarment order should not be entered. Upon response, or if no response is timely filed, the Court will enter an ap?propriate order.”</span>

<span class="R~sep~ACopyBody">He resigned from the Supreme Court bar a month or so later, before the court issued an order.</span>

<span class="R~sep~ACopyBody">Hillary Clinton hasn’t been disbarred; her Arkansas law license was suspended in 2002 — amid her term as a U.S. senator for New York — because she failed to meet a continuing legal education requirement.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="R~sep~ACopyEditors~sep~endnote">Online:</span> <span class="R~sep~ACopyEditors~sep~endnote">https://courts.arkansas.gov; www.snopes.com.</span>

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