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Pro-life protest marches on Washington A 12-hour bus trip from South Bend, Ind. culminated yesterday when more than 230 students joined the March for Life yesterday | Page 3

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A man is facing jailtime after he was discovered with 93 pounds (1,613 pairs) of women’s underwear allegedly taken from laudromats | Page 11

Suicide bomber targets high school in Baghdad One of two attacks near high schools yesterday, the bombing may represent a shift in al-Qaida strategy to undermine public confidence | Page 9

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Dem. debate caters to quarrel

Columnist Sean Lutzman explains that the debate focused less on the issues and more on the bickering between Clinton and Obama | Page 4

No bail for bad borrowers

Irresponsible mortgage owners are causing a housing crisis, says columnist Sean Martin | Page 4

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Falcons drop conference game to Miami 63-60 Fall to RedHawks for first time since 2004 leaves the team with a record of 15-4 | Page 7

What’s your best excuse for not exercising?

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Scholar speaks on Narnia knowledge By Gina Potthoff Assistant Campus Editor

C.S. Lewis couldn’t hide the secret of “The Chronicles of Narnia” from Michael Ward. For years scholars have been trying to uncover the underlying theme connecting the seven children’s novels written by Lewis, the first of which was published in 1950. While others have suggested the seven deadly sins or even the seven Catholic sacraments, Ward, an author, Anglican priest and scholar from Cambridge

Veteran returns to run for Congress By Tim Sampson City Editor

When Scott Radcliffe returned home from his second military tour in Iraq last month, it was time for him to find a job. The first one he applied for? United States Congressman. Radcliffe is seeking the Republican nomination for Ohio’s 5th district congressional seat, calling his bid for office an extension of his service. It’s an ambition that has been with Radcliffe since he was in sixth grade. His teacher went around the room one day predicting the future careers of each of her students. When she got to Radcliffe she pointed at him and simply said, “Congressman,” a prediction he was not particularly excited about. “I’d heard some not-so-good things about these political people,” Radcliffe said. “And it was like, ‘Who? Me?’” But his teacher’s prediction stayed in the back of Radcliffe’s mind as he went on to graduate from Perrysburg High School and West Point Academy. It also stayed with him while serving five years in the army. Radcliffe’s opportunity to seek office came out of the blue last September, following the death of U.S. Representative Paul Gillmor. But Radcliffe was still stationed in Iraq when candidates filled for the special election to replace Gillmor. The 28-year-old Radcliffe felt closetoGillmor,theCongressman who had nominated him for West Point Academy. That’s why he was especially dismayed to see the ugly campaign tactics of the Republican candidates who fought to succeed Gillmor. “I was motivated by the tenor of last fall’s primary — the bitter

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Michael Ward

C.S. Lewis scholar from Cambridge University University, said he discovered the true answer five years ago while reading another work by Lewis. The Lewis book series is clearly based on medieval cosmology and that each of the seven books relates specifically to each of the seven cosmos,

Ward said. The author gave a one-hour lecture about his theory in the Union last night to an audience made up of about 70 students and adults. His book, “Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis,” was released Monday by Oxford University Press and has already received good reviews. In his lecture, Ward explained that Lewis’ novels purposely follow the path of the seven cosmos. He said Lewis tells exactly which medieval planet matches

which book in the series. For example, “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe” was themed around the planet Jupiter. The other six novels were based around the planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, Saturn, the sun and the moon. He also said Lewis never told anyone about this hidden theme so he could communicate to readers’ imaginations instead of their intellects. Lewis wrote to readers’ “natural tendency to be oblivious to the obvious” and he wanted each book to convey the mes-

Harshman looks for a healthy hook By Andy Ouriel Reporter

Members of the Harshman Chapman-Dunbar hall council are worried this winter’s cold weather and other obstacles could deter some students from trekking across campus to work out at the Student Recreation Center. To help motivate students to exercise, the council hopes to put exercise equipment in the dorm’s lobby. They are waiting for approval from the Office of Residence Life. The hall council hopes to put equipment such as a treadmill, bike and an elliptical machine in the residence hall. Workout videos, fitness balls and yoga mats would also be provided. Amanda Stump, the resident hall director, said putting the equipment where students live could help inactive students incorporate exercising into their routines. “If [students] get into a schedule of working out and enjoying it, then maybe they will be eventually going to the Rec for more facilities,” Stump said. “If they are someone who does not walk to the Rec, it might get them started here.” An in-house workout facility would provide more benefits than just convenience and a way to avoid the cold. The hall council hopes the exercise area would improve the residence hall as a whole by attracting more students to live there. Harshman isn’t usually the first place students choose to live when they request housing, said Marjory Johnson, vice president of Harshman Chapman-Dunbar Student Hall Council. With the new equipment, more

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sage he wanted, Ward said. He said Lewis considered the seven planets to be spiritual symbols of permanent value, which coincides with the belief the book series was written about Christ. Ward is touring the United Kingdom and the U.S. from early January to the end of June, making a quick stop in Bowling Green before traveling to Grove City College in Pennsylvania for tomorrow.

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EVAN AGOSTINI | AP PHOTO

OBIT LEDGER: Actor Heath Ledger attends a special Cinema Society and Hogan hosted screening of “I’m Not There” at the Chelsea West Cinemas, in New York. A New York Police Department spokesman said yesterday the actor was discovered dead at a downtown Manhattan residence.

Heath Ledger found dead at 28 By Tom Hays The Associated Press

FITNESS EQUIPMENT: Exercise bikes, fitness balls and workout tapes are just a few of the new options which will be provided in the Harshman Chapman-Dunbar residence hall.

NEW YORK — Heath Ledger was found dead yesterday at a downtown Manhattan apartment, naked in bed with sleeping pills nearby, police said. The Australian-born actor was 28. It wasn’t immediately clear if Ledger had committed suicide. He had an appointment for a massage at a residence in the neighborhood of SoHo, NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said. A housekeeper who went to let him know the massage therapist had arrived found him dead at 3:26 p.m. A large crowd of paparazzi and gawkers gathered outside the building on an upscale block. Ledger’s body was still inside, and several police officers guarded the door. The medical examiner’s office planned an autopsy today, spokeswoman Ellen Borakove said.

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Fed. Reserve drops interest rates TEDDY RADER Junior, Business Administration

“I don’t make excuses. I’m an athlete.” | Page 4

TODAY Snow Shower High: 21, Low: 10

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By Terence Hunt The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Jolted by global recession fears, the Federal Reserve slashed interest rates yesterday, and President Bush and leaders of Congress joined in a rare show of cooperation in promising urgent action to pump up the economy with upwards of $150 billion in tax cuts and government spending. Market meltdowns overnight around the globe and growing anxiety at home stirred lawmakers and the administration toward swift action, possibly within a few weeks. Wall Street plummeted as the day began, following Asian stocks, then warily eased its sell-off after the Fed ordered the biggest cut on

“I believe we can find common ground to get something done that’s big enough ...” George W. Bush | President

record in a key interest rate. The Dow Jones industrials, down 465 points at one point, closed the day off 128. The Fed, announcing its action after an emergency video conference Monday night, indicated further rate reductions were likely, aimed at encouraging people and companies to start spending again. “The urgency that we feel at home is now even more urgent

as we see the impact of our markets on others,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said after both Democratic and Republican lawmakers met with Bush at the White House. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said the goal was to get a deal through Congress and on Bush’s desk within roughly three weeks — lightning speed compared with the usual snail’s pace on Capitol Hill. His Republican counterpart, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, agreed the aim was action in the next few weeks and said, “That, by the standards in Congress, is pretty fast.” Bush expressed confidence that he and the Democratic-led Congress could put aside bitter differences that have marked his presidency.

PABLO MARTINEZ MONSIVAIS | AP PHOTO

ECONOMIC TALK: President Bush, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid meet with Congressional leaders to discuss the economy.

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people might choose to live there, including more upperclassmen. “Since Harshman ChapmanDunbar is so far away from [the main part of] campus, it gives people more benefits to live there,” said Johnson. Johnson said having exercise equipment in the residence hall could help students fit exercise into their busy schedules. “If you only have a half hour you can totally do it without planning your time and finding little gaps to work out,” she said. Harshman ChapmanDunbar would not be the first residence hall to put exercise equipment in their building. The Offenhauer Towers already have some machines. Resident of Offenhauer, freshman Porscha Thomas believes what Harshman ChapmanDunbar is doing is a great thing. Thomas said having machines

A wallet and purse were reported stolen from an Erie Court residence. Police said both were later found nearby but cash was missing.

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Dreonne D. Jamerson, 22, of Bowling Green, was cited for improper backing and operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol.

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Chronicles of Narnia books to his child. “I like innovation and seeing a creative intellect,” Lindsley said. He said the event was worth the drive. Edwards said he was overwhelmed by the attendance, two-thirds of which were members of the community at large. In addition to being a Lewis scholar, Ward was an extra in films such as the James Bond movie “The World is Not Enough” and “Shadowlands”. The author will be touring through June, just after the next movie in The Chronicles of Narnia series, “Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia” is released in theaters May 16.

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that film earned an Oscar nomination yesterday for best supporting actress. Ledger had finished filming his role as the Joker this year in “The Dark Knight,” a sequel to 2005’s “Batman Begins.” He’s had starring roles in “A Knight’s Tale” and “The Patriot,” and played the suicidal son of Billy Bob Thornton in “Monster’s Ball.” He also played a heroin addict in the 2006 Australian film “Candy.” Before settling down with Williams, Ledger had relationships with actresses Heather Graham and Naomi Watts. He met Watts while working on “The Lords of Dogtown,” a fictionalized version of a cult classic skateboarding documentary, in 2004.

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and hostile nature of it,” he said. So when Radcliffe returned to Perrysburg, the first thing he did was to circulate a petition to get his name on the ballot. He is one of three candidates seeking to be his party’s nominee for Congress next fall, running against Michael L. Reynolds of Columbus Grove, Ohio, and U.S. Rep. Bob Latta, of Bowling Green. Latta has only been serving in Congress since mid-December, after he won the special election. Jumping into another campaign right away is not something he’s wild about. “I knew going into this I would have to run four times in one year,” Latta said. “Unfortunately I have to take care of my constituents and then find time for campaigning.” Radcliffe knows he’s up against tough odds, having never run a campaign before and facing-off against a prominent incumbent. Although he’s never held elected office, Radcliffe said his years in the military have given him amble leadership experience. During his first tour in Iraq in 2004 and 2005, Radcliffe spent time as a scout platoon leader patrolling Baghdad’s Airport Highway and portions of the West Rashid district in the Iraqi capital. Radcliffe likened the experience to being a mayor, saying he spent most of his time working to rebuild the areas he was responsible for patrolling. While serving as platoon leader, he worked to create schools, repair sewage systems and rebuild houses. “There was no infrastructure in the district,” Radcliffe said.

Whilenotamarqueemoviestar, Ledger was a respected, awardwinning actor who chose his roles carefully rather than cashing in on his heartthrob looks. He was nominated for an Oscar for his performance as a gay cowboy in “Brokeback Mountain,” where he met Michelle Williams, who played his wife in the film. The two had a daughter, Matilda, and lived together in Brooklyn until they split up last year. Ledger most recently appeared in “I’m Not There,” in which he played one of the many incarnations of Bob Dylan — as did Cate Blanchett, whose performance in

Electronic meter readers Council also unanimously approved a resolution allowing the city to implement a new meter reading system for measuring the use of public utilities. The new system, would replace the old utility meters on all homes and business, with a new computerized system that can be read at anytime and eliminates the need for meter readers to travel around to all homes and busi-

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nesses on a monthly basis. The system, which is expected to cost $4.61 million to install, is anticipated to save the city $2.5 million during the next decade, Maynard said.

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the deal and take advantage of lower interest rates.

At last night’s city council meeting, the council unanimously approved an emergency resolution allowing the city to purchase a larger share of an energy plant to help meet Bowling Green’s baseline energy needs. The resolution allows Director of Utilities Kevin Maynard to purchase an additional six megawatts worth of energy from the Prairie State Energy Campus in Missouri. The city has already agreed

to purchase a 35-megawatt share of the coal-burning energy facility, but the City of Bowling Green was given an opportunity to purchase the additional six megawatts through an agreement with American Municipal Power of Ohio, Maynard said. City council chose to approve the resolution after just one reading, enacting an emergency clause. The clause was used to forgo the traditional second and third readings at the next two city council meetings, thus allowing the city to act more quickly on

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in the residence halls makes it easier for students to exercise. “I didn’t want to go [to the Rec] because it was too cold,” Thomas said. The Harshman hall council wants to provide a positive alternative for students, not prevent students from using the Recreation Center. “We don’t want residents [to] stop using the Rec,” Johnson said. Though the exercise area in the residence hall would provide less equipment than the Rec Center, Stump isn’t worried. She said putting the machines in the residence hall would be enhancing student life at BGSU. Stump believes students should not just be academically successful, but also excel physically and spiritually. By having this workout room, no matter the size, she said it would be a great improvement to the residence hall. “Everything we do here is focusing on student success,” Stump said.

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Anti-abortion march gathers quite a crowd By Marcela Berrios The Observer (Notre Dame)

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A WALK IN THE PARK: Bismark, an almost 1-year-old dachshund and Sunshine, a 9-year-old King Charles Cavalier, stand on either side of dog walker Gina Downs, the “Pet Nanny,” in a fenced-in area where she walks the dogs she cares for.

Exercise programs for dogs are gaining popularity By Melissa Dribben The Philadelphia Inquirer

PHILADELPHIA — Last summer, Rebecca Davis and her boyfriend were at one of the outdoor tables at Vesuvio in Philadelphia, having coffee or wine or whatever, that’s not the point. The point is that when she wasn’t gazing lovingly into his eyes, she noticed a dog getting a short walk around a small park. “The owners seemed disinterested,” Davis recalls, “and the dog looked frustrated.” Davis is a marathon runner. “I thought, that dog needs a run. Maybe I should start a dog running service.” Three days later, with her computer-savvy boyfriend’s help, she set up a Web site for Run Philly Dog Run, offering, for $40 an hour, to take dogs for a leashed cardio workout at their pace of choice. Today, the 27-yearold research assistant at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is running six to 10 dogs a week and hoping to turn her budding business into a full-time profession. Over the last five years, the dog walking/pet sitting industry has grown exponentially. Young entrepreneurs have found profitable careers doing what used to be mere afterschool chores that paid little more than change for pop-

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LIFE IN THE FAST LANE: Zayda, a 1-year-old Cairn terrier, looks out the windshield as Gina Downs, the “Pet Nanny,” gets ready to drive to the next dog’s home for pick-up.

corn and pinball. The first person to respond to Davis’ Web site was Zeth Weissman, who owns PhilaPet.com, one of Philadelphia’s largest pet-sitting operations. Zeth and his wife, Deirdre, refugees from the dot-com bust, moved from Boston to Philadelphia in 2003. Deirdre was about to start veterinary school. Looking for a way to make a little money before classes started, she went to a dog park and casually asked around. Did they need someone to walk their pets while they were at work or on vacation? “She started out with one,” says Zeth Weissman. “Then another. The next thing we

knew, she was walking 10 to 15 dogs a day.” Deirdre is now in her fourth year of vet school and Zeth works full-time running the company they formed in 2004. They employ 45 pet sitters and three full-time managers. On Christmas Eve alone, PhilaPets’ crew walked 40 dogs. Last year, their business grossed about $650,000. This year, Zeth Weissman says, “we’re hoping to make a million.” Dog walking still does not rate its own classification from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Since many in it operate off the IRS radar, it would be difficult to obtain accurate numbers anyway. “But anything related to companion animals is absolutely booming,” says Henry Kasper, an economist in the BLS Office of Employment Projections. (He has a cat.) Claudia Kawczynska, editor of the magazine The Bark, says the growing number of dog walking/pet-sitting franchises shows a clear trend. Franchises of the national chain Fetch have opened in the Philadelphia region. The company, founded in 2002, reports 1,000 “service areas” across the United States. Dog walking, says Kawczynska, “has become one of the biggest growth areas in the pet sector.”

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — More than 230 students from Notre Dame, Saint Mary’s and Holy Cross made the 12-hour bus trip toWashington, D.C. to join thousands of other pro-life advocates at the March for Life yesterday. The march is an annual demonstration against Roe vs. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in 1973. The Notre Dame Right to Life Club offered students three travel options, ranging in length from 36 hours to four days. Students on the two longer trips participated in service projects and mini pro-life conferences as a prelude to the march. “So far everybody seems to really be enjoying themselves,” Right to Life president Mary Liz Walter said Monday night. “And tomorrow should be even better. I think for most it’ll be such a powerful experience to be in the heart of the

nation’s capital next to hundreds of thousands of other people, all united for one cause.” More than 200,000 people attended last year, according to the Right for Life Web site. In addition to a 27 percent increase in the number of Notre Dame, Saint Mary’s and Holy Cross participants, Walter said there are about 30 students from Purdue University who registered to attend through Right to Life. She said the club’s travel options were affordable and convenient for many college students. Yesterday’s itinerary included attending a youth Mass, rallying at Capitol Mall and finally marching from the Mall to the Supreme Court building, the Notre Dame Right to Life Web site said. “Hopefully this will be an opportunity for everyone to be in solidarity with other people who are also fighting for the dignity and the respect for human life in all of its stages,” Walter said.

Ron Paul gaining support among young voters By Dean Treftz U-Wire

NEW YORK CITY — In a presidential campaign where even the front-runners break convention, Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, and his supporters are deep in uncharted territory. Paul’s independent streak has helped garner him exceptionally strong support among young voters who have been largely responsible for boosting him out of obscurity and onto the heels of the mainstream Republican contenders. He recently came in second in Nevada’s caucuses — albeit in a lightly-contested and watched race — and nearly earned a second-place finish among voters younger than 30 in Iowa, according to CNN exit polls. “It’s always the young people who come up and are so enthusi-

“It’s always the young people who come up and are so enthusiastic.” Ron Paul | Presidential Candidate astic,” Paul said in a UWIRE conference call with college newspaper reporters yesterday. He credited some of his 30 and younger support to his stance against the war in Iraq. “The burden of war falls on young people, not only financially but for those individuals that have to go over and fight,” Paul said. Part of Paul’s appeal may also be that, despite his affiliation with the Republican Party, he eschews much of the GOP’s current orientation and discusses less publicized issues.

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Of the many rights and protections given to us by the United States government, it now appears we have the right to be bailed out when we make bad mistakes or do unethical things. On Dec. 6, President Bush announced plans for a five-year freeze on mortgage rates for subprime borrowers. This was done in an attempt to stop the rate of foreclosures and default starting to occur in America. Sub-prime mortgages are offered to people who have bad credit and are charged a higher rate by the banks due to the increased risk. The terms of these mortgages are unfavorable to the borrower, but then again, all of this is disclosed to them by law. The reason why the system is suffering is because the total number of sub-prime loans has risen to 20 percent, up from only 8 percent in 1996. The problem is that the government is bailing out tons of people that acted stupidly. These people did unthinkable things, such as living way beyond their means and amassing a mountain of debt with no way to pay it back. These same people then started to buy houses without understanding the terms of the programs they signed into. Some also decided to engage in the intelligent practice of taking a second mortgage or refinancing and spent the money on consumer goods. This was an OK practice once the market and financial status of borrowers held out. Once the market and time caught up with the borrower, things started to fall apart. Very little of this problem can be assessed to lenders since they already have to fully disclose everything and have scores of federal and state laws to follow. But a large amount of responsibility rests at the feet of the homeowners themselves. What kind of person gets into making one of the biggest investments of their life without knowing what’s going on? Ignorance of how credit and debt work is not an excuse to cause financial havoc. We don’t tell crackheads that it’s OK that they did not know about the effects of smoking crack when they started smoking. Unlike normal, responsible people that work their way up the ladder by spending and saving in a rational manner, some decided to get rich quick and hope the bubble held out for them. They gambled with the future of their families and their financial

“They gambled with the future of their families and their financial future because they were not willing to wait.” future because they were not willing to wait. George Mason University has also found that 70 percent of payment defaults came from those that filed fraudulent paperwork, in some cases claiming five times their actual income. This should shift the blame from the scapegoat of predatory lending to the rightful “predatory borrowing.” And to put things in perspective, according to Wells Fargo, 96 percent of mortgages are being paid on time. This means that only a minuscule 4 percent are struggling in this so called “Mortgage Meltdown.” Something else we as future homeowners and contributors to society need to consider is that the only way this freeze will become effective is by having someone paying for it. By “someone,” I mean us. We will be paying for the poor decisions of other people who made bad gambles or tried to lie and cheat banks. Not only is the policy of subsidizing considered bad decision making as well as fraud, it also prevents people that can rightfully buy a home from doing so. These over-inflated housing prices are kept artificially high by the frozen rates. This prevents anyone from buying a home at its true value. What will we do in a few years when we realize that many of these sub-prime borrowers still can’t hold onto their houses? Many of them simply should have never owned a home as big or expensive as they do now. Are we going to give them do-overs? Banks lent money and people took out loans. This is no different than it has been in the past. Now, simply because a few people can’t make their payments and now that they realize they’ve made a bad choice in lying or gambling, the government is swooping in to save them. If this is the case, why isn’t the US government looking to bail out those that lose their kids’ college funds in the casinos of Atlantic City and Las Vegas? They just happened to have bad luck too, it’s not like they were irresponsible or foolish. Respond to Sean at thenews@bgnews.com.

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I came away with mixed emotions after watching Monday night’s Democratic Presidential debate on CNN. One of them was outrage, the other bewilderment. It is fair to say that the two so-called “major” candidates — Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama — dominated the two-hour spectacle with all the drama and hyperbole of a junior high squabble over who said what about whom two weeks ago in gym class. Obama criticized Clinton for being a corporate lawyer working for the Arkansas-based WalMart back when husband Bill Clinton was building his political career, while Clinton criticized Obama for working as a lawyer for some slum-lord in Chicago when he claims to have been helping the poor and working class residents of the area. Then, they began squabbling over things that Bill Clinton said on the campaign trail about Obama’s stance on the war in Iraq. Needless to say, things got pretty heated. Of course, the third candidate in the race, former Senator John Edwards, was largely ignored and exclaimed, during one of the many quarrels where he had gone several minutes without being able to get a word in, “Is this a two person debate?!” Then he was allowed to take the moral high-ground and claim that while the other two were bickering, he was the only one caring about the nation’s millions of under/uninsured and starving children. This was a bit of a cheap shot, as the dominant topics were brought up not by the candidates who probably wanted to stay as far away from them as possible, but rather from the debate’s host, Wolf Blitzer, who, like most mainstream media figures in the United States, loves to instigate a juicy cat-fight in order to see a hike in ratings.

“[Obama and Clinton] dominated the two-hour spectacle with all the drama and hyperbole of a junior high squabble over who said what about whom.” But Edwards did have a point, however opportunistic he might have been in making it. While we’re listening to all of their bickering over who worked where in past decades, we’re not hearing more about their plans to insure the ever-increasing number of uninsured Americans. We’re not hearing more about how they would address the situation this country is in, where one sees the sickening number of uninsured children. According to the advocacy group Families USA the count is up to 9 million (and growing), where the majority of them come from households where at least one parent is employed. A large portion of those children come from legal immigrant families. But since federal guidelines stipulate that most immigrant families can not gain access to government health services like SCHIP programs and Medicaid, the only choices these families have are either paying an exorbitantly high premium to a private health insurer or simply go without health insurance altogether and hope and pray to not get sick for the first five years they are legal U.S. citizens. Meanwhile, they are stressing our country’s emergency rooms when they could have in many cases avoided the ER if they would have had proper health treatment before their conditions became emergencies in the first place. We’re also not hearing about what they would do to make sure that recently wounded veterans come home to Veteran’s Hospitals which are able to meet the new challenges that the IEDladen warfare in Iraq present in the form of traumatic brain injuries (which the Department of Veterans Affairs estimates 65 percent of all Iraq/Afghanistan vets suffer from). In every election, probably since the beginning of presi-

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dential elections, we are shown how much each candidate loves and respects those who put their lives on the line and their families on hold so we and millions (maybe billions) of others around the world can live in a place with a lot more peace and a lot more freedom than they would have without them. Unfortunately, it appears that for many of the candidates in the past, doing so was a mere photo-op to pick up a couple of votes (surprise, surprise). For some sad reason however, they (and we) are failing on that front pretty miserably. For the men and women of our armed services who are returning from Iraq and Afghanistan alone, the VA estimates that over 1,000 of them either already are, or are at great risk of becoming, homeless. All this happening, as John Edwards would say, “in the richest country in the world.” Just let that sink in a little bit the next time you hear the Democratic candidates arguing over voting “present” on certain pieces of legislation over the course of their careers or the Republican candidates railing on about how the top one percent of the richest people in America urgently need a giant tax cut by eliminating the estate tax, all taking up more time in discussions than is spent on the real issues that Americans need to know about before they cast their ballots. Respond to Sean at thenews@bgnews.com.

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Whenever the topics of relationships, girlfriends, boyfriends and “going out” come up in a conversation I’m involved in, I tend to feel a little discomforted. Someone with a boyfriend or girlfriend will get up and ask everyone in the room to raise their hands if they’re in romantic relationships of their own. Why would this make me feel awkward? Because I’m not one of those people. Almost immediately afterwards (comparable to the timeliness precision of a Swiss-crafted pocketwatch), some random girl in the room will walk over to me and tell me how sorry she is, after noticing that I did not raise my hand. That, or some hairy guy with an ego complex will inform me of my status as a girlfriend-less affront to the male side of the human race. I say this in response to the sorrow-filled ladies and testosterone-pumped dudes: Please spare me your pity and your insensitive remarks. I don’t feel deserving of them, because I’m happy with my current dating scene. After all, why should I have people expressing sentiments of compassion or criticism towards me when they learn of my girlfriend-less existence? Does it make me any less of a human being? In the eyes of some, yes. From the view of others, no. But from my perspective, my relationship status doesn’t truly define who I am in the least. I’m not trying to sound like the existentially-moping postpuberty kid who struggles to find the “perfect girlfriend” in secret, nor the quintessential discouraged young male adult who “rejects” women in a desperation plea for attention from those of the female persuasion; I’m trying to sound like myself. I’m not going to claim that my life is a black abyss of infinite sadness due to my dating-free social life, and I’m definitely not trying to convey the idea that dating is for stupid people; because it’s not. Quite frankly, I’m just “cruising along” in life, living by my own ideas, taking other people’s beliefs and reasoning into consideration, but not allowing society’s mainstream definition of a happy life govern whether or not I am worthy to walk the earth. To mindlessly advocate either side of this issue is to take the position of the

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WONDER From Page 4 ten-year-old male dating critic: “Everybody knows that girls have cooties!” In writing this lengthy tirade challenging the ways in which people (myself included) perceive everyday dating, I’m trying to further define where I stand on this prickly issue. Do I fall into the role of the disenchanted yet stuck-up, arrogant “I’m-way-deeperthinking-than-you-are” college youth by default because I’m writing a column about relationship matters? After all, I know approximately 0.07 percent of all there is to know about relationships. I may come off as being incredibly smug and out-of-touch on the issue in some people’s regard because I’m just flying

“Please spare me your pity and your insensitive remarks. I don't feel deserving of them, because I'm happy with my current dating scene.” by the seat of my pants as I’m writing this. I’m about as experienced with dating as Arnold Schwarzenegger is adept at mispronouncing the name of his state’s capital city. Or am I just misguided in my thinking? Have I really screwed myself over by not pursuing a dating life more seriously? I went to my junior prom and senior homecoming dance by myself, for whatever’s sake! Based on the logic of some people I know, to not be in a romantic relationship is to be a kind of human equivalent to an old, decrepit television set: no one pays attention to you,

you’re not very attractive, you’re all beat-up inside and David Letterman decides to push you and a bunch of your friends off of a skyscraper in New York City during his show. This is one of the reasons why I don’t feel too good about not having a girlfriend (I don’t want some hairy guy pushing me off of a building! Have any of you seen Letterman’s beard lately?) In saying this, I acknowledge both the good and bad experiences that can come from a romantic relationship. I guess that I just haven’t gotten around to pursuing those instinctive

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desires to find a dating partner (or maybe I’m just really, really ugly. Eh, who cares?). But I do wonder about the long-term ramifications of avoiding dating. Will it render me unable to seriously date in the future? Will I even have the fortitude and courage to date at all in the future? These questions remain unanswered, but I have figured out one thing: for the time being, I am happy with my situation in regards to dating. Don’t perceive me as a pimple-ridden World of Warcraft freak (a game which I don’t actually play), or as a mastermind-genius for not delving into the convoluted maelstrom that constitutes college dating; I’m just blazing my own trail.

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As the long, strange trip that has been the Bush presidency begins to wind down, the president has begun to seek out what all who sit behind the desk in the Oval Office pursue. No, not sexual favors from willing interns, but a legacy, a capstone to the eight years of lies, misdirection and willful violation of the Constitution. With those gosh darned Iraqis still refusing our freedom and democracy and with the economy tanking faster than the Titanic, legacybuilding options are pretty slim. Thank God for continual strife in the Middle East. While both critics and supporters of Bush are hailing his eight-day romp through the Middle East as a move in the right direction, the consensus is that despite the good intentions, it is undoubtedly too little too late. While Bush talked on a wide variety of subjects, there were two issues which he didn’t hesitate to beat into the ground: Iran and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. While some progress has been made in the Israeli-Palestinian

“There has been little to no pressure from the U.S. against the Saudis to allow for independent monitoring of human rights.” conflict, most recently at the Annapolis Conference, the twostate solution the administration is pushing like the best thing since sliced bread has been around in one form or another since 1937. While a resolution of the decades-old conflict between the two nations is, and should be, an important element of Bush’s Roadmap to Peace, the Roadmap itself has been stalled repeatedly. Bush spoke vehemently of his wishes to see progress in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but his words were just that: words. And while Bush mentioned several times during his trip what a “historic opportunity” was occurring, perhaps it wouldn’t be so historic if Bush had devoted more time to positive action in the Middle East as opposed to simply talking about the subject toward the tail end of his final term as president. Bush also continued to beat the war drum regarding Iran,

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BOSTON — As a foreign traveler, Punit Pawar is used to the security when he flies into the U.S., so he barely noticed yesterday when he was asked to put his 10 fingers on a digital scanner as part of an enhanced security system rolling out at airports across the country. “It didn’t take much of my time, so it didn’t bother me,” said Pawar, a citizen of India and a student at Boston’s Northeastern University. “I’m OK with it, if this is what they need to do for security.” Since 2004, nonresidents traveling internationally have been required to allow airport personnel to scan their two index fingers at airports as part of a program called

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TRAVEL SECURITY: An international visitor to the United States has all their fingerprints scanned by a U.S. Customs agent. The Department of Homeland Security is collecting 10 fingerprints instead of two.

US-VISIT. But now, foreign travelers will be asked to scan all 10 fingers, an enhancement the U.S. Department of Homeland Security hopes will help officials more closely monitor watch lists of suspected terrorists, criminals

and immigration violators. Logan Airport, where two of the passenger planes involved in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks took off, became the third airport to use 10-finger scanners last week. Dulles Airport, serving Washington, D.C., began using the devices in November, while Atlanta’s airport began using the new system this month. Seven other airports are scheduled to start using the new system by the end of February, including Chicago O’Hare, San Francisco, Houston, Miami, Detroit, Orlando and New York’s Kennedy. By the end of the year, the devices are expected to be up and running in all of the nation’s international airports, as well as seaports and border points.

CHICAGO — Julia Montgomery used the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday to cast an early primary ballot because it was convenient, she said — but also to honor the slain civil rights leader’s legacy. “It’s the least that we could do for him,” the 88-year-old Montgomery said. All 51 early voting sites in Chicago and some around the state were open on Monday. Illinois is one of about 30 states that offer a way for voters to cast an early ballot. In Chicago, city churches and community groups have been encouraging members to vote in advance of the state’s Feb. 5 primary. The Rev. Tony Dumas of Evening Star Missionary Baptist Church, on the city’s South Side, said the holiday offered an excellent opportunity for citizens to vote. “People are already off work; they don’t have to take off,” he said.

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KING DAY VOTING: Merlyn Robinson, left, and Tequria A. Brown show off their early voting receipts after casting their ballots in the 2008 Illinois primary on MLK day.

The two leading Democrats, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama and New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, have strong local ties — the former first lady grew up in a Chicago suburb. But church leaders say they are not pushing people to vote for any particular candidate. They just want to honor King’s legacy by exercising their rights, and to avoid long lines and the possibility of bad weather on

Election Day. “No better way to honor Dr. King than to go out and exercise your vote,” said Tony Land, an associate minister at Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church on Chicago’s South Side. Residents of other big states — California, Florida, Georgia and New Jersey, among others — have been able to vote by mail for their favorite candidates for weeks. Early voting in Illinois ends Jan. 31.

Cape Coral residents feel the effect of Florida’s decline CAPE CORAL, Fla. — When Eric Feichthaler became mayor three years ago, this town was booming. The city issued 800 permits that month to build single-family homes. Cape Coral still has thousands of empty lots, but last month, it issued just nine permits. A number of factors explain the downturn, and many of them are not unique to Florida. But it is becoming clear the Sunshine State is losing some of its luster. Census figures show that in 2007, the number of people who moved to warm and sunny Florida from other states outnumbered those who left by just 35,301, down from 268,347 in 2005. It was just the second year since 1990, when the Census Bureau started keeping such records, that the state saw fewer than 50,000 net U.S. arrivals. For many years, Florida was like a stateroom in a Marx Brothers movie: more and more people kept arriving, and hardly anyone left. During the 20th century, Florida’s population boomed, with growth rates ranging from 20 percent to 80 percent per decade. Florida is now the fourth-largest state, with about 18.1 million people. Experts blame the recent slowdown on a combination of circumstances: The national mortgage crisis and the bursting of the real estate bubble, hurricanes, Florida’s steep insurance rates and property taxes, and ris-

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FOOTBALL BG center Kory Lichtensteiger heading back to Mobile

After a rough first trip down to Mobile, Lichtensteiger will head back down for the Senior Bowl this Saturday. He is one of 102 players competing in the contest and will be playing on the South squad

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Men’s basketball: vs. Miami (OH) ; 7 p.m.

OUR CALL Today in Sports History 1979—Willie Mays elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1962—Bob Feller and Jackie Robinson elected to Baseball Hall of Fame

1953—NFL Dallas Texans

become Baltimore Colts (now Indianapolis Colts)

The List

We give you the New York Giants top five plays of this season because we need some football talk to tie us over until February 3

1. Lawrence Tynes’ game winner against the Packers: Third ‘Tynes’ a charm for the kicker after missing his two previous kicks

2. 12 sacks against Philadelphia: The

Giants made life miserable on Eagles’ QB Donovan McNabb — Osi Umenyiora had six sacks by himself

3. Down to the wire with Patriots: The

Giants played their starters in a meaningless game and nearly pulled off the victory. This really set up the G-Men for their playoff run

4. Bradshaw’s 151 against Buffalo:

Ahmad Bradshaw, a rookie out of Marshall, ran all over the Bills in a horrible day in Buffalo

5. Goal line stand against the Redskins: Already 0-2

on the season and staring 0-3 right in the face, the Giants D held strong on the goal line

PHOTOS BY SCOTT RECKER| THE BG NEWS

SHOCKING: Falcons fall in defeat at the hands of Miami. The loss was the first MAC loss since last season. LEFT: BG’s Tara Breske (30), Lauren Prochaska (2) and Whitney Taylor (12) defend a Miami player. ABOVE: Kate Achter goes up for a lay-up against Miami’s Ashleigh Brown.

Team snaps seven-game winning streak vs. Miami By Chris Voloschuk Sports Editor

With a 63-60 loss to Miami last night at Anderson Arena, a bid for a 5-0 Mid-American Conference record was dashed. Forward Lauren Prochaska opened up the game’s scoring with a three-pointer from the corner, but that would prove to be the last time in the game BG would hold a lead. The Redhawks were able to take down the BG women’s basketball team with a highly efficient zone defense and the steady shooting hand of guard Amanda Jackson. The Falcons could never quite adjust. Miami started the game in a zone and played aggressive and

physical defense. BG seemed a little flustered. According to BG head coach Curt Miller, the Falcons struggled all game to find a consistency. “[We were] disappointed that we couldn’t find extended stretches against their zone to get a rhythm in the game,” Miller said. There were, however, extended stretches of turnovers and missed shots. BG went into the locker room at halftime shooting 29.2 percent, and 61.5 percent from the free throw line. They turned the ball over 16 times, compared to Miami’s seven. The score was 33-24. The first half was not kind to BG. Point guard Kate Achter

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only logged nine minutes and picked up two fouls early on. Jackson was able to find openings and knocked down seven shots. Achter said that Miami’s

zone was a bit surprising in the first half. “The first couple of possessions they left the middle wide open,” Achter said. “That’s typically not what you see in zones so we were surprised that they left it that wide open … we did a very poor job of realizing how they were playing it and it took until the end of the game to figure it out.” In the second half, BG came out with a mindset that they were going to dig out of the hole they were in, and went on a 9-0 run starting at the 18:28 mark. With just over 15 minutes to play, the score was 40-38, in favor of Miami. The momentum had shifted. But that run would prove to

be the closest BG would come to getting within striking distance. Miami answered with a 13-2 run of their own and with just under seven minutes to play held a 55-40 lead. “Give [Miami] credit,” Achter said. “They flustered us in the beginning and a lot of it was because of ourselves. We had a lot of turnovers and that killed us. But I think we just wore ourselves out trying to dig out of that hole in the beginning.” With the loss, BG is now 41 in MAC play and 15-4 overall. Prochaska led the team in scoring with 20 points —12 of those points coming on threes.

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Friday night fights: BG/WMU style

Tennis battles the cold in defeat of Butler

By Ethan Magoc Reporter

By Nate Parsons Reporter

A broken heater leading to freezing cold temperatures equaled no problem for the BGSU tennis team as they posted a 5-2 victory at Butler University this past weekend. “We’re used to it,” junior Kelsey Jakupcin said. “We practice outside until the end of October. Once we started playing we got more used to it and it was fine.” The heater inside the bubble, which covers the courts, was broken, so the teams, coaches and fans had to endure freezing cold temperatures. It was BG’s first dual-match of the season. The Falcons started off strong after winning two of the three doubles matches to get the doubles point and an early lead. The tandem of senior cocaptains — Jenna Nussbaum and Andrea Volle — defeated Hawes/McLoughlin, 8-4, while the duo of Jakupcin and freshman Christine Chiricosta came from behind to beat Casperson/Jenkins, 9-7, in first doubles action. “We worked really well together trying to get back on our feet because we went down 7-6,” Jakupcin said. “We just used our heads and got back into it.” “That gave us good momentum going into the singles,” said BG coach Penny Dean,

SHOCKING LOSS FOR FALCONS

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BATTLING THE ELEMENTS: Women’s tennis had to fight off not only the Butler Bulldogs, but also a broken heater which made for a very cold day for all involved.

“We’re used to it. We practice outside until the end of October. Once we started playing we got more used to it and it was fine.” Kelsey Jakupcin | Junior See TENNIS | Page 8

If you turn on an NHL game on almost any night, you are just about guaranteed to witness two men dropping their gloves to engage in fisticuffs. But in college hockey, fights are the rare exception, and are justifiably treated as such by the officials. In fact, Rule 6.17 of the NCAA Men’s & Women’s Ice Hockey rule book states that “A player shall not fight an opponent or participate in a fight, on or off the playing surface [punching or attempting to punch is considered fighting].” Pretty clear cut. Then perhaps a couple Western Michigan players failed to get that message with 12 seconds left in Friday’s game at the BGSU Ice Arena. It was a game in which the main storyline should have been about Falcon tri-captain Derek Whitmore’s third hat-trick of the season. Instead, the action was marred in the final seconds by gloves, sticks and jerseys being strewn about the ice while the four officials tried in desperation to separate all 10 skaters. Exactly 197 total penalty minutes were issued in the game, with all but 31 of those coming in the third period alone. “There’s no need for that in college hockey,” Whitmore said calmly after Friday’s game. “Our five guys did a good job of sticking together though, and it’s unfortunate that it happened, but that’s hockey.”

“There’s no need for that in college hockey. Our five guys did a good job of sticking together though, and it’s unfortunate that it happened, but that’s hockey.” Derek Whitmore | BG Forward

ENOCH WU | THE BG NEWS

FIGHT NIGHT: BG and WMU came to blows with 12 seconds remaining in the game. There was a total of 197 penalty minutes issued and all but 31 came in the third period.

Those five guys from BG were Tommy Dee, Ben Geelan, John Mazzei, Brian Moore and Kyle Page. All were hit with five-minute major penalties, as well as a game disqualification. Because of the latter punishment, they each had to sit out the next night when the series concluded in Kalamazoo. The Falcons fought through

Saturday, without throwing any punches, to win 2-1 in overtime. Meanwhile, the team who began the scrum was without five of its own players on Saturday. Jordan Collins, Matt Clackson, Chris Clackson, Chris Frank and Patrick Nagorsen all watched the

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Falcons give home fans an odd sight: a loss By Chris Voloschuk Sports Editor

resembled a powerful force like Ivan Drago in “Rocky IV”, then Miami was Rocky Balboa. BG’s Drago took one on the chin. BG is now 4-1 in the conference and 16-4 overall-still tops in the league. But the Miami game was a new, sometimes frustrating experience for the young-buttalented Falcons. “It’s frustrating to lose, period,” said BG guard Kate Achter. “But it’s early. It was our first swing through the MAC East. We go onto the West now … We’re going to bounce back and this is going to be a learning for our freshmen and we’re going to learn from it and build upon it.” Despite the loss, there is a lot that the program can take solace in moving forward. Over the last several years, BG has been downright dominant in MAC play. They currently sport the most wins in the conference, but there’s even more success in that portfolio. Last season, they went 15-1 in MAC play, with their only loss coming against Ohio. Since the 2003-04 season, BG’s in-conference record is a resounding 55-9. As of last night, the team has lost two conference games in the last three seasons. Losing MAC games at home

Falcons on both ends of the floor, forcing 20 turnovers and winning 63-60. Before last night, BG was 4-0 When the final buzzer went off in Mid-American Conference in Anderson Arena last night, play and hadn’t lost a game the collective feeling around in over a month. The closest the gym was different than point margin in any of those four wins was 15. Miami wasn’t usual. It was a familiar conference having it. The RedHawks were aggresgame against a familiar oppo-

ELAINE THOMPSON | AP PHOTO

ONE MORE YEAR: Seahawks coach Mike Holmgren announced yesterday that he will coach for one more season.

Holmgren back with Seahawks for one more go-around By Gregg Bell The Associated Press SCOTT RECKER | THE BG NEWS

DIRECTING TRAFFIC: Kate Achter directs the BG offense in yesterday’s game. Achter mentioned afterward how the RedHawks flustered the Falcons attack on the night .

nent in Miami, but an unfamiliar result. The last time the BG women’s basketball team lost at home, it was 16-ranked Notre Dame squeaking out an 86-84, last-second win in overtime. This time it was the Miami RedHawks outplaying the

TENNIS From Page 7 referringtoJakupcin/Chiricosta’s win that led to winning the doubles point. Good momentum it was, as BG went on to win four of the six singles matches. Jakupcin started the winning off for BG as she defeated Natali James handily, 6-1, 6-0, in first singles action. “I think [Jakupcin] was really on,” Dean said. “[Jakupcin] came prepared to play and meet the challenges —

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Broncos lose to BG in the final game this season. After Friday’s game, both coaches refused to comment on whether they thought it was frustration that spilled over and led the five Western players to go after several white jerseys. A few of the Falcon players had more to offer on the issue. “Supposedly, earlier on in the game Geelan might have two-hand slashed one of them in the hand,” Dee said. “They clearly thought it was on purpose. They said they weren’t going to let him get away with it and all game they were coming over to the bench and asking him to fight.” “Obviously, they’re a desperate team, but there’s no need for that,” Whitmore said. BG coach Scott Paluch did say Friday that he thought two players, Page from BG and Nagorsen from WMU, were not actively involved and should not have been penalized along with the others.

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mentally and physically.” “[James] just never really had a chance,” Dean said, referring to Jakupcin’s win. In other singles play, sophomore Katia Babina and junior Stefanie Menoff won the third and sixth flights, respectively, while sophomore Sam Kintzel came from behind to beat Gabriella Bobrowski — 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 (2) — in what Dean called a “grueling, intense match.” “It was a good opening match,” Dean said. “Butler was stronger than they’ve been for a couple of years.” The Falcons continue dualmatch play as they return home to play Youngstown State on Saturday (Jan. 26) and Wright State on Sunday.

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sive from the opening tip and for the most part didn’t let up. They played a zone defense for much of the game that gave BG trouble. With just over six minutes to play in the game, Miami led BG by 15 points. If the Falcons’ MAC play up to last night

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KIRKLAND, Wash. — Mike Holmgren will return for a final season as coach of the Seattle Seahawks. Seattle’s veteran coach announced his decision yesterday, after spending the weekend with his wife at their offseason Arizona home. “Kathy and I came to this decision to finish my contract,” said Holmgren, who had hinted at retirement for weeks. “This will be my last year. We are going to make it the best year ever.” “And then probably after that, I will take a little time off — but not yet. We are going to go after it hard.” Seattle, which won its fourth consecutive NFC West title, was eliminated by Green Bay in the divisional playoffs. Holmgren’s record with Green Bay and Seattle, where he arrived in 1999, is 170-110, one win behind former Redskins coach Joe Gibbs for 10th in NFL history. Holmgren is 86-68 in nine seasons with Seattle. He passed Chuck Knox this season for most victories by a Seahawks coach.

ANATOMY OF A FIGHT

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Participants 10 players with five each coming from the two teams BG Fighters Tommy Dee, Ben Geelan, John Mazzei, Brian Moore and Kyle Page WMU Fighters Jordan Collins, Matt Clackson, Chris Clackson, Chris Frank and Patrick Nagorsen Penalty Minutes Combined 197 for the entire with all but 31 coming in the third period

“You basically have 10 guys on the ice and two officials,” Paluch said. “They’re doing their best to break up as much as they can, and unfortunately what it means is they can’t really have an idea of who’s doing what.” Even though Dee did have to sit out Saturday’s game, he was proud of the way his teammates didn’t surrender in the face of excessive aggression from the Broncos. “When something like that happens, you can’t let your teammate [Geelan] just go in there by himself,” Dee said. “I think everyone stuck together, and if anything, it just made us bond even more as a team.”

As a whole, the team committed 20 turnovers, was outrebounded 41-40 and shot 35 percent from the field. Miami improved to 3-2 in conference play and 11-8 overall. Jackson, the MAC’s leading scorer this season, scored 27 points on 11-25 shooting. Forward Laura Markwood was a force on the glass, pulling down 15 rebounds to go along with her 12 points. In the end, it was a frustrating loss for Miller, Achter and the Falcons. “We’re disappointed tonight with the loss,” Miller said. “Certainly, we didn’t play a great game and Miami clearly took charge from the beginning and outplayed us from start to finish and deserved to win.” “We felt like we put both ends of the court together tonight,” said Miami head coach Maria Fontanarosa. “That along with contributions from different players on our team, makes me feel positive to win in a tough environment … for us, this is the next step for our program.”

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attempt to get up off the mat and get back to throwing those ultra-hard punches it’s known for. “I don’t think at times still, with a young program, that we understand the hatred that the Bowling Green ‘Evil Empire’ has created,” Miller said. “I think clearly you saw an inspired Miami team tonight, with their seniors leading the way, that wanted sometime in their career to beat Bowling Green.” Miami finally got that chance, but it’s been a long time coming for them, and for the rest of the MAC, for that matter.

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Al-Qaida targets Iraqi schools By Christopher Chester The Associated Press

BAGHDAD â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A suicide bomber pushing an electric heater atop a cart packed with hidden explosives attacked a high school north of Baghdad yesterday, leaving students and teachers bloodied and bewildered as insurgents appeared to be expanding their list of targets. The bombing â&#x20AC;&#x201D; one of two attacks near Iraqi schools on AP PHOTO the same day â&#x20AC;&#x201D; follows a wave of recent blasts blamed on al- ATTACK ON IRAQ: An injured Iraqi teacher arrives for treatment at a hospital in Baqouba, Qaida in Iraq against funerals Iraq, yesterday. One student was killed and 21 others injured when the school was targeted. and social gatherings. The trend points to the pos- wounded â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 12 students, eight security cordons and patrols that sibility that al-Qaida has shifted teachers and one policeman, cover any major event or site. During last weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s obsertactics to focus increasingly on according to a doctor at Baqouba so-called soft targets and under- General Hospital who spoke on vances of Ashoura, the most mine public confidence that condition of anonymity because important holiday in the things are looking better in the he was afraid of being targeted Shiite calendar, there were no attacks on the main procescountry. The backlash also coin- by militants. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think of any reason to sion in the holy city of Karbala, cides with a U.S.-led offensive trying to uproot insurgents from target students,â&#x20AC;? said 15-year- where hundreds of thousands old Mohammed Abbas, his marched. Instead, militants strongholds around Baghdad. In the suicide attack, the wounded head in a bandage as struck with suicide bombings bomber posed as a shopper or his father stood near his hospital and rocket fire on small gathmerchant transporting an elec- bed in Baqouba, about 35 miles erings of worshippers north of tric heater on a chilly winter day northeast of Baghdad. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We did Baghdad, killing dozens. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; an apparent attempt to deflect not expect that explosions would In an attack at a tribal gatherattention from the explosive- reach our school.â&#x20AC;? ing near Fallujah on Sunday, the In the other attack, a roadside bomber was a 15-year-old boy rigged cart. The blast struck the front of bomb exploded next to a girlâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s carrying a box of candy. Women, a two-story schoolhouse in high school in Baghdadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s west- too, are being used more in suiBaqouba about 8:30 a.m., half ern district of Amiriyah, wound- cide bombing â&#x20AC;&#x201D; four times in an hour after classes began. ing a 7-year-old boy who was the past three months. Panicked parents rushed to find passing by. But police said the With the help of Iraqi troops out if their children were alive target was an American patrol, and Awakening Councils, the not the school. or dead. U.S. military says it has gained Insurgents appear to be look- command of many key areas A 25-year-old male bystander was killed and 21 people were ing for ways to bypass the heavy across central Iraq.

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Child mortality rate high in Sierra Leone By Eliane Engeler The Associated Press

GENEVA â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A newborn in Sierra Leone has the lowest chance in the world of surviving until age 5, and the prospects are almost as bad for children in Angola and Afghanistan, according to a U.N. report released yesterday. In 2006, nearly 9.7 million children died worldwide before their fifth birthdays, mostly from preventable causes such as diarrhea, malaria or malnutrition, the U.N. Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fund said in its annual report. More than 26,000 children under 5 die each day on average. But progress has been made in a number of regions and

â&#x20AC;&#x153;The loss of 9.7 million young lives each year is unacceptable ...â&#x20AC;? Ann Veneman | UNICEF Executive Director strengthening local health services holds great promise for reducing the child mortality rate, said the document, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The State of the Worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Children 2008.â&#x20AC;? In 2006, the latest year for which statistics were available, Sierra Leone had the highest child mortality rate, with 270 deaths per 1,000 births. Angola was second with 260 deaths, followed by Afghanistan with 257. The rate worldwide in 2006, in contrast, was 72 deaths per 1,000 births. The average rate in

industrialized countries was six deaths per 1,000 births. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The loss of 9.7 million young lives each year is unacceptable, especially when many of these deaths are preventable,â&#x20AC;? said UNICEF Executive Director Ann Veneman. Sub-Saharan Africa, where the rate has dropped only 14 percent since 1990, is the region of greatest concern, the report said. It is home to 28 of the 30 countries with the highest child mortality rates.

Rice sends warning to Pakistani president By Matthew Lee The Associated Press

BERLIN â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said yesterday the Bush administration will fight efforts to curb billions of dollars in U.S. aid to Pakistan while warning President Pervez Musharraf he must support and promote democracy. Ahead of talks with Musharraf in Switzerland today â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the highest-level, face-to-face U.S. contact with the Pakistani leader since last monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Rice said it is critical that February leg-

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ANNAPOLIS, MD — Legislators had no trouble swallowing the latest candidate for a Maryland state symbol: the 10-layer Smith Island cake. Delegate Page Elmore, RSomerset, wants to make the decadent offering the state’s official dessert, and he cooked up a sweet bribe: 450 slices were delivered yesterday to state lawmakers and their aides. “I make a pretty mean sweet potato pie, but oh, this is good,” said Delegate Melony Griffith, DPrince George’s, who tucked into a thin slice of the cake’s most common flavor: yellow cake in centimeter-thick layers with chocolate frosting. Elmore hopes his bill gives a boost to Smith Island, which has only about 260 year-round residents. Islanders historically made their living pulling crabs and oysters from the Chesapeake Bay, but pollution has hurt the seafood industry and better jobs on the mainland have sapped the island’s working population.

banana and coconut, and generally have 10 layers. Islanders trace the cakes’ origin to British colonists who settled on the island, and some residents make a living selling them. “My mom ships them all over the state, all over the country,” said Dwight “Duke” Marshall, a Smith Island resident and grocery store owner who helped pass out slices to lawmakers. “We just shipped two to Iraq the other day.” About 50 lawmakers have agreed to co-sign Elmore’s bill, but some others think another state symbol is unnecessary. JAMIE C. HORTON | AP PHOTO For instance, you could wash JUST DESSERTS: Town Manager Jay down a slice of cake with the state Parker, hand delivers slices of Smith Island cake drink (milk) after working up an to members of the General Assembly. appetite playing the state sport (jousting), sailing the state boat “It’s economic development for (skipjack) or perhaps joining in the Smith Island and lower Eastern state folk dance (square dancing). “Personally, I believe there’s Shore bakeries,” Elmore said, watching volunteers unload more enough state items,” said Sen. than a dozen boxes of cake slic- Richard Colburn, R-Dorchester, es. “Florida has the key lime pie. who was on the losing end of a Massachusetts has the Boston 2001 vote where the Calico cat was designated the state cat. cream pie. This is ours.” Smith Island cakes come in doz- “Every time you add one, the ens of flavors, including pineapple, others lose significance.

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